Chapter 1: Dad
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I was sitting on a log, carving a piece of wood the shape of an arrow. My mom was next to me cutting my brother's hair while Shane was across from us cleaning his weapon. He was not so discretely glancing at my mom every now and then but she didn't seem to notice. She was too busy trying to keep Carl still so that she could do her job but he just kept on moving around.
"Baby, the more you fidget, the longer it takes. So don't, okay?" my mom said
"I'm trying."
"Well, try harder."
"If you think this is bad, wait till you start shaving. That stings. That day comes, you'll be wishing for one of your mama's haircuts." Shane pitched in chuckling
"I'll believe that when I see it" Carl answered
"Carl, buddy, you are way too young to talk like that. You talk like a teenager" I laughed
"Oh you mean like you always do?" he told me before sticking his tongue out. I did the same which made him, my mom and Shane, laugh.
"I'll tell you what… you just get through this with some manly dignity and tomorrow I'll teach you something special. I will teach you to catch frogs." Shane proposed to my little brother
"I've caught a frog before."
"I said frogs… plural. And it is an art, my friend. It is not to be taken lightly. There are ways and means. Few people know about it. I'm willing to share my secrets."
Carl snapped his head in my mom's direction with an excited grin.
"Oh, I'm a girl. You talk to him." She said before turning his head back so she could try to cut her hair.
"It's a one-time offer, bud... not to be repeated."
"Why do we need frogs, plural?"
"You ever eat frog legs?"
"Eww!" Carl protested.
"No, yum!" Shane said.
"No, he's right. Eww." My mom was clearly disgusted
"I don't know mom I mean the French eat it all the time. I've heard it's pretty good. And come on do you want to spend the next few months eating some poor squirrels?"
"Well I know I'm not French so… Eww" I laughed at my mom. That's when Carol made her way to me.
"Hey Sarah, do you think you could help me go and get some of the stuff near the lake?" she asked sweetly. I nodded and followed her out of the camp to the lake.
We walked for a few before she started to talk.
"Hey, you know I think it's great that you're helping Carl with school work. Making sure he still gets an education even with all of this" she said still looking ahead.
"Yeah… I mean, it's not that much I'm just trying to remember stuff from school and I just him to still get some normal in his life you know? Making sure he doesn't have to grow up to fast." I shrugged
"Your mom said that you were really smart. Like genius smart?"
"Um yeah…. I mean that doesn't mean I know everything" I was a bit embarrassed. This was definitively a subject that I didn't like but my mom was always so proud of that. Her daughter, the genius, the girl who passed her PSAT's two years in advance but kept on going to high school anyway, the girl with a 175 IQ. That was me. But I never thought much about it and didn't like people to know. Because when they know, they look at you differently.
"I'm sorry, I thought that it was okay because your mom talked about it the other day, I shouldn't have…."
"Carol, you don't need to apologize it's fine" I chuckled "You know, if Sophia want to I can always teach her some stuff too. What's the difference between one or two kids right?"
She turned around with a smile
"Thank you so much that would be amazing. I want my little girl to grow up in a somewhat normal way" I squeezed her shoulder before walking past her to the lake. It didn't take too long and the simple chats we had about our old lives was helping us getting through the long walk without getting bored. Half an hour later, we were back at the camp with what we needed. Carol went to put the things away and I was greeted by Glenn who had the biggest smile on his face.
"Hey" I chuckled "When did you get back?"
"A few minutes ago. But that doesn't matter. You gotta see this"
I was intrigued so I followed him to the RV were everybody was standing.
"What's going on guys?" I asked suspiciously. That's when I saw him. My eyes went wide at the sight. "Dad?" I whispered. He wasn't looking at me but Carl was. He tugged on his sleeve before pointing towards me. My dad turned his head slowly and saw me. Just like that, it was as if the world stopped. A tear fell down my face as my dad looked at me.
"Dad!" I said louder this time before running to his arms. He caught me easily and held me tightly in his arms. And just like that, a sobbed racked through my body and I started crying
"Shh." My dad said "It's okay sweetie. I've got you. I'm here baby. I'm okay" he soothed me. He took a step back and held my face in his hands looking at me. The tears had stopped and I was now just left smiling when Carl decided to come hug my legs.
"I told you dad would be back" he said.
"Yeah you did" I grinned and ruffled his head.
"Hat to break a sweet moment like that but could we talk about what we're going to say when Daryl gets back?" Andrea asked
"Why? What happened?" I said "Where is Merle?"
"That's um… Complicated?"
"Complicated how?"
"We handcuffed him to a roof and dropped the key so we left him there before the geeks could get us" Glenn said looking down and scratching his neck.
"You did what know? Dude Daryl's gonna throw a fit…."
"Yeah well we thought maybe you could… You know break this to him? You know he won't start throwing punches if you're the one to say it" T-Dog told me.
"Why's that?" dad asked confused. I didn't bother to answer him. This was definitely not the time.
"Well I'm sorry T-Dog but I'm not helping on this one. I can stay there if you want but I'm not telling him. That's not my place" He looked at me with pleading eyes but I just stared at him until he sighed
"Alright we'll do it" I nodded before making my way to my tent and took out my notebook and a pen.
A/N : FIIIIIRST CHAPTER ! YAY ! Daryl is coming in the next chapter so be ready ;-) Sarah's way younger than him but who cares ? They are already dating but I'll introduce the details of how they started throughout the story. Comment, Review and stuff. Love xx
