The Apocalypse

Chapter 40; Dollar Store

Chapter 40: Dollar Store 💰

Anna's POV

Were walking. And walking. And walking and walking and walking like crazy. I really wish we had a car right now, then we wouldn't have to waste all of our energy on foot. Hopefully we pass a car dealership or something.

I walk up to Daryl and give him a look as we all stop on the sidewalk in front of a dollar store. The buildings around are ripped apart basically, the sidewalk has garbage all over and down the street is filled with walkers. This building will do.

"We uh.. better hurry" I say while nodding my head at the others.

Tyson gives me a look and busts down the store door.

"Woah, easy dude." Daryl says.

Tyson zoned everyone out, completely.

I look at everyone else behind me and shrug before walking into the store.

Daryl goes in last, making sure everyone was inside, then he was trying to look for things to use to board up the door.

"We better stay in here while it blows over," Daryl says.

"The....walkers?" Lizzie asks.

Daryl looks and her, stops, and nods.

"Yeah." He pauses.

"The walkers."

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"I guess we need these," Lizzie says, showing me a bag of nails.

"Nice finding, Lizzie" I say.

I walk over to Daryl and hand him the bag. "Here. Lizzie found them."

"Nice work, Lizzie," he said.

She's sitting in a chair in the middle of the room, and she smiles at Daryl and I.

Grayson is standing next to her, holding on to the head of the chair.

She's looks at Grayson and smiles proudly.

"Daryl told me nice work."

Grayson rolls his eyes and walks over to the other side of the room.

Carols looking for medical supplies, although it is a dollar store. Oh well.

Daryl's boarding up the door and the windows,

and Kerry's helping Carol look for supplies. I don't know where Tyson went.

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There's an upstairs, like this store was owned by somebody that lived here too. "Hey, pssst!" I whisper over to Grayson and Lizzie, trying not to make noise because the window isn't boarded up completely yet, and we don't want to attract walkers for miles into the only shelter we've found.

They tip-toe over to where I am, by the stairs, and we walk up. My guns pointed up, and Lizzie's got her knife.

No ones up here, dead or alive, so I tell Lizzie to put her knife away. "You won't need it, it would just be a waste of time." I say.

"Grayson, look over there!" Lizzie says, excitement in her voice. There's a part of the room upstairs that has a boy's items scattered around. "LEGOS?" he says.

I smirk and cross my arms.

Only to reveal Carls playing with the nerf gun, shooting the wall.

"You trying to attract walkers?!" Lizzie says.

"Hey hey hey calm down," I say.

"This is the time to relax and remember your still a kid. You might not have a great childhood like maybe your parents had, you lost a few people you loved, but..." I stop for a moment.

Carl finishes for me.

"What she's trying to say......" He takes a breath.

"Your still a kid. You win some, lose some, and no matter how hard it is, you want to try as best as you can to not think about it and relax."

He looks at me and nods.

I look over to the other half of the room and see a bunch of girl things.

"Oh Lizzie....!"

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"What!!??!!"

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"Come here, hurry!"

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She runs over by me and covers her mouth. . "A....A dollhouse?!?"

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"You betcha."

She jumps up and down and grabs the dolls that are in the basket next to the dollhouse.

I grab my flashlight and set it next to the dollhouse. "Here, now you can at least see."

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Carl sets Grayson up with the Legos, and we walk down the stairs together.

Carls POV

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I give Grayson the bag of Legos and smile.

"Here dude. Knock yourself out."

I stand up and see Anna helping Lizzie with the dollhouse and she stands up. Awkwardly in sync.

We walk down the stairs together, and stop at the bottom and look over at Kerry and Tyson, who are standing by Daryl talking.

I decide I should walk over there, maybe it was something I should listen to or know about. You never know.

Anna's POV

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Me and Carl walk over to Daryl who's with Kerry & Tyson.

"You... You don't know that..." Kerry starts to say. That was all I could hear until we reach them.

"Kerry...." Daryl says.

Before anyone could say more, I step in.

"What's going on?" I ask.

"Long story," Tyson says.

"Well what is it?" Carl says.

"Kerry's cousin might be with Rick, and the rest of us," Daryl says.

"Why is that a problem?" I say.

Carl crosses his arms and looks Kerry in the eye seriously.

"Who's your cousin, huh?"