Lilly X Carl Grimes

Tag, your it Pt. 3

Word count: 983

It's Carl.
I'm faced away from him laying down. I hear him shuffling around in the tent and soon enough he lies down and it gets quiet. All you can hear is thunder from the rain storm that's coming. i fidget with my necklace and then i hear, "what's it like in Atlanta?"

I think for a second and then turn over facing him. I stay silent for a moment before i say "there's a lot of biters, like hundreds maybe even thousands of them".

He stares at me, "So how did you even live there?"

"My brother," i say, i feel my chest getting tight again.
"You have a brother?" He asks. "Where is he?"
i fidget with the necklace again, "Last time I saw him he went to go help your dad, but he didn't come back."

I goes silent, Completely silent.
"Sorry," Carl says, he turns away from me, so i do the same.
I try to sleep, it's pretty hard though with the thunder. When i was younger it used to help me sleep. But now i'm scared because i'm outside, what if it strikes us, what if it's so loud we can hear biters coming?

I try to calm myself down and wrap myself in my blanket, which i've had since i was like 2. It's one of the only things i have left from before the outbreak. I start to drift off to sleep, finally.

I wake up to someone tapping my shoulder, it's carl and Sophia. "We're gonna go play by the edge of the woods, do you wanna come with us?" Sophia asks excited to go.
I nod and get up, i quickly put on my shoes and follow them out of the tent. As we walk i put my mess brown hair in a bun at the back of my head and tuck Marcus' necklace into my shirt.
I follow quickly behind them as we walk out to the woods, Lori shouts, "Say close enough so dale can see you guys".
"Okay!" Carl yells back, we all start to speed up.
We stop at a huge rock at the edge of the trees and Sophia leans her doll up against the rock.

Carl grabs a few sticks and hands one to me and Sophia. "We can use these and pretend we're shooting walkers" he says.
"Walkers?" i say, is that what they call the biters?
"Well what do you call them?" he looks over at me, so does Sophia.
"Well me and Marcus called em biters," i say while sitting down on the big rock.
"Who's Marcus?" Sophia asks with a bit of a puzzled look on her face.
Carl smacks her arm slight and shakes his head, in a way of saying "Don't ask".
"My brother."

It gets silent and i look at the ground. The silence passes and we all start messing around, 2 other kids have joined our game. "we should play tag," I say.
"yeah but who's gonna be it?" Carl asks.
"Not it!" Everyone yells, Carl is the only one who doesn't say it.
"Dang it," he says, "On three, 1......2......3!"

I turn and bolt away, I stay close to the tree line just incase. I keep running and I hear footsteps behind me, it's carl. I start moving faster and I feel my legs pumping, just like when i ran back when Marcus went to go help Rick. I keep running but I feel him getting closer, I turn quickly and run the other way. He keeps chasing me and I hear him laughing. I start to laugh as i keep running, I haven't been this happy in a while.

"You're not gonna catch me!" I exclaim, still laughing.
"Yes i am!" he yells back.
I keep running, He gets closer. He gets closer and closer until I feel him grab onto me and pull me to the ground. It did hurt a bit falling down like that, he was right next to me on the ground. It knocked the wind out of me but I start laughing harder, he does too.

We lay there on the ground and keep laughing until I hear a noise. I stop laughing and look around, "What's wrong?" Carl asks.
We both look over and see a walker eat a deer. He starts to scream for Lori, I get and start screaming to, We run back to camp. Both of us running faster than before, Lori and Rick start running towards us.

Carl runs to Lori and latches onto her, Rick, and Shane and some of the other adults run to go take care of the walker.

We can hear in the distance a man fussing over the deer and how he was tracking it. He seemed pretty ticked off that the walker got it. I'm guessing that's Merle's brother, Daryl. We walk back to the campsite and see Sophia waiting for us, the other kids went back with their parents.

Me, Carl and Sophia all walk towards the fire pit and sit down. So much for playing I guess. All the other adults got in a big fight with daryl because Merle got left on the roof, and now Rick has to go back to city to help daryl find him.

I hate fights, my momma and daddy used to fight a lot. Daddy always said that when him and Marcus would go hunting up north that was the only time he was truly happy. Him and Momma said that they loved each other but I heard them fight one night and they said that they'd only stay married because of me and Marcus.

Daryl and all the other adults keep fighting, i couldn't handle it anymore. I ran to the tent and sat down. I felt my chest get tight again.

God I hate fights.