Bleeding Love

Chapter 19: Never be able to get rid of me....

Beth's POV:

I wake up.

I'm no longer in the closet, I'm in some tent. Am I dead? I didn't feel a thing. I thought death would hurt. I look to my right and see a middle aged lady sitting next to me, feeling my forehead. When she sees that I'm awake she says with a strong southern drawl,

" Hey, Sweet pea! 'Bout time you're awake!"

I blink my eyes, as a large amount of sunlight shines through the tent that's suddenly been opened. I turn my face away and cover my eyes. When the tent opening closes I look up to see Daryl.

Great, we're both dead. Daddy told me heaven would be a lot nicer then a tent on the hard ground. what's going on? Daryl looks over at the girl and she stands up in a hurry and says that she'll be back in a bit to check in on me again. I lay my head back down when she leaves and I close my eyes. I feel him staring at me as he asks,

" Are you feeling okay?"

" Yeah, besides the dead part" I mutter.

" You're not dead Beth." He says with a chuckle.

I'm not? I think to myself then say jokingly,

" If I'm not dead then why are you being so nice to me?"

He looks down at the ground then with a look of remorse and snaps,

" When are gonna except my apology, I told you I was sorry for that."

"What are you sorry for?" I laugh, " I was just kidding,  geez...

"But you wearn't joking, I've been awful. and it took me, the thought of you dying, to realise it."He says sounding ashamed. I don't say anything so he continues,

" I also realize that I shouldn't be pissed at the thought of Austin because even though you two might end up together, at least he didn't treat you like trash, unlike me.  Beth, I've never loved a girl like this before. And it scares the hell out of me. To be honest I'm not anything like I used to be because the old me would have never said any of this, you've changed me Beth. And like I said before I know Austin is sweet, and your age, but I love you Beth, so think about everything I said, please?"

He starts to stand up to exit when I stop him by saying,

"Daryl I don't need to think about it...."

He turns around and pain is written on his face. Before he can say anything I finish,

" I love you too, and nothing that you say or that you do will change that. you won't be able to get rid of me that easily."

Daryl's POV:

" Nothing?" I ask

She nods. I hold out my hand to her then and help her up. She looks at me as though she's searching for something but I'm not sure what it is. Then she tilts her head sideways and playfully asks,

" Daryl, remember when you told me to never try and kiss you again? Is that still something that I can't do?"

As an answer, I do kiss her. There's no tongue or anything but it lasts awhile. Her lips are soft and I can't help but wish I had let her kiss me back at the yellow house. But then again maybe the timing just wasn't right then. She pulls away and puts her other hand in my own, as I lead her out of the tent. As we're walking out, she questions how we survived the herd because all she remembered was hiding out in a closet and hearing the bedroom door break open, so I explain,

"Well, I was downstairs locked in a room also when they, the walkers, broke through the front door. I sat there in silence hoping that they would just meander their way out only I heard peoples voices and the sound of killing walkers. At first I thought it was you and morales but then I realized that there were too many voices to be just you two. When I got out I ran up stairs followed by these people to search for you and Morales, only he was dead and you were missing. I couldn't find you until I was on my 3rd time through and I decided to check the closets. sure enough there you were all passed out. "

She nods her head slowly taking it all in, when she mumbles,

" Oh..."

Then as we walk into the circle of people who saved us, I realized I left out the most important detail.... So I add this shocking news,

" Oh, and ever heard of that phrase, its a small world, well turns out, that's true. Meet the originals of Terminus.

A/N

Hey Folkies sorry I took soooooo long to update I've just been really busy. anyways, I was thinking about making a playlist for this book, so if you have any song suggestions please comment them....

-victoriawalkerz