The Walking Dead

Days Gone Bye

Rick Grimes

Damn, I'm out again. Maybe I could try the gas station?

As I stepped out of my car and walked a few steps, I could see a sign, but I couldn't see what it said, so I walked closer. I exhaled, seeing it read: " NO GAS"

It looks like I'm siphoning gas, just have to find a hose.

As I started going through the abandoned camp that has been set up in front of the gas station, I found a hose, and an empty gas can. Perfect.

I heard the sound of dragging feet, and I turned around to see a dead little girl, her left jaw ripped open, and half of her bottom lip gone. She stood there, looking at me for a couple of minutes, tilting my head slightly to the left side before she started speed walking towards me.

I started backing up and un-holstered my gun. Do I have to kill her?

I was answered when she became dangerously close. " I'm sorry."

I shot her in the head like I saw the people do in the Hospital when I woke up. Her body fell backward, her brains on the road. I was sick for days.

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" What's the difference between men and women?" I asked my partner and best friend Shane Walsh, who was sitting in the passenger seat of our cop car.

" This a joke?" He asked as I handed him a napkin. We were on our lunch break, but my appetite wasn't that great.

" No, serious." I answered him.

" I never met a woman who knew how to turn off a light. They're born thinking the switch goes one way, on."

I smiled and quietly muttered: " Wow"

" They're struck blind the second they leave a room. I mean every woman that I ever let have a key- I swear to God, It's like I come home, house is all lit up."

I chuckle silently as I stick a french fry in my mouth.

" And my job, you see, apparently- because my chromosomes happen to be different- is I've then gotta walk through that house, turn off every light this chick left on."

" Is that right?" I asked him.

" Yeah, it's ridiculous. Oh, then, the same chick mind yeah, she'll bitch about global warming You see, this is when Reverend Shane wants to quote from the guy gospel and say " Darling, maybe you and every pair of boobs on this planet just figure out that the light switch, you see, goes both ways, maybe we wouldn't have global warming."

I cracked a smile. " You say that?"

" I wanted to say something else, but I didn't feel like getting my head chewed off. Still, man, that earns me this look of loathing you would not believe. And that's when the exorcist voice popes out: " You sound just like my damn Father. Always yelling about the power bill, always telling me to turn off the damn lights."

" What were you going to say?"

" I wanted to say: " Bitch, you mean to tell me you've been hearing this your entire life and you're too damn stupid to learn how to turn off a switch."

We both laughed. " When was this? I don't ever remember you telling me this before."

" You remember Lucy Bennet? Well, that was her cousin, a few years ago."

" I saw on Facebook that she finally got a girlfriend worth her time. Danny Frost. There in Absaroka County, Wyoming. Said she had to move, her family was so disgusted."