safe

chapter 5

A couple of hours had past since we had arrived at the prison. Max had made a new friend Mika and I had spoken to many people. Carl was a lovely young boy and he was also Rick's son, Sasha and Tyreese were brother and sister and they were really nice. Glenn was the first person I really spoke to and he was really friendly too. A guy called Daryl came and talked to me too. He was cool. He asked me if I could scavenge and after I told him I was the best he told me he would fetch me next time he went. Ii was walking around and watching Max play when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I swung around ready to kill it, grabbing my knife out of its sheath in my belt and once I saw its face I stopped abruptly, inches from its head. This was not a zombie. It was Rick, I dropped my knife in embarassment.

"Oh Rick I am so sorry, oh geez you scared me, I thought you were a walker!" I rambled making sure Rick was okay.

"Well at least we know you are alert. Youre obviously a good protecter." Rick said kindly. "I was just coming to talk to you about the sleeping arrangements."

"Oh alright then." I replied.

"Follow me." He said, I felt a hand slip into my own and saw Max's red hair pop up in my line of sight. Max knew to follow me in case, it was safer this way. Rick led us into the prison, first we passed through a huge eatery. There were a few people gathered at tables in little clusters chatting merrily.

"Now we have enough dorms for the rest of your group back at the other block, but not enough for you and your boy." Rick said authoritatively. "So you and him are gonna be sharing with my group if thats okay with you?"

"Yeah thats fine. Were just grateful that you took us in. We would have been stuck. Theres a pretty big herd not far from here."

"Thanks for the notice. We'll do a clean sweep of the fences." Rick said as he stopped in front of an empty cell. "This is your cell guys. Theres sheets and we can get you a curtain for privacy. Make yourselves at home." Rick began to walk away to leave us to unpack.

A little while later~

The bags had been brought out of the car and i had cleaned off the little desk and drawers that the cell was equipped with. Max called top bunk and I had made the beds. The room looked quite cosy, i had asked Rick and he gave free reign over any changes to the inside of the cell. I filled the little urinal in with dirt and planted some flowers that were growing in the gardens. The room got some afternoon sun so i figured they would grow well enough. A soft white curtain was hung over the door and all my things were put into the draws. Someone gave Max a bucket of lego and I recieved an armful of books and some cherry moisturiser with a japanese label. Contented with the state of the room i adjourned to the dining hall for dinner