Is This The End?

CH.18 The Search of Sophia Begins

Hey guys, this is the newest chapter, I'm going to try my absolute best to give you guys a couple of chapters but because I work nights, it's a bit tougher but like I said, I'm going to try!!!! I don't want to leave you guys hanging again, but I was going through a major curveball of life, so I couldn't do what I wanted! But anyway, enjoy this chapter.  {TW, MURDER, PTSD, DV}

Daryl was on top of the hill with Rick, Glenn, and Shane. He leans forward and grabs my hand, pulling me up from the hill. "She'll be tuckered out hiding a bush somewhere."  Rick said being as hopeful as I was. There was no way, he had lost a little girl. We start walking around trying to look for any clues that we can discover to help us find Soph.

 I was starting to get worried, I may not know these people very well, but this little girl was a daughter, a friend, and a sweet little girl to everyone. Other than that, she was so young, so innocent and deserved to live longer! Daryl was in front of us, trying to track for any footprints. 

Shane was beside me, staring at me. I look over, rolling my eyes. "What??" I ask him, he shakes his head. "Nothing, I just miss you dearly." I groan continuing to walk, looking around in areas that we pass through. "Shane, now's not the time." I tell him, like how sick can he be. 

 A little girl is missing, and she could be in danger by now, and the only thing he wants to talk about, was us. Gross. Selfish.  Daryl crouches down, making us stop, Shane going up to him, checking out what he was looking at. Rick, Glenn and I watching our surroundings, but also paying attention to what Daryl and Shane were examining which looked like footprints but stopped making the clues a bit more difficult. "She was doing just fine till right here." Daryl said breaking the silence. "All she had to do was keep going, she veered off that way." Daryl pointed to the right side of us, we turn into that direction, I sigh sadly. I totally should've stayed with her. 

"Why would she do that?" The sound of Glenn's voice breaks me out of silence of sadness. 

"Maybe she saw something that spooked her, made her run off." Shane chirped in looking at Daryl, for once, I didn't want to tune him out, maybe he was right. "A walker?" I finally say something questioning him about it. 

"I don't see any other footprints." Daryl said, his eyes not leaving the tracks. "Just hers." He noted, thank God. That made me feel better, at least we know, she's safe and wasn't attacked. 

'So, what do we do? All of us press on?" Shane asked him, I start to say something until Rick chirped in. "No, better if you and Glenn get back up to the highway.

" People are going to start panicking. " He noted. "Let them know we're on her trail doing everything we can." As he was talking, Shane was standing up, giving him a weird look like Rick couldn't handle it or something. God, Shane disgusts me. "But most of all, keep everybody calm." Rick said, continuing the plan for all of us. 

"I'll keep 'em busy scavenging cars, think up a few other chores, I'll keep them occupied, come on." Shane said, I nod my head, realizing that I will head back as well, I needed new things especially now that I'm covered in wet blood, and I smelt horrible. We all start to head our different ways, Rick grabs my arm "Hey, you're not coming with us??" He asked. 

I shake my head, no. "No, I have to do a few things and other than that, I might as well go and check on the woman. Least I can do, Sophia would've been safe and with her if I didn't leave her.' I tell him lightly; he sighs and nods his head realizing that he wasn't going to argue with me. "Yeah alright." He said calmly and went off with Daryl.