The Mini Badass

Chapter 34

The next morning I woke up to a new framed photo sitting on Carl and my shared table as well as three members of our group gone to chat with our enemy.

I pick it up just to find my mom and dad staring back at me. I place it back down and walk out of my empty cell, my fingers fidgeting with my new necklace as I move into the main room. 

What I walk in to makes me laugh. Glenn and Carl are sitting in front of the new crib parts, sweating and basically yelling at each other.

"Having trouble?" I chuckle at the two walking over to Beth and Judith. "They've been at this for over an hour." The blonde girl tells me, rocking Judith in her arms.

"These instructions are ruined." Glenn scoffs, tossing the papers to the side. "Good luck with that." I tell the two, taking Judith from Beth who goes to get the baby a bottle.

"Not going to help us?" Carl asks and I shake my head. "You guys got this." I tell him before looking down at Judith. "We're going to look through some boxes." I say, tickling the baby's stomach.

I sit down next to the boxes we got yesterday and Beth joins me. She feeds Judith as I start taking stuff out.

I pull out a plastic bag with several different pacifiers as Maggie walks in the room. "Good timing!" I tell Maggie, chucking the bag at her. "Can you boil these please."

"Hungry Ains?" She laughs at me, taking the pacifiers out of the bag. "It's for the baby." I tell her with a glare followed by a smile. "Those have not been touched in years, they need to be cleaned."

"Oh that's so cute!" Beth says taking out a tiny red and black dress.  "That was my Christmas dress." I tell her and she holds it up to Judith. "You'd look so cute in this." Beth tells Judith in her best baby voice.

"Changing mat!" I exclaim, pulling out the foamy mat and different covers. "Now we don't have to change you on the bunks."

"Thank god, I keep smacking my head." Beth tells us as Glenn tosses down a white wood plank. "Glenn take a breather." Maggie tells her boyfriend, patting his shoulders.

The man stands up, Maggie taking his spot on the floor next to Carl. Beth and I keep organizing all the baby things, making little piles of everything. Glenn leaves the main room walking back into the cell block.

A few minutes pass and many different baby clothes are sprawled around the floor. Carl and Maggie seem to be doing better with the crib as it's partially together now.

"I can't believe I used to fit into these things." I tell Beth, holding up a baby tee to my chest. Beth giggles, folding up a blanket. 

A flash of light makes me and the blonde jump. Turning to the source it's just Glenn a polaroid camera in his hand and a photo printing out of it.

"Where'd you find that?" Maggie asks, screwing in a leg of the crib. "The other box." Glenn tells her, bringing the camera up and snapping a photo of her.

"Carl, come here." I say, waving the boy over with a smile on my face. Carl joins my side and I wrap an arm around his shoulder, resting my head on it.

"Smile." Glenn tells us before a flash goes off and the photo starts printing. Glenn places all the photos onto the main table, leaving them to develop.

Michonne walks in as Carl and I let go of each other. The woman dragging all the guns an ammo inside that we got yesterday.

Our group migrates into the cell block, our smiles smaller. Beth joins us after laying Judith in her room as the crib still isn't done yet.

We all reload the weapons we're comfortable with before starting to sort through the new stuff. Me, Beth and Carl start making different piles of bullets based on which gun they go with.