Everything is Blue

PART ONE

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I was in the kitchen of a house I get used to call home for the past two months. The Greenes have took me and my sister in when the country fall for a disease that nobody seems to know or can explain. It was surreal, how something as complex as a life could change in a matter of days. Eight weeks ago I was a lawyer that had just received my college degree six months before, living with my parents in a common town of Georgia. We were in the middle of summer, and everything was perfect, the weather, how I spent the days and of course my family. Effy, my twenty-one years old sister, she used to live in London and worked for a great economist company that I didn't know much about, but we spent the days together going to Atlanta for shopping and buying every stupid thing that we saw in front of us. I even was starting to get serious with this guy I was talking to, everything was good and I felt in one of the best moments of my life.

And suddenly, my life was taken from me.

All I can say is that everything I knew was gone; my parents were dead, killed by one of those monsters and I don't really want to remember that. Effy and I managed to escape from the town and we took as many things as we could in our jeep. We even took my dad weapons, a shotgun that belonged to my granddad and one air rifle. I have to be honest, I didn't knew much about weapons or guns, but with two weeks living in the roads and fighting the monsters we quickly learned by ourselves. And then we found the farm. I never though I could be so happy of seeing a farm, and when we met the people living there and how easily they took us in. I though I was going to scream of joy and hug every member of the Greene family.

And now here I am, helping Patricia with dinner while Effy was outside hunting with Otis and Jimmy. I thought I'd never feel calm again, but I was. The afternoon was lovely, the sunlight passing through the windows and painting the kitchen with that color combination of yellow and orange. Peaceful

- How's dinner going? – Maggie asked from the door. Maggie pretty-country-girl Greene was one of Hershel Greene's daughters, she was twenty-two just like me, while the younger sister Beth, was seventeen.

- Mary is going to surprise us with her secret lasagna recipe, she doesn't even want to tell what's she doing – Patricia said looking at me.

- Oh for Gods sake! – I laughed – Is just lasagna, with pasta, meat, tomato sauce and cheese.

- Secret lasagna recipe? – Maggie gave us a funny look and I had to contain a chuckle.

- You two are impossible.

- We'll find out at dinner then – She said leaving the kitchen.

I came back to work. Doing lasagna is not that complicated in fact. I made my first lasagna when I was seventeen, and my parents loved it, and in the same year I traveled to London where Effy was studying and I made one for her too. She loved it too. I never meant to brag but I'm really good at cooking.

Patricia was in the other room looking for a big casserole where I can put the meal in the oven, and in that moment I felt it again, the weather, the people, the situation and the sunlight through the window's curtains.

It felt so peaceful.

- Hershel! Hershel!

My heart stopped at the sound of Effy's voice. I found myself running out of the kitchen and opening the front door. Effy was running towards the house, her blue eyes filled with tears and desperation, she stopped and almost stumbled in front of me.

- Eff, hey Eff calm down, what's happening? – I took her by the shoulders so she could steady herself, Effy was a mess of tears, and she was shaking and looked pale.

- Where's Hershel? – She asked again ignoring my question.

- I'm right here, what's happening dear? — Every member of the family was in the porch.

- It was an accident, I didn't see him and I…

- Effy, you need to calm the hell down okay? What are you talking about?

Hershel gave her a concerned look, and when I glanced at the field I noticed it.

There was a man with an officer uniform running towards the house. That wasn't the big deal, Effy and I had run the same way when we found the farm. The big deal was that he was carrying a boy, and the boy was covered in blood.

- Oh my God - I gasped.

- Was he bit? – Asked Hershel looking at the man.

- He was shot!

- Take him inside, Mary please, take care of your sister – I gave the old man a nod and took Effy inside the house.

I went straight to Beth's room; my sister shared that room with her. The blonde was inside humming a song as always and she almost jumped out of her skin when she saw us.

- Is she okay? – Effy sat in the bed and started to sob again looking at nothing.

- She will be. Beth I need you to go to the kitchen and watch the lasagna – I said – Can you do that for me please?

- Um, Yeah, but what's going on?

- I don't know, some man came up to us with his son in arms and the boy was shot and covered in blood – Effy let out a sob and looked at us.

- It was me, I shot at the deer I didn't even see him until I heard the screams – I sit besides her and put my arm around her shoulders, she was not crying anymore just staring at nothing again.

- Beth.

- Yeah, the lasagna – With that the little blonde left us alone.

- Hey, you told us it was an accident, that boy will be okay – Effy was a fragile person, sometimes I wanted to forget about it but I couldn't, she was emotionally fragile and I had to protect her - Effy look at me – She raised her face and looked at me, being honest sometimes I didn't believed we were related, my sister was a beautiful girl, tall and skinny with wavy brown hair and big blue eyes, is not that we were not alike, I mean we have the same hair color but even though I was the big sister I was shorter than her and thin, and my eyes were brown, nothing special, not at all.

- It was an accident.

- I know Eff, I know, that boy will be just fine.

Effy fell asleep in a matter of minutes and Beth came back and told me she'll watch over her. That was kind of funny, Beth was just a teenager and in a moment like this she was being so mature that I felt like a little girl in front of her. We had built a good friendship the last months though.

I walked out of the room feeling uncertain about what could happen next. I felt insecure for the first time in weeks.


Hi! This is my first fic. English is not my native language so I'm trying to do my best with this story. I'm open to every opinion or suggestion, and if you like the story let me know in the reviews :D