|Missing Love|

Chapter 40

*Shelby's P.O.V*

Tears have not left my eyes since I've left the church.

I couldn't stop crying. That painful thought of Alden possibly dying hurts my heart and I don't know what to do. Just a day or two ago, I was with him and now I'm not because he's hurt and he wants me to be back home to look after our son.

Will I ever see him again?

I'm surprised on my walk back home that I didn't run into anything. Meaning walkers or the reapers.

Reapers are the people in the group that hurt Alden. The group that Maggie was telling us about.

It's an uncomfortable silence as I walked back home.

What's going to happen to Alden and I? What's going to happen to him?

Because of how much thinking I've done since I left the church, I almost forgot about the throbbing pain that my ankle had.

Every step that I took, the pain just got worse.

But the pain in my ankle doesn't hurt as much as my heart does.

I sighed and then sat down on the ground. Before I go any further, I have to check out my ankle and see it.

As soon as I sat on the ground, I took off my right shoe and then the sock. Then when I saw my ankle, I saw how swollen it was.

And with how much walking I've done on it, I'll have a hard time living life right now.

I put my sock and shoe back on before I continued my journey back to Alexandria.

I'm almost there. I'm almost home and I can just be with Adam and just hope that Alden comes back.

I walked for another ten minutes before I saw the gates of Alexandria. I can hear noises coming from inside of it and I know that people are still working on the houses and just trying to get through what we're going through.

Someone spotted me from up top and they opened the gate.

I slowly entered the community with a throbbing ankle and still with tears in my eyes.

"Shelby. Shelby." Someone called my name.

Looking up, I saw my brother walking towards me and he immediately wrapped his arms around me.

"Hey, what's wrong? Are you okay?" He asked me.

I shook my head. "No."

"What is it? Is it Alden?"

I made no sound. I didn't answer his question. I just kept crying while Aaron was still hugging me.

"What happened out there?" Aaron asked.

Still no answer. I couldn't answer any questions right now. I just wanted my boyfriend back home, safe and sound.

"I need to get Adam." I finally said after a few minutes before I just slowly started to walk away.

"Shelby, your ankle."

"Yeah, I got hurt out there." I told him.

Aaron nodded, slowly. "I'm going to go get you some food and some ice so that we can elevate it."

With a nod, I walked to where Barbra was and she was holding Adam as he was drinking milk.

"He was a good baby while you were gone." Barbra told me.

I wanted to smile but I can't smile right now. I'm too damn emotional about everything that happened in the last twenty four hours.

With Gage getting devoured by walkers, Alden and I getting hurt, and then Alden in a church alone. Nothing is going right at the moment and I'm not in the fucking mood for sunshine and rainbows.