ZOES POV
Apparently I was out of it for two weeks. Meaning, I've basically missed a full two weeks on his worthless planet. According to Hershel, I have this thing called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but then again, who doesn't now. We live in a world full of dead people trying to eat living people. He kept trying to get me to talk about what happened when I was taken. The first time I tried, I had to have Carol help me leave the room because I think I started hyperventilating. After that, I forced myself too. I told him everything that happened right up until I passed out. Everything. How Caden stalked me, how Tom and I unknowingly killed his family. Everything. Hershel gave me some pills and I can now sleep throughout the entire night without waking up screaming. It helps I sleep in the same bad as Carl again, too.I remember once when I was seven, I fell from the monkey bars in the school playground. My arm broke in two places and I can remember just screaming and crying until my parents rung an ambulance. When I arrived at the hospital, they had to give me a drug to knock me out because I hated the place so much. Compared to now, a hospital seems like a luxury.
"Hey beautiful," Carl says, walking up behind me and snapping me out of my thoughts. I scream and he jumps back. I quickly clap my hand over my mouth.
"Sorry, sorry!" I say. "I'm just a bit jumpy..."
"Don't be sorry, I shouldn't have snuck up on you. Wanna go outside?" He says, guilt in his eyes. I smile and nod and he grabs my hand. Im not sure what Carl and I are now. But I know I can't just be his friend. We pick a spot on the field relatively far away from the fences and where you can only slightly hear the walkers and sit. A grin spreads across my face as he pulls me onto his lap. The sun's just starting to set so it's beautiful outside for once.
"What are we, Carl?" I muse, speaking softly. I stop staring at the sunset and turn to face the brown haired and blue eyed boy I can't seem to stop thinking about.
"Human, I suppose." He smirks. I smile, slapping his arm.
"Shut up, you know what I mean."
"I want you to be my girlfriend." He says seriously. I smile, leaning my head into the crops of his neck.
"I'd love too."
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Things we lost | c.g fanfic [heavily editing bc I suck]
Fanfic⠀⠀ ⠀“What's your name?” ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀“Zoe. Zoe Taylor.” Zoe Taylor was just a normal girl when everything began. She fled her home with her younger brother, no trace of their parents or siblings to be seen. After months of loneliness, they run into Carl...