Deception

Chapter 25

I wake up to find a note next to me instead of Carl, I laugh at his romantic gesture and read it,

Good morning Miss,I'm not a virgin anymore, Bower. I hope you had a good sleep, just gone on a quick supply run with Daryl, be back at lunch. Stay safe, I love you- Carl.

I chuckle to myself and grab my watch that's placed next to my bedside lamp. Considering its now 11:45 Carl should be back soon, I get out of bed and get dressed to pass the time. My hands fiddle with the black timberland laces and I tie the red shirt around my waist, since today it was unnaturally hot. Brushing my teeth with what's left of the tooth paste, I then brush my hair, after I finish my daily rital, I go downstairs and enter the kitchen. Rick stands with Judith's in his arms, he smiles when I come in. And I give him a nod back. "You get any sleep last night?" Rick asks, while feeding Judith a bottle of powered milk. Shit, did he know? We weren't that loud, were we?

"Yeah, it was okay I guess, the rain was kinda loud." I change the conversation to weather, since I really don't want to tell the Rick what I'd done with his son.

"I heard some groaning from you last night, you okay today?" Rick now smiles, I raise my eyebrows, a look of guilt clearly obvious on my face. Well I've come to the conclusion that Rick knows. I sigh,

"Yeah it's just, 'that' time of the month again, you know the good old period pain." I lean on the kitchen table and put my head in my hands, covering my look of embrassement. Rick mumbles something that sounds like 'liar' to Judith and laughs when he looks back at me.

"Well we have some stuff in the bathroom if you need it." I know he sees through my bluff but I carry on lying. Maggie walks in along with Glenn they both smirk at me. I swear to God if Carl went bluffing to everyone that he lost his virginatity to me I will kill that boy. I tuck the front of my loose black t shirt into my skinny jeans and walk out the room, ignoring the laughing from Glenn and Maggie behind me. I walk past Carol, Tara, Rosita, Eugene, Abraham and Noah while making my way upstairs, to probably go and cry in embarrassment. Rustling at the door stops me half way up the stairs, I turn round, my knife in my hand. Carl walks in with Daryl and I immediately put the knife back into my belt and pull Carl into the bathroom with me.

"Woah April, I know you want more since last night, but I don't want to do it in a bathroom, i'd rather do it on my bed if anything." Carl smirks, I hit his chest.

"What have you got to say for yourself mmh? You told everyone that we had sex didn't you?" I whisper shout, not wanting to alert the others of the situation we are currently in.

"That's a total lie! I only told Glenn." Carl whisper shouts back at me, I press him against the wall, my hands on his chest.

"So you did tell someone! Jesus Carl!" I say,hitting him on the shoulder again.

"Well sorry! I didn't know he was gonna tell everyone about it." Carl says back to me, surprisingly, even though I'm having a go at him, he still has a smile on his face.

"Well news flash Carl, news travels fast in our group!" I groan and hold my head in my hands, Carl doesn't respond for a while.

"Your so hot when your angry." Carl smirks and pushes me up against the bathroom wall. I gasp a little, my hands try to push him off me, since I'm fuming about what he's done, but he's too strong and I gradually start to kiss him back, His hands travel up my shirt and mine tangle through his hair. Carl pulls away and I stand still, too shocked to say anything. "I need to talk to Daryl about something, I'll be back soon." He pulls open the door and closes it behind him.

What the hell just happened? I smile and decide to do some drawing to pass time, I make my way up stairs and find some scrap paper, after searching through all the rooms, I find some black pencils, I sit by the window, located in the corner of my room, and look out onto the street. Careful not to break the pencil led, i put the pencil onto the paper and start to draw a simple outline of the street. It takes a while to add detail but I finally finish it.

I grab my watch and see what the time is. 2:15pm. Great, it literal had only been two hours. I sigh and start to make my way downstairs, "I cant tell her, god Daryl she'll hate me!" I hear Carl whisper to Daryl, I know I shouldn't listen in on their conversation, but if they were talking about me, I want to know what they were saying.

I always think Carls hiding something from me, nows my time to find out what it is. Quietly, I make my way back up the stairs and put my ear by the door leading into Judith's room.

"You can't hide it from her forever Carl." Daryl huffs.

"I can try," Carl mumbles, "listen if I tell her, she'd leave and I can't lose her Daryl, I don't want to lose her."

"She's going to find out, you know that right?"

"After last night, I've been feeling a lot guiltier then usual about the whole thing, I jus-" Carl stops and even though I can't see him, I know he's fighting back tears. "I just don't want her to know for a while okay? I'll tell her later."

"By later do you mean three years from now? God dammit Carl the longer you wait the guiltier your feel! I can't even meet her gaze Carl, ever since she told us I haven't spoken to her because of the guilt! You need to tell her." I gasp as the door opens inwards and I fall through, bashing my head on the floor. Daryl looks shocked while Carl on the other hand looks like he's about to cry.

"Did you hear any of that?" Carl snaps, I nod my head and he sighs.

"Carl why do you feel so guilty, have I done something?" I ask, Daryl looks at Carl and Carl glares at him, he comes over and yanks me up, His fingers curl around my wrist and he tugs me into our room, I fall inside and look at Carl, slightly scared about his new attitude. "Carl what is wrong with y-"

"April listen there's something I need to tell you and it's not good." Carls says, looking me dead in the eyes. Shit is he gonna break up with me? What have I done wrong? "You have to promise to stay calm okay?" I nod my head and I can see Carls palms sweating from the nerves. "You know you said you would kill whoever killed your brother?"

God please Carl, don't say what I think your going to say.

"Well it was me, I-i killed him April. I killed Charlie."

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Ohhhhhhh dramatic lol sorry this chapter was boring