Together Forever.

The road

Pdv Kira :

We stay there for a few more minutes staring at each other.

Me: Well guys it's not that I'm bored with you, but I don't have time. Nice to have met you.

I smile at them and start to turn around when Merle interrupts me.

Merle: Do you have a camp?

Me and you ?

Merle: It might well be. You should come with us.

Me: Sorry but I don't have that to do, I have a family to find.

Merle: There are not only two of us in the camp, there are several families who are there, maybe yours is among them.
After all who tries nothing at all.

I say nothing, after all he is right I do not see what I would lose by going there. I was going to answer but Daryl interrupts me by whispering to his brother:

Daryl: There's no way we're bringing that chick back to camp! We don't know this girl!

Merle: because you know the other idiots you maybe?

Me: Well uh, are the meetings between girls over there?

Daryl glares at me and Merle with a smile. I look at them in turn before speaking again:

Me: I come on one condition.

Merle: I'm listening treasure...

Me: You come with me to the camp but I'm behind you in case you plan a dirty trick.

Merle: Of course.

They begin to advance. I don't really realize it, but as I get closer to them, I walk right next to them. Basically I would have been distant and cold but strangely with them I have a good feeling. They don't look mean they just look... crazy?

Me: And is this camp still far?

Merle: Oh, by the time we get there, it'll already be the next day, honey.

Me: Well, fine I have the time.

Daryl: I'm going hunting to try to find something to eat for tonight.

Me: No need, I have several cans in my bag. All that's left is to heat them up.

Daryl: What tells me you didn't stock up on those cans to screw us upside down?! * He screamed.

Me: I'll eat first if you want.

Daryl: Mmm.

He starts biting his thumbnail. I can't blame him for answering me meanly, we don't know each other so he has the right to be distant. As for his brother, he doesn't need to be asked to speak and to tell me about his prowess before this apocalypse.

Merle: We talk, we talk, but I haven't asked your age yet.

Me: I'm 24 and you?

Merle: 46 and him 37

Me: Oh you're old * Laughing did I

Merle: Say that again and I'll kill you!

I laugh harder, Merle mumbles with a hint of a smile while Daryl rolls his eyes. Yeah not really causing your homie. I take a cigarette and hold it in the corner of my mouth.

Merle: What did you do before? Given your abilities already I suspect that you were not hairdresser or other bullshit in the genre.

Me: I was in the military. I joined the army when I was 16. At the beginning I was just a 1st class sapper but as soon as I had my baccalaureate, I very quickly became a corporal then a master corporal.

Merle begins to whistle as if shocked at my exploits. I confess I am quite proud. It's very rare that at only my age I became a master caporal, it was some things likewise impossible.

Merle: Well, it's because you had to do a lot of things to get this rank.

Me: I mostly worked, worked, worked and worked a lot.

Merle: You're not the kind of girl to let you walk all over you. True or false ?

Me: True * Just kidding and what were you doing?

Merle laughs as Daryl clenches his fists and clenches his jaw. In my opinion he is not really proud of what he was doing before.

Merle: Believe me honey you better not let you know.

Night fell, we all talked along the way. I was even able to exchange a couple of words with Daryl.

Daryl is more of a cold, distant, unsociable type of guy at first sight but I'm sure deep down he's cool and nice.

Merle, he's a hell of a number, he only makes jokes all the time. And I don't even count the number of bullshit that can rant in less than 1 minute. But deep down I like it. He's cool.