I'm Not Who I Thought I Was: Carl Grimes Fanfiction

Chapter Forty-Nine🥀

"No!" I laughed at the boy next to me as he placed a palm on his forehead in playful frustration. "Harry wasn't Snape's secret child, you weirdo!"

"This whole series makes absolutely no sense, Em. Honestly, how do you go eleven years of your life without knowing you have magical powers?" Carl chuckled, thrusting his hand out in front of us.

After the two of us had snuck away from the party, we found ourselves sitting on the damp grass by the lake in the center of the community. For the past hour we had conversed over random topics as we listened to the music from a distance. As of now, the topic was based around Harry Potter and how Carl didn't understand it at all.

We sat on our bottoms next to each other, but my legs were placed over his. He leaned back on his hands as he laughed at me. I groaned in frustration and placed my head in my hands. "Because it was a secret?"

"See, even you don't understand that part!" He exclaimed, placing a hand on calf as he leaned forward. "Like if I had magical powers, I'm pretty sure I'd know it fairly quickly. And I'd use them to my advantage."

I rolled my blue eyes at him with a grin. "Oh yeah? And how exactly would you use them to your advantage?"

"Well," Carl smirked at me. "I'd make that love potion you were talking about. And I'd make you fall in love with me a whole lot sooner."

It was my turn to laugh at him. "I told you amortentia doesn't work like that. Though it may smell like the person you love, it doesn't create real love. It creates a very powerful infatuation for the drinker." I explained with a slight giggle in my voice.

"Well I am extremely infatuated by you. Do you slip me some amortinta by chance?" Carl asked playfully as he pushed a piece of hair behind my ear.

I grabbed his hand as he pulled away and shook my head at him. "It's amortentia. And no, I did not. That's just your teenage hormones, dear."

Carl hummed as he glanced over my face for a moment. "No, I don't think it's that." He leaned closer to my face. Naturally my blue eyes fluttered to a close as his breath crossed my face. Within seconds, his warm lips were placed on my own. It was a slow, meaningful kiss that we didn't get to share too many of. When he pulled away, my eyes remained closed until I heard him whisper, "I love you, Em. Teenage hormones have nothing to do with that."

I softly giggled as I looked at his deep blue hues. "I love you, Carl."

A soft silence swept over us as we grinned to ourselves in the dark. It was nice to be able to finally have time alone with Carl without any of our group being within earshot. To simply talk to each other about the most random things without interference was pure bliss.

I rested my head on his shoulder as I looked over the water in front of us. The moon and stars reflected in the pond with a soft glow. Carl sighed as he pulled me closer and rested his chin on the top of my head. "I wish it could be like this all the time."

A small breathy laugh fell from my lips as my blue eyes rolled a bit. "Parties and food and drooling boys?"

I could feel Carl's chest vibrate behind me as he chuckled softly. I leaned my head back onto his shoulder to look up at him. The way the moonlight danced in his blue eyes enchanted me as he spoke softly with a soft smile placed on his pink lips. "No. Just me and you together sitting under the moon and stars without a care in the world."

"Then this is what we'll do every night." I stated, staring into his eyes with a soft smile on my face. "Even in the pouring rain."

Carl scoffed and glanced away from me for a second. "You hate when raindrops hit you directly in the face."

"Then you can just let me wear the hat." I remarked with a smirk as he glanced back at me with an I-don't-think-so look.

"Nice try." He smirked, kissing the tip of my nose as I pouted in defeat.

"I'm not going to give up." I mumbled under my breath turning my eyes back on the water.

"I know you won't. You're too stubborn to." He softly chuckled, giving me a small squeeze as he pulled me closer to him. The temperature had begun to fall slightly causing me to shiver a bit.

I sighed as the ripples in the water moved the reflection of the moon. "I have to go on that run tomorrow. Tara and Noah have a bet going on who will lose their temper on Aiden first: Glenn or Alex. My bets on Glenn. I know he doesn't typically lose his temper, but Aiden and Nicholas have a certain skill of pushing his buttons."

"As long as it isn't you." My jaw dropped a bit at his words. "You're a little mean when you're angry."

I scoffed and rolled my eyes at the boy before softly laughing out. "Oh, yeah? And what about you, hm?"

I turned to look at him with a raised eyebrow only for him to shrug nonchalantly. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Mhm." I teased turning back to face the water. "You and I both know your temper is worse than mine."

"Maybe, but you're scarier when you lose yours." He said, leaning his chin onto my shoulder and kissing the side of my face. Subconsciously I tilted my head closer to him with a soft grin on my lips. He rubbed his hand up my bare arm feeling the chill bumps that had graced my skin. "We should get to the house. You're cold."

"Yeah." I agreed softly, staring into his enchanting blue eyes. He stared back, seemingly searching for something in the pools of my blue hues. I gently leaned in and placed a kiss to his lips before quickly pulling back. "Race ya?"

A grin graced his lips as he chuckled at my antics, but he shook his head. "Not tonight." He said as he began to pull himself off the ground. He held a hand out to me. "Tonight I walk my girlfriend home after our perfect date."

I tilted my head in confusion as I placed my hand in his and allowed him to pull me to my feet. "This was a date?"

Carl's smile turned into a nervous grin. "If you'll allow it to be."

"Hm." I decided to tease him. "It can be considered a date, but I don't know if we can say that it was perfect. There wasn't any food."

"Oh, there is definitely food." Carl retorted with a sassy look on his face before a proud expression swept across it. "I managed to convince Carol to put aside a few chocolate chip cookies just for us at the house."

My eyebrows quirked as I looked at him in disbelief. "I should've known."

"You doubted me. I'm wounded." He said, placing the hand that wasn't in mine over his heart.

I rolled my eyes as he lead me up the stairs and into the house. He left my side long enough to run into the kitchen to grab the delicious snack that he had bribed out of Carol. With the bag of cookies in his hand and a wide, excited smile on his face, Carl grabbed my hand and pulled me up the stairs and into his room.

The two of us threw off our shoes and plopped onto his bed. Carl laid on his back using his pillows to elevate him enough to eat the snack without choking. I rested my upper body on his chest as I bit into the treat, making sure that if there were any crumbs that they would land on my boyfriend and not the bed. It was a major pet peeve to have crumbs in the bed.

The two of us snacked happily side by side. And at some point between the cuddles and the snacking of the chocolate chips cookies, the two of us fell into collective snores.