Love In The Apocalypse

GUTS

MY POV
 

      Its been two months and so much has happened. One of the biggest things that happened besides all of this was when we found out Rick died. Carl wouldn't talk to anyone for a week. He's still upset and I understand. I lost both my parents and it really sucks.

     "Hey Bryana you want to come say goodbye to everyone?" Carl asks. There are some people in are group leaving to go into the city. We are kind of on mountain like hills way out in the woods, but you can still see the city. We met so many people on the way here. I dont know everyone's name, but I know some.

     "Yeah hold on let me finish my food." I say with a mouth full of beans. We don't have much food left that's why they're going on a run.

     I walk up to all of them. "Hey Glenn make sure you bring them all back;Andrea, Jacqui, morale, and T-Dog you guys be careful we all need you here." I start to walk away when I here someone's voice.

     "WHAT ABOUT MY GOODBYE?! WHAT YOU DIDN'T FORGET ABOUT ME?! MERL!HUH! I hate him so much, him and his brother are so mean they go around yelling and getting into fights with everyone.

     "No, I know your there I just hate your guts and I wouldn't care if you didn't come back. Your no help to this camp your a no good piece of shit." Everyone is staring at me, some of them are smiling. That is the first time I've gone off on someone; he just really pisses me off.

     "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME! I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF YOUR A LITTLE GIRL I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS LIKE YOUR DAD SHOU-" I cut him off there because he just said my dad.

     "MY DAD!? REALLY!? MY DAD'S DEAD!" I run to my tent with Carl right behind me.

     "Are you okay Bryana?" He must of seen a tear go down my face; I tried to get in here before I did, but I guess he seen me. I wipe it away and turn around to smile a fake smile.

     "I'm fine that asshole can't hurt me." He knows i'm lying, but he also knows I dont like it when people see me cry. We know too much about each other, but that's one reason why were bestfriends. "I really hope he doesn't come back. I would have a party after that. The one thing is, I wish his brother would go with, so he could get left behind too." Carl comes and hugs me and I put my head on his lap. We stay that way for a while until Heather comes in to me and her tent.

     "Hey Bryana I heard what happened. Merle's a jerk. Wait! No, he's a dick. I hope he doesn't come back," she says looking angry, but also with some sympathy in her eyes. Heather is a seven year old girl that Shane saved after her mom and dad died right in front of her. She almost got bit by her dad, but Shane shot him and grabed her away to safety. The safest it gets anyways.

     "Hey, I wish the same thing trust me if I could i'd kick his ass." I love talking to Heather and Carl. Both of them are my bestfriends. There are three other kid here, but we don't talk to them a lot. Sophia is nine but her dad won't let her play with us that much.The other two are brother and sister. Eliza is the girls name and she's eight; her brother is seven. (I dont know his name please tell me if you know).

     "Carl! Bryana! Heather! Can you come here!?" Lori yells. We all run to get seeing who could get there first. "Who needs a haircut?" She smiles shaking some scissors in her hand. Carl looks at her funny and shakes his head 'no'. "Carl you have too. Do you want to have hair like Bryana and Heather and look like a girl. You can just go last, okay?"

     "Okay," he says as he runs off. Lori looks at me then Heather and sits down. She pats the log in front of her. I dont think hair cuts are bad, but i haven't ever had one, so now i'm a little scared. Carl makes it sound like were going to die. I sit down in front of her and Heather sits next to us watching.

     "So, do you want it trimmed or cut short?" She asks me ready to cut my hair like it is her only purpose. My hair is only a little past my shoulders and l want my hair long, so I dont want it cut.

     "Um, how about a trim I like long hair." I sit here for ten minutes and it isn't bad. Now it's Heather's turn and she looks fine to me. Then Carl has to go and he keeps moving his head around. I'm more towards the woods sitting on a log. Carl is getting talk to by Shane, about how it isn't that bad and if he thinks this is bad he's going to hate shaving. Shane also is saying something about going in catching frogs to eat. I am about to puke a little in my mouth. Lori says she would rather eat Miss Piggy which was kind of weird. I'm sitting and watching them talk and I promise i'm not a weirdo I'm just bored out of my mind.

     "Are you okay?" I'm crying and I think Heather seen me.

     "I'm fine, why?" I am NOT fine. I thought Shane was a father type to me, but he's more interested in Lori. Carl will never think of him as his dad but Lori and Shane I think our secretly together. It's like they're a family and I'm just someone they have to take care of.

     "No your not, I seen you crying. Whats wrong?" I don't want to tell her that I'm sad about them looking like a family.

     "I just miss my family and I wish I could be happy like them." I point to Carl, Lori, and Shane.

      "Well you hav-" She is cut off by the radio going off.

     "Hello, base camp! Can anybody out there hear me? Base camp, this is T-Dog. Anybody hear me?" Everyone starts to run too the RV. Dale gets on his RV and picks the radio up.

     "Hello? Hello? Reception's bad on this end. Repeat. Repeat." Dale says.

     "Shane is that you?" T-Dog says in a panic. Please tell me your okay.

     "Is that them?" Lori says worried.

     "Yeah, it's them I heard T-Dog say his name." I say walking up to where everyone is.

     "Were in some deep shit. We're trapped in the department store."

     "He say they're trapped?" Shane asks rubing his head.

     "There are dead all over the place. Hundreds of 'em. We're surrounded." T-Dog went on.

     "T-Dog, repeat that last part. Repeat." Dale says in the radio.

     "He said the department store." Lori says.

     "I heard it too." Dale says putting the radio down.

     "Me too," I say walking closer.

     "Shane?" Me and Lori say together.

     "No way. We do not go after them. We do not risk the rest of the group. Y'all know that."

     "So we're just gonna leave her there?" Amy says looking at Shane tears trying to come out.

     "Look, Amy, I know that this is not easy--" Shane gets interrupted by Amy.

     "She volunteered to go to help the rest of us." She's crying now.

     "I know, and she knew the risks, right? See if she's trapped, she's gone. So we just have to deal with that. There's Nothing we can do."

     Amy sticks her finger in his face and says," She's my sister. You son of a bitch.

     "Oh my god," Heather wispers more to herself than anyone.

     "Amy....." Lori runs after Amy.

     I walk to me and Heather's tent. I dont like Shane that much anymore. Why wouldn't they go after them? It makes no since because we could easily distract the walkers and get them out.

     "Bryana are you okay?" Carl asks. He is always the first one to ask me if I'm okay or if I feel okay. I dont know what i'd do without him.

     "I'm okay, you can come in. I just can't believe he wouldn't let them go after them. Glenn can't die nor the rest of them. He has changed to much since all of this happened." He walks in my tent and sits with me on my sleeping bag. He hugs me and I just sit there in his arms ignoring everything else in the world.

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