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the whole time okay?” I ask her.
    “O..kay,” Emily says.
    “Ready?” I ask both Willow and Tara.
    “I think so,” Willow nervously agrees.
    “I..I am just going to stay in here. I don’t like the idea of being out in the open with them,” Tara backs out.
    I shrug my shoulders. “Fine but when you see us coming you unlock the doors and quick! You got it?” I ask in a demanding tone.
    “Okay, I got it.” She nods her head in agreement.
    I grab Mr. Bat. “On the count of three. ONE… TWO...THREE!” I scream and fling the door open knocking the few flesh eaters that are closest to me to the ground.
    “Wil grab Emily’s hand and run!” I scream.
    “GOT HER ALREADY!”
    I make my way around the car and jump in front of Wil and Em as a small pack of flesh eaters make their way to them. I quickly knock a path through them and we rush into the breezeway of the apartment building. I see one lone flesh eater with its back toward me.
    “Hey meat head!” I yell at him.
    He slowly turns around. His plaid button down shirt hanging off of his clearly broken arm. His head is down and I can see his blood matted brown hair. He slowly raises his head. And even with the huge chunk taken out of his cheek I could recognize him anywhere. I gasp.
    “Willow….close your eyes and only open them when I say to. Do you understand?”
    “Why Liv? What is going on? Move let me see!” she says nudging her way past me to see what has stopped me in my tracks.
    I feel Wil push me aside and her screams fill the breezeway. She leans against the wall behind her, still screaming and slides down the wall. I watch in horror as Devin zones in on her and is going straight for the kill.
    “Wil, Move!”
    She shakes her head no.
    “Wil he is going to hurt you! Now move,” I demand. But still she shakes her head.
    “Just leave me alone Liv,” she cries.
    Devin reaches out for her and Emily screams and runs over and gets behind me. Just before he grabs her I yank him back. He lunges for her again and I pull him back again. This time he turns toward me, his usually emerald green eyes show no sign of life. Instead the blood shot red has taken over. He opens his mouth and snarls at me showcasing what used to be pearly whites, but now have taken on a yellowish tint.
    “I’m sorry Dev. I love you,” is all I say before I swing the bat with all I have making him fall at my feet. This time he is truly dead.
    “UGH!” I scream out then sink down on the opposite wall and cry into my hands.

Chapter Five-
    Willow
    I run to Devin’s limp body lying on the floor of the hallway and hit my knees. The one thing I was fighting for is gone. What else is there to fight for? He was the one man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. I reach down to his neck with shaky hands I take off his necklace. It’s a silver W to match the D on my neck. We bought them when we went on vacation two years ago. I slide the necklace on and tuck it into my shirt alongside my own.
    I hear a scream and jump at the invasion of noise when it felt like the whole world went silent.
    “HELP ME!” Emily yells.
    Liv and I both snap our heads up in her direction just in time to see a flesh eater jerking on Emily’s arm. Before I have time to process what I am seeing, Liv jumps up and runs over to Emily smashing the flesh eater in the head, dropping him with one blow. She scoops Emily up in her arms and mumbles something in her ear that I can’t quite hear.
    “We need to get up to their apartment fast!” Liv says as she heads toward the stairs. “There are more flesh eaters coming,” she spouts over her shoulder as she takes the first step up the stairs. She turns to me and I am still knelt down by Devin’s cold lifeless body. “Willow come on! Please!” she begs, and since the first time this has all started I see the worry in her eyes.
    I look back to Devin, I kiss my hand and place it on the top of his head. “I love you Dev, always,” I whisper, then take a