Apocalyptic Love

Gone- Chapter 4

It's been a couple of weeks. Carl got a little taller, about 2 inches, and Leslie has stayed the same height. Carl is about 4"9 right now. Leslie is 4"6. Lori is washing some clothes with a friend of hers who is also part of the camp, named Carol. Leslie and Carl are running around playing and killing any walkers on sight. Carol stops washing clothes for a minute and goes to check on her daughter, Sophia. Sophia looks at Carol. Carol says "Sophia, go and play with Leslie and Carl." Sophia nods her head no. She says "I don't wanna play, I barely know them..." Carol says "Look at them, they are playing, I'm sure they would love it if another kid played with them." Sophia looked at Leslie and Carl playing and decided to join them. Of course Leslie and Carl played with her right away, and it was the first time in awhile that Sophia actually smiled and laughed.

A little while later, Leslie joined Lori in washing the clothes cause she got tired of playing. Lori says "Hey sweetie, you okay?" Leslie nods her head and says "Yeah, I'm okay, I just got tired because I played a lot!" She giggles. Lori smiles and says "Hey...I'm surprised we haven't found your parents yet..." Leslie says optimistic "I am sure they are out there! Maybe they are looking for me! My mom won't give up until she finds me! I just have to be positive that she is still looking for me! I know she is!" Lori smiles "So optimistic." Leslie says "She is probably in another city, but I know she is alive!"

Later, Rick pulls Lori out of the camp, wanting to tell her something. Rick says "I found out that Leslie's parents aren't coming back...like ever..." Lori says "What do you mean? She was so optimistic earlier that her parents were out there...I-I can't just bring her self esteem down...she will be crushed!" Rick says "Then we hide it from her, we don't tell her the truth until she is older." Lori says "Not tell her the truth? I can't do that, she has to know." Rick says sighing "But it will crush her, and we don't want to crush her and upset her, so we tell her when she is older. She is only a 9 year old girl. Maybe when she is 13, we tell her." Lori says "Did you find bodies or something?" Rick rubs his head and says "Someone had killed them. It wasn't walkers, it was people, good or bad, they killed her parents, so if we tell her now, she will go searching for those people. Carl might even join her. You know they follow each other everywhere." Lori says "Yeah...they know how to survive but they won't survive long enough." Rick says "So it's kept a secret, and I will try my best to find the culprits that caused their deaths." Lori says "Yeah, it's best if you do that."

Later at night, somehow walkers are attracted towards the camp. We don't know how but they are. One goes for a tent and bites into someone's neck, a man's neck, probably carol's husband. One finds a girl named Andrea's twin sister, Amy and bites her arm and her neck. Damn what's up with these walkers and biting necks? Neck fetish or something? Leslie and Carl are asleep. But Carl sleeps with one eye open. He grabs the gun and peeks from the camp. He sees walkers, he doesn't want to attract more so he gets the knife. He starts fighting them off, leaving Leslie in the tent sleeping, unguarded. A walker walks towards the tent Leslie is in. Carl notices and runs after the walker. Stabbing it's head just in time. He breathes heavily, and checks Leslie for bite marks, luckily there is none. He shakes Leslie hard until she wakes up. Leslie grabs her knife and Carl Leads her out of the tent. Lori is shooting some walkers. Shane is too, and Rick is gathering up the survivors that are left. There are way too many walkers, Leslie and Carl grab their backpacks. Sophia is running away when she spots Carl and Leslie, she runs towards them and says "Where is my mom?!" Leslie and Carl shrug. Carl says "I'm sure she is safe! We have other things to worry about! Come on! We have to go!" Carl grabs both Leslie and Sophia's hands and leaves running. Leslie blushing and Sophia looking back at what was once their home. She thought they could have stayed there longer but the walkers said this is our turf now. Carl keeps running through the woods, until he stops at a safe place. He waits to catch his breath. Leslie says "We have to go back, Carl! Y-your parents! They are there! Carol is there! Survivors! We need to stay together!" Carl says "Leslie, we can't! We will unite with them soon, but for now, we must survive. If we had stayed, we could have been walker food." Leslie sighs and says "True...I hope we can unite with them
soon..." Carl says "We will, and we will survive out here for a week or so." Carl looks at Sophia and says "Sophia, your gonna have to learn how to fight walkers. Or you might just be their food." Sophia squeaks in fear. "I-I've never killed one before." Carl says "Yeah, at the beginning me and Leslie never killed them, but we learned that if we didn't, we would die and never see each other again. So you have to learn how to fight them, or learn how to be their next meal." Sophia nods her head and says "Alright, Alright, as much as I won't like it, I'll learn how to kill them...for you..." Carl smiles. And I swore for a second there Leslie questioned what Sophia had just said. That kept repeating in her head. Those exact words "For you...".

THE END
OOF!!!! Sounds like my girl is questioning Sophia, does Sophia have some interest in Carl? Does she like him? Anyways, sorry for any grammar mistakes if there are any, may not post tomorrow cause I posted 4 CHAPTERS TODAY! I'm exhausted, I'm bout to wake up at like 10 tm, anyways, bye my loveliesss!!!