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Fine quality human flesh up here!"

Jenni waved her hands over her head and flipped off the zo she had an audience, she showed the faces she could think of The zombies howled in response as she whipped them up into a frenzy

She noticed the container was on its way down so she got to the end of the balcony and nearly hung over it, getting as many zombies as she could to uess what? I’hty thank as it settled down onto the road and a gush of blood and gore caet al alrabbed hold of the rail and taunted the nearly coap between the storage container and the wall of the store She kept taunting thes of dirt that completely cut off the left-hand side of the street The zo across the balcony, Jenni laughed her ass off The balcony gave a loud moan and Jenni realized the shoas over

"Oh, shit!" She dove back in the door and the balcony shuddered, but stayed in place

Juan stood in the hallway just inside the doorway He looked past her into the corral, seem satisfied hat he saw, then looked back at her

"You’re loca," he said sirinned, turned and held her hands over her head like Nixon flashing the victory sign and retreated into the city hall

Behind her, the zoroaned

2 Faed across the construction site, Jack at his heels, his hand wiping the sweat off his brow He was exhausted He had been helping with defenses all day and his body hurt with every s were soaked with sweat and he had finally borrowed a rubber band and et most of his hair into a stubby ponytail Now a feisps fell around his face and he flicked his hand at the at a table with several of the townspeople He was proud of her He kne hard it was for her to socialize with more than one or two people at a ti bolder

Hell, that dance on the balcony had proven that

His dad had been a shithead Pure and simple Jason hadn’t realized that for years His Moe to his Dad, but he hadn’t believed her Even when numerous family members told him that the reason his Mom had custody of him was because his Dad had sent her to the hospital too nore, he hadn’t believed it When his Dad had co and kind and brought Jason the coolest new things for a kid his age There was no way his Dad was an abuser

It wasn’t until his Mother died that he had finally been able totime he had refused to meet them or his stepmother out of loyalty to his Mom He was all his Mom had after all

But when she had died, he had been packed up and shipped off to his Dad’s house a state away Jenni had sent hi him about his likes and dislikes and he had hated her for it When he arrived at the house, he had been shocked to see how much Jenni looked like his Mom

More shocked when he had been shown his new bedroo he had told Jenni (some of it bullshit) was in the room She had decorated it in his favorite colors with his favorite band posters on the walls He had hated her one down to dinner to find his favorite dish on the table He had fiercely hated her then

And then that fateful day ca Jason had done and his face had contorted with a rage that terrified Jason He had lifted his hand to strike Jason, but Jenni had thrown herself in front of him and had taken the blow Jason had watched in horror as his Dad beat her withouthis "discipline ofup to be a football player, had launched himself across the room and onto his father And then all hell had broken loose upon their household

When Jenni had colass of water on his bed stand, her lips puffy and cracked, her one eye swollen shut, li his arms around her bruised body and wept uncontrollably It was then that he had realized that all those years his Mother had been telling the truth And he had wept tears of guilt over his doubt

After that, he didn’t hate Jenni at all He, in fact, loved her very s In some weird way, he had loved his dad still

But their home had been violent He and Jenni had worn bruises Sometimes, even Mikey There were times all of them, even Benji, were in the brawl That their ho In fact, Jason was sure Mikey had turned back to launch hi,

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