Carl & I

Chapter Fourteen What Happens Next

We've been at the bridge for days now and there is no sign of the group. Carl and I have been switching shifts keeping watch while the other rests or tends to Judith.

We're running out of food and water. The summer heat is becoming unbearable and Judith is cranky.

"We need food." I said while staring off in a distance.

"They should've been here by now." Carl kicked a rock across the road in annoyance. "We can't leave without them."

"Then we're gonna die Carl." I shrugged as the words came out of my mouth. "And what good is that going to do them when they find us dead if they even end up being alive."

"THEY ARE ALIVE!" he yelled. "Don't say they aren't because they are!"

"That's why they're here right?" I know what I'm saying is wrong, but I'm so deep in sorrow that I can't stop myself from spilling the most realistic reason that they aren't here.

As Carl was getting ready to speak back we saw a semi truck appear in the distance.

"I TOLD YOU THEY WERE ALIVE!" He yelled as he hugged me but something didn't feel right. We never had a semi in the community. Nor did we ever have one that said wolves on the side.

"Carl, I hate to kill the mood, but I don't think that's them." He stopped hugging me. Pulling back he looked me deep in the eyes.

"What do you mean that's not them? How would you know?" I couldn't pay attention to his words as I watched the semi stop at a distance that was close enough to make out facial features but not close enough to talk.

A man with a W carved into his forehead crawled onto the top of the semi and threw a flare our way.

"Carl, turn around." I whispered.

We both stared at the man on the semi, confused as to what was happening. The man then threw a speaker that was playing loud music. "IGHT WERE GOOD" he yelled.

Before we could move the back door to the semi flung open and walkers poured out heading towards the light and sound. Right at us. They semi took off in the opposite direction and left us to die.

"Let's go, get in the car"

I got into the drivers seat and Carl sat in the passengers seat with Judith. I began to drive as fast as the car would go down the road. I turned at turns and tried not to leave a path to us just incase those people were following or they had a trap ahead.

I drove at a high speed, making twists and turns for almost 2 hours until it started to get dark.

"There is a shed over there, we could stay there for the night." Carl pointed at the shed through the window.

"Okay."

We pulled up to the shed and hid the car behind it so if someone was following us, they wouldn't see the car and would keep going. Carl cleared the shed and I took Judith inside.

We slid metal pipes through the door handles and used wooden planks to board the windows, all except for a small area so someone could keep watch.

I took Judith to the back of the shed and found some blankets in a box. I shook the dust off of them and laid one out on the ground, and another to over her. She fell asleep quickly in my arms and I placed her on the blanket.

I walked over to Carl and wrapped my arms around him from behind.

"I'm sorry. About earlier." and I truly was.

"Yeah." He continued to stare out the window.

"I didn't mean what I said. They're out there Carl and I know it. We will find them." I grasped onto him tighter than before and he turned around.

"I don't even know where we are." He said as he began to cry. "We won't ever find them."

I knew it was probably true but I couldn't tell him that. "We will baby." I held onto him and he held onto me.