walk with me

Chapter seven

"Damn it!" I exclaimed as I tripped on some roots. I could hear Daryl and Glenn laughing behind me.

"Shut up." I demanded. I really wasn´t in the mood for one of their million jokes about me tripping. It wasn´t my fault those stupid roots got in my way!

"Seriously Erin, do you need glasses?" Daryl said with a big smile on his fucking, beautiful face. Damn you hormones.

"Fuck you." this made Glenn and Daryl laugh even harder. "Fuck you too, Glenn."

Rick had sent the three of us scavenge supplies after breakfast was over. Maggie wasn´t very happy Glenn was going without her but she wasn´t so upset after she knew I was coming too. Fuck Rick, fuck Maggie and fuck Carol. They were all nothing but little bitches.

I had concluded the reason why Rick always sent me in trips was because he wanted me away from him and his family.

"You have to be patient with Rick." Glenn had said to me when leaving the prison. "He just lost his wife ´bout two months ago and he hasn´t been the same since."

"Whatever, he is still an asshole." I had responded.

The sound of an arrow penetrating a walker´s skull interrupted my thoughts. I jumped in surprise and, as if there wasn´t anything more funny, Daryl and Glenn laughed as maniacs.

We walked some more until we arrived at an abandoned camp. My old camp. Paul´s body was lying on the ground. I looked away disgusted. Maggots were crawling all over him and a part of his skull was now visible near the area were the bullet had entered.

I closed my eyes and breathed deeply...

Paul said something stupid and the dark haired man pointed his gun at him. Paul and I quickly raised our guns and pointed them at the man. Paul later pointed his at the crossbow dude who was pointing his crossbow at me. All this happened while the Asian guy and the girl tried to relax both men.

"Rick please, relax" said the girl.

Rick began putting his gun down when my brother made the stupidest thing ever...

"Yes pussy, relax" Paul said.

And that´s when he shot him.

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"Erin?" Glenn and Daryl were by my side, worried.

I said nothing, not even looked at them. I just started walking. There was a long moment of silence until I broke it.

"Do you believe in heaven?" I asked.

Daryl shrugged, "Well, there is an afterlife. That´s for sure."

I could sense pain in his respond. That is when I realized there were two people here that missed their older brother.

We reached a small town named "Chesterfield" and found a whole lot of stuff. We were back in the prison before sunset.

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I was keeping watch in the northern tower when Carol came and joined me. Oh joy, Carol. She was mad, I could sense that. She did nothing for a whole lot of time but stare at me.

"What!" I yelled at her.

"I want you to stay away from him." she demanded.

"Him?"

"Daryl."

I laughed. "Why?

"I don´t want you to hurt him. By the way, I know you two had some fun last night. Daryl didn´t do his best hiding his scratches nor did you with your hickeys."

"Why would I hurt him?" this conversation was getting so stupid.

"Please, you are just using him for pleasure!"

"Why would you say that?"

"Why would a girl who is not even twenty be interested in a man that is forty?" she asked calmly.

"Because I love him, bitch." I walked away. Damn that last part had came out corny.

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That same night, after Daryl was done with me, I told him about my discussion with Carol; skipping the last part of course.

"Are you?" he´s question broke my heart. How could he think I was doing that?

"No! Plus, I´m not the only one that could be doing it." I regretted my last words.

"Well I´m not" he snapped at me.

"I love you..." I said.

"Thanks." that was his respond.