Lilly X Carl Grimes

Barn.... Animals? Pt. 13

Word Count: 646

It's been a few days, a lot of fights have happened. I can feel the tension rising between everyone, it sucks.

Nobody's found Sophia yet, I don't think we're going to. I think she's long gone, but Carl says she's still alive.

Carls out spending time with Lori, i'm reading my book again, the outsiders. The book has a lot of tragedies. Before the outbreak people would've thought this was sad, but now it's just normal.

I haven't gotten to read much, so it was nice escaping into my own little world, freeing.

But hearing the yelling outside snapped me back into reality. I don't even set down my book, I get up and run outside towards the barn, and then i see it .

Rick is holding a walker with some sort of stick thing to make sure it doesn't go anywhere, Hershel's on his knees, and Shane's screaming at the top of his lungs trying to open the barn door.

Carls standing by Lori, so I stand by them too. Everyone's yelling for Shane not to open the door, why don't they want him going in there?

He breaks the lock and walkers start pouring out of the Barn, Rick starts shooting them down by himself.

A walker topples over Rick and try's to pry at his flesh. Carl starts to scream, I know i might get in trouble later for my gun later, but that's later, right now I have to make sure Rick doesn't die.

I've got 5 bullets left in my gun so I drop my book and grab my gun which was still hidden in the band of my pants. I point it at the walker trying to attack Rick and i shoot it in the head.

Rick looks at me in shock, He finally gets up and shoots more walkers, I use my last 4 shots to kill off walkers.

Lori yells at me to get behind her but I see a hatchet over by the side of the barn, i run to grab it. There's more walkers pouring out, i slam down the hatchet into their heads.

I don't have time to think about how bad they smell, or how nasty they look, I just need to get rid of them.

I kill off what seems to be the last walker, and everything seems as if it's going in slow motion. One small growl comes from the barn, and the last walker comes out.

Carol starts to run but Daryl holds her back, "Sophia!" she cries.

Sophia turned, like I said before, she's weak, I just didn't expect Hershel to keep this from us.

She comes closer and closer to us, Lori hugs Carl and tells him not to watch.

Rick walks in front of Sophia and shoots her, she was already dead, but now she's gone gone, forever.

Carol cries on the ground, I don't blame her, she just lost her daughter. But I hear other cries, from Beth. Her momma was one of the walkers in that barn. She races over to her body. But someones aim was off and the walker didn't get hit in the head, the walker starts to grab at her.

I run over and slam my hatchet into its head before it could bite Beth, we don't need to lose more people. Not after Amy, not after Otis, not after anyone that's died so far.

Beth reminds me of Amy a bit, she's the younger sister, she's got blond hair, and a sweet country accent.

More people start fighting, i wanna leave. Carls already beside me trying to pull me away, but i'm trying to find my book, i dropped it when i started to shoot.

I walk over and see the small rectangular book on the ground, covered in walker mush, I guess i won't be reading anymore.