The Ruins

Chapter 50

"Rise and shine babygirl! You've got a fresh new day ahead of us and we can't be waiting around for your sweet ass to finally decide to wake up." The group leader grins while he speaks.

Mal gets up, stretching her arms, a crack in her stiff neck she then remembers that she had slept on Negan. She felt strange as to how she hadn't waked up and jump away from his touch. Was her body finally finding comfort? Can't be. God, she even felt embarrassed to sleep on top of Negan.

"Let's go ladies! Assholes and elbows! I want to see both marching forward." We've got a lot of fucking ground to cover before we make it to the mall."

It's not long before the group heads off, taking an old dirt back trail up to the main road. Most times Infected wander in before the group took care of them. after that it's a long frustrating six hour walk to the nearest town, Mal grimaced.

At the beginning of the trek Negan had pushed Mal in front of him. He uses the excuse that it's to keep an eye on her and make sure she didn't get lost on the trail, still though every step Mal took she could feel the older man's eyes baring down at her.

As the day goes by and the hours pass Mal can feel tensions starting to rise among the group, temperature had gone up, making everyone irritable and it didn't help that Dean had insisted on playing eye spy. "Eye spy with my little eye something... big."

Floyd grits his teeth at his son and steadies himself from snapping off at Dean. Negan, however, isn't as calm, he clutches his bat tighter in his hand.

"Is it my hand up side your fucking head?" Mal snickers at this, thankful that it had been Negan to say outload what everyone else had been thinking, a quick survey of the group confirms this. She has to stop herself from chuckling, clearly the heat had started to get to her head.

Dean flinches at this response before raising his hand to point at a tall brick building just up the long stretch of heated road. "N-No it's the mall."

Negan perks up upon hearing this, he pulls his attention away from the group and gleams at the building ahead. The building is typically abandoned with grass and vines over growing the sides, the roof looked like it would collapse or already had collapsed.

"Thank fucking big tittied God." Negan announced to the group. "Let's pick up the pace men, I want to get in and settled before noon."

Together side by side, Morgan bangs the knock for any Infected and nothing walks by the dusted glass door. Opening it, they head inside the mall. "Alright, let's check every single store here. Anything that is handy and useful. Me, Floyd and Dean you go upstairs while Jeffrey, Morgan, and Mal will scout around the downstairs. Stay upon a store away, no more farther. Don't want any of us get in trouble."

"But there aren't any Infected around these areas. We would of heard their footfalls or moans." Dean said nonchalantly. Some groans were made among the group. Mal's upper lip twists, she finds herself struggling to withhold her annoyance with this boy- well man since he's way older than Mal. Floyd takes notices of this and goes to scold Mal but is stopped when Negan places a firm hand on the man's shoulder.

"Damn it Floyd, why the fuck is your boy so goddamn stupid? Did the milk in his mama's titty go bad or something? Or was he dropped?" Floyd doesn't answer and thankfully Dean doesn't hear what had been said about him.

Negan sighs before walking over to Mal. "Let's go."

Mal doesn't have to be told twice and soon the group arrives at the main entrance of the large shopping mall. The mall is big and elongated, the columns covered in vines wrapping around, moss and grass peaking out through the cracks on the world, spreading all over the place. In the middle of the mall was a overgrown tree, branches reached out through the roof and by the upstairs where it touches one of the stores.