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Prologue

THEN

Becky Smith's father was a bully and a racist He often beat B and her rants into the country B loved and feared him equally She swore to herself that she didn't share his vicious, racist tendencies, but at the saed him about them

One of B's teachers, Mr Burke, warned her that she risked beco with him But B had never paid much attention to what teachers said

B was a toe She likedout with her ht she'd lead a nor special

Then zombies attacked her school B and her friends didn't kno the dead had come back to life, or why so e mutants who could control them were And there was no time to find out They had to run or die So they ran

B's dad rescued her He led the group to safety, playing the part of a hero to perfection Until they hit a snag and zombies closed in on them To delay the zombies, he told B to throw a black boy named Tyler Bayor to theave her a co Tyler with relish as he begged B to save him

Horrified by what she'd done, B abandoned her monstrous dad and raced back into the school, to search for another way out But she only found zombies and mutants Or rather, they found her

On a staircase, the freshly zoht up with B She had been scratched by another member of the undead and was terrified that she was about to turn into one of them But Tyler took her mind off that worry when he ripped her chest open The last thing she saas Tyler biting into her still-beating heart

Then she died