"Who's she going to ride with?" Dayna, the new girl in the group, asked innocently. Stu seemed to pause at the question, glancing around.

Stu had been kept at the same quarantine facility as you, both of you being test subjects due to your immunity to Captain Tripps. When even the doctors died Stu had taken you in as a sister. You'd gained quite a sizeable group since then, everyone in search of the same place.

Frannie had given up her moped to Dayna and Mark when you found them. Then she asked Stu if she could ride with him. But you'd been riding with your older brother until this point. There was an odd silence as everyone realized Frannie was trying to discreetly say she DIDN'T want to ride with Harold.

"I'll ride with Harold," you volunteered quietly.

Frannie smiled gratefully, as though you were doing her some massive favor. But honestly, you didn't mind. You couldn't figure out exactly why she seemed to hold such disdain for Harold. And you found her false sweetness to be worse than if she'd just been outright mean to him.