Daryl's Daughter

Feet, so many Feet

We've been on the road for so much time. I keep sleeping at daddy's side until the truck ran out of gas and he went on his bike but I am too little to go on it too.

I sat next to Sophia and Carl along with Carol in the back whilst Lori and Rick drive. Dale's RV stopped in front of us as daddy stops and then passes by.

"DADDY!" I shout from my seat. He glances at me and nods his head. I sit back smiling.

The RV stops again and Dale gets out along with everyone else.

"Dead in the water didn't I tell you and just a small matter of being stuck in the middle of nowhere with no hope of-" Dale stops watching daddy pick something out from the boot of a car.

"Wha's tha daddy" I ask skipping up to him and looking up.

He glances down before taking something out of the boot and crouching at my level.

"ere little one a toy frog" he said giving me a stuffed frog. "It goes with ya stuffed deer ye got in ya bag" he says ruffling my hair and walking away.

"Baby, ye stay in Lori's sight alright" Daddy says walking away winking at me.

"Okay daddy" I say skipping to Carl and Sophia.

We have been finding stuff for around 10 minutes when Rick aims his gun.

I watch him for a while waiting to see if he is going to shoot or not when he comes running over.

"Lori under the car. Carl, Sophia and Meg get down now" Rick whisper yells.

Sophia and I partner up rolling under a car whilst Carl goes with his daddy.

"Sophia, where's my daddy?" I ask her "Shh" Rick says to us as the feet begin to pass us by.

I start crying along with Sophia but I cover her mouth trying to keep the loud sobs from coming out.

They have been walking past for a while now and Sophia and I have been shaking and crying through all of it.

Normally I'm not scared because I know daddy will save me but daddy isn't here and I don't know if he is okay or not and that is really scary.

It has been a while since and feet have passed us so we begin to get out from under the car.

"Come on Meg" Sophia says getting out when some feet come by us

"Ahh" Sophia sobs going in the other direction towards me, pushing me out from under the safety of the car.

A monster is attempting to grab her. She pushes me out and we both crawl away from the car towards the grass.

Running we slide down the slope, with the monsters following us.

We continue running as fast as we can. I'm still quite small and can't keep up with Sophia. "Sophia!" I shout as she runs off into the distance.

"Sophia!" I shout again trying to follow her the monster is behind me now, I drop my frog and run as fast as I can to catch up with Sophia I go off left and I lose the monster but also Sophia.

"Sophia" I pant out trying to get more breath into my lungs.

"Daddy" I whisper as I collapse.