A/N: Thank you so much for the warm responses to chapter 1! As always, I truly appreciate the time you take to read my stories. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them. Here's the new update :)

Chapter 2...

Rick and Judith arrived home. The Grimes' six bedroom house was large and grey in color. A beautiful white porch wrapped around the front of the house. Gorgeous green trees surrounded the property. Rick had the house built a year ago and a couple months ago, Rick had an in ground pool installed in the back yard. It was a very large home for just him and his two children but he wanted to give them what he didn't have growing up. He had a nice salary as a Sheriff and he had invested in small security camera business that proved to be successful. The return he got on his investment allowed him to build the 4,500 sq ft house.

"Are you mad at me Daddy?" Judith asked as she finished her dinner. As Rick promised, he got her burgers for dinner as he ordered a pizza for Carl.

Rick shook his head and replied, "No I'm not mad. Just in the future please don't add people on my Facebook. Michonne, well she accepted the friend request but if she hadn't, I am the Sherriff of this county Judith, can you imagine how much that would have been a embarrassing for me?" Rick was happy that Michonne had accepted the friend request, more than happy actually, he was ecstatic.

"Yes Dad, I'm sorry," his daughter gave him a hug as she ran upstairs to her room to go to sleep.

"Judith?!" Rick yelled up the stairs. The 9 year old girl ran back down the stairs.

"Yes Dad?" she asked hopeful he was still not mad at her.

Rick hugged his daughter and said, "I love you, always know I could never stay mad at you. Here's your ice cream money for tomorrow." Rick said as he handed over the $3.

"Thank you Dad! I love you too!" she said. Judith turned back up the stairs as she passed her 13 year old brother Carl as he gave a moody look. He had a pair of large headphones covering his ears as he went into his room and closed the door. Aside from getting his dinner from his father, Carl didn't speak much. Not that he couldn't but because he chose not to.

People told Rick that Carl was just going through a phase. He tried to tell himself that as well. Some days it was hard on Rick, he missed the little boy his son Carl used to be. So playful and fun, now Rick was lucky if he got more than 2 words out of Carl in a day. Judith couldn't be more opposite of Carl. Unlike Carl, Judith was so kind and funny. She loved to make jokes and could talk for hours.

After he cleaned up the kitchen and packed his children's lunches for the next day. Rick Grimes started his nightly routine. He set the alarm system to his large home and checked the locks. Once upstairs he walked along the hallway and turned off Judith's bedroom light as she was asleep. Carl was asleep in his room as well as Rick also turned off the light.

Once in his bedroom, he shut the door and settled into his bed in a pair of basketball shorts and t-shirt as he watched his tv and laid back on the soft blankets. A few times he caught himself looking at his iPhone. No communication from Michonne. He had so many questions about her. One thing he immediately noticed was that she didn't flirt with him or hit on him like the other women in the county did. Maybe she wouldn't be interested in me, he thought to himself as he clicked the tv remote.

Unable to resist, Rick Grimes opened up his Facebook app and clicked on Michonne's profile. He was so curious for what photos she had posted, what type of posts had she made, what were her likes, what made her laugh or what made her cry. Immediately Rick was taking back at how gorgeous she was in all of her photos. A smile graced his face when he saw the photos of Michonne and her son. Photos of when Andrew was a baby up until now at 3 years old. The little boy reminded him of Carl at that age.

Suddenly when Rick went to click out of the app as he felt odd looking at her old photos, he did the unthinkable. He accidently hit, 'like' to one of her old photos. His heart raced as he sat up in bed quickly. Unsure if he should remove the 'like' or not, he internally panicked. Rick Grimes was the Sheriff of King County. He had the highest ranking occupation in the town next to the mayor. Fear was something he never thought he had until this moment, this simple, small moment. He quickly "unliked" the photo. The last thing Rick wanted was to appear desperate or odd.

He set his alarm and turned out the lights when his iPhone beeped with a notification that Michonne had posted a new photo. He mouth was agape when he laid in the dark staring at the photo. She was wearing a blue V-neck shirt, her hair was down and, she still had make up on. Her Facebook post said, "When your toddler won't go to sleep and you have to read the same story for the 20th time..." He chuckled when he read her post. Rick remembered when Carl and Judith required a bed time story every night.

Thinking that he should just go to sleep, he couldn't resist replying to her photo with one word, "Beautiful." He turned the app off not wanting to see anything else for fear of rejection.

The light came through his window as he opened his blue eyes to start his morning. He smiled when he saw the Facebook comment from Michonne, a simple, "thank you :)" Rick walked into his bathroom and took a shower. They had a busy day ahead of them. He rubbed the shampoo through his hair as he thought about how truly beautiful Michonne was. Rick knew there had to have been something about her that made his adopted brother Daryl be friends with her. Daryl was nice to customers but there weren't many that he took the steps to be friends with them on Facebook. He finished his shower. Every step of his morning routine were interrupted with thoughts of her.

The Sheriff came downstairs to find his kids eating their morning cereal. It was a beautiful Saturday morning. The sun was out and the birds were chirping. Carl bobbed his head to the music playing in his headphones. Rick noticed Judith looking at Carl. She was so hopeful for attention from her big brother but he was at an age where he couldn't be bothered with anyone.

"Hi Dad," Judith called out as Rick walked passed to get his coffee.

"Hi Judes, you excited about your big soccer game today?" Rick asked as he took a bite of one of the muffins in the plastic container on the counter.

She smiled big, "I am Dad! I'm excited that my soccer team gets to play against the 'Atlanta Wildcats.' Oh before we leave I want to put some red and black ribbons in my hair. All the girls on my team wear ribbons." Judith ran out of the kitchen and up the stairs.

Rick put on his sneakers that were by the door. On Saturdays he got to wear a t-shirt and jeans or shorts. Today he had on a pair of long black shorts and a red shirt with nice pair of Nikes, matching Judith's soccer teams colors of red and black. He looked at Carl who was eating his cereal and reading a magazine. Rick walked over to him to motion for his attention as Carl removed his headphones.

"Are you sure you won't come with us to Judith's soccer game? We are probably going to have dinner at a restaurant in Atlanta afterwards, maybe go to that Trampoline place. I would really like it if you came Carl," Rick pleaded.

"Dad, I don't want to. Why can't anyone just understand that I want to be left alone?" Carl demanded. His brown hair was shaggy in his eyes.

Rick huffed, "because we love you Carl and we want you to be included in things we do. It's always just Judith and I, I would really like it if you would join us."

"Well maybe I liked it when it was just me and you before Judith was born. The amount of attention that Judith gets is annoying. I am the only person who thinks that she is the reason Lori isn't here anymore," Carl said.

Rick's blue eyes got big. "Don't you ever say something like that again young man! Do you understand me? It is not Judith's fault what happened. She was an innocent baby!"

Carl argued back, "well, she's still the reason my mother Lori is dead."

"Give me that damn magazine!" Rick demanded as he yanked the paper from Carl's hands. "Don't you EVER blame your sister for your mother's death again! DO YOU HEAR ME!?" Rick Grimes screamed.

Carl's blue eyes stared at his father as he nodded his head. He had never seen his father scream at him like this before. Rick's face was red as his blue eyes were glossed over in anger. He tried to calm down the shaking he felt.

The sound of the car horn outside indicated that Rick's mother was there to pick up Carl for the day. The teenager stood and walked out the door without saying anything else.

"Dad I'm ready to go," Judith said as she held her book bag containing her soccer cleats. She wiped her face. The more she tried to stop the tears from coming from her big brown eyes the more she let them out.

Rick spoke, "Judith, are you ok? You didn't hear ...you didn't hear that, did you?"

She wanted to lie to her father but lying was something she couldn't do. "I heard what Carl said," Judith confessed.

"Judith, I'm so sorry honey. Carl is going through something. I don't understand why he is so mean lately. I will not tolerate him being like this. He will be grounded. Your mother Lori died in child birth when she had you. It is not your fault. She almost died when she had Carl too. Lori had a medical condition that we didn't know about until she gave birth to Carl," Rick confessed.

"Why did you two have me then if she had the medical condition?" Judith asked.

Rick could not give her an honest answer. He knew why but he couldn't tell Judith. In time maybe but not when she is 9 years old.

"We have to get going to Atlanta sweetheart, we don't want to be late to the game," Rick said. The two of them went outside and got into his truck. It was a quiet ride to Atlanta.

During the soccer game Judith's soccer team the 'King County Knights' won the game. Judith Grimes was crowned as the MVP of the game for scoring the most goals. Rick was a proud father on the side line cheering her on. He took so many photos and videos. It had been a perfect morning until a small tragedy struck.

When Judith was running back from the end of the field she collided with another girl causing her to fall. Upon falling she landed on a piece of metal that was in the grass. It was her screams that caused Rick Grimes to run full force onto the green field. He trembled when he saw the amount of blood coming from his little girl's arm.

To be continued...

A/N: Chapter 4 will be up very soon, I just wanted to split the chapters. Feel free to tell me your thoughts :)