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felt awake, more so than she had in days.
     
                  "So, what's up with you and Jack?" Emma blurted out in a whisper. Kaylee stiffened.
     
                  "I don't know what-"
     
                  "Save it, Kay. I'm not stupid. You haven't talked to him since we left the city, I've noticed."
     
                  She sometimes forgot how annoyingly observant Emma was. But what she couldn't tell their father, now she didn't want to tell Emma. Her sister had written their mother off as dead years ago, had told Kaylee, yelled it at her on occasion, that Susan was dead and that the body walking the streets was not their mother. Kaylee never believed that to be the truth. Their mother was sick, horribly sick, but still living. At least, she had been. So how could she grieve with her sister? Emma wouldn't understand. Kaylee couldn't stand to hear her taunts and see her rolling her eyes. So instead, she said nothing.
     
                  She kept her eyes trained to the sky, staring into that dusky blackness for all she was worth, wondering which stars she might see if the clouds would only shift to give her something to look at.
     
                  "So, is Andrew back in play then? If you and Jack-"
     
                  "Emma, no!" Kaylee admonished, shooting her sister a dirty look. She looked over her shoulder at the sleeping masses behind her. She couldn't pick out individual features, just lumpy shapes in sleeping bags. "Do you really think I could just switch them out? Besides, I don't love Andrew like that."
     
                  "So, you love Jack?"
     
                  Kaylee stiffened, felt a spasm in her fingers, but she clamped her mouth shut.
     
                  "You could tell me, you know," came Emma's soft voice. Kaylee didn't respond but Emma pushed regardless. "Something must have happened when you ran after them, right? When you ran into the city 'cause you saw those dogs. Did something happen? Someone get hurt? Was it Jack? Or... or you?"
     
                  Kaylee saw, from the corner of her eye, Emma's hand outstretch, reaching for her sister. But something stopped her, her fingers hovered mid air, in the gap between them, and then she squeezed them into a fist and dropped her hand back in her lap, as though she thought better of it. Kaylee frowned. That action, combined with the hesitancy and softness of Emma's voice, affected her.
     
                  "You can touch me, you know," Kaylee whispered. "It doesn't scare me." She reached out and pulled at her sisters fingers, wrapping her hand around them.
     
                  "It should," Emma said, but she didn't pull away and her hand gripped Kaylee's tightly. "Sometimes I think I shouldn't even be here with-"
     
                  "Knock it off!" Kaylee hissed. "And don't let Andrew catch you saying that."
     
                  "Andrew!" Emma huffed, sniffing. "I could sneeze, blow my nose, accidentally use a fork and wipe out the lot of you. It's ridiculous. If it weren't for the fact I know Andrew and Dad and you would probably get yourselves killed trying to find me, I'd be gone by now."
     
                  "I hate it when you talk like that," Kaylee whispered, more because she knew how true it was than anything else. Emma just shrugged. If they would have let her, Emma would have been gone a long time ago. She tried to leave just after she was bit, before they even knew she wouldn't show any signs of infection. If it weren't for Andrew tackling her to the garage floor in the firehouse she would have thrown herself to the infected and let them devour her.
     
                  "So is that it? When you ran into the city," Emma pushed, "did someone get hurt?"
     
                  Kaylee sighed, her throat squeezed uncomfortably and a red dot blinked in