the music. The preacher started in on the wedding service, but Steven had gone deaf and lost to everything in the room as he starred into the sparkling eyes of his wife through her veil. Laughter broke the silence he had fell into and he started looking around. “Do you take Mandy to be your wife?” The preacher repeated. “I definitely do.” He answered. “Do you take Steven to be your husband?” The preacher asked Mandy. “I do.” She answered. “You may now kiss the bride.” The preacher ended the service. Steven stepped forward and Mandy lowered her head as he grabbed the veil to lift it over her head to kiss her. He pulled it back and jumped back once the veil was lifted, she was a rotter; her lower jaw was dangling. He looked around the room to see both families were rotters too and had become a hoard walking his way. “What’s wrong? Don’t you want to kiss me?” Mandy gargled from her hanging jaw. The rotters crowded Steven until he fell to the ground and started devouring his flesh. His wife started scrapping her top jaw across his neck. “Forever and ever, babe.” She gargled some more. Steven started screaming while choking on his own blood. *** Steven jumped up drenched in sweat once again. I headed south and was able to see the eyes of some of the rotters lingering on the side of the road as my headlights scanned across them. I was thankful that they were not in the road so I didn’t have to chance screwing up any of the vehicles by running them over. Kris kept a safe distance off of my ass, since she knew my joking attitude well and knew that I would slam on brakes just to keep her on her toes. The nearest place that might have anything left that we would need when it came to generators and such, was going to be the Lowe’s store that was about a hundred and thirty five miles down the road, however, on the way we would pass numerous places that may be helpful on our mission. “I think we will hit up all of these abandoned cars on the way back and get the gas from them, I want to get this other shit done first. I am going to send the girls to Lowe’s once we find a gas station down here.” I told the guys. “You are sending the women to Lowe’s, are you kidding.” Donald belted out. “Bitch our wives are tougher than you are and probably know more. Shut the fuck up stupid!” Gizmo turned around raising a backhand at him. “Whoa, I was just saying, shouldn’t they be on a mission for women shit or something?” He asked. Gizmo just shot him a look that warned him that it was time to really shut up. Donal d sat back and didn’t say another word. I came upon a small convenient store that looked to be a little ‘mom and pop’ hole in the wall. There were two gas pumps and a small porch, you had to climb three old wooden steps to go through the screen door to get inside. I pulled next to the large tank that sat off to the side of the building that the gas was kept in; which was quite a bit more convenient than the underground wells that the bigger stores had. “Too bad we can’t just take that with us.” Howard stated. “I agree, but there isn’t even a way to move that thing, even with all of us together. So get to filling.” I told the guys chunking empty gas cans to them. The girls made their way onto the porch. I laughed as I listened as the four had a whole conversation on who was going to be where and how they would enter the store in case rotters lurked around. The small flashlight sprang back and forth between them and finally landed on the door handle of the screen door and I hear, “Ready, set, go!” and the door slowly squeaked open. “Like they are running a fucking race or some shit. Those bitches are great!” I laughed to the guys. “Hey at least they got plans.” Gizmo joked. “At least they got their shit together.” Bo stated. Cans were filled with the last bit of gas that was in the container and