Love In The Apocalypse

Save The Last One

MY POV

     "I can't sleep. Do you have anything that you do to make yourself sleepy?" I ask tossing and turning in my bed. I sit up to see if Maggie is still awake. She rolls over to look at me then looks out the window. Her face lights up a little, like she just got an idea or something.

    "Come on I now what will help." She gets up out of bed and reaches for my hand. I take her hand and we walk downstairs. She opens the front door and points to a rocking chair. "Sit here and I'll get a chair for myself. I'll be right back."

     "Okay." She walks in the house and comes back out with a dining room chair. She puts it next to mine and sits down.

     "So what sometimes helps me is to look at all the beautiful stars in the sky. Tell me what you see and I'll tell you what I see the stars make." I look up at the dark sky nodding my head.

     "Okay." I say in a very quiet whisper. "Oh." I point to what I see so she can look. "There's a tree with a hole in it."

     "Good job spotting that I know I sure would have. I barely can see right now." She looks around with squinting eyes. After two minutes she points to the sky so I look. "That's a dog with a fluffy collar on its neck." And just like she said there it was. It is kinda cool being out here alone with her I like her a lot.

*CAR ENGINE*

     I look up and see a car I've never seen before driving towards us. Maggie just looks at it and then she puts her knees up like she's hiding.

     "Hold your knees up so they can't see you." I hold them up and wait for the car to stop. When it stops I see two doors open and two dark figures walking towards us. When they get to the steps I see them better and I smile. Its Glenn and T-Dog. They look at the steps so I look down and there's drops of blood. Probably from Carl when he got shot. T-Dog looks all sweaty as he looks at Glenn who looks at the front door.

     "So do we ring the doorbell?" Glen asks as he turns to look at T-Dog and then looks back at the front door. "I mean it looks like people live here." I look at Maggie who is staring at them.

     "We're past this kind of stuff, aren't we? Haven't to be considerate." T-Dog says as they walk up the stairs to the front door.

     "Did you close the gate up the road when you drove in?" Maggie asks and they both stop dead in their tracks. I'm kind of behind Maggie to were they can't see me, but I can see them.

     "Uh, hi," Glenn says nervously. He changes what hand his gun is in and looks at Maggie. "Yes, we closed it. Did the latch and everything." He moves his hands to show her what he was talking about. Maggie Moves up and I know I'm seen cause Glenn's eyes get big. "When did you get here?"

     "I-I came here the day I went missing and found Carl, Shane, and Rick in the woods the next day after Carl was shot by the man that helped me when the herd came by". He then looks at Maggie like he just seen her for the first time. Maybe because she moved her face into the light. He swallows like he's nervous. Maybe he likes Maggie or thinks she's cute.

     "Hello. You again. He says while smiling and moving his head up and down. "We..uhm met before briefly."

     "Look, we came here to help. There anything we can do?" T-Dog asks sick looking. I hope he's okay. Maggie stands up so I follow her. T-Dog groans in pain and we both look at his arm. There's a bandage with three things of black tape and a line of blood acrossed it. "It's not a bite. I uh...cut myself pretty bad though." Maggie and I start walking in the house as she says,