As we sit on the roof of a camping trailer near the gas station I can't help but think that I am way to fucking nice. I look around at the 18 zombies surrounding the trailer while trying to figure out exactly what possessed me to believe that bringing her along was a good idea.
<2 hours earlier>
After giving her the bat we walk out of the gate and begin our trip to the store. Thankfully she has taken my words to heart and has been almost silent this whole time save for a few whispers every now and then. As we are making our way past the gas station I spot a lone zombie shuffling around and I figured now was a good time to teach her a bit. "Theres only one up ahead so go ahead and try to take it down. Remember you have to bust its head and until then it's not for sure that it's dead." I whisper to her as it begins shamblimg our way. "Ok." she says a little shakey. I grab my wrench just in case she fucks up so that I can help. She approaches and immediately tries to baseball swing it at its head, unfortunately she misses and throws herself off balance. I rush forward and give a spartan kick to its chest before it can grab her and bust it in the head with my wrench. I look at her as she cant look me in the eye. "Next time try hitting its leg fort so that maybe you can reach its head without throwing yourself off balance. If I hadnt been here to help it would have grabbed you and that's it." I whisper trying to be helpful. She nods and we continue on our way. As we do its rather peaceful and we manage to reach the store without seeing any others. After quickly unlocking the door and going inside we lock the door behing us and begin taking everything we can fit in the carts. We fill 3 carts up completely and tie them together so we can drag more stuff with us on the way back. She also grabbed herself a backpack that she can carry some necessities in. After checking if theres anything else we might wanna grab right now I grab a coupl walkie talkie packs and some batteries. Its short range but it could prove useful right? After exiting the store I check around and see there's nothing in sight so we relock the doors and head on our way. Dragging the carts is a bit harder than expected but other than that everything's going ok. As we come back around by the gas station I see several zombies shambling our way. 5 is a bit to many but it should be alright. Letting go of the rope I tell her quietly, "Take the ones on the left. Dont get to close just try to bust them in the knees and take them down. Do not get grabbed. ok?" she nods gripping her bat as I rush towards the 3 on the right. As I come close I quickly kick the closest one in the chest and knock it over before backpedaling as the other to lunge at me. I swing my wrench at the one that landed on top of the other and feel my wrench crush his skull. I take another step back before moving around them towards the one trying to stand up. I quickly stomp on her back trying to pin her down as I swing my wrench. After a couple swings her head caves and I quickly mobe away checking on the ome I left pinned. He hasn't gotten lose yet so I rush forward before bringing my wrench down on his skull caving it after a few tries. At this moment I hear a familiar noise that makes my blood run cold. *Shatter *CRASH *Honk *Honk *Honk. I look over and see Penelope has accidwntly thrown her bat through the window of a parked car setting of the alarm. Shit shit shit shit. I rush over and see she managed to kill one while the other is struggling to crawl our way with its leg bent in an weird angle. I look at her "We need to go now. Grab the carts and...." My sentence ends as I notice zombies coming from every direction heading right towards us. "Fuck" I swear as I drag her and begin to run down the street before ducking into a side alley. I keep moving while practically dragging her along. As we come out on the street I see around 10 zombies heading our way with several behind us in the alley. I look around and notice a camper so I quickly rush over before locking mi hands together. "Up you go. Quickly" I say and heave her up on the camper before I grab a chair to help get myself up. I look around and see 18 zombies shambling over to the camper. They crowd around it trying to reach us. Thankfully the campers pretty tall so while we are surrounded at least they cant reach us. I hear a light mumble before I turn to her and say "What?" she says a bit louder "sorry". Well. let's be honest. "It's not all your fault." I say looking at the mess we are in. "You're not used to holding a bat and that is kinda my fault for bringing you out here when you didnt know how to defend yourself." I say quietly. "How are we gonna get home?" she asks looking around and seeing the group trying to get at us. I begin looking around and can see the gas station across the road down an alley. The alarm is still going off in the distance and lord knows thats gonna just draw more to it. "For now we wait." I say, "If we stay quiet and dont move around they may lose interest and head towards the alarm and then we can make a break for it." She nods and I slip my bag off before grabbing my metal water bottle out and take a drink. I offer her a drink which she accepts and then lay myself down. For now, all we can do is wait. And maybe, just maybe, we wont have to do something stupid to escape.