|Missing Love|

Chapter 20

*Shelby's P.O.V*

"You gotta catch me first." I said to Alden as I started running along a trail.

We were currently on our run and we were having so much fun right now. This run was our excuse to get away from the chaos that was happening at Hilltop. We wanted an escape from reality for once.

There's nothing wrong with that.

"We aren't playing tag." Alden laughed as he ran after me.

"Yes we are." I yelled back as I continued running.

I'm surprised I could run because I have my bow and arrows with me and he has his spear. He's starting to learn how to use bow and arrows as well but he thinks that he works better with his spear.

I like his spear too if I'm being honest.

The wind was a bit breezy but hell, it was making the atmosphere so much better. I was enjoying nature at the moment.

After a few more minutes, I had to stop running so that I could catch my breath. I told Alden that I was no longer running and that I needed like a ten minute break.

"You run so fast." He said as he sat down next to me.

We were sitting against a tree and we were trying to take some deep breaths.

"Blame the wind." I said and then took a drink of the water that I had.

It was quiet for a little bit before I started to speak up again. "Daryl had told me that Negan is gone."

"He ran away?" Alden looked at me as he asked that question.

I would guess so." I shrugged. "But the problem now is that we don't know where he's at."

"There's not much out here." Alden shook his head. "He couldn't have gone far."

Usually now there's just dead trees and plants and then you have the dead walking around whenever they want to make their presence. There was sometimes food that we would find.

There's still whisperers out there. But there's no way that Negan would run into the whisperers, could he?

I can't imagine it to be honest.

"What if he runs into the whisperers?" I then asked Alden.

"I don't know. I'm having a hard time seeing that."

"You heard what Magna and I told Yumiko when we got back from our run, right? We saw a whisperer in the distance. The whisperer was wearing a pink shirt and then a blue plaid shirt over it. We didn't do anything to it even though Magna wanted to do something." I told him.

He slowly nodded. "Yeah, I heard. After my own experience with the whisperers when Luke and I were captured, I'm ready to make sure that they get what's coming to them. They've caused too much trouble."

"I know."

"But anyway.." He started to say. "Earl and I have started a floor plan for the weapons that we wanted to make for the war. We definitely want to make some catapults and we might make some pretty soon."

I nodded. "That's good. Catapults would be good to use in the war."

"I thought so too." He said and then he stood back up.

He gestured for me to do the same. "Let's continue walking and see what we find."

I stood up as well and then walked alongside him to wherever we wanted to do. There was really no destination to where we were going. It was just a walk and seeing what we could find.