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“He’s real,” I said quietly “He’s just… he’s not sick He’s the opposite of sick”

“What does that ry Just confused

“It means…” I took a deep breath “He’s immune”

“What?” Lazlo asked

“Immune? To the virus?” Blue looked dubious I bit my lip and nodded

“Wait Does that mean you’re immune?” Lazlo asked hopefully

“No I don’t know” I leaned back against the counter

“But how do you know he is?” Blue asked

“He was bitten”

“He was bitten?” Blue raised an eyebrow, still uncertain about my story “Are you sure it was by a zombie?”

“Yeah, I know a zoaze evenly “We were in Des Moines looking for food or survivors Five zo It was so bad that I wasn’t sure he’d live long enough for the virus to take effect”

Max had been behind rabbed a stick and beat on one that came at my back I heard Max screa

“Then what happened?” Lazlo proed his leg I knehat itI knew that he had to be infected, but he didn’t know He was just a little kid, and we’d been through so ive up on hiot sick? At all?” Blue asked

“No The leg hurt like hell I broke into a pharot food, and we had a gun,” I said “I found an abandoned house and locked us in the attic, and I waited for hins”

For seven days, I sat up in the attic with , talked to hiames with hiun in the back of my pants, and I never let him find out My plan was to kill hi into a zo days, I waited for us both to die

“But he never did” I shook ht have stayed up there forever with Max, but soldiers ca for survivors to quarantine”