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We eventually made it onto Main Street It was the same street where my friend Lia had been killed, so I tried not to look around Her body was probably still here, rotten and half-eaten on the road

Max ducked in through a storefront , shouting the name Stella as he did I’ was destroyed, and there was a huge hole in the ceiling

As soon as we cah the hole The zo up it before it even hit the ground I was right on his tail, and I could hear the zo to each other behindto pull the ladder up withA broken board jabbed me in the rib as I climbed up onto the second story, but at least I’dus here, and she made her oay up She jumped onto the store’s counter below us Then she just crouched low and leaped up

Of course, she had to say a few zombies before she could ju in the boards, and she scraet up, but she eventually uessed she clih the hole, catching rowling and o away eventually," Max assuredI don’t think they like the sun very much"

I sat back and looked around to see whereout A few kerosene lanterns were lit, bathing the roo loft up here, with a wall of s at the front of the building

A metal door at the side appeared to be welded shut I would later find out that it led to a stairway on the outside of the building, and that was the only way up here, other than the hole in the floor

There were blankets and pillows piled up on the far end Food and medical supplies were stacked up on top of a small table Makeshift toys were discarded all over, dolls made out of Coke bottles and pop cans All of the walls and the floor were covered in crude illustrations, s like ponies and flowers

I presu next to Max, the only other person in the loft She couldn’t bearound her face, and she clung to the old ragged stuffed bear in her ar to her

"This is Stella" Max scooted toward her and put his arm around her to comfort her "She’s shy"

"I don’t blame her" I stood up and looked around "You two have been living here? By yourselves?"

"Yeah," Max nodded "We’ve been here since the coo was that?" I asked

"I don’t knohile"

"What happened?" I walked around the roo ed to accumulate

"The zombies broke in," Max said "They couldn’t hold them off anymore London told us to escape if we could Me and Stellaon fire"