Prompt: Carley's ex shows up at the motor Inn and causes problems.
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"Hey! Back up!" Carley called out to the man that was approaching the Motor Inn. She raised her gun at the man. He raised his hands to prove that he didn't have any weapons and that he wasn't dangerous. Carley didn't put her gun down, though. You never know what will actually happen with people. They can look innocent, and next thing you know, they kill you.
"Carley?" The man asked, taking a step closer. The rest of the group was gathering up now, wondering how the hell this guy knew Carley's name. Lee stood beside Carley, ready to protect her.
The man took another step, and Carley realized just who it was, and how he knew her name. It was Ryan, her ex. They had broken up long before the apocalypse, but that didn't mean that she had forgotten about him.
"Shit." Carley said. But she still didn't put her gun down.
"Carley, I won't hurt you or your group. You know me. I'm Ryan, remember?" The man said, smiling. Lee was getting angry. Who the hell was he?
"I know who you are." Carley said, "But that doesn't mean I'm going to just let you in."
"Wait, you know him?" Lilly asked Carley.
"Yeah." Carley said.
"How?" Lee asked.
"He was just... We went out before." Carley said.
"Oh god..." Lilly said.
"Listen, I'm not here to hurt anyone. I swear. I just need weapons and ammunition." Ryan said.
"Are you alone? Or with a group?" Lilly asked the man.
"I'm alone. The rest of my group left me and some of them died." Ryan said.
"And if we give you weapons and ammunition, what will you give us in return?" Carley asked.
"Food. I'm sure you guys need food, right?" Ryan said.
Lee felt Clementine grab onto his hand and squeeze. "I am really hungry." She whispered to him. Lee wasn't all that excited about the idea of Carley's ex staying at the Motor Inn, but he was willing to if it meant food for the group, especially the kids. Food was very scarce.
"We should let him in." Lee told Lilly.
"Dad! Dad! Daaaad! He said he has food! I'm hungry!" Duck yelled out, pulling on Kenny.
"I say we let him in. He can stay for a night." Kenny said.
"For a night? Don't you realize that he's going to want to stay for longer once we let him in?" Lilly said.
"We won't let him. He's all by himself. He can stay for one night." Kenny said.
"As long as we get the food, I don't care." Lee said. He turned to Carley.
"Please, Carley. Just one night." Ryan spoke up. "I have nowhere to go."
"Fine." Carley said.
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Clementine munched on her apple, and Lee watched as Ryan say beside Carley and draped his arm around her. He couldn't really stand to watch this. Just recently, he had begun to feel things for her they he never would have thought possible, and they just made it impossible for him to watch her with another guy.
Carley pulled away. "What the hell are you doing?" She growled at Ryan.
"Nothing." Ryan's cheeks turned a bright pink.
"Then don't touch me." She told him. She saw Lee watching from a distance. He was probably pissed. She could just tell.
"Oh yeah." Ryan said, smirking. So he thought that this was all some big joke. He draped his arm around her again, but she pushed him off.
"I said don't touch me, and I meant it." Carley said, watching as Lee turned away slowly.
"I sort of miss the days when we were together, you know, when I think about it. I mean, remember the fun times that we had?" Ryan asked.
"No, but I remember the time when I walked into the house that we had just bought together and catching you fucking that weird chick that looked like a mouse."
"Oh, come on."
"Just saying. I guess you couldn't handle living with me for over a month. I guess you needed more than one girl."
"Listen, I made a mistake. I really did."
"Don't start. You know you made a mistake and you can't take it back. But don't start with the bullshit."
Ryan pulled out an apple from his bag of food that he had given the group. Carley wondered how he had so much. "Apples and granola, right? Isn't they what you love? I know this is only an apple, but still..."
Carley smiled and too the apple. Hell, it was food. She didn't care that he was giving it to her to try and apologize.
Ryan smiled and inched closer to her, and just then she saw Lee walk into his room, shutting the door behind him. She got up quickly, with Ryan right behind her. "Don't follow me." She told him, and he stopped. She hated how a cheating bastard like him could think that he could just come into her life again and try to take her back. It wasn't happening, not in a million years.
"You okay?" She asked Lee, stepping into his room.
"I'm good." Lee answered quietly. Carley knew that he had feelings for her, he had even told her so. That's how she knew exactly how he felt.
"You sure? You don't seem it." She insisted.
"Listen. It's fine if you like him. I just can't watch that." Lee admitted.
"Lee..." Carley started, grabbing his hand. "I don't like him. He just thinks that now that he's back in my life that he can just force himself on me and I'll come back to him. He was an asshole, and won't take him back. Tomorrow morning when he leaves, I won't waste any time thinking about him."
He looked down at the ground, wondering if what she was saying was true. It probably was, considering how she was grabbing onto his hand.
"This is going to sound really weird, but you know what you toms me the other night about the feelings that younger having for me? How you felt you had to get it all off your chest, even if the feelings didn't go both ways? Well, they do go both ways. Ryan isn't the one for me, even if I loved him before. You are, Lee. And only you."
Lee smiled and stood up. He was happy about Carley admitting her feelings, but also very shocked. He hadn't expected her to feel the same way as him, not one bit. He smiled again despite himself.
She took his hand again. "Come on." She said, and they exited the room, hand in hand.
