Don't Leave Me -DISCONTINUED/READ NEWEST CHAPTER-

The Distance P.2

     I have decided that I no longer like Rick. I come to this conclusion in the backseat of a car, next to Carl.

Rick hurt me. He struck me. He scared me. I don't like people who scare me. Even if he apologized.

I pull my knees up to my chest and suckle on my thumb for comfort.

I really wanted my sister's now.

"Hey Andy," Carl reaches towards me and I flinch even though I know that he won't hurt me.

"Please leave me alone." I whisper the words around my thumb and curl even further into the corner.

Carl looks at me worriedly but does as I requested.

"Will you sing the song?" I mumble.

"Huh?" Carl perks up. "You mean skidamarink?"

I let out a gentle nod and close my eyes as Carl softly sings.

Someone slams on the brakes and I fly forward, hitting the back of the seat. 

Carl reaches over, pulling me towards him as he grabs his gun. 

"What's going on?" I question, looking out the window to see a red flare. 

"Stay here." Carl instructs, opening the backdoor and exiting. 

"Wait, don't leave me!" I crawl out after him, spotting someone with blond hair running into the woods. 

"Wait!" I try to run after them, willing my legs to not fail. 

The hair turns into a blue shirt and I know that I'm now chasing after Aaron. 

"Aaron!" I call out and he stops in his tracks. 

"Andrew?" He frowns. "Why are you out of the car?" 

"They were leaving." I explain and Aaron pulls me up onto his hip, wrapping his bound wrists around me as he continues to head towards the flare. 

"They're gonna think I'm kidnapping you." Aaron mumbles under his breath. "But I can't leave you." 

The snarling of a walker makes me freeze, burying my face into him. 

Aaron turns around, hunching over me as the walker gets closer. 

"Hey!" 

My head darts up once I hear Glenn's voice. 

He takes down the walker before he spots me. 

"What the fuck!" He pulls me from Aaron's arms. "Are you okay? Are you hurt? Bitten? Scratched?" 

Glenn is frantically checking me over, hands roaming to find injuries. 

"I'm okay. Aaron saved me." I tell him. "Where did everybody go?"

"C'mon. Let's get back to the others." Glenn turns me around before picking me up and setting me on his shoulders. He then slices through Aaron's bonds and gives him a gun. "Don't make me regret this." 

Aaron nods, covering us as we make out way back to the car. We meet up with Rick, Michonne and Carl, fighting off the left over walkers that had heard us and getting back into the cars. 

Glenn took me in his car with Aaron and let me sit on his lap. He even showed me how to drive! He let me hold the steering wheel while he worked the petals. Aaron didn't seem to mind the bumpy ride. 

We finally reach where the flare came from and Aaron begins to call out for a man named Eric. 

That must of been the man that liked superheros. 

We finally find the man with a splint on a broken leg. Aaron reunites with Eric while I join Maggie. 

She gladly scoops me into her arms and plants a kiss onto my forehead. 

I slept in Maggie's lap for the ride to Alexandria. I was tired and my hips were hurting. But I didn't tell anyone. 

They didn't need that right now. And I don't want to get spanked again. 

I had a dream, a really nice one that I didn't want to wake up from. 

"I've got you!" Tabitha pulls me into her arms. 

"No!" I giggle as Andrea pounces and tickles me violently. 

"Laugh for me! Bend to my will!" Andrea laughs. 

"What are you doing?" Sandy enters the room, placing her bag by the door. 

"Entertaining Andrew." Tabitha answers, wiping some sweat from her brow, placing me down onto my feet. 

I was sure that Sandy was gonna yell or demand that I hadn't been in her stuff. 

Instead she darts forward, pulling me into her arms and tossing me into the air, spinning me around. 

I can't help the loud laugh that escapes my lips as Sandy carries me around the room like an airplane. 

"Say uncle!" Sandy calls out. 

"UNCLE!" I scream through laughs. "Uncle!" 

"Not loud enough!" Sandy can't help but laugh herself. "Louder!" 

"UNCLE!" I yell as loud as I can over the laughs of the girls. 

Sandy places me back onto my feet as we all gasp for air. 

I tuck a strand of hair behind my ear. It was growing out again after Pa shaved it off. Tabitha had braided some of it. 

"I wish we could play like this everyday." I tell Andrea and she just chuckles, patting my head. 

I gently lift my head from Maggie's chest with a yawn. 

"Hey Ma." I rub my eyes. "Will you braid my hair?" 

Maggie looks down at me. "What? Why?"

"Please?" I beg. 

Maggie adjusts me before starting to braid my hair. 

She finishes it off as we pull up to a large redish brown gate. 

We exit out vehicles, Rick holding Judith closely while Glenn holds me. We approach the gate and I can hear the sound of kids playing. 

I bury my face into Glenn's shoulder, partially afraid of this new start.