Breathe Princess (Daryl Dixon Love Story)

Chapter Six

Birds were chirping. The sun shone brightly.

I struggled to open up my heavy eyes and came face to face with a blurry green roof of a tent. I sat up yawning, not feeling the greatest. Yesterday was honestly a struggle. There were moments where I'd wake up paranoid or in a panic. I couldn't sleep last night so instead of trying, I sat up all night worrying about this place. Something was telling me this place is not as safe as it looks.

I grabbed my backpack taking out my organized medication box and some clothes. I popped in four pills in my mouth swallowing them with the rest of the water I had. I stripped out of my dirty clothes shoving them into my backpack. I threw on a white cropped top and put on my shorts. With an old comb, I combed my hair tying it up and slipped on my dusty boots.

I walked around spotting everyone doing their own thing. From talking, gardening, and even ironing. Everyone seemed comfortable and glowing in their own skin, which wasn't what I was expecting. I held onto my backpack strap feeling completely useless. I walked over to where Rick was, him giving me an uplighting smile ''Good morning sunshine''

''Good morning'' I replied quietly to his teasing, chuckling as he nudged me. He seemed happy. He was surrounded by his family, people who he was searching for from the start. Happiness truly suited him.

He wrapped his arm around my shoulder making me walk alongside him through the camp, myself eyeing the different individuals and families. It was odd. They weren't fazed by what was going on. They seemed normal. ''How did you sleep?''

I put on a fake smile not wanting him to worry ''It was good''

''Good to hear that after what happened yesterday'' He responded making me replay yesterday's events in my head. I need to get myself under control. I can't have people notice that something was wrong, that I would be the black sheep on the group.

We kept on walking silently for a moment, myself completely ignoring his comment, taking in how peaceful our surrounding truly was ''I might go back''

My jaw dropped in disbelief. I stopped dead in my tracks putting my hands up instructing him to stop ''You can't be serious, you barely made it out last time'' Is he crazy? Going back there to get himself killed? He almost died the last time we were there, we barely made it out. Before he could say anything, children's screams echoed through the mountains.

Everyone started to race down to where the screaming was coming from, even I did to my own surprise. I crouched down putting my hands on my knee's breathing heavily, taking a moment to breathe. As soon as I reached where they were, wee stumbled upon a walker that was chewing and eating pieces of a deer that had marked arrows stabbed onto it. The walker turned around and noticed us, his growls made me back away. The guys started to beat him with their weapons but that wasn't going anywhere as we all cringed watching them try to put him down. Lastly, Dale has had enough and finished it off by chopping its heads off with an ax.

''It's the first one we've had up here. They never come this far up the mountain'' Dale pointed, clearly shocked, but Jim on the other hand doesn't seem that surprised.

''Well, they're running out of food in the city, that's why'' Jim commented emotionlessly. I knew this place wasn't going to last.

All of a sudden, we jumped at the sound of branches snapping and footsteps heading out way. Everybody got out their weapons, ready to kill any walker coming our way. But instead came out a man. A gorgeous man. The dirt smeared on his face and body suited him like that look was meant to be for him and anyone could get lost staring into his ocean blue eyes. My stomach started to twist up with butterflies, enough for them to get me to suffocate, and it was in a way that I had no problem with.