Alone| Carl Grimes

Part 9

Bella
The door swings open and Rick stands there in a dark brown police uniform.

He stands there for a moment before hugging me. I hug him back and smile.

"We thought you were- we didn't think- never mind." He lets go of me. "Let me get you something to eat." He walks away and I stand there awkwardly.

"You can come in Bella" he says in a 'duh' kind of tone. I walk in slowly and he hands me a bag of trail mix. I gladly take it.

"We'll eat good food later but as for now that should do." He says. I nod.

"Your very quiet." He says. "I know, I'm just really overwhelmed I guess."

I walk over to the window where I see a boy about my age wearing a beanie. He looks over to me but I quickly look away back to Rick.

"I think I'm gonna go- uh- look around the place"

"Ok. Don't do anything crazy"

I smiled at his comment

I close my eyes and smile, finally feeling safe and alone at the same time.

I exhaled loudly and bumped into someone.

When I open my eyes, I realize it's Carl but he's with someone. A girl around my age wig long brown hair, wearing a red and blue flannel.

"Uh- hi" I said rubbing my arm.

Carl's eyes widened. He grabbed the pretty girls hand and walk away. I could hear her questioning him. I took a deep breath and kept walking. I could feel tears trying to escape my eyes but I continue to walk.

I walked for about 10 minutes. At this point I calmed down from the brief encounter. I heard some footsteps on the sidewalk behind me and soon there was a hand on my shoulder. When I turned around I saw the boy with the beanie.

"Hi. I'm Ron. You're new here aren't you?" "Yea" "lucky for you I've been here since the beginning."

Lucky for me.

"Want me to show you around the place?" Ron asked.

Instead of blowing off the cocky teenager, I agreed.

He showed me the lake and what different houses are used for but after 30 minutes he stopped.

"I have to go to school-"

"School?" I interrupt "yea" he chuckles "younger kids go in the morning and older kids go in the afternoon" he pauses "in a garage"

"Great. Do you have to go?" I question dragging out the 'have'.

"If you have no parents then no." "Alright I'm gonna be late. See you later"
"Bye!"
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I made my way towards Deanna's house to ask her about where I'll be staying. Deanna's house I asked her about where she wants to put me. I trusted her. She seemed like a strong leader.

"I thought you could stay at Rick's house. I already spoke with him. There's 4 bedrooms in that house I thought they could make some room for you."

I completely froze. Ricks house. That means Carl's house. The kid who walked past me on the street. Completely ignoring my existence.

"We don't have anymore open houses but we're planning to soon. It'll be temporary."

"Um, okay yea that's great. One hundred percent okay. Perfect." I smiled lying through my teeth.