Author's Note: This is my first Dawn of the Dead fiction so I hope you like it. I actually had this story up for a while, but I'm going back and redoing a few parts. Just mostly the Grammar problem which I thought I couldn't do since I lost my file disk that had all my chapter stories on it, but now I have given that chace to fix it up a bit. Yay.

Please check out my other stories of my Wal-Mart Trilogy

A Second Chance to Live or Die

A Cruel Twist of Fate

Enjoy

Chapter One:

A Day at Wal-Mart

His name is Marc, the guy I had a crush on for a year and a half now. I would say it was a love at first sight kinda thing when I saw him, but I knew it would never work out. I just turned seventeen and he just turned twenty and let's face it, I wasn't one of those skinny, happy-go-lucky, girls who want to grow up to be a model. No, I was a dull, medium size tomboy, who wears black all the time and loves to watch anime. Plus, I didn't have the best personality in the world, very negative and never look on the bright side of things.

Oh, by the way, my name is Bianca and I'm just lying here on my bed talking to myself in my head as I stared at the ceiling of my room.

"Bianca!" My brother shouted

"Huh?"

"Will you stop daydreaming and help me clean up the living room" he said

"Yeah, yeah, stop shouting" I said as rolled off my bed and walked over to the living room.

I have one older brother name Eric, the useless idiot of twenty-one, that still lives with me and our parents, but I have to be nice since Marc is his best friend.

With my parents working all the time and my brother out and about with his friends or working himself, I spent my time alone in the house watching T.V. or getting dinner ready. It was summer, school was out and for once, I had a smile on my dull face. Marc was coming to stay with us for a while since he and my brother were leaving town in a week. They were Marines and got orders to move to another place so I have only seven days to lose my shyness and say something to him, but. of course to me nothing ever goes my way.

"Are you listening to me" Eric asked

"What" I asked

"Marc's bringing his girlfriend over today" he said

I tried to put on a smile "ok" I said as I went over to grab the vacuum.

After cleaning up the house a bit for Marc and his . . . girlfriend's visit I went to my room and see what was showing on T.V. I found it odd because they were showing nothing, but the news about strange attacks in the East. I sigh, turned off my T.V., grabbed my wallet and walked out of my room. I was ready to go to the one place to get away from things when my brother popped out of no where.

"Where are you going" he asked

"To Wal-Mart, I'll be back in an hour or two" I said, heading for the door.

"Get me some donuts when you leave."

I rolled my eyes and when I opened the door Marc was there, who was about to knock.

He laughed then smiled "Hey, Eric's little sister"

I froze for a second then cleared my throat and said "hi"

I back away a bit, letting him through with his bags and behind him was his girlfriend. She turned to me and smiled "Hi there, my name is Kelly"

I waved at her and ran out the door, letting it slammed behind me. I stormed out into the sidewalk and began walking over to the store. The heat slammed into my face as I was walking, but that's what you get when you live in Yuma. It's going to be hot this summer and it's even hotter when you're wearing black pants with a black Linkin Park T-shirt. It was good thing that Wal-Mart was just a ten minute walk from my house because just two minutes into the walking I'm already sweating.

I was such in a bad mood I didn't hear the person calling my name from behind.

"Bianca! Bianca, wait up"

I finally snapped out of my thoughts and turned around to see my best friend, Matt, riding by on his bicycle.

"Hey, Matt" I said in a dull voice

He stopped his bike "ok, what got you in a bad mood today"

I smiled "you know me too well" I said as I continued to walk.

"Going to Wal-Mart again" he asked

"Yes, I just need to get out of the house and away from Kelly" I nearly spit out that last word.

"Before you do I think you need to release some of that anger. Remember what happened the last time"

"I told you I was sorry, but you keep bugging me about your stupid iPod when I told not to bother me" I said

"I think we should go to Peter Piper Pizza and play "The House of the Dead" video game that always calm you down"

"Hmm, I do have twenty dollars" I said

Matt grinned and the next thing I knew we were at the pizza place playing video games.

"Ha ha! Take that Kelly!" I shouted as I shot the zombie in the head. There nothing better in life in shooting make-believe zombies by pretending they were somebody else.

"Can you a least give me a chance to shoot" Matt asked.

"No" I said, shooting more zombies.

"So who's this Kelly person anyway" he asked

"Marc's girlfriend"

"You still have a crush on him"

"Yeah, but man, I thought he had better taste in girls, but no, she's some happy, jolly blonde with an anorexia body who dresses like a slut" I said

"That's harsh" he said

"And you know those are the kinda of girls I hate" I said "dammit, I'm dead again"

I reach into my pocket and pull another quarter into the machine. "Die zombies" I said "so what's up with you"

"The usual, parents are fighting, things are breaking, nothing on T.V. but the news about people being attack by other people, so I left to see what you were doing" he said like it was no big deal.

"You know you're always welcome to my house when you need to get away" I said

"Or go to Wal-Mart" He said

That's what I like about Matt, he was just like me, so dull and negative about the world. He goes to the same school with me and looks like he's my age, but was actually fifteen. He was taller than me and wore black as well and like me he loves the store Wal-Mart.

"Die zombie!" he shouted "Man, wouldn't it be weird if these zombies were real"

"Like that would happen, if it did we'll be ready since we already spent at least a thousand dollars playing this game" I said

"But if it did, I wouldn't mind, the world is a dark place anyway and I live with a crappy family" he said

"I wouldn't mind either as long as they eat Kelly" I grinned then frowned when I died again.

"Well that was my last quarter, let;s go" I said

What I like about Wal-Mart that it was connected to others stores as well, like the pizza place, subway, and other little small stores. Wal-Mart was at the very end and like always it was pack, but like what Matt said it was a good place to get away. When we enter the store the cool air hit our faces and without wasting time we hurry to the electronics.

"Check out the new games" he said

I wasn't listening because I noticed a bunch of people watching the news on the T.V. I shook my head and looked over the new games as well.

"Fifty bucks for a game, damn" I said

"That's only for Gamecube, it's cheaper to get it on Gameboy" he said

"Either way I can't afford it unless I get a job" I said

"Why don't you work at McDonalds with Sky and Jenny"

"No, I'll just get fatter, Sky's been a bitch lately and Jenny is a mental nutcase when she not taking her pills" I said

"That's true" he said

We spent the whole day at Wal-Mart and left the store at nightfall. As I was waiting for Matt to get his bike I overheard two people talking.

"Yeah, I heard it on the news some were saying that these people were sick"

"But I heard that they were eating other people. They were showing footage about that, but it got cut off. It's seems the people who were sick started to attack the cameraman"

"Bianca"

"What!" I said nearly jumped from Matt's voice

He laughed "you really need to quit this daydreaming thing"

"I can't help it if you're boring" I said

I felt uneasy walking home in the dark, there was a long stretch of road to go through and it was nothing, but a sidewalk, a grass field and a few small trees. The wind was blowing a bit and it was quieter than normal.

"Watch out Bianca the zombies will sneak up and bite your head off" Matt teased

"Shut up, you asshole, it's not funny" I said

We finally made it to my house and Matt asked "listen, I know my parents are still fighting, my dad's been drinking all day, so I was wondering if I can stay over at your house again"

"Of course you can, but you have to sleep in the living room, Marc and the slut have the guest room" I said

He shrugged "thanks"

"No problem"

We entered my house to find my brother and Marc watching T.V. while drinking some beer.

"Hey Bianca, where's my donuts" Eric said

"Sorry, I spent my money playing video games" I said

He looked over my shoulder and pointed at Matt "what is he doing here? Doesn't he have his own house to stay at"

"Matt's parents are fighting again so he's sleeping here for the night"

"Again, we're not a hotel, Bianca" he said

"Mom and dad always let him stay over"

"Well for some reason mom and dad aren't home yet"

"They're not" I asked and Eric shook his head

I found it odd, this whole day was odd, but I didn't care. I walked out of the living room and into the kitchen with Matt following me.

"You know where we keep the blankets, go get them and I'll get us something to drink" I said

"Ok" Matt nodded and went into the hallway.

I walked into the kitchen only to find Kelly in work out clothes.

"Where are you going" I asked

"Jogging, I love jogging at night" she said

"Whatever" I said

"Is that your boyfriend who came home with you" she asked

"Matt? No, he's my best friend" I said

"Oh, he's so cute" she said "you know if you loose a little bit of weight, put your hair up, wear some makeup and lady's clothes I'll bet you'll get a boyfriend in no time" she said smiling.

My eye started to twitch, but I had to be nice, if she wasn't Marc's girlfriend I would have attacked her by now and beat the living snot out of her. "That's nice for you to say, I'll start by throwing up after ever meal"

"That's the spirit, you'll get use to it after a few times" she said, heading out the door.

"Yeah, have a nice jog" I shouted at her then whispered "hit your head or break your leg that would make my day"

I closed the door as Matt came by with the blankets. I grabbed two drinks and walked into the living room. Matt dropped the blankets in the living room then we sat down to watch T.V. with Eric and Marc.

"So what are you guys watching" I asked

"A movie since there was nothing showing beside the news" Eric said

"I wondered why they've been showing the news all days" Matt asked

"Probably something about the war in Iraq maybe another car bombing" I said

"I don't know, they wouldn't make a big deal out of that" Marc said, taking a sip of his beer.

Well we sat there watching a movie, but I was getting worried about why my parents haven't return home yet from work. I looked at the clock and it was already 10:00 and they're usually home at 8:00. At 11:00, Eric and Marc went to bed and Matt was making a phone call to his home.

"I'm staying over at Bianca's house tonight" he said on the phone

Pause

"I'll be home in the morning"

Pause

"Just put some ice on that black eye of yours and the swelling will go down"

Pause

"Whatever, good night" he hung up the phone then sigh.

"Your father hitting your mom again" I said

He nodded "I hate my family"

I patted him on the back "get some sleep then tomorrow we'll go do something"

"Wal-Mart?"

"Yeah, we'll go to Wal-Mart"

He smiled "good night"

"Good-night" I said before I went to my room.

I got into my pajamas and went to bed, but before I went to sleep something told me tomorrow wasn't going to be normal day. I also noticed that Kelly hasn't return back from her jog . . .

Chapter Two: The Bloody Morning: Matt woke up to a bloody mess and noticed Kelly is looking rather dead when she returned home from her jog.