For You // R.G.

Chapter 22

"Did he kiss you or did you kiss him?" Sena asked me as I played with a knife I found inside. Some of the group was sitting with us on the porch. Andrea, T, Carol, and Daryl walked towards us. They all started talking about finding Sofia and where Rick was.
"Max." Sena tried to get it out of me
"He kissed me."
I then looked up to see Shane walk up with the bag of guns
"Here we go." Daryl said. We were all silent
"what's all this?" Daryl asked once he saw the guns
"You with me, man?" Shane asked now holding out a gun for Daryl to take, Daryl took it,
"Time to grow up. You already got yours?" Shane asked Andrea and T.
"Yeah, where's Dale?" Andrea asked
"He's on his way."
"Thought we couldn't carry." T said unsure
"We can and we have to." Shane said, he then directed towards all of us, "look, it was one thing sitting around here picking daisies when we thought this place was supposed to be safe. But now we know it ain't." He then walked over to Glenn
"How about you man, you gonna protect yours?" Glenn looked at Maggie, he then took the gun.
"That's it, can you shoot?" He asked Glenn
"Can you stop? You do this, you hand out these guns, my dad will make you leave tonight." Maggie said to Shane
"We have to stay, Shane." Carl said
"What is this?" Lori said now joining the group from inside.
"We ain't going anywhere, okay? Now look, Hershel, he's just gotta understand. Okay? He- well he's just gonna have to. Now we need to find Sofia, am I right?" Shane asked now going to Carl and handing him a gun. Lori walked up to them and separated Shane from Carl
"Rick said no guns, this is not your call-"
I went over to Shane, he stood up and looked at me. I extended my hand, wanting a gun. He gave me a handgun.
"Good girl." He said, I went back to Sena. I felt everyone's eyes on me, I cocked the gun.
"Oh, shit."
We looked up to see Rick, Hershel and one of the greene's come from the woods with walkers on K9 sticks. Shane started to sprint towards them. Everyone followed
"What the hell are you doing?" Shane yelled
"Shane, just back off." Rick said
"Why do your people have guns?" Hershel asked. The walkers flung towards us. I looked at Rick, he gave me a desperate look when he saw that I had a gun. I shook my head at him, giving him the thought that I wasn't on his side any more.
"Are you kidding me? You see? You see what they're holding onto?" Shane yelled
"I see who I'm holding onto." Hershel yelled back
"No, man, you don't-" Shane said now circling around them
"Shane, just let us do this and then we can talk." Rick reasoned
"What you want to talk about, Rick? These things ain't sick. They're not people. They're dead. Ain't gonna feel nothing for them 'cause all they do, they kill! These things right here, they're the things that killed Amy. They killed Otis. They're gonna kill all of us." Shane yelled
"Shane, shut up!" Rick yelled
"Hey, Hershel, man, lemme ask you something. Could a living breathing person, could they walk away from this?" Shane cocked his gun and shot a round at Hershel's walker.
"No!" Rick yelled, "stop it!"
"That's three rounds to the chest. Could someone who's alive, could they just take that?! Why is he still coming?" Shane yelled then shot the walker once more. It kept coming.
"That's it's heart, it's lungs. Why is it still coming?" He shot it again
"Shane, enough!"
"Yeah, you're right, man. That is enough." Shane walked up to it and shot it in the head. It fell, Hershel watched as it laid on the ground.
"Enough risking our lives for a girl who's gone! Enough living next to a barn full of things that are trying to kill us. Enough. Rick, it ain't like it was before! Now if y'all wanna live, if you want to survive, you gotta fight for it! I'm talking about fighting right here, right now." Shane yelled at all us. Everyone was silent.
"Take the snare pole, max." I hear Rick say to my left.
"Max!"
I looked at him, I saw the walker try to grab me. I shook my head and shot it in the head, Rick watched as it fell, he then looked at me. From that moment on, we weren't friends anymore.
Shane slammed a pick axe at the doors. I walked over to him and shot the locks. The doors opened a few inches, letting only a few walkers walk out at a time. Walkers started coming out, I shot the first one. Then everyone started to shoot. We all stood in a line, shooting one by one. When it was silent, we all stood, catching our breaths. Shane looked back at Rick. I then heard a soft growl from inside the barn. We all looked and saw the familiar blue rainbow shirt covered in dirt and blood. Carol confirmed the walker to be Sofia when she started to bawl behind us. Her dead eyes vast among all of us in the line. She slowly made her way towards us. I wanted to shoot, but I felt as if I was paralyzed. I then felt Rick walk past me, he went up to Sofia, cocking his gun and waiting for her to stand right in front of him. He then shot her square in the forehead. He stood there, watching her walker body lie dead on the ground.