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WINTER was unbearably long. For eight months we had been scavenging through random houses. It was tough, but our situation brought all of us closer...well some of us. Lori and Rick we're barely talking and neither were Carl and Lori. The whole thing with Shane had put a rift between all three of them. Other than that, the majority of us were close. I had gotten close to all the women...well closer. I started to notice time was passing at an increased rate when all of us had started to grow our hair out and Lori was getting bigger. My hair had definitely gotten longer but so had Carl's, Hershel's, Daryl's, Rick's, and Carol's.

The Rictatorship had been in full effect as of eight months ago. I let the anger I had towards Rick go a few months back. We were sort of back to the way we were. Daryl and I. I'm not exactly sure where to start on that front. We still had some feelings that we needed to work out but neither of us were ready to have that conversation. We were still close though and he was letting his walls down, slowly but surely. My love for him had definitely grown over the past few months, him on the other hand, I'm not even sure he loves me. I know he cares though, I can see it in all of his actions and his need to protect me even though I don't need protection. I appreciate it though

Carol, Daryl, and I had formed this special bond though. We would joke and make fun of each other. It was nice since I was only ever used to doing it with my siblings.

Anyway, enough of the recap. Let's get down to business. We had been searching another house to see if it was safe for us to sleep. The main people Rick would bring on important "missions" were Daryl, T-Dog, Maggie, Glenn, Carl (depending on said mission), and I. We had been the main ones, even Carol sometimes. We had all had extra training due to times being even more dangerous than they were.

Rick had kicked the door in before shooting the first walker he saw. T-Dog, Daryl, Carl, and I followed with our own weapons in hand. We all had been separately searching each section of the house with our weapons and flashlights up, depending if the area was dark. I was with Carl. He had my front, I had his back. We had searched the kitchen before moving to another room. Carl opened the door and as we entered we saw a walker. Carl shot it down before looking back at me. I nodded at him before he did too and we kept moving.

We hadn't found anything in our section so we went back to the kitchen and Rick was there. Carl was looking through cans on top of the counter as Glenn, and Maggie walked in through the kitchen door.

T-Dog and Daryl walked down the stairs, Daryl with some kind of bird in his hand. Rick stood by the front door ushering in the rest of the group, and Maggie and Glenn were moving bodies out of the way so everyone could bring in our stuff. Well the stuff we had anyway. Carol, Beth, Lori, and Hershel emerged through the door with stuff in their hand.