The World As We Know It // c.g.

>Relationships<> Chapter 8 <

I woke up on the bottom bed, Carl's arm wrapped around me. He arms were extremely muscular. His abs showing clearer since he wasn't wearing a shirt. Oops, i thought, bringing myself back to my mind and not focusing on Carl's body, I must've fallen asleep last night when we were walking. I lifted up my right arm to check my watch. It read 7:59 am. I just laid there in bed until about 30 seconds later when Carl's watch started to ting.

I assumed he had an alarm set on his phone for 8:00. He picked up his arm and hit a button causing the ting noises to cease. She pulled his back off of the bed and stretched his arms out to the side. He turned around and saw that I was awake, just laying down.

"Hey Lai," he said, rubbing one of his eyes, obviously still trying to wake up.

I then sat up too, "why do you get up 5 minutes before everyone else?" I asked, genuinely wanting to know the answer.

"I just like more time to actually wake up since breakfast starts at 8." He responded which made tons of sense to me.

"Okay," I responded, letting out a big yawn as he got off the bed to go put on pants and a shirt, I guess he regularly sleeps in his boxers, whatevs.

I got out of the bed too, I had slept in my clothes from yesterday and all I did was change my shirt.

Side note: it's the zombie apocalypse, her top priority isn't hygiene.

I brushed through my hair with the comb I had previously found in the desk beside me. I looked in the mirror as I brushed my hair and put it into a side pony. I left for the bathroom to go and brush my teeth.

I returned just before Rick came into the room to tell us to wake up.

"You ready to go get breakfast?" Carl asked.

"Yup," I said in response, bringing a smile to my face and tucking my left hand into my back pocket.

As we walked to the dining room Carl reached out for my hand and I held his back.

"Hey Lainie!" I heard someone yell from behind us and I let go of Carl's hand to turn around and see who it was, Carl did the same.

It was Miku, her hair braided to the side and wearing a pair of skinny jeans and a dark burgundy sweater.

"Oh hey Miku!" I said happily as she walked slightly faster to catch up with me and Carl.

She stood on the side of me that wasn't occupied by Carl who was now staring down at his shoes as he walked.

"What's up?" She asked me as we almost approached the dining room.

"Not much, but I am starving." I said as I giggled slightly.

"Okay, well bye, I'm going to go sit by Jack." She said as she walked over to a boy wearing a plaid shirt with light brown hair in a relaxed quiff.

"Ohh, French toast, awesome." Carl said drawing my eyes away from Miku and Jack and towards the food sitting on tables in front of Beth and Carol who were serving it but I was distracted again quite quickly.

"Hell yeah French toast!!" I heard a man yell from behind me. I let out a breathy laugh and turned around to see who it was.

A tall muscular man wearing a leather jacket with the sleeves cut off and a crossbow strapped to his back stood about 10 feet behind me.

"Oh hey Daryl!" Carl said as he turned around and fist bumped him.

"You know Lainie right?" Carl asked as Daryl nodded.

"Wasn't that guy I killed a couple days ago her ex boyfriend or sumthin' " he asked as I responded with a simple yeah.

Me and Carl got our French toast and sat down at a small table in a corner with two plastic chairs on either side.

I looked over towards the door and saw Glenn and Maggie sitting next to each other and laughing.

"Aren't they married?" I asked Carl, assuming he would know the answer.

"Yeah for about a month now." He replied as I nodded my head because I understood.

14 hours later

I went to go and take a shower since I was covered in dirt from working in the garden today.

I came back into the room after I took my shower, already wearing my pajamas. I looked over at the bed to see, once again, a shirtless Carl lying on the bottom bed, he was reading a book Hershel had given him the other day.

"Hey Lai," he said, looking up at me.

"Hey Carl." I said I'm response as I picked up my comb from the desk and began to brush my hair with it. Once I finished detangling my hair I laid down by Carl on the bed and he wrapped an arm around me.

"I'm tired," I said to him checking my watch. It read 10:16 pm. "I'm gonna go to sleep," I told him as I turned onto my side, placing my hand over his abs.

He leaned his head down and kissed me on the forehead as I drifted into a state of sleeping.

So, do you guys like? Still trying to build up the relationship ( I have through chapter 13 planned😉) and it will definitely start building, not FAST but FASTER nah' mean?

Bye loves,
Macy<3