Save Me

Lost

It's a risky ride trying to go to that fort, our limited resources was a main factor, we've tapped out every gas station we passed, at least what's left of the gas. We tried finding food, made runs and slept in the car for a couple days. Sophia hated moving about, then again she never liked going anywhere without the comfort of her mother. It all came to a stop on the interstate, it was the RV , cars were in the way, abandoned and full of their essential supplies, we started going through making a path as well as starting to look around the graveyard of cars.

"Hey Sofia and Carl come here." I said they came to me. "Stay there just let me look at you guys and appreciate you." I take a look at Sophia with her red hair, green eyes and freckles. She had a doll she carried around, although old enough to not carry around she still did, the apocalypse doesn't help. As for Carl, his hair was growing out with his face dirty, We haven't showered in a couple days since the CDC. We come to a complete stop, a sea of abandoned traffic on the interstate we've been traveling on for miles.

We all got out and started looking for supplies, food, water, and maybe even guns. I don't know anything useful I suppose. Me, Carl, and Sofia look around, keeping close to the group. So far we found a lot of canned food and water bottles. Shane found those big water jugs, he opened one and had it pour over his head almost drowning himself. I bet a hot jug of water would feel nice right now, i miss feeling the water on my skin every other day.

Dale was on top of the RV and was looking around with the binoculars saying it's fine. Lori and Carol want us to stay where they can see us all, still remembering we are just kids still, I have always been told that I was more mature, I don't know if it's because I was raised by my grandparents or as my Nona told me an "old soul." As I was looking around I saw a car seat, It gives me a moment to think about all the babies and children who are probably dead or worse, I really hope i don't get pregnant, hell I haven't even gotten my period yet but I made sure Lori and my Nona gave me a talk about periods and sex as well as having a proper description of how to use sanitary pads and tampons although Lori told me to wait until after I have sex to try out tampons. "Not until you're 18," she said.

Next thing I remember Rick is whisper yelling at us to get under the cars, I was under the car with Carl, I got as close as I could to him and held onto his back with a strong grip, I haven't been so scared in my life before. We kept looking back at Lori, Carol, Rick, and Sofia. We saw feet of the dead pass by, stumbling and limping, their loud growls from starving, they're weakened by not feeding for so long, It was about ten minutes before they were gone. Sofia didn't wait and stuck her head out from under the car, a walker must have seen her and tried getting her from under the car. She crawled out from under the other side of the car and ran from the two walkers into the woods as they chased after her.

Rick ran into the woods and chased after them. Carol started panicking and started crying her eyes out. Soon after Rick came back and took Shane, Glen, and Daryl to the woods to help find Sofia. I lost a friend, I'm losing people I love all over again. If I lose Carl I'm going to die, I love him to much to lose him. Shane and Glen came back to give us distractions to keep our minds off of Sofia and the many possibilities of what happened to her.

We moved cars and looked around for useful things again, trying to keep us focused back on surviving. Carl climbed up an truck to look in the window to see if we could see anything. "I think I see a hatchet," he said so excited as he ran to the driver side door "Be careful," I said as he opened the door to this truck reaching over the dead driver's body "I can't get it," He said grunting, climbing into the truck. I cringed at the thought of that walker being alive and tearing his flesh, all I can see is red and tears. He got the weapon bag with force and fell backwards onto me. He quickly got up and helped me up he didn't let go of my hand as we ran back to Shane and Lori.

"Shane look, I found something cool." He said sitting it on the ground and opening it up, a lot of handy weapons in there Carl wanted to keep one as did I. Shane yelled at him and told him to give them to Dale, he was heartbroken and rushed to Dale. I quickly followed him and saw Lori walk over to Shane to yell at him. He sat the stuff down next to Dale and went somewhere and sat on the ground. "What's wrong?" I asked sitting next to him and grab his hand.

"I think Shane hates me." He said. So what? Why does he care about Shane liking him? Shane was trying to take them from Rick, I never trusted him one bit. I don't know why he cares but I feel him, if I sense someone hates me then I would wonder why they do.

"He might or might not, you're kinda hard to hate." I said with a smirk on my face. He looked up and smiled. We saw Daryl and Rick come back alone, they said we would look tomorrow. A ball of weight was just staying in my stomach, we cooked up what we could scavenge for dinner but i felt as if I couldn't eat. Lori checked on me to see how I was feeling, just told her how worried I was, she kissed my forehead and told me to get ready for bed. 

I take deep breaths as I brush my teeth, I try to brush my teeth as much as I can but water is scarce now a days. Carl came up to me, "Mom says you're sleeping with us tonight with everything going on, plus I would prefer if you did." I smile and go change while he brushes his teeth. My bag which always stays in the at all times because I can't trust anything to stay the same. I have a lot of issues trusting but who doesn't?

We all wake up bright and early, ate a little something then went to the woods in search of Sofia. We found a tent with a guy who killed himself, his rotten body didn't have a nice smell to it. We heard bells, church bells and quickly ran, thinking Sofia can hear them or she's ringing them. We found a church but no bells and no Sofia. Disappointed we split up in hopes of finding her. Rick, Shane, Carl, and I stayed behind to see if she would return. I told the group to be careful and the rest of the group went back to the interstate. We waited for a little bit and headed off into the woods, seeing if we could find Sophia but instead we found something else.