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In the very first minute of the zombie outbreak, I sealed off the safe house I'd fortified with my own hands. Outside, Jolene Ayala was pounding on the door, her cries mixed with sobs. "We are friends, aren't we? Doesn't last year's favor count for anything, when I picked up your packages?" I sneered to myself, friends? Then why'd she snatch my water, shove me out of my own home, and leave me to get chomped by zombies? In my previous life, I'd let her in—and it cost me my life. "System, switch to silent mode." As the blast door cut off every last sound, I glanced around at the room crammed with survival gear and muttered, "This time, I'm surviving this and making it back home to Mom and Dad."