Carl & I

Chapter Thirty Two A Darker Danger

Phoenix lies asleep in my arms. She's the most beautiful thing I've ever felt, seen, and loved. Sometimes I forget that I created her.

Carl paces in the living room with one hand on his chin. Karlie and Kaden sat side by side holding eachother while Kyle sat on the opposite side of me with a blank stare. Lucas sat by himself across the room. There is no sorrow in his eyes, his eyes are like the black pits to hell.

"I want to know who the hell let that walker in here, and what they were thinking?" Carl finally stopped pacing and looked each one of us in the eye.

"We need to talk." I forced the words from my throat.

Carl and I walked to another room and I told him everything that happened with Lucas yesterday. Just reflecting on what happened yesterday makes me feel uneasy and tears began to fill my eyes.

Carl pulls me in and hugs me tightly. "Nothing will happen to her. I'm not letting it happen." I believe that he won't let anything happen, but this world is so messed up that you can't hide from everything. I don't just fear the undead but I fear humans too. They're just as sick as these dead things that roam the earth, and sometimes much more sick than them.

"I think he is the one who let that walker in."

"I'll talk to him about it." Carl kissed me on the cheek "Go lie down and take a nap."

I made my way up the creaking staircase to my bedroom with Phoenix in my arms. She's sleeping peacefully and I've decided that I'm going to lay down in bed with her and not put her in the crib.

Her small fragile bones make me so scared that something bad will happen to her if something happens to me. I don't want to even think about something bad happening to her. She's my whole world, I love her more than anything.

She lies on her back squirming here and there and I just watch her and smile. Eventually, my eyes become too heavy to handle and I fall asleep.

"I DID IT BECAUSE YOU DONT UNDERSTAND!" My eyes flew open to the sound of screams coming from downstairs. I raced to the staircase and listened to what I'm hearing. "What do you mean I don't understand? I understand that those things are NOT humans and they aren't nice!" Carl's voice was filling with anger.

"Get the fuck out, and don't come back." Karlie yelled.

"I'm not leaving without that baby. I can take better care of it than you can."

"Touch my child and you'll quickly remember what I told you yesterday." I startled myself when I said the words.

"You won't do shit." he smirked before shoving me down and running towards where Phoenix was.

My heart is racing when I notice the knife in his hand and the determination to kill my child on his face.

"That Walker wasn't supposed to get Lena. I was going to feed it the baby."