Waiting For the End || Blake Dixon Book One

Chapter 9 ||"Just tell me if you're uncomfortable."

That night Blake made a decision, she was going to avoid the youngest Greene at any cost. That lasted all of the night. She woke up early, before her dad and just as the sun was rising and snuck quietly down the stairs. She was home free just off the porch when the blonde appeared beside her carrying the guitar.

"This was left on the steps yesterday and I know Glenn mentioned you knew how to play," she said. Blake just grunted in response trying her best to make a get away but the blonde would not relent. "I'm Beth by the way, I don't think we have ever really been introduced." Blake grunted again, eyes peeled looking for a way out but it seemed that everyone else was still asleep.

"Daryl's your daddy right? I can see it, you are just like him." Blake bristled at the comment, stopping in her tracks the blonde, Beth, following suit. Most of the time when people compare her and her dad it is insulting to both of them, they just don't understand the Dixon's and that was just how it is.

"What do ya mean by that?" Blake growled out arms crossed as she stared down at the shorter girl. Their eyes locked and Blake immediately shut down the voice that was comparing the blue's to all the blue flowers Blake could name.

"Well you both grumble a lot in answer to questions and I think I've seen you scowling more times than smiling. But you're daddy, he has been risking his life to find that little girl. And I know that's how you got hurt too. You got kind hearts, I can see where you got yours." Blake was speechless, that was not at all what she had expected. 

She thought it was more going to be along the lines of, you're white trash that nobody expects shit from. Beth was looking at her with kind eyes that Blake just could not break away from, the smaller girl's eyes traced over Blake getting caught on her right bicep that was still crossed over her chest.

"What is your tattoo? It looks super cool." Blake was frozen as Beth's finger tips traced over the tattoo that decorated her upper arm. Then the blue eyes were boring into her own waiting for an answer.

"Uh, um, it's the ghost rider." Blake stuttered out heat rushing to her cheeks as Beth looked at her in confusion. "Uh he's a superhero kind of, movie came out a few years ago."

Beth nodded at the explanation, eyes drawn back to the girl's tattoo as she inspected it. "When did you get it?" She asked.

Blake rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly, "just a few months ago, on my fifteenth birthday."

"Really your dad let you get a tattoo at fifteen?" Beth asked, amazed, Blake grimaced as she thought back to the day she got the thing.

"Uh, not really. I stole some cash from my uncle Merle and got it without telling anyone." She admitted, Beth looked at her like that was the coolest thing in the world and Blake felt a smile twitching up in the corners of her mouth at the attention she was getting from the blonde.

"That is so cool, my daddy would never let me get one and he would kill me if I showed up with one." She gushed and Blake's smile grew, her dad had looked ready to kill her when he saw it. Merle was the one that Blake actually about got killed by though. Out of nowhere a mass ran into Blake's side almost knocking her over and causing her to stumble sideways. She looked down seeing a big floppy sheriff's hat attached to her side, before the boy was shoving away and glaring up at her.

"You've been ignoring me." The boy pouted and Blake's heart clenched. She hadn't meant to, she just didn't like the idea of seeing the boy in pain and so small.

"I wasn't ignoring you," she told him with a sigh. Carl didn't seem to buy it though and just continued to glare at her. "I didn't want to bug you. I knew me being in there would take away from your healing process or whatever. And see here you are, running around like a maniac days after being shot. All because I left you alone." She bullshitted, she could see Beth holding in a laugh at the made up excuse and she shot the girl a playful look telling her to not ruin this.