A Dead World.. • G. Rhee

Chapter Twenty

(Cherokee Rose)

"What happened to you?" Rick asked as I walked past Carl's recovery room, I looked into the room and saw Lori looking at me weird as well.

"I was used as live bait." I answered simply and the pair furrowed their eyebrows at me.

"Live bait?" Lori asked and I shook my head. "Long story. I do however need a shower, so if you'll excuse me." And with that I continued to walk upstairs to use their shower.

After about a half hour I had managed to shower, get changed, and make it back to my tent without having to talk to anyone. I decided I still had a few hours before dark and with those hours I was going out to look for Sophia, ain't nobody stopping me.

I had gotten changed into a pair of black jeans, my Kombat boots, a dark grey shirt and my black cropped hoodie. I grabbed my blue and black glock-19 and made my way to the woods.

I walked around the side of the barn to avoid being seen and held up by someone but someone had to walk right into me, didn't they?

"Woah," I said as I stepped back and saw Glenn looking at me the same, he apologised quickly and scrambled to pick up what he had dropped. I noticed a small purple box just at my foot and crouched down to pick it up. I look at the front of the box and chuckled slightly.

"Uh- here." I said handing him back the box of condoms, he stared at my for a second, his face going redder by the second, before he finally took the box out of hand. "Uh— yeah, I mean... thanks." He stuttered and I nodded at him and continued to walk around him.

"Where-uh, where you going?" I turned back around to face him and shrugged. "Looking for Sophia, only got about 2 hours or so before it gets dark. Kinda hoping I'll run into Daryl so we can stay out and look longer. Rick'll make less of a fuss if we're together. Y'know?"

"Right, yeah."

"Okay, I'm out. I'll see you later though."

"Yeah, bye."

"Oh and, have fun with Maggie." I winked at him and kept walking away leaving him standing there processing what I had just said.
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I walked around the woods for a while having no luck finding Sophia whatsoever. Didn't find shit.

Until, I came across a big farm house. She could be in there, could be a whole bunch of things in there.

I decided to go in and see if Sophia was holed up in a cupboard or something, I  just needed some sort of news to take back to Carol and the group. Good news preferably.

I was checking a room in the house when I heard footsteps from the other side of the door. Slowly I approached the door with my gun in one hand and my other on the doorknob. Pulling the door open I held my gun up in-front of me and was met with the end of a crossbow in my face.

Daryl.

"Jeez, you scared me." I told him as we both lowered our weapons.

"I'll say, thought you were a walker." He said and I nodded. "Yeah me too."

"You find anything?" I ask him and he shakes his head. "Nah, you?"