sry this update was a lil late i was in new orleans for spring break and then i spent all day wednesday with my dad digging in peoples bodies!!!!!
in case u couldnt already tell from the last chapter i like doctor things
i want to be either a neuropathologist or a psychiatrist
if neither one of those work out then lmao fuck it im becoming an actor
thank u for the reads and votes!!!!
share this shit wit ur friends if they luv corl!!!!!
things actually happen in this chapter!!!!!!
leggo
Carl;
I stare up at the tan ceiling; breathing in and out of my mouth. My coughing has died down slightly, thanks to whatever medicine June brought me.
I sit up and turn to the right to see Juniper sitting in the rocking chair, sleeping. Her head's tilted back with her mouth open and eyes lightly shut.
She fell asleep watching me.
I get out of the bed trying not to make a sound or cough to wake the girl up and start making my way to the bathroom.
I illuminate the dark room by opening the blinds on the window. I lift my head and look at myself in the mirror.
I see what looks like a shattered doll, my broken face emotionless in the crackled mirror.
Just looking at myself brings flashbacks of the accident.
(Or should i say acceyedent)
Standing there. Watching a boy I just met get skewered. And a bullet ricocheting into my eye.
I thought I was going to die.
I take my spare change of clothes out of my backpack slumped on the counter and I start to change my clothes. I take off my shirt and look down at the first scar I received, then back up at the hole in my face through the mirror.
You're broken, you're nothing but a messed up canvas. Nobody will love a kid with a goddamn hole in his skull, or a nasty, mangled scar on your torso.
Not even her.
I violently wipe away the tear in my eye as I throw the loose gray shirt onto myself.
A scream follows.
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I run out of the doorway to see Juniper at the other end of the hall holding up a gun.
(I edited that pic btw it's so bad plz ignore)
"You heard it too?" I yell to her.
"Yeah." She nods. "Let's go."
I grab my gun out the bedroom and we both run down the stairs out the back door.
"Jump the fence maybe it's back there." Juniper suggests.
She leaps over the fence with grace and I roughly tumble down after her in a fit of coughs.
"Still not feeling better?"
"Hell no."
We look around the open field to the road on the left. I see nothing.
"Carl, do you see that?" Juniper says pointing to something just off the road.
"Nope. What is it?"
"I think it's a dead one, it might be attacking someone. Come on."
She takes off in a sprint towards the woods by the road. "Juniper!" I yell at her as she disappears into the trees.
I break through the branches to see her standing behind a little girl.
The kid turns around to face us and I look into her white, colorless eyes.
Her once dark skin takes on a shade of grey, blood drips down her stomach and part of her cheek is missing.
She stumbles towards us and I stab her in the head.
Juniper grabs my arm.
"Carl, did you kill her?" She asks in a scared tone.
"I didn't mean to, she was behind me and my knife swung and cut her open."
"So you left her to die?" Juniper snaps, obviously enraged.
"No! She ran off after I cut her."
"Sure..."
"It's true!" A voice says from behind a tree. "He's right."
A girl comes from behind the tree, she has the same skin and face as the little girl. She looks about a couple years younger than me but older than the kid.
"Maddie was my sister, it's my fault she's dead."
"No, look... Uh."
"I'm Betsy." She says.
"I'm Carl, that's Juniper. Look, it's not your fault she died, it's mine. I slashed her across the stomach."
"But I told her to steal from you guys! It's my fault. I thought you were going to be asleep and we had nothing so I told her to run in and grab some stuff. When she came back to me she had nothing but a slash across her stomach, so I took her to head towards the pharmacy but she..."
Tears started to fall down the girls freckled cheeks and she fell to her knees in front of her sister.
"She died on the way and, I didn't know what to do so... I held onto her until she turned."
"Look we'll give you some of our stuff and we're really sorry about your sister." Juniper speaks up from behind me.
I turn around to look at her and see small tears welling up in her eyes.
"Oh you don't have to..." Betsy responds. "I'm dead anyway."
She pulls back her sleeve to reveal a bite on her upper arm.
She got bitten by her own sister.
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IM SORRY ITS SO SHORT
NEXT CHAPTERS GOING TO BE RLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY GOOD I PROMISE.
