Cassie couldn't help, but smile at the other girl confessed she too was a loner. Two loners reaching out to each other and becoming, well, friends? Erin was right, normal, right, and convenient were thrown on the window a long time ago. This world they lived in now was completely different than the one they had walked in not so long ago, but did it not feel like someone else's life sometimes to Cassie? It did, all the time, and sometimes she would kill for a little bit of the "normalcy" she had back then even if it involved witch hunters, magic, betrayal and such. It still beat now or maybe not. Maybe she should be thankful for the semi-predictability of the zombie filled world. It allowed her to meet new people, like Erin, and make friends. Maybe it was the way to take away the last of the "loner" she'd always been.
"It doesn't exist", she replied with a weak laugh of her own. "Or it's just been redefined really. This is our "normal" or something." Normal was flimsy, slippery, and it had a nasty habit of switching up on you when you thought for a single moment you might have a grasp on what exactly it was. It was zombies today, Hell God too, and the projects, but it could always change. Like Melissa and Adam, falling for each other, and Cassie still feeling everything she felt the other teenager since the moment the elixir was ingested and thought to take hold of her system, purging her blood and heart of anything Adam Conant, Cassie had never stopped caring and she knew it would be a good long time before she ever did. Perhaps Melissa and Adam together would help it along because she'd have no choice, no alternative, but to pick herself up and push the feelings away for good. Or, it would break her.
"Yeah. Total carbon copies, right?" she shot back with her own teasing grin. It was the same at her old school and at Chance Harbor. There were the groups, the clicks, and the people who hated you or loved you for the simple reason of a single stare. Things weren't so simple anymore; people could hate you, but need you to live at the same time. The world was about survival and no longer about fitting in, fashion, and popularity. At least, not so prominent as before. Erin's question pulled Cassie from her thoughts and she nodded her head. "I think I have. I'm not sure yet. I'll definitely let you know...and thanks, for the offer, it meant a lot."