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Chapter 39

Ruby's P.O.V~

I wake up in a pair of strong, rough arms.

My eyes open and i'm staring into the sleeping face of Rick Grimes.

"Rick wake up. Rick. Rick!" I say as I wriggle and shake.

Suddenly his grip tightens and his eyes open wide, obviously startled.

"Can you let go you're choking me." I wheeze as he comprehends what is going on.

He lets go of me and I roll myself off the bed to get a flat surface to recuperate on.

As I catch my breath Rick sits up.

"I'm sorry, you were thrashing around and you wouldn't lie still, but once I got around you, you calmed right down." He tells me.

I try to stand up but my ankle gives way and I slam back down.

"What the fuck?" I exclaim as I look to my aching foot.

"You dented a brass door knob and shattered the bones in your ankle, it shouldn't work much for about eight weeks according to Hershel..." Rick admits, his voice peppered with guilt.

"I feel like crap." I moan as I turn onto my back again.

I turn my gaze from the roof to Rick, and find that he is already gazing at me.

"You don't look like crap." He says quietly.

Rick slowly moves off the bed whilst keeping eye contact with me.

I forget how to move as he lowers himself down on top of me.

He just sits there for a second, our lips almost touching and our eyes locked on one another.

He moves his hand to my arm and strokes it, moving down to my own hand and holding it softly.

We stay still for a second, everything absolutely silent.

That's when I can't help myself.

I lean up and softly press my lips to his.

A torrent if hot guilt rushes through my brain as soon as our lips make contact.

But i'm too far in to back out.

Rick traces shapes on my neck with his calloused fingers and I move one hand up to his hair, softly stroking it.

My other arm is throbbing so I leave it in Rick's hand as he holds it reassuringly.

After a minute Rick pulls out and just stares at me.

"I should go." I say guiltily.

Rick's facial expression goes from pleasant to distorted in sadness.

He stands up and pulls me with him till I too am standing up.

I turn to leave but before I do I grab the front of Rick's shirt in my fist and pull him into me.

"I don't know who I like yet, and that's not fair. But I do know that I am attracted to you Rick Grimes." I admit before I kiss him quickly and roughly.

I let go of his shirt and hobble awkwardly out the room, due to my limp.

What have I just done?

I am supposed to be with Glenn.

And he's sweet and kind.

But he is trying to rush me back to where we were.

And Rick is strong and handsome.

But emotionally we're obviously very different.

I am about to go out of Rick's view so I turn back to him and he's smirking at me.

His smile is wide and crooked, but in a really cute way.

I turn my head quickly and limp faster.

I just don't know what to do.

I turn a corner and stand against a wall, to gather my thoughts.

"Hey Ruby." A familiar voice calls.

I turn my head and see Tyreese.

"Oh hey." I reply cheerfully

"You okay, y'know, since yesterday and all?"

"Yeah, I slept for a long time!"

"Do you wanna go see Max? I could take you over?" He offers kindly.

"Sure!" I say enthusiastically.

Tyreese chuckles and walks towards the infirmary.

"So tell me your life pre-apocalypse." He requests as we walk along.

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Glenn's P.O.V~

"So how do you feel today?" Doc asks as. She does her checkup.

"Alright I guess." I tell her.

"And you Max?" She calls to the other side of the cell.

"Pretty good. Better than yesterday." He coughs.

I look like Frankenstien's monster as I lay in the little single bed, still cold and sweaty from the virus.

Max looks pretty bad too, but not as awful as me.

Thank god.

I hear a knocking coming from the glass on the door outside.

"Hold on one second. " Doc says as she gets up to check it.

"Can I talk to Glenn?" I hear Ruby ask sweetly.

I stand up and make my way over to the door.

"Hey!" I greet her as happily as I can.

"Are you okay? how are you feeling?" She asks me through the glass.

"Fine, how are you?"

She looks down at her feet nervously.

For a few seconds she says nothing, but suddenly she looks up.

"I kissed Rick." She whispers.

My heart instantaneously breaks.

I feel like I've been shot.

Or I'm drowning.

"Why?" I manage to choke out.

"Because, he told me he liked me, a lot. And I know that you like me too it's just I am not sure who I like at this point and you can totally choose to keep out of this bullshit but you should know that I know that I have feeling for you, I just don't know where they are." She tells me.

I wanna reach out to her and kiss her, but my face just presses the glass.

She looks at me, her eyes full of longing.

"You know what?" I ask rhetorically.

"What?" She whispers.

"I can read you like a book." I tell her as I pull a chair over in front of the door.

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Just before you start to get annoyed with me it's only going to be Rick and Glenn who like her.

Tyreese will become her best friend pretty much.

Ruby is just like a cute, chubby child to Tyreese.

So it's not going to be one of those stories where everyone falls in love with the main girl.

Anyway love you all Ciao!