there I guess; and who is this Sandra?” Tina wondered the same as Kris and Karen. Lisa shrugged as she listened to the motor whine as it turned over and finally started. She backed it up from where it was and began to make her way to the gate when the backhoe pulled out in front of her. Lisa hit the brakes and Tina flung the door open and jumped down to her husband trying to direct the machine in the other direction. Tina threw her hands up while Lisa sat in the driver’s seat laughing. “Do you know what the fuck you are doing?” Tina yelled over both of the roaring machines. Gizmo began to laugh watching his wife’s mouth yelling. Tina glared over at the group standing to the side laughing at him as well. Gizmo leaned his head out of the backhoe and screamed over the noise. “BINGO BANGO BABY!” Then blew her a kiss. Tina shook her head and dropped her chin to her chest and turned to walk back to the truck and climbed in. Lisa saw the other four coming from in front of them and put the truck in park as she waited. Sandra, Karen and Rachel climbed into the cloth covered back of the Deuce as Kris ran back to her husband. “I love you.” She shouted over the roaring engines into TJ’s ear before she kissed him on the cheek. She ran her hand across his beard and he smiled at her. “Be careful.” He mouthed as they kept their eyes connected while she climbed in with the other four. Lisa threw it in drive and started heading the rest of the way to the gate after Gizmo managed to edge the backhoe out of the way. Karen gathered up the guns and handed the two pistols to Kris. “May want to get these loaded and ready.” Karen suggested. “Hello ladies! So just y’all going out?” Donald questioned. “Yep, we are bad ass like that.” Lisa hollered down to him. We will be back soon. The hardware store isn’t far off.” Donald opened the gate and allowed the Deuce to pull out before closing it back. Donald watched the truck and hoped that he would see them soon. “Sandra, where in the hell did you come from?” Karen asked. Sandra sat across from Kris and Karen and began to explain herself a bit. “I saw the smoke from the other side of the woods over there and made my way here; I was running from a group of them already and when I got through the gate and saw everyone running, I followed them and ended up in the bunker with everyone else. I was afraid they would kick me out since I wasn’t invited and sat off in the corner keeping to myself and trying to gather my thoughts of the shit we were in.” She said. Karen nodded and smiled. “Well, you were whooping that rotter’s ass! Good job.” Karen laughed. Kris handed both Sandra and Rachel a loaded gun. “Y’all know how to aim and pull a trigger?” Both nodded and held the gun close to them. Karen passed the loaded rifle to Kris and strapped the other one to herself. Rachel sat off in the corner of the bed of the truck by herself. Karen looked at Kris and then to Rachel, trying to decide if she wanted to start that conversation or not. Kris just shook her head no to Karen and they both looked off out of the open part of the canvas cover. “How do you look so perfect?” Rachel questioned Karen. “I like to kill rotters in style.” Karen smiled. “She is full of shit, she is a bit obsessed with her looks and had a bag of heels, clothes and make up ready in case the apocalypse happened. Crazy, huh?” Kris made fun of Karen. “It was an emergency bag, shut up! Either way, it worked out well. I look good.” Karen bragged. They rode in silence the rest of the way peering out for any signs of rotters. Lisa suddenly slammed on the brakes and the four slammed into the front of the truck bed. “What the fuck!” Kris shouted. “Rotters!” Tina yelled back to her. “There are fucking rotters, run them over.” Kris yelled back. “Look at the store!” Lisa hollered back to