Living

Chapter 12- Again...

Heavy breathes, snapping twigs, baby cries, speeding past trees, runs from her own doing, then stops. Without acknowledging what's behind her... she stares. At nothing horrific... she just stares at the clouds.
Imagining a world, different from her own, a world of peace. Where people could live happily without fear of sadness. She knew one word, just one, to describe a place such as this. Heaven. Perhaps it was her time to go... to run away. This time she wouldn't be sucked back to her apocalyptic life, she'd be free. Free to live her own life. But she knew that people cared about her and she cares about people. She was learning you can't just run away from a fight so she fought. She turned around and walked... gradually running towards the rotting corpses slicing and stabbing till all were dead. Staring at the ground she looks up at the beauty of the sky.

"Not today."

She says turning back and walking away. Voices were heard from a far asking from what sound one man where they were heading then I stepped on a twig and there was silence.

"Who's there!?"

She walked from the treeline, lifts up her cloak, and picks Judith up out of her carrier holding her so the both hands. She looks up and there stands the whole group smiling especially Rick and Carl as the both runs towards Judith and herself. She gives Judith a kiss on the head and hands her to her father and brother. She walks towards the treeline when a bold voice speaks, Carl.

"Where are you going? You just got back." facing the group and she says,

"Right now is not the time to surround myself around people that could die and hurt me in the near future. When the time is right I will find you."

"Please." begged Rick.

"I'm sorry." and disappears into the intricate twists and turns of trees and their branches, alone. Again...