Nick was on the couch in the cabin and he was sleeping until he heard people talking.
Nick opened his eyes and got up.
He looked out the window and saw a girl laying on the ground.
Who's she?
Nick grabs his rifle and goes outside.
"Would someone mind telling me what the FUCK is going on here?"
"Now hold on, Rebecca."
"We got this, don't worry."
"Like hell you do. Did anyone even think to ask where she came from?"
"Who the hell is she? And why is she here?" Nick asked
"She and her friend was attacked. And then, she was bitten by a dog." Pete said
"For all we know she could be working with Carver!"
Nick was busy talking to the others so, he didn't noticed that his rifle was near the girl's head.
His rifle went off and almost shot the girl in the head. The bullet missed her head by an inch and it hit the ground.
Nick looks at the girl.
She's cute...
Pete takes the rifle away from Nick.
"Keep your finger off the trigger, boy!"
Luke comes out of the cabin.
"Whoa! Whoa! What the fuck!?"
"You idiot! Every lurker for five miles probably heard that!"
"You're the one tellin' me to fuckin' shoot her!"
"Everybody just calm down for a second!"
Luke ran towards the girl.
"Clementine, you okay...?"
So, that's her name? Clementine…That's a nice name.
Nick smiled to himself but then, he stopped, hoping no one saw that.
Clementine got up off the ground.
"I...I just need a doctor and then I'II leave." Clementine said
"We got a doctor right here, okay. He'll have a look."
Luke turned to the group "Now what the hell is wrong with you people?! Okay, she's just scared!"
"We're all scared, Luke. Don't act like we're the one's being irrational cause we don't buy this bullshit story."
Nick couldn't stay quiet, not with what happened last time.
"No way she's survived out here on her own! Why are we even arguing about this!?"
"Let me take a look."
"It's okay, go ahead, he's a doctor."
Clementine rolled her sleeve up and show the bite to Carlos.
"Damn, that must've hurt."
Carlos started to look at Clementine's arm "Hmm...whatever it was, it got you good."
"This isn't how we do things, man. When you're bit, you get put down. End of story. I'm not going through this again."
"No one's suggestin' that."
"We could take her arm off. I know that worked for a cousin down in Ainsworth. We could try that."
His eyes widened a little bit.
"It won't do any good. You'll just be makin' it worse for the girl."
"It's crazy. No one's gonna volunteer to do that."
"I would. If it means saving her life."
Clementine looked at him, she had a sad look on her face.
Nick looked down at the ground.
For some reason, he didn't like seeing that look on her face.
Nick looked up and saw Sarah opening the cabin's door.
"Who's she?"
"Sarah? What'd I say? Stay inside."
Sarah had a hurt look on her face and closed the door.
Carlos went back to checking Clementine's arm.
"I don't mean to be any trouble. I just want to stop the bleeding and then I will go. You'll never see me again, I promise." Clementine said to Carlos
"And where exactly would you go?"
"I can take care of myself."
Rebecca turned to Clementine "Clearly."
"Look, I dunno what the hell took a bite outta her, worst case she turns and we can deal with it."
Carlos walked towards the group.
"So? What do you think?"
"Was it a lurker?" Nick asked
"A bite like that...could be anything. Only one way to find out."
"How?"
"We wait."
"What?!"
"By tomorrow morning, if the fever's set in, we'll know if she's gonna turn. In the meantime we can lock her in the shed."
"What about my arm…? It needs to get cleaned, and stitched, and bandaged…" Clementine said
"The girl is in bad shape, Carlos."
"We have all that stuff inside the cabin, we could probably get by with…"
"ALVIN, please…"
"But yeah, we can't do nothing."
"I'm not wasting supplies on a lurker bite. If it turns out you're telling the truth, I'II clean it and stitch it up for you in the morning."
"But…"
Carlos walked off and Luke looked at Clementine "I'm sorry, It's the best we're gonna get."
Clementine's face looked sad.
Nick grabbed his rifle from Uncle Pete.
"Finger off the trigger, son."
"I ain't your, son."
"Don't be like that, man."
"It's alright. Boy's got his mom's temper."
Nick looked at Clementine "Come on."
"This is just a waste of time. You'll see. And when she turns, I ain't gonna be the one cleanin' up the shed."
Clementine followed Luke and Nick was behind them. She didn't talk to Luke and she was looking at Nick's rifle. When they got to the shed, she went in, and Luke closed the doors.
"Why are we doing this? It's so fucking dumb."
"Because it's safer this way. And I'd rather be sure."
"Yeah, but safer for who?"
After that, Nick and Luke went inside.
Nick goes upstairs and into his room.
He was laying on the bed, they were going to have a house meeting in a few minutes.
-A few minutes later -
The house meeting was still going on.
Nick saw someone who quickly closed the door.
Wasn't that the girl? Did she get out of the shed?
He decides not to say anything.
She was on his mind, why was he thinking about her?
Ok, let me explain, Nick only thinks of her as his friend and/or little sister :)
Thanks for reading and I will have chapter two out soon.