It's Never Too Late

Chapter 17: Love Hurts

💀Miranda's POV💀
"Hey James!" I scream in the field very early in the morning when I see James coming outside. "Could you come over here?" He started to walk towards me but hesitantly. "What do you want?" He asks. "James I am truly sorry about before. I never really realized how much you actually loved Molly. And I tried to take you for my own." I start to cry a little. "I didn't mean to make you upset in any way." James grabs me and gives me a big, heartfelt hug. When we come out from the hug I kiss his cheek out of force of habit. "Crap....I'm sorry, I didn-" "It's okay." He tells me. I give him another huge hug and walk away.

💀Doc's POV💀
I was going into the basement to get my rifle for my watch of the perimeter this morning. I go to where they are all held. Grab twenty bullets and realize how low we are on ammo. I go back upstairs to Paul to inform him of this.

"What do you propose we do?" I ask him. "Supply run maybe?" He looks at me "Yeah there are tons of gun stores between here and twenty miles. There should be stuff left." He says. "I'll lead a team to one of the stores. While I'm gone you are in charge Doc." "Copy that. Who are you taking with you?" I ask him. "Charley, Sophie, and Lisa will all volunteer. You up for watching the kids with Heather?" He asks. "Of course. She'll probably be watching them most of the time because I'll be on watch of the farm." I tell him. "That's fine. Okay I'm going to get everyone." "Good luck." I tell him. About an hour later I see the four leave with some guns and supplies.
•Later that Tuesday night•

💀 Molly's POV💀
James and I are sitting in the living room alone, just laying on the couch. Leeanne is upstairs with Heather. Doc is on watch upstairs on the balcony. Miranda is...well I don't know where she is. She was last crying when I saw her. "Is Miranda okay?" I asked James. "I don't think so. She had a talk with me the other day." He tells me. "About what?" I ask.

"She said she had feelings for me. She said we should break up and I should go back to her. That she can love me more than you could. But that's not true. And I know that." He tells me. I look over at him and kiss him on his lips. "I'm so done with you, James!" Miranda screams as she walks in the room. "It's bad enough you don't love me but to rub it in! Agh!" She screams and leaves outside. James starts to get up but I motion him to sit back down. "I got this James. All you're gonna do is make this worse." I go outside to see her sitting on the ground crying. I walk over to tell her to help her and she turns around and slugs me in the gut.

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" She screams.

I cough and get back up. She kicks me in the jaw and I fall back down to the ground. "James was destined to be mine until you came into this world!" I reach up and grab her hair shoving her head into the grass. I punch her in the gut and she takes me to the ground. She punches me in the mouth three times. I pull out my knife but she kicks it out of my hand, then grabs her own. She stabs me in my shoulder. She gets up and pulls her gun on me. I start to back up and she cocks her gun. "James was went to be mine."
BAM!
My eyes were closed, I hear the gunshot. But it wasn't her gun. I look up to see a bullet wound through her heart. I start to cry over her. "Who is there?!" A woman, silhouettes in the moonlight. She has a rifle in her hand, it was obviously her who shot Miranda. She was about my height but a little bit taller so around 5'10. She had long brown hair and had a very slim figure. She was really pretty. "My name is Layne. I'm sorry about what I did to your friend." She says to me. "She wasn't my friend. She tried to kill me." I told her. "That's why I stepped in." At this point James, Doc, Heather, and Leeanne were running outside. "What the hell happened?!" Doc exclaims. "This young girl was about to be murdered by the hands of the one you see dead. I saw it all go down and shot her from the bush." I see Miranda's corpse coming back to life. Layne without hesitating stabs Miranda's walker in the head. "We need to get you inside Molly, you're bleeding a lot. She beat you up good. As for you" he says motioning toward Layne "you can come in too. But Heather take her gun."
Layne gives up her rifle to Heather.

💀Heather's POV💀
The woman gives me her gun with a smile. Molly passes out and Doc and James run her inside. I carry Miranda's body with the woman over near the house so we can bury her tomorrow. I can't even imagine what the others will say when they get back.

💀Paul's POV💀
"THIS WHOLE BUILDING IS COMING DOWN!" I scream shooting walkers below me. "Lisa you have to cut it off!" Lisa looks down. "Got it. Now stay still this is going to hurt a lot!" Lisa screams. She takes her axe and hits it. "AAAAGGGHHH!!!"

•Authors Note•
This one is a little shorter and I'm leaving a cliff hanger so sorry for that. And thank you all so much for 100 reads! Makes me happy some people actually read this. Here's to 100 more!