REIGN | twd | carnid

C h a p t e r T h r e e

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"Good morning, handsome." I sit up and grin at my adorable boyfriend. He rubs his eye and smiles bashfully at the compliment. I love how his face always gets red whenever I compliment him, he really is so cute.

"Morning," He mumbles, watching me hover over him with a smile.

After a minute of smiling at him fondly, I climb out of bed and go over to his dresser to grab one of his flannels, making him snort. I turn around and smirk as I button all of the small buttons, stopping just at my breasts so that he can still see most of them. He raises an amused brow and continues watching me from the bed. I giggle and grab a pair of underwear from my drawer when I hear a faint knocking from the front door.

I turn around confused, seeing a matching confused look on his face. I shrug and walk out of the room to answer the door, deciding that I don't care enough to grab pants right now. If Carl still gets to lay in bed naked- I don't need to wear pants while answering the door that he was too lazy to get himself.

I open the door to reveal Maggie who greets me with an amused expression upon seeing my morning attire.

"Nice pjs." She teases.

My cheeks heat up a bit but I brush it off.

"What's up?" I change the subject and cross my arms, leaning against the doorframe with a smile.

"I need to see Carl. Jesus was telling me about a run- I think it's gonna be a long one. Sorry, looks like you're gonna be losing your lover boy for awhile."

My face drops a bit.

A while?

"Wait- how long are we talking?"

Sensing my change in attitude, she frowns.

"Two months at most."

My heart drops.

"Two months?"

She nods and I look away. Two months? He's never been gone that long before. Runs are getting more and more rare due to most things being gone or useless but now, eroding in a world of dead. To go on a run for longer than two weeks means that it's not so much as a run, but more of a scouting mission. And my guess would be that it's not the kind that ends with them bringing new people back.

Two months. That's really dangerous. And we just started trying last night- were going to have to wait two months to keep trying. That's unless i'm not pregnant right now. We won't even be able to know until after he leaves. I can't take a test for at least another week and i'm more than sure that he'll be gone by the end of the day- tomorrow morning at most.

Oh my god. If i'm pregnant, he wouldn't know until he gets back in two months and i'd already be showing by then. He would have no idea. This isn't how it was supposed to be. He was supposed to be here and we were supposed to find out together. To be together throughout the whole pregnancy, not to baby bomb him when he gets back.

"I'm sorry." Her green eyes look genuinely upset and apologetic in mine.

I shake my head and try to brush her off with a short smile, but she know me too well.

"You started trying, didn't you?" She realizes, a guilty look on her face.

I nod.

It's not her fault that he has to go. She's just the unfortunate one who got stuck with the task of running this place. She's only trying to do what's best for the safety of everyone here.

I know she'll still feel guilty about it, blaming herself. She knows how important it is to me because she was the one who made me realize that I wanted to do this in the first place. We'd spent hours in the medical trailer just gossiping and talking about bringing it up to Carl.