Shoot Or Run

|shooting| chapter fifteen|

I stood next to Carl holding the food we where feeding the chickens.
I was glad he was better then a few days ago. he had me worried. more worried the I ever had been
"Why are you working so hard?" Carl asked Lori turning to her throwing the food to the animals
"It's my job" Lori ansewred throwing some to the chickens
"No it's not. your a house wife." He said making me laugh. I covered my mouth slightly trying not to
Lori grabbed a handful and threw it at Carl "Yeah Punk?" She said
Carl covered himself and smiled at me
"See my house around here?" She asked him smiling as I threw some food to the chickens
"They don't have a mother." Carl said to us gestering to the baby chicks we where feeding
"She might be somewhere else." I offered the idea to him even though I knew she was most likely dead
"Maybe she got eaten." He mumled making Lori look at him
"Everythings food for something else." He said to her looking at the women
I nodded slightly "He's right. Maybe a walker got on the property and killed the mother." I said throwing a hand full to the chicks
Carl looked down and smiled as we walked back to the tents and RV
I saw Glenn and Lori talking quitely making me curius
Glenn handed me a piece of jearky I rolled my eyes and sunk my teeth into the meat.
He walked over to the guys by the car and gave them some food.
I stood by Carl and saw him go into the RV "Uh What are you doing?" I asked following him "I want to learn how to shoot. I know you do too." He said handing me a pistol from the bag while he held a small revolver "Are you insane? Lori will never let you. not after you just getting back on your feet from getting shot." I whisper yelled at him
He rolled his eyes and grabbed my hand dragging me to the RV and rested on the side of it
"Hey little man. Little Ginger." Shane said coming over to us. I hid the gun in my shirt when he came over and looked at him
"What's going on?" He asked us as Carl put down the stick he had in hand. I was worried we would get caught. Ginger would e so mad at me.
"We wanna learn how to shoot too." Carl said putting his knife in his back pocket and tucking his shirt behind it.
"Can you teach us?" I asked and saw Carl looking at me smiling
"It's up to you're parents." Shane said
"Can you talk to them for us?" Carl asked looking at Shane for the 'Okay'
"They'll listen to you." I added
"We'll see." Shane said looking at us curious on his expressions.
We nodded and began to walk off until Shane called "Hey." making us turn worried in the slightest bit.
"Leet me see what you two got there." He said.
We nodded and lifted our shirts up to the guns we where hiding under them
Shane grabbed our arms and called "Ginger, Rick, Lori!" I flinched whhen he called my mom's name. He brought us to a bench and sat us down. He grabed the guns from us and handed the guns to our parents. and let the scold begen.
"How the he'll did this happen?" Lori asked as she put the gun in her back pocket while Ginger looked down to the gun with thought on her facial features. "Well it's my fault. I let them into the RV. He said he needed a walkie talkie. Did you ssend him for one?" Dale asked "so on top of everything else. They lied?" Lori said clenching her jaw "Ever didn't do anything. I talked her into it. Don't blame her." Carl said
"They want to learn how to shoot. They asked me. It's none of my business but I am happy to do it. It's your call" Shane said holding his hat under his arm
"Well I don't feel comfortable with it." Lori said and looked to Rick and got a look from him, Shane and Ginger. "Now ddon't make it look like I'm being the unreasonable one here. Rick" she said looking to him again "I know me and Ginger have our concerns to but-" "there is no but he was just shot. And she is still healing from her cut. Probably traumatised from two days ago." Lori said "they are just back on their feet and they want guns?" "Better then them being afraid of them. There are guns in camp for a reason they should learn how to handle them safely." Rick said and got a smile from my mom
"I do not want my kid walking around with a gun" Lori said serious "how can you defend that? He can't just go walking around without protection." He said raising an eyebrow at his wife. "Everything you are saying makes perfect since. It feels wrong" Lori rambled on and on as Carl and I listened. I looked to him seeing him staring at me with his bright blue eyes. He leaned in and kissed my temple making me blush slightly "it'll be okay." He said resting his hand on mine "I know." I answered once the words "they're not mature enough" set us off "we're not going to play with them mom it's not a toy. I'm sorry I disappointed you but we want to look for Sophia. We want to defend the camp. We can't do that with out a gun." He said dragging me over holding my hand behind his back Lori and Ginger walked over and grabbed oour chins. "You will take this seriously" they said but Lori went on until Rick interrupted. I followed behind Carl to the car as he still had a firm grip on my hand. Rick talked to him before looking to our hands and smiling
I stood with ginger and looked at my target before pulling the trigger and felt my hand go up from the pressure against my hand Ginger laughed and grabbed my hands and said "keep it steady and straight or you won't hit a walker." She said making me smile she smiled back as Carl and Rick walked over and saw him shoot his target "don't worry you'll hit your target." Rick said to me "I did."I said pointing to the stop sign Ginger put up for me. I got a look of impression from him and Rick
"Nice." Carl said smiling
We walked back to the cars and drove back to the camp and sat down next to Carl