𝒫𝒾𝒸𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒫𝑒𝓇𝒻𝑒𝒸𝓉 ~THE WALKING DEAD~

The dead come knocking - 7

Amy and Andrea enter camp with two massive bundles of fish. I instantly get up and go to Amy giving her a massive hug forgetting about the fish she's holding which end up slapping against my face. We both start laughing "This is amazing Aims" I say with excitement. " thank you , I knew how much you were craving fish" she says still laughing at how excited I am . " I literally love you" I say giving her a side hug this time avoiding the slimy fish. Our sweet moment of bliss was dampened by Dale , he said we might have a problem concerning Jim. My mom said it would be better if me , Amy and Tommy took Sophia and Carl down by the quarry while the others handle Jim.

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"You gotta find the smooth flat ones , they will skim better" I say to Carl and Sophia as we all look for rocks to skim across the quarry, I love it down here the water is a beautiful shade of turquoise and it glistens as the sun reflects of its surface. Once we collected a decent pile of rocks , Tommy decided he was going to show us how it's done or well that's how he put it. " I say whoever gets the best one gets extra fish" I offer the group as I am pretty confident in my ability of skimming rocks as I learnt from the best , my dad. " sure thing El but I'm going to win and take your precious fish" Amy teases me , I laugh " Oh you'll see" I taunt . Tommy just stands there waiting for us to finish talking , with a scowl across his features " you guys done ?" He says with attitude, I give him a look of disappointment as Amy replies " what you can't skim your rock while we're talking is it going to put you off" Amy says patronisingly , I laugh at her tone but instantly stop when Tom glares at me.

He turns around and throws his rock but it only skims two times , Carl bursts out laughing and then Amy and Sophia joins him while I find myself trying to keep it in. " So was that showing us how it's done ?" Amy asks through her laughs "So your bad at catching frogs and skimming rocks , maybe you should be on laundry duty Tommy" Carl says snickering with Sophia , I finally let out a laugh at the joke. Tommy just mutters whatever storming off , shit I didn't mean to upset him like this . I was about to go after him before Amy stops me " Don't ,just let him cool off , we probably just hurt his ego" she says " yeah your probably right" I reply.

I won the competition with my rock skimming 11 times my highest score yet . Yess more fish for me , Carl said he was going back up to camp with Sophia and I told them to be careful as I watched them both leave. "Aims ?" I ask " yeah ?" , " I'm so glad I met you , I think we were meant to meet you know . I see us being friends forever" I say smiling I do really appreciate her friendship she is always supportive and looking after me when I'm down she isn't like my other friends in Virginia they are always looking for a competition or an argument but Amy is so sweet and nice she is like a breath of fresh air that I desperately needed. She smiles back warmly " aww El that's so sweet and sort of cringe" she says laughing , I start laughing too hitting her jokingly " But seriously I see us being friends forever too well however long our forever is now" she replies. I give her hug and we both head back up to camp.

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It's the evening now and my dad and the group still aren't back, I'm starting to worry but I'm trying not to show it for Carl. We are all sat round the fire eating our fish , it was better than I had imagined and I was enjoying every single bite. Amy suddenly gets up " where are you going ?" Me and Andrea say at the same time " the bathroom, jeez you can't be discreet round here" Amy replies and we all let out a laugh.

Amy comes back out of the camper van "We're out of toilet paper" she says , I go to get up and get some but then a roamer comes out of no where and bites onto Amy's arm. Her screams ring in my ear . "NO" I shout as I run to her but I'm stopped as the whole camp fills with roamers , I grab my knife out of my boot and try to avoid them and get to Amy. But another grabs onto her biting her neck I scream as I stab it in the neck but it doesn't stop , shit the brain. I pull my knife out and push it into the things head the squelching noise fills my ears. I freeze as reality sinks in of what is happening I see Amy covered in blood , Andrea crying over her. I look around people dying their flesh between roamers teeth . Oh god .

I hear Tommy's screaming for help as he is trying to fight of a roamer I quickly run over kicking it away from Tommy. As soon as the roamer stumbles from my kick, Tom pushes it away but it falls directly onto me I try to stop it but it's too late I fall down , it's body crushing mine as its jaws snap at my face trying to take a bite . The smell of a decaying corpse overwhelms me as I keep it back with my arms but I can't grab my knife it's too far away now. "HELP, TOM " I scream but he just stands there in shock not moving. Suddenly blood and brains are splattered all over me and I am being dragged up. It's Shane he shot the roamer in the head " What the hell do you think your doing Elodie , you stay with me ok ? you could of died !" He says dragging me back to my mom and brother who engulf me in a hug.

I zone out completely tears rolling down my face continuously until the only noise I hear is Andrea's painful cries. I snap out of it as I see my dad crouching in front of me his hands on my face , he's back ? " Els listen to me , are you bit ,scratched" I hesitantly shake my head " No , no I-I'm fine" I reply but that's a lie I am anything but fine .The true harsh reality of this virus has just hit me , we can die at any moment , one wrong move , one bite or scratch , there is no forever anymore. There is just when , when are we going to die.