In the original story, June was also accompanied to school by her brother, Danny, who had perished with her parents, but was reanimated (partially) in one of June's attempts to reanimate her family. Danny was a jock with some undead tendancies. We scrapped the idea early on though, because adding the zombie Danny distracted from the rest of the world and characters.
Here's sort of what we had envisioned Danny would look like back when he was a character.