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⌜ chapter five ⌟


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"What are you doing?" Jessica asks with a furrowed brow as she watches MJ in her room.

"What does it look like I'm doing?"

"Making yet another mistake." She says, and the older girl smiles as she turns to look at her.

"Oh, the worried expression." MJ chuckles. "I'll be fine, Jess."

"You only met this guy a couple days ago, and he almost got you arrested yesterday." She argues, shaking her head. "I really don't think you should be going out with him again."

"Jessica, my sweet and innocent friend... I almost got me arrested last night, alright? Don't give this guy more credit than he deserves."

"Why don't you just stay in with me tonight instead?" The curly-haired blonde asks. "We can have a movie night. I'm already baking cookies for when Sam gets home."

"I love how much you love my brother." She smiles. "I'll be back early tonight, alright? And I won't get into any trouble, I promise."

"I've heard that before." Jess sighs, and the older girl chuckles.

"Take a walk on the wild side every now and then, huh?" MJ teases. "It keeps things so much more entertaining."

The promise that she made to Jess that night was only half true. While MJ didn't get into trouble, she didn't exactly get home early. And that conversation was the last time she ever saw her brother's girlfriend. The fire had already broken out in the apartment complex and was roaring high by the time she got home, and it took all of Dean's strength and training to keep his little sister from running in to try and save her.

Jessica Moore is the first person that MJ can remember losing in such a tragic manner. And she was only the first in a rather long line. Instances like this are the reason MJ decided to stop letting people in, to stop caring for anyone new. Of course, that never really went according to plan, and Rick is only the most recent example.

If she's being entirely honest, she's cared a little too much whether he'd live or die before he even woke up from his coma. And now he's capable of making stupid decisions that land him in situations like the one he's in now.

Rick thought of a way to get them all back to the group's camp. So now he and Glenn are in the streets covered in walker guts. It's like camouflage so that the dead won't think they're food and try to eat them.

Rick wanted MJ to go with them, but she refuses to leave Jack. And no way in hell was she going to let him back out there with the walkers like that. So the two of them are back on the roof of the warehouse with Andrea, T-Dog, Morales — their leader — and Jacqui — the skinny black woman who said that Rick hallucinated the helicopter.

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