Incendiary: Carl Grimes Love Story

Chapter Thirty One: Alone

Maya's Pov

Nine years ago

I hid myself in the closet crying to quietly as I could be. I hugged my knees tightly to my chest and rocked myself back and forth holding my eye in extreme pain. I could feel the bruise throb like a heartbeat under my hand and whimpered each time a sharp pain came to it.

" I'm alone." I cried feeling the emptiness in my heart." I'm alone."

That's when the sound of glass breaking caught my attention and I gasped knowing what it was. I heard a loud yell before hearing another glass bottle break.

" Where the fuck are you, brat ?!"

" No." I whimpered curling up to the wall and praying." No please." The door jiggled before someone banged on it loudly.I cried out loudly before the door opened and someone pulled my hair." No !"

Now

A lot can happen in ten minutes....

I gripped the gun in my hand tightly walking down a dirt path leading to no where. That's where I was heading. No where. Due to one guy and his vengeance for no reason, I was homeless and alone once again. I didn't know where anybody was and I had to admit, it made me feel uneasy. I didn't know if Carl or Daryl were alive. I didn't even know if they made it out safely and it burned a hole of guilt in my heart.

I stopped walking in pain and looked down to see my side was profusely bleeding out with blood leaking down my pants. I groaned loudly and placed my bag on the floor taking off her flannel carefully. I cut off the bottom strip of the flannel and wrapped the strand around my bleeding leg thankful that the bullet made an exit wound. I then grabbed the flannel and tied both sleeves around my waist before pulling on it and hissing from the pain.

I could feel the wound throbbing against the thick fabric and knew I needed medical attention soon. I tied it up a second time before grabbing my back pack and moving forward. I climbed down a small hill before coming across a dirt road and seeing footprints. One was normal walking footprints while the other seemed to drag themselves along. I knew the second one couldn't be a walker since the first one didn't seem to be running.

" Hey little girl." I heard and whipped around seeing three of the Governor's men had made it out of the prison.

The guy smirked walking over cockily while the two others aimed guns at me." You're from that prison place. Shot my brother."

" And what do you want ? A biscuit ?" I sassed seeing the men shot near my feet, but I didn't even flinch.

I was so used to this world and after seeing what happened moments ago, I was numb. The man saw this and laughed clapping his hands.

" Oh we have a bad ass here don't we ?" He asked." So, how should we kill you ?" The man asked circling around me." In the head ? In the heart ? Maybe even in the eye ?"

" Can you just hurry up ?" I asked glaring over to him." You talk too much."

" You think you can just run that pretty mouth of yours whenever you want ?!" He yelled trying to scary me, but he failed miserably. I could tell he didn't do this very often and was trying to put a front up." Hand over the bag, darlin."