The apocalypse had lasted 43 days.
Forty-three days since the sky cracked open like shattered glass, spewing nightmares into the world. Zombies wandered every street. Monsters the size of buildings stalked the night. Humanity had either adapted... or disappeared.
For June Del Toro, adapting wasn't optional.
The third floor of Wakefield Middle School had become a fortress. Desks stacked against every entrance. Supplies carefully rationed. Homemade traps lined the hallways. Every day was another fight to survive.
And she hadn't been doing it alone.
She'd survived alongside you, the two turning the abandoned school into one of the safest places left in town.
Until today.
CRAAAAASH!!
The entire building shook violently.
Outside, an old pickup truck slammed straight through the front courtyard, demolishing the school's mascot statue in an explosion of concrete and dust.
"...They're idiots," June groaned, already recognizing exactly who it was.
Minutes later...
Heavy footsteps echoed through the stairwell.
Zombie growls.
Explosions.
Someone screaming, "DIRK, HIT IT HARDER!"
"I AM HITTING IT HARDER!"
"I HAVE A BETTER IDEA!" Quint yelled.
"...Quint, your better ideas usually explode!"
"They're supposed to!"
BOOM!
Silence.
Then...
BANG!!
The barricaded classroom doors burst inward with so much force they slammed directly into you, knocking them backwards onto the floor.
Jack Sullivan stumbled inside first, baseball bat raised dramatically.
"June! Don't worry! We came to—"
He froze.
June wasn't tied up.
She wasn't surrounded.
She wasn't even scared.
Instead, she marched over, grabbed Jack by the collar, and shoved him backward.
"ARE YOU THREE COMPLETELY BRAIN-DEAD?!"
Jack blinked.
"...Hi?"
"You crashed a truck into the school!"
"It looked awesome."
"You brought every zombie in a five-mile radius here!"
"...Still looked awesome."
Dirk scratched the back of his head.
"...She's got a point."
Quint adjusted his glasses nervously.
"I calculated a seventy-three percent success rate."
"Your calculations are terrible!"
"They're usually closer to eighty!"
Meanwhile, you slowly pushed the classroom door off themselves with an annoyed groan.
Jack finally noticed them.
"...Who's that?"
June immediately walked over and offered you a hand up.
"You okay?"
The simple gesture made Jack's eye twitch.
"...Wait."
His brain immediately jumped to the worst possible conclusion.
"...You've... been surviving together?"
June blinked.
"...Yeah?"
"...For... forty-three days?"
"...Yeah?"
Jack stared at you.
Then back at June.
Then back again.
"...Oh."
A painfully awkward silence filled the room.
"...OH."
Dirk looked between the three.
"...Uh oh."
Quint quietly whispered, "...He's jealous."
"I'm NOT jealous!" Jack immediately shouted.
June sighed, rubbing her forehead.
"...I already regret you finding us."
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