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should have known." I shook my head and
walked over to Adrianna's grave site. "I should have been more
prepared. Instead I was dabbling in things I had no business
touching. I didn't know they could think. I didn't know they came
out just like the person. My Auntie Perrine never told me. She
should have told me."
    I was falling to pieces inside. The guilt of
having to kill Adrianna all over again was beginning to tear at me,
but what could I do? I couldn't turn her loose on the world. She
wanted to eat people like I wanted a chicken strip wrap from
McDonalds. She did eat a person already and that death would fall
squarely on my shoulders. Stephen knelt down in front of me and
gave me a little smile that said everything from 'I understand' to
'I'll help you.' I knew I wasn't alone in that moment. I knew that
I finally had someone here in this place that, for months, I had
considered hell on earth. I had him. We had this, whatever it was.
This crazy, zombie raising debacle in which his best friend just
ate a bum.
    The thought of happily ever after left me just
as quickly as it arrived. Why would he ever stick around and be my
friend after this? I'm sure he'd rather forget what happened than
continue talking to the freak girl that brought his best friend
back from the dead to eat bums. I sighed and he stood
up.
    "I'm going to go get Adrianna now. I don't
think we should leave her sitting so far away."
    "You didn't want me to put her back earlier.
Have you changed your mind now?"
    "I have to, don't I? I mean, you saw what she
did over there. What if the next time it was her mom, or someone
else. What if next time, it was you?"
    I had not even thought about that. Here I had
been driving around with a zombie in the back seat of my car, not
even thinking of the dangers. I had been beyond stupid in all of
this. My Voodoo days were done once Adrianna was back in the
ground. I nodded my head at Stephen and he turned to go get
Adrianna. It was getting late already, the sun had already begun
setting. I pulled the pewter bowl out of the bag and sat it down in
the same place I had put an identical one the other day. I took out
all the rest of the supplies that I would need. Last, but not least
I took out the salt for the circle.
    Stephen and Adrianna walked up behind me. I
quickly peered over my shoulder at them. "I'm ready."
    "I don't want to." She whispered it, almost
too low to be heard, but I did hear it. I also ignored it. I
couldn't listen to her pleas right now. I had to tune them out. I
thought of the dead man in the trees. That helped.
    "I need you to stand on your grave
Adrianna."
    "I don't want to." She was louder this time,
but she was moving to stand on the grave as I had
instructed.
    "I'm sorry." It was my turn to whisper. "I'm
sorry I did this to you." She looked at me with blood still
staining her mouth and I had to hold back the tears that threatened
to spill free of my eyes. Instead of letting go and crumpling in on
myself, I turned to Stephen. "I need to make the circle now, you
may want to come in here closer to me."
    "No!" He said it so quickly, like he was
afraid of what I would do to him. "I mean, I think it will be
better if I stay out here and keep watch. You don't need any
distractions in there with you. Besides, what will happen with one
more person in the circle? Do you know?"
    I didn't know. He had a very valid point.
"Okay, well okay." I didn't know what to say. Did I tell him to be
quiet, to be careful? I didn't know. So, I just left it at that. I
turned back to my duties and started building the circle around the
grave site. Once I was finished I set everything up just as I had
the other night. The ground beneath our feet rumbled once,
loosening to make an easier exit for the zombie that should be
beneath our feet already. This is where things would be different.
This is where I would lay Adrianna back down to rest in her
grave.
    "I'm scared." She whispered it again. I
realized now that she had been