Life Isn't Fair

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Once in the cars, we start going down a long stretch of road and stop at a sign with a big yellow 23. "Is this where were supposed to go?" I ask leaning over a sitting Rick's shoulder while pointing on the map. "Yea,it's supposed to lead to the same place." He says in a gruffy voice. I look beside me at Glenn who has been keeping an eye on me for a little, and I raise my eyebrows to ask him. "I guess we can do that." he finally says after studying my facial expressions. "I smirk towards him and look back at Rick who is giving me a look. "What? Just having fun." I say and shoot Glenn a funny look as a child would. "We shouldn't be doing that right now, we have bigger problems right now." Rick snaps. I don't take this offensive, because he does have to keep a lot of people alive, being the leader and all. "Yes mom." I say pouting. I earn a small smilw from him and turn to Aaron, who is sitting next to me. "It amazes me how this has made you guys like family." Aaron says and looks between everyone in the car. "Well, when you start to care deeply for the people around you, you learn to mame room for them in your heart. Love. That's what I feel for these people." I say shooting Glenn, Michonne, and Rick loving glances. This sentence seems to catch Rick off guard, and looks behind him into my green eyes, and nods, motioning me that he feels the same. "I do too." Michonne brings her hand behind her and I grab it, holding it for a couole seconds before Glenn pulls me into a warm hug.
"Have you asked him the questions yet?" Michonne asks. "Yea. I did. In the barn. I threatened to kill him if he touch my family." I say and look over at him nodding and watching me closely. "So, which road are we supposed to turn on? Or do we just stay going straight?" I ask, cutting the silent tension that I created in the air. "Keep going straight." Rick said, cutting Aaron off because he didn't trust what he would say. "Alright, but in the meantime we're gonna be talking about som things. Got it?" I ask to Aaron and everybody else. They all nod or mumble "Yes" and I start talking. "So, Let's get to know each other." I say and start talking to everybody. After a while of that, Rick yells out of nowhere and my head snaps to the front, where I find a lot of walkers waiting for us. "STOP THE CAR!" I squeal and grab my machete and load my gun while getting out of the car. As soon as my feet hit the pavement there were walkers coming at me. I swung my machete and fired my gun at the rotted corpses, but to no luck, there were more coming my way. I waved my hand violently in front of the door and they started driving backwards, but got caught on some of the walkers that I have killed. I sprint over and pull them away from the tires and try open the door, but it doesn't open. All of a sudden I'm thrown to the floor and hit my head lightly on the concrete which makes me see stars, and it hurts to move, but I try and look up to see if anything is happening. By my luck, what happened was Aaron, in attempt at escaping kicked the door with so much force it knocked me down, and now Glenn and Michonne were by my side holding me up while running away, and Rick stayed behind and dragged Aaron with him while killing walkers in his way. Once my vision clears I signal for them to let me go, and so they release me and I fall to the ground in a yelp from a bad headache. I pull onto their arms and stand on my own two feet and now move my legs to help go faster. "Did they make it out? Are they okay?" Glenn tries asking me in a panic, and I let out a small moan in response from the intense pain in my right and left temple. It goes away after a small bit of running, and soon I'm on my own feet and running by myself and guarding my family. I see Glenn get pushed down by a walker and I have to jump onto its back in enough time so it doesn't chomp on Glenn's face. "Thanks." He says and I offer him my hand which he gladly accepts and we keep running. I look behind me and notice that Rick is trailing behind so I grab him and push him with enough force that he goes tumbling to the others before the horde comes in between us. I tug Aaron along and run to the left, trying to steer the walkers in the other direction, which doesn't work because they're coming from the way we're trying to run. So our only option is back. I turn around and go to make a run for it since we don't have any time, and realize that we're cornered. I look up and notice that there's a nice tall tree and I boost Aaron up into it before he reaches his hand down, but hesitates. "What are you doing? Let me up!" I say shaking my hand wildly and jumping up and down. "Survival is for the fittest." He says and looks down sadly while resting his hand. I look down with no hope and grab my machete and start taking out the close ones, until they all surround me and I close my eyes, letting hot tears escape my eyes, awaiting my death. My entire life flashes before my eyes; the day my sister was taken, the time I had to kill the man for shooting the little girl, finding Ollie, finding Rick, and them becoming the family I always wanted. But everything will be taken from me. My eyes shoot open when I hear gunshots, and I look around to see that all of them are dying. I crouch in attempt to guard myself from getting hurt, and await the time that I have to stand again from trama and shock. After the gunshots are gone, I look up and see Michonne, Glenn, and Rick standing there, all draped in sweat and breathing heavily and run as fast as I can with my own tears on my face into there arms. Once the adrenaline of knowing I'm alive is out, all I can think about now is anger. I turn around just as Glenn has helped Aaron down from the tree and I stomp towards him in such an angry way it even scares me. My face turns red and I'm almost to him when a pair of arms which I assume are Rick's, hold me back from doing damage. "You Sick-" I wiggle angrily trying to get away from Rick and strangle the man in front of me, but that doesn't happen. "You coward! You guys weren't there! You didn't see him almost try to kill me by leaving me doen here! And I'M THE ONE THAT HELPED HIM UP!" I was screaming now and even Glenn had to hold me back, because I wanted to kill him for almost ripping my life away from me against my will, which was something I hated. When I announce what Aaron did, Michonne looks at him with disgust and distrust, if looks could kill, he'd be on the floor dying.  I stop struggling after a little bit and just sink in Rick's chest which was behind me, and let more tears stream down my face because of how messed up the world has become. Then a flare goes off and we're all on our feet running.