~GRIMES~

12

"Walker" I hear Andrea yell, I spin around from where I was talking to Eloise and Carl, something was limping towards the farm in the distance, it was hard to see, "don't shoot!" Dad screams as he runs up to the walker, Andrea didn't hear him though, she looks though the lense as she shoots, the walker drops to the ground "Noo" I hear dad yell as Andrea's smile drops, as they get closer we see the 'walker' as Daryl, I gasp did Andrea just kill Daryl? As they got closer I couldn't see any gunshot hole in his head, Andrea just luckily missed and grazed his head, relief washed over me.
Daryl had found sophias doll, i still had hope we would find her.

In the morning we all sat around our tents eating, Glenn got up from his seat as he walked to the front of everyone, I could tell he was worried I just didn't know why, "there's walkers in the barn" he blurted out quickly, my head filled with so many questions, why would they keep walkers in there? Everyone was estranging glances to eachother not being about to say anything.

Maggie and Glenn had gone on another run to the pharmacy to get something, a while later they come back, I stood with mom as Maggie storms up to us, she throws all moms stuff at her "if you want your stuff, get it yourself,we ain't your run boys" maggie tells her, I jump back a bit shocked at why Maggie was acting like this "and there's your had damn abortion pills" she says again throwing some pills at mom, "abortion pills?" I say quietly as Maggie storms off and Glenn follows her, mom turns to me "look honey, I don't know " she says as she gets down to my level "are you pregnant mom?" I ask her "like I seid I don't know sweetie" she says "go play with your brother" she says, I walk over to where Carl and Shane are, "hey els" Shane says "hey Shane,Carl" I say "look" Carl says as he pulls up his shirt a little to show a gun tucked into his pants "dad gave it to me" "you guys want to come for shooting practice later?" Shane asks us "of course" we say in unison with smiles "but I don't think mom would let us" I say "she doesn't want us near guns after I got shot" I continue "don't worry I'll ask her" Shane says putting his hand on our shoulder, "thanks shane" I say smiling as he gets up.

We excited got into the car to go to the field we were going to practice shooting on, we got to the big open field, Eloise,Beth,Patricia,jimmy,Andrea and Shane also came, Shane handed me a gun, it was sort of heavy at first and hard to aim, I aimed and missed the first time, I sighed "have another go" Shane said as I aimed my gun again and missed, "one more shot ok?" Shane told me "you got this" I aimed and pulled the trigger, it hit the can, my face lit up with a smile "good job" Shane told me as he messed up my hair "good shot" Carl says next to me "but not as good as mine" he aims and misses "you sure about that" i say laughing "I'll get it this time" he aims again and hit the can "told you!" He says cheerfully with a huge smile on his face, after a while we all get back in our cars, Shane and Andrea were going to a nearby suburb to look for Sophia, the rest of us drove back to the farm, I was talking with Eloise and Carl on the ride back.

We get back to the farm,I go to find mom and dad, "mom!" I yell as I run up to her "I can shoot a gun now!" I say pulling out a gun that Shane had given me, her face dropped "who gave that to you?" She asked "Shane, he seid I can aim so I can use one" I say, "give me the gun Ellie" she says putting her hand out, I sigh and hand mom the gun, I walk away without another word, I see Beth, Carl and Eloise on the porch of the house, I walk up to them "hey Ellie" Beth says softly with a smile, "hey" I say with a smile, Eloise and Carl smile back, I pull up a chair and sit with them.

I hear yelling and commotion behind me, I turn around to see dad with hershel, they have walkers with chains around their necks, I see Shane start running toward them yelling something, I get up from my seat that stand near the stairs with Eloise,Carl and Beth, we run down to the barn right as Shane pulls out his gun and starts shooting at the walkers Herschel was holding, he shoots it in the stomach "you think their human? How are they not dying" he yells as he shoots at the walkers chest again, soon after shooting it in the head, he runs over to the barn door, I knew what he was about to do, I felt nauseous but I couldn't move, he brakes the door as walkers start piling out the door, everyone starts shooting at them, I hear people around me crying, mom comes up behind us, I didn't want to talk to her but at the moment I didn't care, all the walkers were lifeless on the ground, till we heard a noise inside the barn, one last walker stumbled out, I couldn't believe who it was, the girl we were all so eager to find, Sophia limped past all the other lifeless walkers, she had a huge bite make on her left shoulder, my stomach dropped as tears blurred my vision, I stared at her as she slowly limped toward us,her pale skin and gray lifeless eyes, carol ran toward the undead girl before Daryl stopped her "Sophia" she choked out ,the girl I had prayed for every night was a walker, I couldn't remember the last thing I seid to her before she went missing, I didn't know her for that long but I loved Sophia so much, dad raised up his gun as she stumbled closer, Sophia dropped to the ground in an instant, everything was silent except for the sound of crying and sorrow, Beth stumbled toward her dead mother, she fell to the ground as she cried, suddenly the corpse grabbed onto Beth as she started screamed, everyone ran over to help her get off the undead walker, I could feel mom hugging onto Carl and i and honestly I didn't care about the argument we had an hour, I closed my eyes as tears treated down my face.