Chapter 2

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As Shane continued to pull me into the woods, I wasn't sure what he wanted me to do. I sighed as we never seemed to stop. He pushed me into a tree and started kissing me again.

"Shane," I said, he started kissing down my neck. "Shane, I don't want to do this." I said, if I did I would rather do it in the tent where I would feel a little bit safe at least. Shane kept going so I pushed him off me. He looked at me shocked and I took that as my chance to walk away and go back to camp.

As I left the woods I felt Shane grab my arm.

"Shane, stay away from me." I said as I pulled his hand off my arm. He grabbed it again which caused me to get aggravated.

"I SAID STAY AWAY FROM ME!" I shouted and went to the RV again, it's the only place where I can actually lock Shane out. I shut the door and locked it, I went to the bathroom and started crying. Why would he do that? Was he planning on having sex even though I didn't want to? I don't know if I'll be able to trust him again.

My thoughts were interrupted by someone knocking on the RV door, I came out of the bathroom and went to the RV door, looking out of the window. I saw Rick stood there.

"What do you want?" I asked, I didn't mean to sound mean but I'm having a bad day and I'm in a bad mood.

"Can you let me in?" He asked, I sighed and unlocked the door, I opened it letting him in before shutting the door behind him.

"What's wrong?" Rick asked me as I got comfortable on the couch in the RV. I sighed, I don't know if I should tell him what's wrong because I will end up forgiving Shane anyway, that's why he pulls crap like that.

"Nothing." I said, I tried to cover the fact that I had been crying and hoped he didn't hear me shout at Shane.

"It doesn't seem to be nothing." He said, I sighed, I knew he was right but I only just met the guy. I shouldn't be blurting all my problems out to him like I have known him my whole life.

"I'm okay, seriously." I said, I started to get up and head to the door, but Rick but a soft hand on my arm.

"If something is wrong you can tell me ok? I'm here for you to talk to, if you need it." I nodded in response and left the RV, Rick walked out behind me and I walked down to the beach to see Amy, Andrea and Carol washing clothes.

I might as well occupy myself so I don't get distracted in my thoughts. I sat next to Carol and she gave me some clothes to wash. We were just talking about what things were like before the apocalypse and what we missed the most.

"I miss my computer and texting." Amy said, I laughed, I can agree to that.

"I miss my vibrator." Andrea said, we all laughed, I saw Carol look over at Ed.

"Me too." Carol said, I laughed with her until Ed came over, of course he would come over and cause trouble as soon as we were having a bit of fun.

"What's so funny?" He asked, I sighed in annoyance.

"Just sharing war stories, Ed." I said.

"Yeah." Ed said, sarcastically.

"You got a problem, Ed?" I asked him, he ignored my question and turned to Carol.

"You ought to focus on your work, this ain't no comedy club." Why doesn't he just mind his own business for once and leave Carol alone.

"Ed, tell you what. If you don't like how your laundry is done you're more than welcome to pitch in and do it yourself." I said sassily, he is getting on my last nerve.

"Ain't my job Missy." He said, did he really just call me Missy? Oh, he has had it now.

"And what is your job, Ed? Sitting on your ass smoking cigarettes all day?" I asked, I'm running out of things to say.

"Well it sure as hell isn't listening to some uppity smart-mouthed bitch." Ed replied, ok he has crossed the line, he is going down.

"Tell you what, come on. Lets go!" Ed shouted at Carol.

"I don't think she HAS to go anywhere with YOU, Ed." I said, he looked over glaring at me.

"And I don't think it is any of your business." Ed continued.

"Come on now, you heard me."

"Carol." I said, Carol looked over, I shook my head.

"Tori, please." Carol said.

"Hey, don't think I won't knock you on your ass just because you have Shane as a boyfriend alright? Now come on or you're gonna get it later," Ed said, I am getting angrier by the second.

"So she can show up with bruises later? Yeah, we've all seen them Ed." I said, I was clenching my fists.

"Stay out of this." Ed said while laughing. Laughing? Really? Ed noticed that Carol wasn't going to go with him so he went and slapped her, he tried dragging her away but I stopped him.

"HOW DARE YOU!" I shouted as I had slapped him, he right hooked my jaw, then my eye, making me go on the floor, I stood back up and kicked his legs out from beneath him.

I started hitting him and I didn't know when to stop, when did he learn his lesson? All I could think about is throwing left and right punches to his face until I felt a pair of arms lift me up and take me away.

"PUT ME DOWN, I WASN'T FINISHED!" I shouted, I still didn't know who was carrying me.

"Yeah well he looks finished to me." He said, it was Rick. I stopped thrashing around and he put me down, I could finally feel how hard he punched me on the jaw and my eye was a little swollen. I felt a little faint but tried to not let it bother me.

"What did he do?" He asked me, I sighed and went to touch were he punched my eye but I flinched away as soon as I touched it.

"He hit Carol and he wouldn't shut up, he annoyed me, I couldn't help it, my anger was building up inside of me from Shane then Ed added to it and I just had to let off some steam." I said, I took a deep breath and I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. As I was speaking I could taste a iron type of taste.

"Okay." Rick said, he looked at my eye and jaw, he went to check if my jaw was broken or fractured.

He felt around, when he got to the place where Ed punched me I flinched away.

"Sorry." I said, I shouldn't flinch, he is trying to help, I'll just have to try and man through it.

"Can you open your mouth wide?" He asked, I opened it about halfway but it hurt if I kept going.

"Only that far," I said, I was constantly swallowing a small amount of blood, this is not good.

"Okay, so it hurts to open too far, you have blood in your mouth and can you put your teeth together" He asked, I tried to do it but it was a little out of line.

"Okay, he has probably fractured your jaw," He said, I nodded, how did he know all this stuff?

"How do you know?" I asked him, he smiled to himself.

"I used to be the Sheriff so I had a little first aid training." I nodded and he helped me get to my tent.





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