The Love Of A Girl ·C.G.· |The Love Of A Boy Sequel|

·Chapter Ten·

|Carl's P.o.v.|

"How much longer?" Hailey asks. "Another day." Glenn answers her. Hailey groans as she unbuckles her seat belt and stretches her feet out which touch Glenns shoulder.

"Hey!" he shouts swerving the car a bit as he shoves her feet off of him. The car behind us, which my dad is driving, beeps at us. "Great, now I'm going to have to hear from Daryl how "Asians are bad drivers." " Glenn whines. Hailey giggles as she lays her head on my lap. I look down at her and smile. She smiles brightly and blushes.

"What?" I ask. She shakes her head, "Nothing, you're just cute."

I smile at how happy she is and direct my gaze towards the window. Playing with her hair we both end up drifting off to sleep.

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"Carl."

"Carl, wake up."

My eyes open slowly as Hailey shakes me awake. "What?" I ask my voice still all sleepy. I sit up in my seat as I look around, noticing we're on the side of a road somewhere and it's dark.

"We are stopped for the night. Everyone is asleep-"

I lifted one of my eyebrows and looked at her funny, indicating everyone is not asleep.

"Okay, well not anymore." She laughs. "Anyway, I've already slept and was wondering if you wanted to go on a walk."
I leaned back in my seat and smiled, "and what if I say no?"

"I'll still go." She tells me. There is no way she is going out there alone at night. "Okay, let's go."

Hailey and I get out of the car and make it without waking anyone up. I grab her hand as we walk down the road.

"Anything on your mind?" I ask. She looks up at the stars and sighs. "Do you think Beth hated me? I mean back at the prison she said some pretty cruel stuff."

"She loved you Hailey. She didn't mean any of it." I tell her. Sure she was mad, hell so was I but that didn't change how we really felt.

"Yeah, but she loved Randall too and that's what kills me the most about doing it." It's painful to talk about this and I know it isn't easy for her either. 

"It was a mistake." I tell her and she nods, "I know."

I stop walking and turn Hailey so she's looking right at me. "Look, Beth was mad I was too but she loved you and when she died she still loved you. She never hated you, she just needed time. I know it hurts not truly knowing." I tell her. "But somethings you just have to let go."

Hailey nods and hugs me, "Thank you." I rub her back and kiss her head. "Of course baby."

She pulls away a bit and kisses my lips. I tighten my grip on her back and pull her closer if that was even possible. Her hands found their way to my hair, tugging on it causing me to moan. She takes this advantage and slips her tongue inside my mouth. Our tongues fight for dominance as I bring us over to the woods and gently push her back up against a tree. I leave her lips and kiss up and down her neck leaving little love bites. Hailey tugs on my hair, moaning as she bucks her hips against mine creating friction. I was loving every moment of this and by Hailey's actions I knew she definitely did. I take off my shirt and she feels my scar on my chest down to my belt buckle. Hailey pulls on it teasing me a bit. I pull her shirt off but the tape on her gauze must've gotten caught because she winced in pain as it tore off.

"Shit! I-I'm sorry." I tell her as I put my shirt back on. The moon light hit perfectly on her face and the scabbing cut was visible.

"W-What? Does it look ugly!?" She panics. "No, it looks beautiful." I smile. She does the same and grabs her shirt, putting it back on. "We should get back so I can clean up the cut, all you need is a bandage." I grab her hand and we walk back to the car.

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We started on the road early this morning so we may reach our destination some time this afternoon. We've been on the road for almost three days now and we all are ready to get out of these cars. I look down at the happy baby girl in my lap as she teeths on her hands. "Judy, we need to get you some toys don't we?" I laugh. I direct my gaze to Hailey who is playing cards with Rachael. I'm glad Hailey is doing better, I really am. Of course she may have days where it gets hard and the depression kicks in, but she is doing great. I wonder how Randall is doing, he's in the other car with the rest of the group. Noah is in there so maybe they are talking. Hopefully we get there soon.

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Finally we reached our destination, but dad wanted some of us to stay back just incase things go south. Everyone went besides the teens of course and a couple others. Carol has Judith so I decided to go talk to Randall.

"How are you doing?" I ask. "A lot better actually." He smiles as he sharpens his knife. "I talked to Noah and Beth talked about me all the time. She went on about how she missed me." He tells me. Randall looks up at the sky and smiles even more, "My angel really did love me."  He looked back down and frowned in the process. "Do you think she knew I loved." He stops and sighs. "Love her?" He asks. I nod, "yeah, she knew." I pat Randall's back and walk around to find Hailey. When I find her I sit beside her and wrap an arm around her shoulder. I lean both of us against a tree as she lays her head on my chest.

"Do you think we will find a place to stay?" She asks. "You know like the prison? Somewhere we can...live."

I couldn't tell her no and I couldn't tell her yes either. Whatever happens...just happens.

"I don't know." I tell her honestly. "I'm going to check on Maggie." She tells me as she gets up but before she could go I grab her wrist and pull her down into my lap, grabbing her cheeks and kissing her immediately. "What was that for?" She asks breaking the kiss. I smile at her and admire her beauty, "Just a stay safe kiss."

Hailey laughs, "Carl I am just going to the car." I nod my head and laugh with her. "Still."
She gets off my lap and makes her way to Maggie, I stay where I'm at and grab a stick. With it I draw Hailey and I. She's my one and only, I love her. One day I want to have kids with her...some day. I draw a house with a swing set and two kids running around. This may never happen but I like to imagine it.

"Carl."

I drop the stick and look up seeing Rosita calling me from the car. "Your dad is on his way back...we need to start digging."

My heart dropped thinking about the people who went. Who could it be? If it's Glenn it won't be good on any of our parts. We all gather around the truck and Hailey looks at me worried. I nodded my head telling her to calm down and it seemed to work.

"Who?" Maggie asks worried about Glenn. She also grabbed Hailey's hand and I watched as she gripped it tightly. Maggie's grip loosened as Carol told us who.

"Tyresse."

"W-What?" Sasha asks. Everyone stays quiet, a word is not said. Sasha falls into Maggie's arms crying over the lose of her brother. Maggie even started crying too but I think it was more over her personal hell rather than her connection with Tyresse. I looked to Hailey who had sympathy written all over her face. If anyone knows how it feels to lose a brother it's her. Randall and I grab the shovels to start digging and that's exactly what we did. When we finished dad pulled up and right when he got out of the truck he looked at us.

"It's gone."

We all knew what he was talking about. Noah's house, neighborhood, and family were gone.

The guys got Tyresse out and placed him in the grave. We all gathered around, I was holding Hailey's hand while she held Maggie's. Maggie needs family right now. Gaberial said a speech and once he was done we all left Sasha alone with the grave as she dumped the last pile of dirt on it.

"What now?" Hailey whispers as we get into the car. I look out of the window seeing Sasha crying as she walks back. "I don't know."

A/N: out of all my chapters I hate this one the most. It sucks honestly. Sorry 😂