Are You Sure?

Chapter 5

Carl's P.O.V.
It's 8:00AM and I woke up at 5:00AM. I have been watching Emma sleep for three hours. Her hair is up in a messy ponytail and her lips, slightly parted, are turning back to the perfect shade of pink. Her hands are under her head and she is faced toward me. She is curled up into a ball, and I notice her wearing my blue hoody and her black shorts. Her eyes started to flutter and she scratched her nose with the back of her hand. I quickly turn over and close my eyes.

"Mmm," she sighs, and I can feel her sitting up. "Carl."she whispers close to my ear, "I'm going to go wake up mini you, also known as Judith." I feel her hot breath and I shiver. She giggles at her little joke.

"Mhmm." I say as sleepily as possible. I hear the wood outside my door creak and the gentle tap of her crutches on it. I hear the tap fade down the hall, my signal to get up.

I walk down the hall, pull off my shirt and stick it in the washer. I have to train today, I can't let this place get the best of me. I was headed to the kitchen, when I heard Judith's rocking chair creak. I turned around and walked toward the door. I cracked the door open a little more than it was, and saw her coddling Judith with a blanket wrapped around her. She rocks her hips back and forth and I see Judith's eyes flicker and close.
"Smile little baby, hush little child, I will be around, at least for a while. I will keep you closed in my arms, but don't you worry, I'll never be far." Emma cooed to the baby.

I walked in. "Where'd you learn that?" I asked smiling at her and Judith. She set Judith down in her crib and tucked her in. "My mom.." She said silently, not looking away from Judith.
She turned around and looked at me, her face going red.

"Carl, you aren't wearing a shirt." She said staring with wide eyes and breathing heavily.
"Oh, right." I said as calmly as possible.

I turned around and walked out. I stopped at the laundry room and grabbed a blue plaid shirt, since Emma already took my red one.

She put on her white tang top, already wearing a bra, and took a deep breath in from my shirt before sliding her arms through the holes. She walked in front of me and grabbed her black jeans from the dryer and her riding boots out of the corner. She grabbed a thick belt and held it out to me. "Help me put this on, please?" She asked. "Yeah." I nodded.

She pulled off her shorts, revealing boy-shorts(underwear that look like short shorts.) I gave her a weird look as she turned toward me to grab her jeans that she had set on top of the machine. "What?" She asked. I moved my eyes to the underwear and back to her, scrunching my eyebrows together. "What were expecting? A thong? I'm not Enid." She said, slipping in her jeans.

As I watched her do so, I grabbed my hat from off her head and placed it on mine. She looked up and gave me a small smile.

"Enid wears thongs?" I asked in disgust. "Yeah," she said as if it should be obvious to me, "when she bends over to do anything and her shirt is to short, you can see it. Or you could just see the line through her pants."

"Why are you looking at her ass?" I asked.
"Well, because red is the first color that the human eye catches anywhere, as you know. And Enid's thongs are red."
"Red is ten times worse." I said, gagging, and trying my best not to get the image in my head.
"I have a question for you." She said, agreeing with my disgust in a nod.
I gave her a 'go ahead' look.
"Why are you looking at my ass?"

Oh crap. I didn't realize that I was looking. How long was a looking?!
"Uh." I said moving my head away. I turned around and she was putting on her belt. She couldn't quite reach the back, and she was trying to,but her ankle kept cracking with each jerk. That's where my help came in. I was pulling it around the back when she bent over to put on her boots. She hit my area and I immediately had to suck in my breath.

Emma P.OV.
Okay, oops. Well, I will pretend that never happened.
I walk in and grab Judith and get her dressed while Carl makes us breakfast. I walk out with Judith on my hip. Carl's eyes shoot up and he looks at his baby sister. "Hey there," he coos, "Hi there little girl." Carl comes closer after setting the last plate at the table and tickles Judith with one finger on her chest.

He looks up at me through the corner of his eye, then looks back down at Judith. "You like the pretty girl?" He asks in a high-pitched voice, "Isn't she pretty. Carl likes her. Can you say: Emma?" Carl asked the toddler.

"Elma." Judith says. Carl and I burst into laughter. "Looks like my name is Elma!" I say laughing, bobbing the giggling baby in my arm. "Sorry, she can't quite pronounce two of the same letters together yet." Carl said laughing and ruffling a hand through his hair.
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I was given a job to set up the clinic, take care of minor patients by myself, and restock. After the day was over, I was looking for Carl so that he could help me find the garden. I wanted to make a salad for dinner as a thank you to Carl and Rick for sharing their home with me. Especially Carl since he pretty much saved my life. I invited that Enid girl, but she refused to come over, and rather rudely.

I walked up to a lady with gray and black short hair, skinny as can be, sitting on the sidewalk corner. "Excuse me?" I asked, the lady looked up, "Do you know where I can find the garden?" I asked.

"You're Emma, right?" The lady asked, her blue-gray eyes full of curiosity.," The one who saved Enid."
"Yes ma'am. That's me. And who are you? May I ask..?" I asked politely. My mother always said that was the number one rule when it came to adults: respect and politeness.

"You don't have to call me ma'am." She said waving a hand, "Call me Carol." She said standing up and going straight for the hug. I jumped at her startling embrace.

We pulled out, "If you don't mind me by asking, how do you know my name?"
"Oh, everyone knows who you are. Carl must really like you. He never brings in strangers."
"I wouldn't exactly call us strangers. I knew Carl in elementary school and left in the third grade. I also knew Rick and Lori. We go back." I said laughing.
"Oh, well anyone who's a family of them, is family to us. Welcome to the group, Emma."
"Thanks."
She nodded. "The garden is around the left corner right there," she said, pointing around a house, "It should be straight at the end."
"Thank you. Bye, Carol." I said smiling.

I turned the corner; bag in hand, I saw the garden. As I kept straight down the path, I noticed Carl planting along the side. I peered at him. He looked at my butt and licked his thick lips. When is he going to stop doing that? I thought to myself. He had been doing that all day! Well, that's it, I'm done. I'm asking him.

"Carl!" I called out, messing up my straight path, "Why are staring at me like that?" I asked.
"Like what?" He asked blushing.
"Don't give me that shit Carl. You know exactly what I am talking about." I said placing a hand on my hip, looking over at what I should pick while waiting for an answer. "Uh.." He mumbled. I felt bad.

"Never mind, just come pick out some vegetables with me." I said grabbing his hand.
I started to yank him forward, but he pulled me back. I felt him rubbing my knuckles. As I turned around, I pulled my hand away quickly. I looked down at them, they were bleeding again.

"What did you do?" He asked seriously.
"Punched the walls again.." I muttered.
"Stop," He said, "You're inflicting pain on yourself." He pulled my short body, compared to his tall one, into his chest and held my knuckles.
"I'll help you pick vegetables, if afterwards we go to the clinic for some bandages to wrap your knuckles up." He whispered.
"Okay." I agreed.
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Carl rifled through the medicine cabinets looking for aspirin for my leg and knuckles. He had wrapped up my knuckles and I sat on the operating chair waiting.
"How do you know so much about medicine?" He suddenly asked.
"My grandpa. He taught me everything he knew about medicine, he was a surgeon. I had always wanted to be a doctor." I said looking down, twiddling my thumbs.

"Oh.." He said, "ha-ha found it." He turned around and gave me two red pills. I took them with water. We silently walked back to the house.

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