𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞
𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧
𝐍𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬
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Quinn Laurence is a troubled kid who had a terrible childhood. Once the apocalypse starts, she can res...
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I WALKED BACK TO ROSITA'S HOUSE WITH ENID AS WE LAUGHED. Little did she know I was forcing it. I walked in and left the door open for Enid.
"You know, Carl fumbled. He never should've said that." She said.
"Yeah but, maybe he was right?" I said.
"Don't think like that. It was never your fault in the first place. Family doesn't define who you are. It's what your actions say about you. Like the saying 'actions speak louder than words'." She said. I knew she was right but, I didn't want to believe it.
"Hey um where your bathroom, or Rosita's bathroom?" She asked.
"Down the hall to the right." I said. I sat on the bed as she went to the restroom. I looked over at the nightstand and saw a knife. Dark thoughts swarmed my head. I slowly picked up the knife and swallowed.
"No, you are not going down that road again." I said as I threw the knife across the floor. The memories washed over me as if it was all just a bad dream. I shook my head and took deep breaths. I can never go back to the girl I was. The girl that cried about every single little sad thing that happened to her. Making her weak, vulnerable. Enid walked out of the bathroom as she wiped her hands on her pants.
"You okay?" She asked. I looked at her and nodded.
"Yep, just waiting on you." I said.
"Alright, let's go then." She said. I got up and kicked the knife under the bed swiftly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
After hours of talking and having fun, we both parted. I walked to Rick's place and walked in. I opened the door and saw him grabbing blankets.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Making our bed. Negan took our mattress, so we're gonna be sleeping on the floor for a bit.
"He didn't take mine. You guys can use it. It can fit both of you guys." I said.
"Quinn you don't." I shushed him and sighed.
"I have slept on every type of surface and managed to sleep. Take my bed." I said. I walked to my room and took all the covers off my bed. I pulled the mattress off and pushed it to their room.
"Do you need-"
"Got it." I said as I continued to push the bed. I made to their room and they pushed all their blankets out of the way. I flipped the mattress and wiped my forehead.
"There, now you guys can sleep without back pain." I said.
"W-We can't thank you enough Quinn. You've practically sacrificed everything for us." Michonne said.
"Well, you guys are family so I'm willing to give it all up for you guys to be safe." I said. She smiled and hugged me.
"We love you." She said. My heart melted and I squeezed her tight.
"I love you all so much." I said. The sun was setting and I felt myself getting very tired.
"Hey I'm gonna head off to my room, by the way have any of you seen Tyler?" I asked.
"Yeah, I saw him talking with Carl. He said he would be home soon." Rick said. Then I heard the door open. I walked downstairs and saw Tyler, with Carl.
"There you are.." I said as I hugged Tyler. He hugged me back and smiled.
"How are you?" He asked.
"Could be better but you're here." I said. We both walked away as Carl just stood their awkwardly. I looked back at him and sighed. We both walked upstairs and went to my room. He looked around confused.
"Where the bed?" He asked.
"Rick and Michonne are using it because they took their mattress." I said.
"Why do they need mattresses? You can easily find one by the road." He said.
"Exactly." I said. I began to make the bed as Tyler helped me layer the blankets. I placed the pillows neatly and smiled.
"Perfect." I said as I laid myself down on the hard surface.
"So um, I heard you and Carl got in a fight." He said. "Do you wanna talk about it or just leave it alone and drop it?" He asked.
"Might as well talk about it." I said. I got up and pulled my hair back.
"What did he tell you?" I asked.
"Just that he felt sorry." He said.
"Felt? Well that's kinda shitty but he can tell that to me." I said.
"So, what happened?" He asked. "I only know one side of the story so might as well know the other." He finished.
"Well, I walked in and Carl was pointing a gun at some of the Saviors. Tried to stop him but Negan did that for me. Then I asked him why he did that. He then began to get angry and then I tried to reason with him. Then he brought up the night and that it was my fault. I told him to fuck himself and take me out of his life if he's that mad at me... and now we're here." I said.
"Same story, checks out." He said.
"I just don't know what happened. Like we were fine but then he went all gaslighting on me and now were just strangers." I said.
"Maybe you should talk to him. Get things through." He said.
"I'll talk to him tomorrow when I get back from Hilltop. I'm gonna see Maggie." I said.
"Wait I thought Maggie was dead?" He asked confused.
"Empty grave trick. Classic but effective." I said. He nodded and we just kinda sat there.
"Do you wanna come with to the Hilltop? Maggie never really met you, so maybe a new face will brighten her day." I asked him.
"Eh, why not. I got nothing to do, plus we can be stupid without worrying if we die." He said. I laughed as i slowly began to close my eyes.
"Night Tyler. Your gonna need you beauty rest." I said.
"I don't need beauty rest.." He muttered as he slipped himself under the covered. I slowly began to fall asleep, darkness taking over my calm body.
