"And then?"

He looks at her for a moment, but with lack of better words, he just goes up to her and kisses her forehead sweetly. "I don't know," he says honestly.

That was the worst thing she heard in her life. But she couldn't beg him to stay. She couldn't insist that he had to stay, that she couldn't imagine life without him anymore. She was too arrogant for that. Twenty two years building walls around her heart, she wasn't ready to let them down.

But without even trying, Glenn was already chipping away at her. Piece by piece, the walls were coming down and she couldn't do anything to stop it.


"It's an easy run."

"Like the pharmacy?"

Rick steps in. "Hey, I'll bring him back," he says with a chuckle. He and Lori leave to discuss the plan.

"Maggie, that was different," he says in a forced whisper after they're gone.

"How was that different? What if another walker comes out of no where? You don't know something like that won't happen again."

"Rick will be there. And your dad too."

"It's not safe."

"Maggie, we have to find Hershel. We have to. We need him, Beth needs him."

"Fine let Rick go."

"He doesn't know where it is. There's a more likely chance he'll get hurt if I'm not there."

"There's a more likely chance you'll get hurt risking your ass for Rick."

"Don't you get it? I have to go." He takes her hand. "Maggie, I'll be okay. I promise." He kisses her gently. "You know I have to go."

His soft words made her heart flutter and sink at the same time. She would let him go but she couldn't live without him.


"It's because of what you said."

"That I love you? What-"

"A bullet hit the wall behind me and I thought of you. Losing me, hurting. And I couldn't take it so I hid to stay alive."

"Glenn," she sighs as she leans in but he stops her. He grabs her wrists and pushes her back.

"No, you don't get it. Rick, your dad. They were counting on me and I only thought of myself." He bites each word with shame. He can't take her looking like that at him so he leaves the room, leaving Maggie confused. But mostly just alone.

Part of her wants to punch him in the gut. How could he blame her for this? It wasn't anyone's problem he had issues with his own sense of manliness. Another part of her stings. She opened up to him, bared herself to him completely vulnerable. And now her heart was feeling the biting air. With every kiss not given, every glance rejected, every touch not felt, she felt her heart ache.


"Hey, Maggie."

She spins around to find a hesitant Glenn. "Does that- does that offer still stand?" he asks meekly. His heart deflates as she looks at him cooly but then she lets out a hint of a cheeky smile and without a word, takes beat-up guitar he's holding awkwardly.

She lets her guard down as she leads him up the stairs and breaks into a huge smile. She feels like a teenager bouncing up to her room with the boy she likes (loves). After putting the guitar down, she feels his hand on her shoulder. He spins her around and plants a sloppy kiss on her lips, with a smile growing on his face as well.

"Nice room," he says after finally pulling away.

"And you didn't even want see it." She playfully pulls his cap off and presses her forehead to his.

"I was missing out."

"You talk too much." She presses her lips onto his again.

"Wait, wait a sex." She bursts out laughing. He quickly realizes his mistake.

"What did you say?"

His face turns bright red. "No I meant 'Wait a sec' like a second, I didn't mean to say-I meant to say that-" She shuts him up with another kiss and closes the bedroom door behind him.

"Oh, trust me. I know what you meant say." She smiles and traces his lips with her finger. He grabs her hips and pulls her against him. She giggles. "You took the words right out of my mouth."

With that, they crash into each other. Tongues fighting, hands roaming, hearts racing.