𝔽𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕪 𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕖 -𝕋𝕎𝔻 {𝟙}

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝟙𝟛: ℙ𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕪 𝕄𝕦𝕔𝕙 𝔻𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝔸𝕝𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕪

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Keeley couldn't sleep at all last night.

She stood up, thinking about her birthday. Even though she didn't want to spend it, Keeley was thrilled in a way, she was turning 20. It was the first birthday she was going to have without having that last looming feeling that her father was going to ruin it. It was going to mark her officially becoming an adult.

It was morning before Keeley knew it and everyone was getting up and ready for their daily chores. They still haven't found another clue leading to where Sophia might be, but Keeley wasn't adamant about giving up.

It was a quiet morning except for Carol, who was cooking scrambled eggs while Andrea sharpened her knife. Keeley sat next to Carl and could tell something was going on between Rick and Lori.

"Carl, what do you want to do today? Do you want to feed the chickens or the horses? Do you want to play a game?" She asked him, hoping he would say yes to one of the things, wanting to spend some time with him on her birthday even though he wasn't aware.

"That's stuff is for babies. I'm not a kid anymore." He scoffed and Keeley nudged his elbow, "Hey what's your problem? We haven't spent time together lately and I thought we could do the stuff that you like to do."

Keeley could tell Carl was hanging out with Shane too much, he started picking up his habits like rubbing his head, grinding his teeth, or scoffing too much. "Come on, you don't want to hang out with your pretend sister."

She must be said something wrong because he got up and sat next to Rick instead, not looking in Keeley's direction ever since.

"Um, guys." She looked up and saw Glenn standing in front of everyone looking like he was about to crap his pants. "So..." Everyone was barely looking at him, doing their own little thing before he dropped the bomb.

"The barn is full of walkers." Now that got everyone's attention.

They all stood in front of the barn, listening to the groans of the dead inside of the locked barn.

"You can not tell me you're all right with this," Shane spit as he walked past Rick. "No I'm not, but we're guests here. This isn't our land."

"This is our lives!" Shane yelled. "Lower your voice," Glenn advised him.

"Well, we can't just sweep this under the rug," Andrea argued. "It ain't right. Not remotely. Okay, we either got to go in there, we've got to make things right or we've just got to go." Shane said.

"Now we have been talking about Fort Benning for a long time."

"We can't go." Rick interrupted. "Why, Rick? Why?"

"Because my daughter is still out there," Carol said stepping up. "Okay, " Shane laughed out.

Here we go.

"Okay, I think it's time that we all start to just consider the other possibility." He started. "Shane, we're not leaving Sophia behind," Rick told him.

Daryl stepped up. "I'm this close to finding this girl. I just found her damn doll two days ago." Shane scoffed at him, "You found her doll, Daryl. That's what you did. You found a doll."

Keeley could feel the tension growing between the two and knew it wasn't going to end well. "Man, you don't know what the hell you're talking about." Daryl spat. They both started getting close as they argued in each other's faces before things could escalate any further, Rick stepped in between the both of them.