Apocalyptic Love

Driving- Chapter 40

I know I had said that I wasn't going to be posting, but I know that some of you guys won't be doing much for the holiday so why not write a chapter or two. I do have some ideas that I want to write. I keep getting more ideas from TWD, I'm remembering a lot from the show so I just keep getting ideas.) 

Carl was digging inside of his backpack for some food. Enid saw and says "Carl? What are you doing?" Carl takes out a bottle of water and a bag of chips and some crackers. Enid asks again "Are you going to feed the kids or something?" Carl nods his head no and says "I will feed them later, but right now I am going to leave this food outside." Enid asks "And why?" Carl shifts his attention to Enid and says "For Leslie. In case she needs a little bit of help with surviving." Enid puts her hand on her hip and says "I'm sure she is doing fine." Carl says "Yeah, I know she is, she has to be, but I still want to get to help her." Carl goes outside and puts the food in a plastic bag so it won't rot and walks into the woods. He sets the food down by a tree and attaches a sticky note to the food that says 'Leslie, just in case you are running out of food, here is something to help you survive. -Carl' Carl then sighs and walks back to the house where he finds Marie and Sophia talking. Marie says "Alright, we need to figure out who goes on the next hunt." Sophia says "I can go. Tuba and Eliza can join me." Marie says "But we need to make sure that everyone agrees. Let's gather up everyone and find out their opinions. We all need to vote on who is the most capable of finding supplies and coming back in one piece." 

Everyone gathers up in a circle and starts to talk about who should go. Eliza stands up in the middle of everyone and says "Alright, we are getting nowhere talking like this. I have an idea. Everyone who wants to go scavenging stand up." Eliza, Sophia, Queen, Tuba, Kelvin, Blake stand up. Eliza claps and says "Alright. So you can either go solo or go in a group. But we have to go separate ways to see if we can scavenge more stuff. Sound like a plan?" Everyone nods their heads. Eliza says "And for whoever isn't going to be scavenging must stay here and care for the kids and animals." Shiva roars and Mochi meows. Everyone who is going to be scavenging gets their weapons ready. Then they all leave going separate ways. 

Carl is sitting on the couch watching Judith and Pearl play. Pearl was almost a year old, almost, which means she was about 10 months. She would attempt to crawl around a lot. Enid grabbed Carl's hand and dragged him out the living room to the kitchen. Enid says "Alright, we are running extremely low on supplies. What if our people don't come back with supplies, like, at all?" Enid folds her arms worried. Carl runs his hand through his hair and sighs "I don't know, we keep searching if we don't find anything or we can move to the next house." Enid says "Next house? That's the plan?" Carl says a little distressed "Well, what is your plan?! To find Leslie or something?!" Enid says "No! But, I am just worried! If we don't find enough supplies, the kids may starve!" Carl sighs again and says "I know that, I don't want them to starve but the apocalypse is a hard place to find food in! You are making it even harder for me to think about what we will do by just asking more and more questions and giving me all this pressure!" Enid folds her arms and says "So, by being your girlfriend, I am just making things harder?" Carl shakes his head and says "No! I didn't mean it like that." Enid unfolds her arms and says "So, by being worried, I am making it harder for you?" Carl says "No! You're not!" Enid says "Well, by what you said it sounds like I am! Maybe I'll just leave and see if you will be better off." She walks towards the door and is stopped by Carl. Carl is holding onto her arm and says "Enid, please don't go." Enid gets out of his grasp and leaves. Carl sighs and says "Not again..." 

Enid was off on her own, trying to get some fresh air. Luckily, she was near the woods walking on a path. She felt like she was being followed but didn't want to look back because then the person might knock her out or injure her. So instead she kept walking at a normal speed. She stumbled upon an area with a hut looking house. The place pretty much looked abandoned. She saw a pool of water that looked like it was randomly just splashed onto the concrete. She heard some groaning noises and a walker was following her. Was that seriously following her the whole time? It was about 10 feet away from her. Then she heard a car that was pulling up and it rammed into the walker. The walker toppled onto the car and flipped over it, with blood on the window. Then the car ran over it and crashed into a pole. The walker was still alive after that and got up from where it landed. Then the car reversed and crashed the walker into a wall. The walker had to be dead now. Enid witnessed the whole thing and walked up the drivers window, the person rolled the window down. It was Carl the whole time. Enid says "What are you doing here?" Carl smirks and answers with "Felt like a drive." Enid folds her arms and says "Why did you follow me?" Carl gets out the car and says "Because, you are not going to leave like Leslie did, I lost one and I am not going to lose another." Enid sighs and smiles. Carl puts his hand on her cheek and smiles. Enid melts into the touch, his hand was warm and it made her feel safe and calm. 

They both got back into the car and Carl decided to drive somewhere else besides back home. He drove to a hilltop. Enid got in the backseat to see how the place looked and Carl joined her. After a while, Enid got caught in the moment and kissed Carl who immediately kissed her back. Two teenagers kissing in the backseat of a car. 

THE END