" I... it's okay," Bob forced a smile. "I want to see him happy too."The pair ate their pizza quickly, in relative silence. Steve tried tostart a conv...rsation but it wouldn't go anywhere. When Bob tried, Stevecouldn't reciprocate. It was an awkwardness that they'd never known intheir relationship.The car ride home was equally quiet. Bob was preoccupied, his mindreeling at the fact everyone just assumed he and Steve were a couple.Steve, meanwhile, couldn't help but feel guilty for the. He groaned again, louder, as she did it again and again. He’d died and gone to heaven. He was watching this sweet little teen fingering her virgin hole… All of a sudden she disappeared. Dave panicked. Was that it? Where had she gone? He silently begged for act 2. Soon she was back with a stool and what looked like a hair brush. He was intrigued. Claire gently placed the stool in front of the mirror. Then she lifted the leg furthest away from the window and placed it onto the stool. Dave’s grip. Let me be for a few."I think it was in that moment where I realized how much I cared for these people. I looked at Gayle and Lorrie. Gayle was whispering softly to Lorrie, who seemed really small right now. They shouldn't be fighting zombies. They should be helping or something, but they weren't warriors. This wasn't fair.But it wasn't just them. It was Erin. And the Sisters. And Payton, and Kaitlyn, and Tina. And the boys, too. I can't let anything happen to these people.Zombies moaned. Most take two to three weeks. So she has been relatively easy." Yes, as I anticipated. She is much more fragile than she would like to believe. The devastation of her failed marriage added greatly to that fragility. Had she come from a happy marriage I would still have been able to break her, it would simply have taken longer. As Martin planned, she is vulnerable, very vulnerable. As a result, I have been able to destroy her spirit quite easily."There was the sound of a woman's mindless scream.