Bleeding Out - Carl Grimes

Chapter 2 - Chaos in the City

Carl's POV

We found Judith. It feels like a part of my mom that I lost has been found again. There is also a girl with us. She's my age, I've learned that while we were on the road. She's also really funny. We spent most of our time talking now a days. Now we just need to find a car and get to Washington for Eugene to cure everything.

"Over here!" Glenn calls. "I found a car! Mini Van, gas is 3/4 of the way full!"

We all make our way to the car and we all climb in. We can't wear seat belts because there are so many of us. While we were climbing in Gemma grabbed Judith and is letting her sit on her lap. She pats the space next to me, gesturing for me to sit next to her.

"Hi Carl." She says.

"Hi Gemma." I say awkwardly.

That's all we said for a while and eventually she fell asleep. Eventually we ran over a corpse of a walker and the car jerked a bit. This caught Gemma by surprise and she jerked awake. She put her hand on my knee to stable herself.

Goosebumps erupted over my body.

Once she realized what she was doing she pulled away quickly.

"Sorry." She said blushing.

I merely laughed. "It's fine, nothing to worry about." I say.

"Where are we heading?" She asks, peering out the window.

"My dad says were following Dayrl. I think we're going to the city." I say looking out the window.

"I haven't been there in forever." She said gazing out the window while letting Judith suck on her finger.

"Me neither. Our first camp was just up by the quarry, that was when it first started though." I said.

She just started to say something when Rick yelled from the front of the car.

"Damnit, were out of gas." He said.

"There's a gas station just up the road." Glenn says. "Some people can go get gas while others can look for supplies, there's a grocery store we passed on the way here."

"I'll stay here with Judith." Tara says.

"Me too." Says Rosita. "I'll look after Eugene."

"Alright, split into groups. One will go get gas, one will go get supplies. Now let's hurry, it'll be night soon." Rick says.

Both me and Gemma go with Glenn to the Supermarket along with a couple other members of the group. We get there and we are all assigned different sections of the store.

"I'll go with Gemma to get packaged foods." I say.

Glenn looks at me for a second like he might say no. "Alright," he concludes. "But be careful, holler if you need help."

Me and Gemma make our way to the canned goods and such. I occasionally catch myself looking at her and not being able to look away. She was very beautiful, and funny, too. She's good at defending herself and good with Judith. She can also- My thoughts are interrupted.

"Carl." She says, waving her hand in my face.

"Oh! Uh, sorry." I say scratching my back as I feel my cheeks get hot.

"Why were you looking at me? Is there something on my face?" She asks while lifting her hands up to her face.

I laugh. "Oh no, nothing but a little dirt and some little splatters of blood here and there." I say sarcastically and earn a giggle from her. "Now cmon, seriously we gotta get to work. What do we need?" I ask.

"Anything we can get." She says, grabbing everything and putting it in her backpack.

While we are getting things we hear a rustle.

"What was that?" Gemma asks.

"I don't know. Stay close to me." I say as I peer around the corner. I see what's happening. Walkers are pounding on the door and I think it's harmless until the hinges start cracking.

"Shit Carl. We need to get out of here." She says.

Right after she does the door snaps and a whole lot more walkers than I expected swarm in.

"Hey!" I yell. "Walkers! Walkers! Everyone get out!" I yell.

I grab Gemma's hand and immediately my heart flutters at her touch. I push the idea out of my mind and focus on getting out of here.

All of the sudden I hear a big clash.

"Carl!" Gemma screams. "I'm stuck!" She yells and I see what's happened.

A big shelf tipped and fell over on top of her ankle.

"Dammit." I mutter. "I'm gonna get you out of here." I whisper. I heard the groans getting closer.

I tried my hardest to lift the shelf of her back and eventually I got it's just enough for her to wriggle out.

"Run Gemma!" I yell and stab a walker that was to close and I ran after her.

Once we got out and a far distance away from the walker infested shop, Gemma collapsed.

{AN- sorry idk if this is short but yeah I hope you enjoy. I don't really have much to say so next chapter will be up soon. Comment requests or prediction and vote!}