You're Weird, I Like It - Rarl

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  Like with Enid, Carl Grimes also intrigued Ron in that same way Enid had, once again leaving him conflicted but for a completely different reason. Ron wanted Carl...But he was with Enid who almost ironically enough came back within the same day as Carls arrival. Ron didn't talk to Mikey this time, he didn't think Mikey could help him with this rather personal matter. He knew things with Enid were not going well; had not for a while now, but he wasn't about to cheat on her and it was hard to break up with someone when they weren't around. So he settled with trying to befriend Carl. The boy was just as elusive as Enid, though, if not more so, and Ron dare not approach the boys home with so many people. It was a trial. Enid made the decision herself in his opinion when she began to cozy up to Carl like Ron was no longer a factor in her life. Sure, she checked up on him, she did care, but he wasn't Carl, he didn't have the know-how of the world beyond the walls. She confirmed it by breaking it off with him gently; he remembered it being gentle because it was one of those extra bad days. Moreover, without a thought, she was back over the wall.

That event was a week ago, Enid was gone, she was not going to come back, that was why she broke it off he figured. Yesterday had been one of his bad days; his father had been beyond drunk and Ron was getting sick of him taking it out on his mom. Therefore, he'd intervened. He didn't regret it, he did, however, regret coming outside this day; the day after, with a large bruise on his face from when he'd been slammed into the wall, so he found himself a secluded place by the pond, where he currently sat thinking over things.
Like Carl. Carl had shown mutual interest in Enid when they hung out. Did that mean he was interested in her romantically or was it simply mutual on the fact that they had something in common? Could Ron be himself around Carl? Would Carl even accept Ron's quirks or was Mikey going to be Ron's only friend for days to come? Ron went both ways if he was honest with himself though gender as a whole didn't matter to him, just the soul did, only what made a person their unique selves mattered to him, not the physical body; though he'd be lying if he denied it having a small part in his choices.

"Ron?" He jumped a mile out of his skin, that's what it felt like anyway. In reality, he'd almost vaulted himself into the pond; his startled reaction had startled the speaker too.
"Carl?!" Ron looked up, twisting his body to do so, eyes meeting the bright blue of Carl's, causing the brunette to raise a brow before his face scrunched up in worried displeasure at the sight of the bruise splashed across Ron's face though before anything could be said Ron cleared his throat.
"Um...something up?" he'd admit to himself he rather liked watching Carl's expression change, it was so subtle you wouldn't notice it at all; unless you were Ron and currently studying the other boys face to commit to memory just in case he decided you weren't worth his time.
"No, I just...saw you come over here, you looked lonely and I haven't seen Mikey for some time now" ouch. Carl seemed to catch on despite his normally stunted social skills "I meant like you're normally with him when I see him, not...um" he stumbled over his words, unsure of what to do and Ron found it adorably endearing.

He couldn't help but chuckle at Carl "I got it, dude, no worries...but yeah, Miks been sick as fuck these past few days so I've been banned from his side until further notice" He watched the subtle changes in Carl's face. Internally he was screaming, he knew Carl would reject him because he clearly liked Enid but his everything was demanding he do something to get it out in the open or forever suffer in silence! The fight was hard, he was losing.
"Oh, well...wanna hang out then, If you're not busy?" Ron rose a brow at Carl's quiet request, he remembered how shy he was when he first came, when they first met, this was almost like that except he was more aware of Carl now than he was that first day they met. For Carl to be nervous something had to be up...was it because Enid had gone over the wall and now Carl had no one to hang with? Ron was getting ahead of himself now, Carl wasn't that kind of person...he hoped.

His paranoia towards that kind of thing won "Not to be a rude or unappreciative friend, Carl, but does this have anything to do with the lack of the Enid-like presence that's usually with you..." He hadn't meant to sound so bitter cause he wasn't, well maybe a little but it wasn't aimed at Carl.
There was immediate regret on Ron's end at the sight of Carl's crestfallen face; odd as it was.
"No..." Fuck! Fix it, Anderson! Make the boy smile, he looked better when he smiled!
"Hey, it's alright, we can hang, I'm just having an off day, didn't mean to snap at you, Enid broke up with me before she left so I'm a little ehh right now"
No more sad look, good...now to test out how rickety the bridge of friendship was.
"You know, we've never actually hung out, just the two of us, I might weird you out or something, you prepared for that?" Ron couldn't help the teasing smirk his lips had formed, more so when Carl reciprocated it with one of his own.

"Give it all you've got, I can take it" That smirk became cocky.

Ron couldn't help the perverse image that ran through his head. Hey, give him a break, Carl was attractive, and life had not been kind to him in the hormone department! Technically speaking he was still a virgin, his mind, however, had seen too much porn of a varying genre to be considered as innocent and virginly.
"Alright, but don't say I didn't warn you!" Ron pushed himself up off the ground, dusting himself off. Now, in a normal situation, two teenage boys had a multitude of things to do, but in Alexandria, within the confines of a zombie apocalypse, there wasn't much to do...naturally, chaos ensued. Chaos in the form of pranks played on unsuspecting Alexandrians.