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Her long blond curls fra around her neck on a chain To top off the ensemble, she had on black coun shoved in her skirt, she was the poster child for post-apocalyptic fashion

I clicked the safety onand my back, so I wouldn’t have to carry it The farther alked, the quieter it got, and I would be able to hear a zo from a mile away

“What if she doesn’t turn into one of those zombies?” Harlow asked

“They all do”

“Why didn’t you say anything to her?” she asked

“Like what? That I’d never forget her?” I shook et her I don’t want to remember every person who died That’s far too many people”

“What about that soldier? Beck?” Harlow asked I sed hard and quickened my pace “Was he your boyfriend?”

“Don’t be ridiculous,” I said “He taught me how to shoot”

When Beck had found my brother and me, it was aabout survival or fighting off zo I know Without hih the last fewmy pace

“I don’t wanna talk about it”

“Sorry,” she said, but she wasn’t easily deterred Within a ain “Where are we going?”

“North Another quarantine”

“Why?” Harlow asked

“To findwhen I was talking to Beck?”

“Yeah, but I didn’t really understand He said so your brother Why would they do that?”

“Because the quarantine was compromised”

“Why didn’t they evacuate all of us?” Harlow asked

“I don’t know I’ht? That’s why he didn’t live with us?” She had askedin the quarantine I hadn’t said hed

“With what?”

“I don’t know,” I said

“But that’s weird that they would evacuate a sick kid, but not a bunch of healthy people” She talked more to herself than to me, so I didn’t feel the need to respond “When you think about ho the population is, it’s even weirder that they’d prioritize one sick kid over all of the healthy people they left on the second floor”