Deception

Chapter 14

The rain pelts down on the roof, some of it leaks through the windows,I shiver. It's a Monday, and considering that there's nothing left of the world, it's still the worst day of the week. I hold Judith in my arms and rock her back and forth, she gurgles slightly but eventually closes her eyes, and the next thing I know, she's asleep.

I gently lay her down in her crib and walk out the room to see what all the hassle is about. In Judith's room you can literally hear everything. And I mean everything. If there were walkers outside, you would hear them, if someone was vomiting you would hear them, if someone was having sex, sadly you would hear them as well.

I close the door behind me and walk up to the group, they all huddle in a circle shouting at each other. In the crowd I try and find Carl but he's not in the havoc, having known this boy for a long time, I would of expected him to be the course of it.

He sits on a chair in the far corner of the room, playing with a bit of fabric, I haven't spoken too him since Saturday. For some reason he just didn't want to talk to me, I think it was about the picture, he always seems to get depressed when I talk about my brother.

Pushing past the group, I finally get to Carl and I sit next to him in silence. He doesn't even bother to look at me and he continues to play with a bit of fabric. I nudge him slightly to try and get his attention.

"What's all that about?" I whisper to him, I didn't just want to say to him 'hey stop ignoring me you dick' because I had a feeling saying that would make things a whole lot worse.

He shrugs his shoulders " arguing who should do the next supply run and if we should move out the church."

"What?! why should we move out the church?" I whisper shout.

Carl sighs clearly not wanting to talk to me " more walkers are coming into the woods, it's not safe here anymore."

Living in a world like this, nowheres safe.

I finally pluck up the courage and talk to him about Saturday. "Look Carl, why aren't you talking to me? I haven't done anything have I?" I groan, he laughs slightly and looks up at me, his piercing blue eyes stare at me.

God I could get lost in them.

"It's just when you got the picture with you and your brother it made me like feel bad."

"Why." I say, interested.

"Because I," he stops himself. "Because I know Judith won't have any moments like that, any happy moments. She won't get to live a good life, she won't go to school, she won't make friends, she won't find," he gulps, "love."

I move closer to Carl and lean into him.he smiles at me and I put my head on his shoulders. He shouldn't be thinking like this, Judith can still make the most of the world, Carl shouldn't feel bad. It's not like he brought her into the world.

"listen." He says, he points up to the ceiling and I perk my ears up. "Do you hear that?" He whispers into my ear.

"Hear what?" All I can hear is the sound of rain bouncing off the roof.

"It's the sound of God crying because I haven't seen your ass today!" He suddenly flings me over his shoulder and I scream in surprise.

Wow this boy had a slight obsession with my ass.

"Why do you like my ass so much? It's not even nice." I laugh. He shakes his head.

"Umm no, you have a beautiful ass" he retorts, I start to fall, since he's grip has loosened on me, he try's catching me but he ends up falling as well, we both end up in a heap on the floor. We both groan and rub our backs, then both burst out laughing and screaming at the top of our lungs. Carl rolls along the floor clutching his stomach, his face red and tears stream down his face. I laugh at him, which doesn't actually help him stop laughing.