Noise. So much noise. Guns firing from all directions and the people, the people were screaming. This place, was my home, the place I felt safe, the place my sister was growing up in, were we were happy.
The last time I saw my dad, he was fighting a walker, although I'd seen him do this a thousand times before, it felt different, like I knew it was going to be the last time I saw him. He raised his axe to end the life of the walker in font of him when another walker got him from behind. bit him in the neck and just like that, he was gone.
I knew at some point he would die, that I would die, but in some ways, you can never be prepared, even after living in a world were you fight the dead and fear the living.
Judith, she was the first thing I thought of after my father had died, how could she not be? She was the only family I had left in the world. The others, Daryl, Glenn, Maggie, Carol, Sasha, Rosita, Abe, Tara, they're all dead now, so it was just me, me and Judith do fend for our selves in this dead, dead world that we live in.
Judith was hiding in the barn, we had a secret place that we'd go if something went wrong, so I knew that's were she'd be. There was no point in fighting anymore, we just had to get out of there, find a new place to live, were we could be safe again. But I couldn't help but wondering if this is what it was going to be like for the rest of our lives, running, feeling safe, getting attacked and then running again.
When I got to the barn, Judith wasn't crying, but I could tell she had been, her pants were wet and so were he cheeks. I tied to remember if I had been like that when it first begun, but I hadn't been that young, she was only just seven, and a small tiny thing. However, this life was all she ever knew, she didn't know what life was like before.
"Come on Judy, we have to go, we have to go now!" I said yelling, although I didn't mean to. I grabbed her hand and pulled her from the hay were she was sitting. Our escape route was simple, the barn was to the back of the settlement we had been residing in so we could jump out the window and run away into the forest, there was a river near by and walkers couldn't swim. I had prepared a rope a head of time, knowing that the day would come that we'd have to leave this place. I went first, if any walkers saw I there, I'd have to fight them off so that it was safe for Judith to climb down. Being born in the time of the walkers had made Judith strong, she did know how to fight, how to climb, how to shoot a gun, our dad thought it was important, and he was right. But at the end of the day, she is still a little kid, she shouldn't have to be fighting for her life, protecting he family, she should be being protected.
I landed with a thud at the bottom of the barn and luckily there wasn't a walker in sight. "Judith, it safe to come down!" I called up to her. She poked her head out of the window and slid down the rope with ease grabbing my hand when she reached the end.
Together we sprinted out to the settlement. "What about dad!" Judith cried almost tripping over. "Don't look back Judith, don't look back" I shouted leading her into the unknown that was the rest of the world.