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ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
"I think the worst part of this all is the shower situation."
"Not the flesh eating monsters walking around?"
Liliana looks over at the man laying next to her. Their tent is small and humid, their shoulders are touching as they lay side by side. Glenn turns his head towards her as well, causing Lilian to smile softly, resting her forehead against his, watching his eyes shut peacefully.
They bring each other peace especially in turbulent times like this.
"It would be nice if you didn't smell like one of them," Lily teases, causing Glenn to open his eyes as she laughs at his bewildered face, giggling at his reaction before rolling on her side. Glenn follows in suit, feeling him roll on his side and wrap his arms around her waist, pulling her back to his chest.
"I'm trying my best, you know? It's hard work running in and out of the city to get supplies for us–"
"Oh! What would we ever do without you! Our great unspoken hero!" Lily jokes, feeling him roll her back on her back to climb on top of her, both of them trying their hardest to stifle their laughs to not wake up the rest of the camp. In times like this, they feel normal. The world feels right again. Lily feels fresh out of college and like they just signed the lease on their first apartment together.
It was a shit hole in retrospect, but a palace compared to the tents and sleeping bags they've become accustomed to. It was a cute little apartment though. Lily put some pictures of them up, changed the drapes to a cute floral one, and put some succulents around. She read somewhere they give good energy or something, she can't really remember, but she knows that her and Glenn were awful plant parents. Most of them ended up dead by the time either one of them remembered to water them.
She misses them. The normality of it all. All she can do now is adapt to this new normal.
Fighting for your life, running all the time, hunger pains constantly kind of normal. It's a cruel kind of normal but Lily is almost there and fully adjusted. Well, she thinks she is. She can't be too sure. Every time she thinks she's almost there, she's not.
She sees one of those things and suddenly she's back to the start. Scared, confused, and, again, scared.
She has Glenn though. Her string of actual normality. Her true hold on her old life, on her true self.
She's got him.
It makes her smile fondly up at him, but also roll her eyes at the sight of him. He's just so funny looking sometimes, still growing into himself. Truly, he looks almost exactly like he did in college, just aged with the stress of the world they're living in.
"You're ridiculous looking, you know that?" Glenn smiles down at her half-hearted words, leaning down to kiss her lips softly. She hums up at him when he pulls back, smiling up at the boy with a tilt of her head.
