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It's really funny how life works. I never really pictured anything bad happening, or to be more specific, the world falling apart. However when it did happen, I never thought I would be here long enough to see it. Now I'm sitting on my roof with a boy I just met, eating chocolate pudding, after being alone for so long, I was starting to wonder if Carl was real, or if I was imagining him.

I suddenly felt nervous, and shy, and I caught myself staring at him. It was in that moment that I noticed how blue his eyes were, and the light freckles across his cheeks and nose. His brown hair was over grown, and swept across his forehead, maybe because of his sheriff's hat. I felt my face heat up, and my stomach felt strange. It was a feeling that I had never had before, it almost felt nice, in a weird sort of way. Then I remembered my mom telling me about puberty, when I had got my first period. I had been so embarrassed; I was at school when it happened. I was only 10. Mom explained that I would start experiencing things with my body, and maybe getting feelings that I didn't understand. She said that I would start liking boys soon, and I would get these feelings, was this what she was talking about?

I wiped my mouth, and adverted my eyes to my lap, where I was twirling the spoon in my hands. I took notice of my heart rate speeding up, and again wondered if it was normal. I felt so confused, and wished my mom was around, so I could ask her these questions. What did these feelings mean? Were they normal? Was it ok to feel like this? Would it go away, or was it something that would last forever?

"Hey, are you alright?" Carl asked, shaking me from my thoughts. "Oh, yeah, um, I'm fine." I didn't know what else to say, and then I wondered if he felt these feelings. Was it different because he was a boy?

"So… it's getting late, and I should probably go back to my dad." Carl paused, looking at me, my throat closed up, and suddenly I felt more thirsty then I really was, maybe it was all the pudding I ate. "You're mom isn't coming back is she?" Carl asked, his gaze held firm onto hers, and for a moment he could see her lip quiver, but she sucked it in. "No." Simple enough answer, and he didn't need further explanation, after all it wasn't that long ago that he too lost his mother. "You don't have to stay here, you know. You can come back with me." Carl's words hung in the air, and for Hannah she didn't know if Carl was her savior, or if he was trying to rip away her only memories of her parents by asking her to leave her house. She had held on for so long, she made it this far on her own, she could make it the rest of the way, but how long would that be? Could she even stand being alone forever with no one to talk to? No company of any kind, surly she would lose her mind before that happened.

"What about your dad? Wouldn't he be upset?" Hannah questioned, her voice soft with an uneasy feeling in the pit of her stomach. Go or stay, go or stay?

"No, he would ask you to come back too." Carl answered. Again the dilemma raged in her head, go or stay, go or stay, go or stay?

Hannah nodded her head, "I'll have to pack a bag first."

"Ok, I'll gather the food from the cupboard, and I'll meet you down stairs." Carl said, standing up, and reaching a hand down to the dirty blonde haired girl next to him. She took his hand, took in a breath, what was this now? Hannah wondered, feeling a tingling feeling where Carl's hand had been. Not sure of the new feeling, Hannah pulled away, and started to climb through her window. Carl watched her, his eyes easily hidden underneath his hat, before he climbed back through the window.


I know this is a short one, I will make the next chapter longer if you review! I am also trying to make this an innocent love story between Hannah and Carl. They don't really know or understand what love is, or what their bodies are telling them. Hopefully I am doing a good enough job of this? And what did you guys think of the first episode of season 5? Amazing right?