8- Kelly

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At Hilltop rations were given out dependent on a number of factors. Whether you were pregnant, your chores, your age and how physically exhausting your job was. People which went out on runs were given the most food. I was one of them.

However, I guess I've always been a people pleaser , so when some of the people at Hilltop came to me , telling me how some people were still hungry , I couldn't help but give them some of mine.

At first it started out with little bits here and there, then I started giving them whole meals, and now all I was left with was the one small fruit which we receive as a snack every day. Some people might say this is irresponsible- letting myself grow so weak at the lack of food and possibly risking my life even more when going out on runs- but I call it , caring for others, helping them as they have helped me in the past.

Today was no different. This morning when breakfast rolled around , I decided to give it to some of the elderly to share, not realizing of the exhausting task which I had ahead of me. I said goodbye to my girlfriend , Kelly, and then Me, Jesus and Tara where going out on to scavenge through this old factory not too far from hilltop. I was unfocused. I was too busy making sure I didn't collapse. That's what nearly got me killed. Thankfully Tara was close by, so when a walker sneaked up behind me she killed it before it could bite me.

When we arrived back at Hilltop, I had seen Tara go straight to Kelly, wtf, what is she telling Kelly?

Kelly's POV:

I see Tara come towards me with a slightly worried and slightly angry look on her face.

"Kelly," she says as she reaches me "something isn't right, Y/n wasn't at the top of her game today , and she hasn't been for a while" Now I'm worried. I knew something seemed off, just couldn't put my finger on it.

"What happened while you were out Tara?" I say as I see Y/n running behind the main house out of the corner of my eye.

"She nearly got bit, if I wasn't behind her, she wouldn't have come back," Tara finishes. I can't believe Y/n wasn't more aware of her surroundings, she's usually the most aware of everything that's going on. I love her , I couldn't imagine loosing her. She's become my all. "Thank you for letting me know, I'll get to the bottom of it," I say to Tara before turning and heading to the back of the house, where I saw Y/n go moments earlier.

Y/n's POV:

I sudden taste of bile arises in my throat, making me run to the back of the main house in order to get out of sight from everyone. I empty the contents of my stomach which consists of nothing but bile. My breathing heavy ,a slight ringing in my ears. Fucking hell, I knew it wasn't good not eating for this long but I never expected it to be like this. It's probably just the shock of nearly getting bitten. Yes, yes that must be it.

I don't even hear her, but I feel her. A soft warm hand is placed on my lower back as she soothingly rubs up and down my back, as I am still crouched over. When she sees I make no attempt to move, she brings her arm around my waist, and the other comes underneath my knees swooping me up into her arms. "Cmon pretty girl lets take you to get some rest" she says in a soft voice, as my head leans against her shoulder.

don't get me wrong, I love being in my girl's arms, but I hate feeling this weak and vulnerable. Not even two minutes pass , when I feel myself being placed down on a soft surface, comfort instantly engulfing me before the pain of before comes back, and I see the look on Kell's face. I sit up as she sits down beside me. "What's wrong Kell's?" I ask looking at her with a worried expression. I lift my hand to put it on the side of her face in an attempt to comfort her, but she reject my touch sending an ache in my heart. "What's wrong Y/n ? Are you really asking me that?" she says in a pressed tone, okay she definitely knows something....

"Kelly, babe, why are you so angry about?" I ask feeling rather confused as to why she seemed so bothered. " NO, don't babe me, I'm so angry with you right now, you could have died out there Y/n , do you understand that I cant loose you," she says looking at me with her gorgeous wood brown eyes, before I get a chance to dwell she continues "Not to mention the fact that I found you throwing up , hiding behind the big house, if I hadn't seen you run behind there you could be on the ground collapsed right now do you understand that?" she says voice now barely a whisper a slight shake now in her voice. I could hear the hurt that I have caused because of my stubbornness to help others, tears pool in my eyes threatening to spill at any moment. "I'm sorry Kelly , I'm so sorry I never meant for you to worry about me" I say, my voice cracking half way through my sentence.

"Don't you get it Y/n , it's not about making me worried , it's about the fact that you've not been telling me what's going on, distancing yourself the past couple of weeks, acting like a burden when you aren't one. You are my person Y/n , I don't know what I would do it you got bit." she says, my heart breaking with every word that escapes those full lips of hers. She continues, " now please tell me, be honest , what is going on?"

I take a deep breath and explain everything to her, how I didn't want anybody to be starving, I just wanted everything to be okay. " You have to understand I meant to help them, those people they're our family, all I wanted to do was to care for them and make sure their okay." I finish looking down towards my hands where my nails have digged into my hands making them grow red. Kelly comes closer to me letting out a heavy sigh, her pointer finger gently guides my face upwards my eyes locking with hers, she grabs both of my hands holding them in hers , preventing me from hurting myself any longer.

"My love, I understand but you have to take care of yourself too, please promise me you will stop giving them all of your food rations," she waits for my answer, " you know I can't promise you that" I say. " yes , you can, no excuses, from now on you're eating every meal with me" she says sternly. I nod my head in agreeance , she's right I need to eat in order to go out on runs, it's not enough for me to just be eating an apple a day. " Your right Kells, I'm sorry" I say. "It's okay love just promise me you won't do that again" she says " I promise I say as I make my way in her warm embrace. Now on top of her, my arms around her neck, her arms around my torso.

She places a gentle kiss on my head , " I love you Y/n" she says. "I love you too Kells" I say back as I place my lips onto her soft ones giving her what was meant to be a brief kiss but turned into a make out session.

What can I say, this day definitely took a turn.

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