When All Seems Lost

Time Away

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The prison soon got really crowded. It was hard to fit all these new people so we had to branch further into the prison and secure it. I didn't help with these type of things. Truthfully, having all these people will be a danger to us all. Most don't even know how to take care of themselves. I shake my head at them. If this keeps going, I'm going to leave.

People keep coming up to me asking if I could teach them sword fighting and I'm definitely turning them down. After a few days someone spread the rumor about me. People would stare and wouldn't even approach me. My time here is starting to be very limited. My anger is blossoming like no other.

I am walking through the main part of the prison going outside. My weapons are fully loaded and sharpened. It was time I went on my hunt. I was half way towards the outer gate by the time Carl stopped me. "Jack, where are you going?" He asked me.

I turned towards him and said, "I'm going hunting for a few days. Why?"

He looked down and said, "I was wondering if I could go with you? I know we haven't been on the best of terms lately but I would like to change that. I miss my best friend." 

I laughed at him and said, "Why would you want to be friends with a monster? You were right about me. I did kill those people. I didn't want to, but I did. Your father put me in that type of situation Carl. I can't even look at you right now. I can't look at anybody right now. Everyone knows what I did. Everyone believes that I am a monster. Why are you even wasting your time?" He was quite for a few moments when he said those words to me. 

"Because I don't care that your a monster. I know there's more to you than that. I see everything. You are kind, strong, independent, beautiful, and so many more things that I could speak about forever. I like you so much Jacqueline and I want grow to love you someday, so please just give me a chance." He spoke to me passionately.

I stood frozen at his words. Never in my life had I thought someone would speak those words to me. For once in my life I didn't know what to say. So I breathed out his name. "Carl." He took a couple of steps to get close to me. He gently took his hand in mine.

"Please let me have a chance Jack." He whispered to me softly. I couldn't help but smile at him and nodded. "So, can I go hunting with you as well?" I nodded again he smiled real big. "Just let me tell my father and gather some things and I'll be right back. Just give me like twenty minutes and we'll leave okay."

"Okay." I spoke while nodding my head. He then took off in a rush, and I couldn't help but blush.

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I was just going to stop here but I'm not that mean. Plus this chapter would have been so short and I wouldn't do that to you.

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It took longer than twenty minutes to get back to me. I have a feeling that it was because of Rick. Hunting can sometimes be dangerous but not as dangerous as walkers. But no time later, Carl came running back with a huge smile on his face. Which let me know that he got the "Okay" from his dad. I mean come on he was coming with me.

Carl didn't even stop when he reached me, he just took my hand and rushed off towards the gates. "Woah! What's the rush?" I asked him while running.

He laughed and said, "I don't want my dad to have time to think of a reason for me to stay. Let's just go and stay out for more than a few days. We can finally be by ourselves. Why miss this chance?"

I soon found myself laughing along with him. How could I not? This boy makes me feel things and I don't know what to do about it. Seeing him smiling and happy is something I want to protect. Something I never want to let go of. Something I never want him to lose.