Merle's hidden Daughter

Chapter 1 : them

I'm jasmine Dixon my daddy doesn't show love only to my uncle Daryl. I'm 11 and dad, and uncle Daryl have us with other people set up at a camp in the woods. " jasmine" dad yells. Scared I run to him carrying my bow in my right hand, arrows on my back and gun in my waist band. I see him and uncle Daryl standing with a deer, I run up to them. " yes" I ask as I finally stand in front of them. " bow in your back and carry the deer. You need to be strong." Dad instructs. I quickly put the bow on my back, I bend down and pick up the large animal. You can see where uncle Daryl shot him with his crossbow, right between its eyes. I sling half the thing over my shoulder and head back to the camp carrying the heavy animal. Dad and Daryl follow quickly behind me carrying the light and dead rabbits, and squirrel. I head over to the women, and drop it at their feet. They smile sympathetically at me knowing that I had to carry it. I turn around and dad tosses the line of catch at me, I catch it before they fall. They taught me how to skin them and cook them. They make me cook their food, because I'm a girl. Carefully I pry the dead animals off the line, and slit them. I watch as try start to bleed out. While those bleed out I head to our tents. I climb in my dad and uncles tent, it sticks like sweat and old socks. Well in this shitty world what do you expect, I grab all their nasty dirty laundry. I head down to the lake and start washing their cloths talking with the other women. I swear we have almost the same discussion every damn day, always talking about what we miss. " jasmine" carol asks looking over at me. " you know what I don't miss is this same fucking conversation every day" I laugh, they start laughing to. They go on talking about dumb shit, I know that the animals should be done. I turn to look at Andrea, she was never a nicest person but she cares for me. " please today's the last day" I beg her. " fine but next time I'm telling them to do it there selfs" she warns.

" thank you so much" I hug her. I dry off my wet hands on my blue jeans and run over to the food. I cut up the catch and start cooking it, as soon as its done I set it on two plates for them. I grab some of te other food like the beans and shit and add it. After boths plates are good, I fast walk over to their fire. My dad says 'no one cares about us' so we have a septet fire. I hand them their plates, tey nod showing their thanks. I head back over to Andrea, she hands me the wet cloths, " thank you so much. Ill make it up" I call to her as I rush over to the cloths line. I start hanging up the cloths, after each one is properly hung I head over and take a small plate off food. I sit across from my dad and Daryl, they talk about stuff as I eat. They kept strict rules on me, they say its so ill grow up right and know how to take care of a man. I never listen to them though cuz it's bullshit I mean who knows if we'll live to see tomorrow. I look up from my food, and see my uncle and dad laughing.

" I want a drink, like moonshine" I tell them. They stop laughing and look at me, " girl eat ya food" Daryl laughs.

" dad I'm serious" I look at my dad.

" eat, now" he scolds. I sigh and finish my plate, I take theirs and head over to the washing place. I wash our dishes and go to go to my tent. " jas" Andrea calls, I turn around to see everyone starring at me. " yes" I look at her, " come sit enjoy yourself for once" she pats the spit next to her.

" I can't, I have to go" I shake my head and go to my tent. I climb in and take off my boots. Andrea found perfume for me on a run so at least me and my stuff smell nice. Like I have mad perfume in my tent. I hide te make up and hair stuff, my dad would yell at em saying something like ' ain't no boys looking at you in this world. The ones that do, want to hurt you. So go take that shit off.' So I never really wear it, my dad is going on a run tomorrow so ill be able to wear some. I lay down and let darkness take over.

" wake up" a rough hand shakes me awake. I open my eyes and see Daryl.

" what" I rub my eyes tiredly. " I'm going huntin and your dad left already. Start doing stuff." With that he walks out so I can get dressed. When ever my dad is t here uncle Daryl leaves for a day or two so I jump out of bed. I put on my favorite black dress, and aply some deodorant, I put some perfume on. I brush my hair and grab my dress shoes, I put on some stockings and slip on the shoes. I know it seems stupid but whenever my dad leaves me and Sophia play dress up, today were suppose to put on our best cloths. I grab my bathing suit and climb out the tent, I see Sophia and Carl talking. Quickly I walk over to them, " hi Sophia. Hey Carl" I smile at them. Carl smiles and stares at me while Sophia blabbers about how fun this will be. " bye Carl, talk to you later" I call to him as Sophia drags me to our play day spot. We walk around acting like we're the best people in the world and pops are taking pictures of us. Sophia does a quick turn and falls, she starts laughing. " Sophia that was horrible" I laugh and help her up.

" you weren't so good either. You walk like you have a gun to your back." She laughs an tries to inmate how I walked. " at least I didn't fall" I slap her bag down and we start laughing.

" girls lunch" carol calls. We pick up our stuff and walk over, I already know the grown ups think we're babies but I don't care. I sit next to Carl and his mom, Lori. " hey Lori do you think you could bring us kids to go swimming" I look up at her with puppy dog eyes. " yes dear. Just remember to stay where I can see you" she smiles. " thank you" I smile and finish my food. " come on guys hurry" I call to them. I stop running and wait for them. I have on my two piece bathing suit, it has flowers all over it I think there Lillie's. they finally catch up, Lori in a spear outfit, Carl in swimming trunks and Sophia in my extra bathing suit. Carol went let er wear the two price so I wore it and she wears the one price that is purple. We all climb into the water, I swim under the water and grab Carl's leg. He laughs am I pull him under. We both come up for air, " hey no fair" he splashes me. " it's your fault" I splash him back. Sophia comes up and splashes both of us, we look at her then each other and start laughing.

" ok come in guys it's been an hour" Lori calls from the dry land. We all groan and climb out, we look at our wrinkly skin. " come on guys it's been an hour" I repeat Lori only acting and sounding like an old lady. They laugh,

" yeah squirt, how bout this" she picks me up and starts tickling me. " ok ok I'm sorry" I laugh. She stops and puts me down, I see a red car followed by a loud noise. We run up there after changing. Shane yells at glen to shut it off. I never told anyone but I think glens cute, an he's always nice to me. I walk up to him and hug him. " I'm glad you came back" I hug him tighter.

" I came back for you" he smiles.

" what" I laugh, he nods. I blush and look down, shortly after the can pulls up. I let go of glen and get ready for my yelling. Everyone but dad steps out, I look up at glen with tears in my eyes. " I'm sorry jas" he hugs me.

They start talking about stuff then a man steps out. He's in a sharifs uniform, and has a hat on to match.

Carl yells dad, and shortly after Carl runs to his arms. Lori runs after and hugs him, but then I remember Shane saying him an Lori are together so who is this guy?