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"You do realize that just because you put a black woonna hook up right?" Lenore scowled

"I was just saying-"

"Crazy ass white people," Lenore rolled her eyes

"You’d rowled and stalked off

"What got into her?" Peggy arched an eyebrow

Stacey shrugged and updated her ledger again "We’re getting low on sweet peas"

"We’re getting low on everything Hopefully, all this day finished her calendar and circled the present date

"Well, I’ll be day laid a treo today since it all went down into zombie hell"

"Should we tell people?" Stacey’s face had drained of blood beneath her ever present tan

"I don’t know Would it do any good?" Peggy looked down at the calendar again "It see, too" Stacey sat back in her chair, her fingers playing with the tip of her ponytail

"A year" Peggy thought of all that had happened and was a

The house was at least seventy years old The paint was peeling off the front porch and the screen door hung liht fresh bloo the front path Fresh green blades of grass were pressing up through the cracks in the walk up to the house

Heavy boots ures garbed in caility that co and experience All of the only with hand signals, they moved sh the front s then signaled to the leader He nodded and made a motion Another soldier immediately kicked in the front door

They flowed into the house,roo lay near the front door It was e dead It had neverroom then a kitchen Every door was opened, with soldiers at the ready

Finally, they began down the narrow hallway to the bedrooms The leader motioned to everyone to be as silent as possible The first bedroo in its place The closet door was opened, the bed checked under, but nothing stirred The next rooain, nothing lurched out of the shadows

The next room was also a bedroom and a corpse lay near the door Its head was bashed in and a heavy laain, the room was quickly checked and then one last door reently turned the knob The door swung open and revealed a narrow little bathrooed forward, but one hand was tied firet free Either she had tied herself to the shower before she died or soain lunged forward, but only et up, she pulled hard on her restrained araments snapped and it was clear she would pull free of her aret to them

One soldier moved forward and shot her in the head

It was over

The house was secured

"It’s clear Get the shoppers in here," Kevin’s voice said froastruck slid up and a soldieroff her mask, Bette said, "The house is clear and the periet out as fast as possible"

The Shoppers began to jue bins They hurried into the house as soldiers stood on watch, weapons at the ready