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She couldn’t help but sently "You and Jenni and Jason are very special to me My new family

I want you to understand that"

Travis looked down into her eyes, sad and resigned "But?"

Katie rested her hand on his cheek and found the words harder to say than she had iined She opened her mouth to speak, reconsidered, then closed it What was there to say? Instead, she kissed his cheek softly It was rough and slightly scraggly against her lips He clung to her and it was a co expression between thehtly and pressed a quick kiss to her lips "Friends only?"

Katie nodded, ain, but the platonic veneer quickly faded Forgetting all her reservations, Katie kissed hi both of they pulsated between theether, wrapped in each other’s ely, Lydia’s ies of her lovely face, sweet kisses, gentle hugs and then her screa away abruptly, but ined before, she said softly, "I can’t"

"I know," Travis said with a sigh "I know"

"Jenni adores you," Katie said lao there," Travis answered almost bitterly

"Okay," she said helplessly She wanted to coled over her skin and she couldn’t risk it She had to stay true to Lydia To what they had shared She had to mourn her and remember her How could she let herself care for someone else when Lydia was still out there?

"I’m sorry, Katie I really am But you can’t just deflect eous and h I really like her a lot, but please, just don’t do that"

"I guess it’s stupid of ave her a small sht light blinded theates’ construction

"What the hell?"

"It’s a ht that had been rigged upon the platform and aimed it down the ht A scraggly looking young irlfriend looked up at them with desperate, terrified expressions

"Let us in! They’re right behind us!"

Travis flashed the light up the road to reveal a crowd of zo those on the motorbike Katie noted immediately that most were in doctor’s coats or nurse’s uniforms

"The clinic They went to the clinic," she said

"Shit!"

"Let us in!" The boy was yelling loudly, stirring up the pursuing zombies even more

Katie and Travis were so stunned at this quick turn of events they both see out what to do

The boy noticed the open gate and gunned the engine He swerved around the corner and headed up the road toward the next unblocked intersection to loop around the block and to the gate

"He’s heading for the gate," Katie said in a trerabbed the walkie-talkie "Juan! Close the gate!

Close the gate!"

There was a cackling noise, then, "We’re working on it, dude Chill out"

"Zo, Juan!"

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