She Lived Happily Deadly After

The woods at night would be a scary place... for anyone that was afraid of dying. Lucky for me, I was already dead.

I felt twice as much so now that Riley had confessed his love, and indirectly called me a pain in the ---

My head shot to the side at a crunch of sticks and leaves. I squinted my eyes to focus on the shape hidden in the dark of the woods.

"A squirrel," I muttered rolling my eyes less than amused at the situation. Stepping closer to the squirrel, he didn't mind too much, didn't even seem to budge.

"Ah, I see why you aren't very active." The squirrel looked at me with one eye, the other half slightly rotting off. "A decaying squirrel, pardon my rudeness."

It seemed to take a few moments before the squirrel scrambled away. No one ever really talks about the wildlife and how they are affected by this whole zombie outbreak. They definitely are, it's just not as noticeable when they are being scavenged for food all of the time, and when you are mostly in a herd wandering the city.

Who would have thought that I would be missing out on the old days, the days where I brainlessly followed a herd, some of us would get gunned down, and then we would continue our hunt for human flesh.

Good times.

But now, ah yes, now, here I was wandering the woods probably not that far from where I abandoned Riley and Cody (mainly because my sense of direction is terrible, and I have passed the same bended tree at least thirty times).

I'm not really sure why I didn't want to accept Riley. He had the looks, oh gosh, did he know it too. He was the devil in disguise, for both attitude and appearance.

Maybe I was the problem. Not him. I mean in a world of rotting flesh the dating pool isn't that large. Especially when most of the counterparts are wandering around with their eyes gouged out or jaws hanging off.

There was no way I could date someone without a jaw, "Excuse me sir, that is much more tongue in my kissing than I asked for, thank you." I scoffed, a breathy laughter escaping my mouth.

I could only imagine.

I really shouldn't have left Cody by himself with Riley and weird Joseph, that just didn't seem like it would go well.

Maybe if I just told myself it was for Cody I could go back.

Perhaps I could gouge my own eyes out to avoid ever looking at Riley again, that way I didn't have to look at those hurting eyes ever again.

I groaned, "This is so frustrating!" I could have punched a tree, but I wasn't too keen on breaking my feeble hand.

With more than enough reservations, I decided to head back. So much for my lone wolf attitude, I was definitely feeling lonelier than I wanted to right now.

There was way too much that happened in the past couple days. I mean, I was human again – at least for the most part –.

As I sauntered back, I really considered whether or not my feelings for Riley were there, if they were real.

He was almost heartwarming while we were penned up in the crazy lady's zombie orphanage, and he didn't want to eat me.

I never really thought about it before, but I guess in a way Riley was always looking out for me. In a roundabout, condescending, annoying, infuriating type of way, but nonetheless still looking out for me.

When I reached the area where I had left them I was pleasantly surprised to find that they hadn't moved... maybe I was getting too predictable.

Cody turned towards me first, uncertainty in his eyes.

I tried not to look at him too much, he was distracting me from my thought process. My only focus right now was Riley.

I could see Riley's figure in front of me, he was sulking by a tree. I took a deep breath in and charged towards him.

My mind reeling in every direction trying to make sure the decision I was making was the right one.

By the time he noticed me I was up close to him, close enough to grab ahold of his shirt firmly in my grip and pull him down to meet me.

I met him partway lifting myself up on my tippy-toes, careful not to irritate my fragile leg from way back when.

My lips crashed against his and a slight flutter erupted in my chest. He was still for a second and I considered pulling away, but his lips began to move in sync with mine, his arms wrapped around me.

I couldn't help smirk into the kiss.

"What?" Riley whispered in between kissing me.

"Nothing," I whispered back pulling him closer towards me.

I couldn't tell him I was thinking about what it would look like to a living human to see two zombies kissing each other.

They would probably shoot us extra times just to be sure they didn't ever have to witness something as strange as this ever again.

But I guess that's just something I'll have to deal with...

Ya'know,living as one of the undead and all.