I'm so, so, so excited to be writing my first walking dead fanfiction! Okay so in the story, Emma is a 15 year old girl and she has been living by herself during apocalypse ever since it started. Okay so... the story.

Hi, I'm Emma Lynn. I'm fifteen years old and I have been taking care of myself ever since the apocalypse started. I get very lonley here in this big house all by myself. I tend to explore my town, armed of course. I'm not that dumb.

One of my talents is shooting zombies. I mean, come one. You get pretty good at it after you have to shoot them everyday for almost five months now. Today was like every other day. I woke up, ate some breakfast, got dressed, and headed out the door. Except this time was different.

I walked outside and climbed up ontop of my roof. I knew there was no way the walkers could get up there. I sat up on my roof top and looked at my neighborhood. So plane, empty, lonley. I decided that I was bored and hopped off the roof. Before heading towards my drive way I decided to shoot some walkers for fun.

I walked over to my drived way and opened my garage. I sorted through all the junk trying to cure my bordem, but my luck ran out. I closed the garage and fell down on the ground. "What the-" as I fell, a zombie came and fell ontop of me. My gun slid out of reach but all of a sudden a man with medium black hair and bangs that covered the tops of his eyes, shot the walker right in the head.

Since I was in shock, I physically couldn't get up. The man walked over to me and reached his hand out to me "You need some help miss?" I blinked at him and grabbed his hand. He helped me to my feet. He laughed as I dusted myself off from my fall earlier.

"Well, I'm Daryl, Daryl Dixon. And you are?" I looked at him and reached my hand out to him "Emma. Emma Lynn." Daryl grabbed my hand and shook it. "Nice to meet you Emma. You'll probably need this?" He handed me my gun as I blushed with embarassment.

Daryl started speaking before he was cut of by another man accompanied by a younger man. "Daryl, lets go! We need to head back to the others!" The two men stopped at Daryl's side and looked me up and down.

"Daryl, who's this?" I looked at my shoes and blushed as I caught the young man's icey blue eye. Daryl smiled at his friends "This is Emma Lynn. I think she should head back with us." I looked at them and my eyes widened. People, actual people! I wouldn't be alone anymore! "I mean, if she's willing to come why not? I'm Rick by the way. This is my son, Carl."

Carl looked at me and nodded his head. I smiled and gave him a shy wave. God his eye is so beautiful. I wonder if he has a girlfriend? Being dragged back to reality Daryl pointed to their truck. "See that truck? That's what we are going to be taking you to your new home in! It will be good for Carl to have friends his own age." Carl blushed as I giggled a bit.

We got into the old truck, Daryl was driving, Rick was in the passenger seat, and Carl and I sat in back together. As we started driving I got a little tense. I haven't ridden in a car in a long time, after all I don't have my liscence. "You might want to relax a bit missy. We got a long way back." I did as I was told and relaxed a bit, maybe to much.

The next thing I remember is waking up to the truck coming to a stop. I opened my eyes and realized what happened; I fell asleep on Carl's shoulder. My face turned different shades of red as I sat up. He had been resting his head on mine and I had woken him when I moved my head. "Sorry, we ran out of gas. Good thing we always drive with some extra. I fill up the truck. You two stay in here while Rick helps me fill the truck up."

They closed the door and I looked at Carl. "So..." He looked at me and turned his head "So..." I smiled at him and he smiled back. God, those eyes are killing me. I want to know what he feels like, tastes like, smells like. "Do you have a boyfriend?" I looked up startled "What?" He smiled at me "Do you have, a, you know, boyfriend?" I smiled and looked at the ground.

"No, actually. Zombies ate him." Carl smiled sympathatically "I'm sorry for asking." I laughed "No you're fine. Do you have a girlfriend?" He shook his head "No, guys with one eye aren't really the "ladies man" type of dude." We both chuckled. "Well, I think that bandage makes you look very badass." He blushed and looked at his shoes then me. "Thanks. I really hate it though. It's embarassing really." Is it possible that we just bonded in five minutes?

I feel like I have a real connection with him. I scooted closer to him and put my hand on his cheek "I think you should embrace it. It's a part of you and you can't change that so why not make the best of it?" Carl looked up and gave me a sad smile. He made my heart break by just letting a single tear roll down his cheek.

"Hey, it's going to be okay. I promise." We both leaned in for a kiss but jumped away from each other as soon as the door to the truck opened. "Okay, we're all set." As soon as the two men got in, we were back on the road again. Once again, I fell asleep back onto Carl's shoulder and his head resting on mine.

The truck came to another smooth stop, and not because it ran out of gas. We were at their home, I'm guessing. Carl carefully shook me awake and I opened my eyes . He smiled and I smiled back. "Well, I think maybe Carl should show Emma the guest room." Carl opened the door for me and I stepped out of the truck as we were walking into the house I knew I could talk to him again since no one was around.

"Hey, can I ask a personal question?" He opened the door to the house "Shoot." I laughed in my head at his response considering our situation. "Well, if you don't want to answer you don't have to I'm just very curious." He looked at the floor and weakly smiled "It's my eye isn't it." I looked at the floor with him ashamed. "Yes, but you don't have to answer! Okay? We can just leave it be. Forget I asked..." He looked at me and grabbed my chin "You're cute when you ramble."

This seriously can't be real. He thinks I'm cute! Oh my god! I can't believe this is actually happening! "So my eye. Someone named Jessie had a son named Sam. At this time, Alexandria was overrun by zombies. We were all covered in blood and trying to escape but her son Sam started freaking out which caught the zombies attention. She freaked out to and they started getting eatten. She wouldn't let go of my hand the whole time. Jessie also had another son named Ron. He was pissed off at me and my dad and said it was are fault."

I looked at him "It wasn't though." Carl nodded "Ron was pissed like really pissed. He tried to shoot my dad but Michonne stabbed him and he shot to the left of my father. Michonne and my dad, Rick, thought the bullet went somewhere else until I said something. My dad carried me to the infermory and they stopped me from bleeding out."

I covered my mouth and felt tears sting my eyes. Why am I crying if I just met him? I knew we had some kind of connection. I just knew it. "I shouldn't have asked I'm really sorry." Carl nervously laughed "No, no it's fine. Now mine turn." I looked at him and turned my head "Your turn for what?" He laughed "To ask you a question. Lets go see your room first." He grabbed my hand and pulled me upstairs to a guest bedroom.

We sat on the bed "So, what do you want to know?" Carl looked thoughtfully at me "I can ask anything?" I looked at him and nodded "Of course, and since I asked you something really personal, you can ask me two things." He gave me a devilish smile "Good. First question, what happened to your family?" I looked at the ceiling.

"Oh, them. When the zombie outbreak first started my parents freaked out. They were scrambling to try and keep me and my sister safe. One day they heard about this shelter place that was for sale that would keep them safe from the apocalypse. They woke up bright and early on a Sunday morning and took my sister and left. I don't know why they left me. I think it was because they didn't want to feed an extra person or care for an extra person but all I know is they don't care about me. I grew up with no friends then they left me."

I looked at the floor and let a couple tears fall before wiping them away, fast so Carl wouldn't notice. Stop it Emma! Get your shit together! "Oh shit, that's deep. Sorry." He put his arm around my shoulder and rubbed up and down my arm. I looked at him and gave him the same sad smile he gave me. I wander what's going on inside his head. "Well, my second question isn't as dark as the first one, but I understand if you're not up for it."

I rolled my eyes "No, I can handle it." He laughed to himself then looked at me with his blue eyes "Are you a virgin?" I opened my mouth "Are you serious?" He started cracking up "Yes, I need to know." I raised my eyebrow "You need to know?" He was still laughing "Yes, I NEED to. It's really killing me. Please? You asked about my eye." He gave me the puppy dog eyes, well eye, and I couldn't resist. "Fine, yes I'm still a virgin." He looked at me with wide eyes "You're serious?"

I rolled my eyes and punched his bycep playfully "Yes, I've been waiting for the special guy. Plus, all the guys in my neighborhood have been eatten." Carl started laughing hard again and I couldn't resist laughing. He just had a contagious laugh. "I enjoyed this Emma I really did. " I smiled at him "I did too. I feel like we're best friends now." He carefully and slowly brushed pieces of hair out of my face "Me too." He wrapped his arms around my waist and gave me a tight hug.

"Sleep tight Em." He winked at me and walked over to the door. He left the room and carefully closed the door. I smiled and thought about the nickname he gave me. Em? I like it. I changed into pajamas that I packed and crawled into bed. I closed my eyes and drifted into sleep. not long after I sat up gasping for air and covered in sweat. I started crying my eyes out. I had a nightmare about Carl losing his eye, then we met. Right after that he left me like my family and I felt this...emptiness.

I carefully crawled out of bed and walked to the room across from mine, Carl's. I carefully opened the door and peeked in. Damn he's hot when he sleeps. I quietly walked into his room and tip toed to his bed. I carefull peeled back the covers and got into bed with him.

He slowly opened his eye and smiled at me "Hi. What's up?" I looked into his beautiful icey eye. His facial expression changed from happy to worried "Are you okay Em?" I nodded and cried again "I had a really, really bad dream!" I covered my face. He pulled my hands away from my face and kissed my forehead.

"It's okay. I'm here." He pulled me into his chest and I layed there not wanting to move. He was perfect. Every part of him from his eye, to his hair, to his body, to his personality, oh and don't forget his hair! I drifted off into a sleep thinking about how perfect Carl was.

I felt Carl shift a little but I didn't get up, I didn't want to. I heard Rick talking from the doorway and I didn't even dare to move. Shit, were we in trouble? It's all my fault, god dammit! After Rick left the doorway, Carl started stroking my hair. This is perfect, I never want to leave this. I decided to open my eyes and look at Carl. I needed to see his beautiful face.

"Hi." He looked down at me and put his hand on my lower back "Hello sleeping beauty. Did you sleep well?" I closed my eyes and hugged his chest "Mhhm. I think that's the best I've slept in a while. I think it's because you were here."

I started blushing after I realized what I said. "I think you'll have fun today, there's always stuff to do here in Alexandria." I looked up at him and our eyes met. "Really?" He nodded at me and kissed my forehead "I think we're good friends." My heart felt heavy when he said that word, "friends" I mean are we really just friends after this?

"We should really get up now." I looked at him and squeezed his body to mine. "Okay." Neither of us moved for a couple minutes until I sat up. He sat up next to me and grabbed his hat. "Lets get changed and ready for the day."

I laughed at him for grabbing his hat first. He had great hair so why cover most of it with a hat? We got ready for the day and we were both assigned stuff to do around the town. As soon as I finished I went back to the house. I opened the door "Hello? Anyone here?"

I slowly sat down on the couch and relaxed. It wasn't long after I sat down when Carl swung open the door. "Hey, you're done too?" I nodded at him and sat up straight. "Anyone home besides us?" I shook my head "I don't think so, why?" Carl shrugged "I don't know I guess I feel like my dad is pushing us to be friends.

I laughed "I mean we're pretty good friends now so, guess his plan worked." Carl looked deep into my eyes and grabbed my hand "I've been meaning to talk to you but I didn't see you all day." I nodded "Yeah, really busy today."

He nodded in agreement "I need to tell you something really important." I looked into his eye and took off his hat. "If it's serious you shouldn't be wearing your hat young man." I laughed and he smiled.

He inhaled sharply "I love you. And I really, really like you and I think that we should, you know, date...?" I blinked at him and raised my eyebrow "I love you too." He looked at me and smiled "You do?" I nodded and kissed his hand "I do."