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back into the bushes!  I looked through the hole and I didn’t see him!  We started calling for him to come back, but he said he wasn’t scared, and he was going farther!  We didn’t see him for a while.
                  I think a couple minutes went by and we still didn’t hear anything.  Max went through the hole and walked to the bushes, and tried calling for Tommy.  We still didn’t hear anything.  Jimmy went out too, and I decided to go out too.
                  I haven’t been outside the wall in a really long time, so it felt weird, but normal.
                  Then we heard Tommy screaming for help!  The other boys started moving back, like they were scared!  I guess they weren’t that brave in the end.  I didn’t even think about it before doing it, but I ran into the bushes.  The boys told me to come back but I didn’t listen to them.
                  After a few minutes I found Tommy, and I saw a zombie chasing him!  I got the gun from the back of my pants… you know, the one Sarah told me to hang on to, and I tried to aim it at the zombie.
                  Tommy kept yelling for help, and then the zombie swung its arm and it made Tommy trip.  The zombie fell right on him!  I was already scared, but now I was freaking out!
                  Tommy was holding the zombie by his neck and pushing him off, but the zombie was too big!  I kept aiming, but my hands were shaking really bad, and I was afraid I’d hit Tommy too!  I finally pulled the trigger, and it knocked me back.  But I missed!  Then I heard Tommy scream even worse, and when I looked, the zombie was biting his arm!  I aimed again, and I shot again, but I still missed!  Tommy’s arm was bleeding so much!
                  I just… started running.  Barbie, I think I’m going crazy, because I ran right at the zombie!  I knocked it over and it stopped biting him.  I fell over too, but I got up real fast and I grabbed Tommy and started pulling him away.  He got up, but I think he was having trouble because he was in a lot of pain.
                  We started running, but the zombie started chasing us.  We got out of the bushes and back to the wall, and Max and Jimmy were there to pull us back inside.  Right when the zombie came out of the bushes, someone else shot the zombie and it died.
                  A bunch of the grown-ups were on the other side of the wall and they took Tommy away.  They were yelling to get Rita to try and fix him.
                  Dan and Michael came up to me and the boys, and asked why we were playing with the wall.  I said that I told them to stop, and that Tommy went really far out and got attacked by a zombie, so I went to go help.  They asked why there were gun shots, and I said that I had a gun and was trying to shoot the zombie.
                  They got mad at me and tried to take it from me, but then Sarah came up and told them to leave me alone.  She told them that she gave me the gun because she was teaching me how to use it.
                  Sarah told me to go wait in our place, so that’s where I am now.  I’m really worried about Tommy.  We all know what happens when you get bit… he’s going to die.
                  I have to go.  Sarah wants to talk to me.
     

Chapter 29
     
    June 20, 1995
     
                  I’m staying home from school today, Barbie.  A lot of people are really mad about yesterday.  Tommy is in Rita’s room, and he’s pretty sick.
                  Sarah is talking to some of the other grownups in town, and Jack is hanging out here with Lydia and me.  I don’t have anything to do, because Sarah wants me to stay here and not talk with anyone yet.  A lot of people are mad at both of us.
                  Sarah had a really long talk with me last night.  She told me that