I took a nap…again. Well on a happier note, it's the one year anniversary of Rinella's Turn! *Does small yahoo dance* I seriously do not know what to do for this year so I'll just draw pictures and take questions I suppose. I do not own The Walking Dead and enjoy the chapter! Oh man, it's already December 6 I mean 8, oh well sorry but those dang exams had me sleepin' a lot lately. Good thing they're over.
Rinella's POV
I watched as everyone was getting huge spoonfuls of food and dumping it on their plates. Glenn was the one who had did it while Andrea playfully argued that I wouldn't eat a lot. She was right, to say the least. Looking down at my plate, I noticed that I made a small dent and that was just for the mashed potatoes. Nibbling on my biscuit, I took a look around at everyone. Most of the adults were drinking, wine I assume since the glass had a red liquid in it.
"You know in Italy, children have a little bit of wine with dinner." Dale was saying, handing Lori another glass of wine, "And in France." He added. I had gone back to nibbling on my biscuit and watching the scene unfold.
"Yeah well, when Carl is in Italy or France, he can have some then." She went back to drinking out of her glass until Rick spoke up.
"What's it gonna hurt, come on? Come on." Rick smiled at her. Everyone began laughing at the face that Lori had given him. She agreed to let him try some and so everyone was quietly waiting for his reaction. He made a disgusted face at the taste and set the glass back down on the table. I giggled at his reaction to the drink.
"That's my boy." Lori pats his back, glad that he didn't enjoy it.
"You stick to soda pop there bud." Shane told him. Or juice I mean, that's good stuff right there.
"Not you Glenn." I heard Daryl tell him which managed to get a few people to laugh some more. "Or you." I looked up at him to see that he was staring at me.
"Oh that's right you never had some either well, who's your guardian we need their consent." I looked at Dale with a blank stare not really knowing who was in charge of me.
"I am."
"I am."
"I am."
I nearly choked on my half way done biscuit when I heard three "I ams" around the table. Looking around I noticed that Rick, Glenn, and Andrea had their hands up. Since when had they become in charge of me? Not that I didn't like it but wait, now that I think about, they actually do take care of me. Looking up at Dale I found that he had a small smile. Had he wanted this to happen?
"So would you mind if she had a bit?" He turned his head to look at all three. Rick nodded, and Andrea just nodded her head with a smile.
"Sure." Glenn agreed when Dale had turned to him. He passed the glass of wine to Andrea who placed it in front of me. Finishing the last bit of my biscuit, I gently took the glass into my hands. Everyone had gone silent again but this time waiting for my reaction. Unlike Carl, I took a small sip and waited for the taste the settle on my tongue. Oh god, this tastes horrible. I gave the glass of wine back to Andrea and waited for a moment before sticking my tongue out. Multiple laughs were heard around the table and I immediately wanted to stick all of the food in my mouth to get this horrible taste out of my mouth. Using my fork I began eating the pasta.
"I wanna see how red your face can get." Daryl's comment brought more joyful laughs to the table. I looked up to see Rick staring at something. I angled my head so I could see what but Dale was in the way. A ting ting sound made my head turn, only to see that Rick had stood up.
"It seems to me that we haven't thanked our host properly." I noticed that everyone picked up their glasses so I lifted up my grape juice.
"He is more than just our host." T-Dog stated. Choruses of "Booyahs" were heard around the table. I felt happy, with my new friends. No, more like family I suppose. So if this world is done and through and we go back to what was once our normal lives, who would I be living with? I scratched my cheek as I began thinking of all the different scenarios. With Glenn we would most likely be eating pizza a lot, with Andrea she would probably do what she used to do with Amy, and with Rick well, Lori would make me study like she has with Carl.
"So when are you gonna tell us what the hell happened here, doc?" Shane questioned. "All the uh-the other doctors, that were supposed to be figuring out what happened, where are they?" I pulled my hood down so that it covered my eyes. I didn't want anyone to see my dark eyes that were directed at him. In their vision I'm still a child and I want to keep it that way, just for a little while longer.
"Did you have to bring it up now?" I asked him.
"We're celebrating Shane." Rick told him. "Don't need to do this now."
"Woah, wait a second," He did a stop motion with his hand. "This is why we're here right? This was your move, supposed to find all the answers. Instead we uh, we found him." He pointed with his thumb. Is that supposed to mean something? If it was another doctor, they could've left us outside to die. Aren't you grateful for his hospitality? I wanted to ask Shane but seeing that he had some liquor, I really didn't want to anger him. Yet.
"Found one man, why?" Jenner himself looked surprised to say the least. I rested my hands on my lap waiting for someone to answer him.
"Well when things got bad a lot of people just, left. Went off to be with their families. And when things got worst, when the military cordon got overrun, the rest bolted."
"Every last one?" Suicide was probably another reason. Just thinking that word, gives me the chills.
"No, many couldn't face walking out the door. They…opted out. There was a rash of suicides." I was right and that's what bothered me. "That was a bad time." I lifted my hood up since my anger had gone down, to make my eyes visible again.
"You didn't leave. Why?" Andrea questioned him.
"I just kept working, hoping to do some good." Taking a glance at Andrea's face, I noticed that she seemed sad. I held her hand hoping to comfort her. She clenched mine and I felt safe to say the least.
"Dude you are such a buzz kill, man." Looking over to my left I saw Glenn walk towards a chair beside me. Subconsciously, my hand clasped his. I felt, happy to say the least. I actually had people who cared and worried about me.
Jenner was showing us around the building explaining why we had to "make do" with one part. I was behind Carl and Sophia walking alongside Glenn. Looking around, everything was so, white. It made me feel as if this was an asylum. I ran my fingers across the wall and loved how smooth it felt. I kept on walking until I felt someone pull me back slightly. Looking in front of me I noticed that Carl had stopped walking and I almost crashed into him. Since I already knew it was Glenn, I just shrugged when he looked at me.
"There's a rec room down the hall that you kids might enjoy. Just don't plug in the video games okay? Or anything that draws power. The same applies if you shower, go easy on the hot water." My eyes glimmered when I heard about the rec room. Maybe I can finally get some sleep.
"Hot water?" Glenn said with a huge smile on his face. I swear it felt contagious because all so suddenly, I wanted to smile as well.
"That's what the man said." T-Dog laughed confirming for him.
I was going to follow Carl and Sophia to the rec room until I felt myself being pulled back. Again. Groaning I turned to look at who it was this time.
"Oh no not you, you're taking a shower." Andrea told me.
"Yeah you smell." Glenn made a wave motion with his hand.
"The same applies to you." I turned my head away and wet straight down the hall. I was about to go into one of the many rooms when something stuck me. I turned around and tugged on Andrea's shirt.
"Do you have any clothes I could borrow?" She stopped for a moment before thinking. She rummaged around in her bag until she managed to find something. She pulled out a button up pajama top and handed it to me.
"You don't have any clothes?" She asked me with an eyebrow raised.
"I left my house in a rush and well, I only managed to pack some underwear and short…shorts." She chuckled at my slow sentence and went into one of the rooms. Entering the bathroom, I quickly discarded my dirty clothes, Amy's hair tie, and hopped into the shower. Once I felt the water hit my back, I jumped. I was never really one for warm showers well, showers at all. I stuck close to the wall as I reached for the knob to make it colder. Once the water was to my liking I squeezed some shampoo into my hand and began rubbing my hair. Conditioner came next and I was almost done. I scrubbed myself with body wash as hard as I could to get rid of all the dry blood stains and layers of dirt. Looking to my left I found that there was a tube of toothpaste. Since I had no toothbrush with me, I simply put some on the tip of my now clean index finger and scrubbed about. Oh I really hate the taste of mint. I spat out everything once I was done. Following Jenner's directions I turned off the water and dried my hair. Looking at myself in the mirror I was surprised t see how fast my hair had grown. It flowed down beneath my breasts and I looked awfully skinny. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but still it looked sorta disgusting. I slid on a clean pair of underwear and was glad that I hadn't gotten my "P" yet, like the other girls at my school. I contemplated whether if I should wear a bra or not but decided on yes since, the girls would most likely take notice and blow their top off. My shorts were easy to put on and all that was left was the top. I buttoned it all the way to the top and decided to pull out another towel to lie on.
Once I was sitting cross legged on the towel I began thinking. Where were we going to get kicked out, why did I follow Rick everywhere, and why I liked this new world better than the past one. Subconsciously, I curled into a small ball on the floor as all these thoughts and questions swirled around in my head.
"I'm such a cruel person, a cruel, cruel, broken person." I whispered softly. My arms were clasped around my knees as I felt my eyelids closing. Before I knew it, I let darkness consume me once more.
When I woke up, I found that I wasn't in the restroom anymore but rather on a cream colored couch. Looking around I tore the blanket off of me and tried to find out where I was. Once the blanket was off, I instantly hugged myself to keep warm.
"O-oh, it's so cold." I picked up the blanket and tied it around me like a cape and walked towards an occupied bed. I didn't know who it was but that wasn't going to stop me from what I was about to do.
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!" I jumped onto the bed and spread my arms out. The person stirred in their sleep and off went the covers.
"What, what is it?!" The person tried yelling out but it really just sounded like jumbled words. I looked at the person's face and took a few steps back in shock which made me hit the ground…hard.
"Woah are you okay?" This strange person asked me. My hand was covering my mouth in shock.
"You're, are you…Glenn?" I questioned them.
"Yes wait-what?"
"It's just that…"
"That?"
"You're so…"
"So?"
"White." I whispered out the word. He fell back onto the bed and I picked myself up.
"Of course I am-I'm Korean." He told me with a hushed voice. "Hey wait, where are you going?" I turned my head to him when I was already half way out the door.
"I smell something delicious so…I'm a go get some."
"At least take off the cape!" He yelled to me groaning afterwards. I backtracked all the way to the couch and slid the cape off.
"Happy?" I asked him sarcastically.
"Very." I rubbed my forehead and remembered that I had some clean clothes. I dashed off to the restroom to dress into my old pair, the ones that Carol had washed for me. I simply switched the clothes and slid on the sweater since it wasn't that dirty. I mean just light dirt marks, nothing to fret over. Since I really don't like people touching my things I left my backpack on just incase someone wants to get a glimpse of what's inside. I opened the door and once I stepped out, I was surprised to find that Glenn was actually halfway down the hall. I was going to ask him something very loudly but noticed that he was holding his head.
"Hey, do you have a hangover?" I was beside him but he really just looked out of it. He simply nodded and the rest of the walk was quiet. Once we reached the kitchen, I took a seat on the right of him and waited for whatever smelled good.
"Eggs, powdered but I, do em' good." T-Dog said while walking around with scrambled eggs in a skillet. His announcement only received a groan from Glenn but multiple cheers. Jacqui rubbed Glenn's back as a way to comfort him so I rubbed his shoulder.
"Bet ya can't tell. Protein," He put two plates in front of Glenn and me. "Helps the hangover." He poured more eggs on Glenn's plate.
"Ahhh." He drawled out.
"Here." I looked up to see Lori handing Rick some pills.
"Where'd these come from?"
"Jenner."
"Could you help me please?" He asked her.
"He thought we could use these."
"Thank you."
"Don't ever, ever, ever, let me drink again." A small smile lit up on my face at his words. I was almost done with my eggs when Shane came out of practically nowhere. He headed straight for the coffee and that's when I noticed some scratch marks on him.
"The hell happened to you, your neck?" T-Dog questioned him instead of me. Thankfully.
"Most of done it in my sleep." Shane answered and took a seat.
"Never seen you do that before." Rick countered.
"Me either. Not like me, not like me at all." I looked up at Lori while my head was down and was surprised to see her with her head down as well. I quickly looked at Shane and noticed him staring at her. Yup something must have happened but I don't like getting into other people's business.
"Morning." Multiple "Hey Docs" were heard around the table when Jenner had entered.
"Doc I don't mean to slam you with questions first thing-" Dale started.
"But you will anyway."
"We didn't come here for the eggs." Andrea told him. I was finished with my eggs by the time she said that so I was questioning why we had came here again. Jenner lead us somewhere us, to the control room again.
"Give me a playback of TS-19." Vi followed his orders and this video started.
"Few people ever got a chance to see this," So this makes me special then right? "Very few." He finished. I took a look around only to find that I had somehow ended up next to Carl. Some brain scans came out on screen and I couldn't help but nudge Carl which got his attention.
"Look Carl," I pointed at the screen. "It's a brain." His eyes seemed to get wider and he turned to Jenner.
"Is that a brain?" He questioned him. Yes, yes it is.
"An extraordinary one." Carl smiled at the both of us and turned back to the screen. "Not that it matters in the end. He ordered Vi to zoom in and that is when these bright vine lights came out.
"What are those lights?" Shane asked him.
"It's a person's life. Experiences, memories, it's everything somewhere in all that organic wiring, in all those ripples of light, is you." He pointed at us. "The thing that makes you unique and human."
"This person died, who?" Andrea questioned.
"Test Subject number 19." That's when I realized I wasn't paying attention to anyone else, just the screen. "Someone who was bitten, infected, and volunteered to have us record the process." It became silent for a moment. "Vi, scan forward to the first event."
The display went on to when the virus is attacking the brain. Some black lines started appearing and once the brain went dark, that's when I realized. The body had died.
"Death. Everything you were or ever will be - gone," Jenner says which gained another moment of silence from us.
"Is that what happened to Jim?" Sophia questioned, quite innocently.
"Yes." Carol confirmed for her. I took a glance at Carl and noticed that he too had gotten very quiet so I pat his head. His sullen look had gotten to me and I at least wanted to make him feel a tad bit better. His face had lifted but the smile he put on, looked forced.
"She lost somebody two days ago, her sister." I looked at Andrea. This must've been hard on her.
"I lost someone too, I know how devastating it is." Jenner said to her. He fast-forwards to the second event. The subject's resurrection.
"It restarts the brain?" Lori asked.
"Just the brain-stem," Jenner corrects. "The human part - the you that-doesn't come back. Just a, empty shell. Driven by, mindless instinct." My lips quivered at the realization that, this is happening to millions of people outside. A sudden line passed through the subject's head.
"God, what was that?" Carol asked him.
"He shot his patient in the head." Andrea answered. "Didn't you?"
"Vi power down the main screen and the work stations."
"You have no idea what it is do you?" Andrea accuses him. I looked at Jenner waiting for his answer. He started listing down some diseases until Jacqui interrupted him.
"Or the wrath of god." That could be it I mean, there are lots of things humanity as done wrong.
"It could be that."
"There are other ones out there right? Other facilities?" Andrea asked him a bit shakily.
"There could be some. People like me."
"You don't know? How could you not know?" I gulped, wanting to say something but I just couldn't.
"Everything went down communications, all of it. I've been in the dark for almost a month." He answered Rick.
"So it's not just here? There's nothing left-anywhere? Nothing, that's what you're really saying, right?" Andréa continued. Everyone became silent when he didn't answer. "Jess." Andrea muttered. I ran my hand through Carl's hair while pinching the bridge of my nose.
"Man, I'm a get shit-face drunk." Daryl suddenly spoke up which almost made me want to laugh even if this was, a crucial moment. Carl removed my hand from his head and grasped it in his own.
"Dr. Jenner." Dale interrupted the stunned silence. " That clock," He pointed I turned my head to see this big clock on the far corner. "Is counting down. What happens at zero?" It better not be some bomb thing cause that's what it always is in movies. And books.
"The basement generators, they run out of fuel."
"And then?" Rick questioned. I watched as Jenner simply ignored his question and began walking away. Oh no.
"Rick," I spoke up. He turned to me and pretty much everyone else. "Try asking Vi." He turned his head up to the ceiling.
"Vi, what happens when the power runs out?" I waited anxiously for her reply.
"When the power runs out facility wide decontamination will occur." She answered. Rick, Glenn, T-Dog, and Shane dashed to the basement and Lori led Carl and me to her room. I sat down on the couch beside Carl when suddenly the air cut off.
"Mom, something wrong?" Carl asked her.
"Uh nothing, it's just," She froze for a second. "The air conditioner stopped." I was playing with the hair tie on my wrist but I still knew she was lying.
Jenner
In his office, Jenner stares at a photograph of a woman, asking her to understand that he did the best he could in the time that he was given. He says he hopes she'd be proud of him.
"They always said there'd be more time."
Rinella's POV
Everyone was following Jenner, asking him multiple questions, and Daryl even wanted to pick a fight with him.
"Rick?" Lori yelled down to him from the 2nd floor. We all walked down the stairs to the four guys. I swiftly walked past everyone and towards Glenn before hiding following behind him.
"Again?" He whispered. I nodded with a stern face.
"If anyone's gonna get hurt," I pointed at Rick who confronted Jenner. "It's going to be you, not me." We followed Jenner back to the control room.
"It was the French." He says.
"What?" Andrea questioned him. Why are we talking about the French now?
"They were the last ones to hold out as far as I know. While our people were bolting out the door into the hallways committing suicides, they stayed in the lab until the end. They thought they were close to a solution." They really weren't were they?
"What happened?" Jacqui spoke up.
"Same thing that's happening here. The power grid, ran out of juice. The world runs on fuel, how stupid is that?" He walked away from the group.
"Let me tell you something-" Shane ran up the stairs to him before Rick grabbed him.
"To hell with this Shane, I don't even care." He turned towards everyone. " Lori, grab our things. We're getting out of here, now!" He ordered us. Everyone was about to run to their previous rooms when all of a sudden the emergency alarms started blaring. Flashing red lights and the time appeared on the screen.
"30 minutes until decontamination." Vi stated.
"Everybody you all heard Rick, get your stuff let's go, let's go!" Shane yelled at us. I stood back and let Glenn go ahead of me since I already had my things.
"Let's go Let's go!" T-Dog motioned to us. Doors suddenly rolled up and that's when I realized that, we were locked in.
"Did you just lock us in?" Glenn asked terrified. "he just locked us in!" He shouted. I clenched his shirt as a way of saying "Stay calm there's a little girl you need to take care of".
"Son of a bitch! You just locked us in here!" Daryl shouted and made a run for Jenner. Rick yelled at Shane to get him before he injured Jenner who seemed to be recording.
"Jenner open that door now." Rick ordered him.
"There's no point. Everything topside is automatically locked down. The emergency exits are sealed."
"Well open the damn things!"
"That's not something I control. The computers do." He pointed at Rick. "I told you, once that front door closes it wouldn't open again-you heard me say that." I turned to look at everyone. The first thing I noticed was Carol holding Sophia. "It's better this way."
"What is? What happens in 28 minutes." Shane pounded on Jenner's back which made him stand up.
"You know what this place is? We protected the public from very nasty stuff!" He yelled at Shane. The words he was yelling out I didn't pay attention to. I was too stuck on trying to find a way out of here. I ran my hand through my hair trying to remember something that, I think was important. "To prevent strains of disease from getting out if the building's security was ever compromised, HITs were deployed to prevent organisms from getting out."
"HITs?" Rick asked him.
"Vi define." Vi began to tell us about how HITs are used and why.
"It sets the air on fire." Jenner explained finally though, everyone seemed to get it because they were crying. So that's it? Is this how we were supposed to die? I believed that somehow Rick would get us out of this but now I'm getting closer to bawling my eyes out.
"Open the damn door!" My eyes were on Daryl when he threw a bottle at the locked doors.
"Out of my way!" Shane ran across the platform and tried breaking it with an axe.
"I doubt that'll work." I muttered sadly.
"We still need to try." I lifted my head up to see Glenn.
"Try what? Axes won't even make a dent. The way I see it, you're just wasting your time." I told him coldly. He became quiet. "If you want to get out of here, the only chance we have is to talk to the man in charge. It's simpler isn't it? Than fighting our way through." I didn't know what to think. "But then again, all men are the same." I muttered softly.
"Daryl, Daryl! Get back!" We turned our heads to see Dale, T-Dog, and Rick push Daryl back who was swinging around an axe. My point exactly.
"You do want this. Last night you said you knew it was just a matter of time before everybody you loved was dead." My eyes became rather large when Jenner had said that. Rick would never say that would he?
"What you really said that?" Shane asked him. "After all you've been through?"
"I had to keep hope alive didn't I?" He tried telling Lori and Carol.
"There is no hope. There never was."
"There's always hope. Maybe it won't be you, maybe it won't be here but there's somebody, somewhere-"
"What part of everything's gone do you not understand?" Andrea told Rick.
"Listen to your friend. She gets it. This is what takes us down. This is our extinction event." More crying ensued and even my cold façade was beginning to break. Had my hands clasped together in front of my chest.
"This isn't right you just can't keep us here!" Carol cried out tearfully.
"One tiny moment a millisecond, no pain." Jenner tried to reason.
"My daughter doesn't deserve to die like this." Carol held crying Sophia tightly.
"Wouldn't it be kinder more compassionate to just hold your loved ones and wait for their clock to run down?" He tried explaining it to us in a more softer way. Shane cocked his gun and pointed it at Jenner's face. Demanding a way out.
"This is not the way we do this, we will never get out of here." Rick was trying to reason with Shane. "If he dies we all die!" Shane let out a yell and turned to shoot at the monitors. Everyone ducked their heads and covered their ears. I kept my eyes closed waiting for his rampage to stop. I don't know what happened but the noise had stopped and when opened my eyes, I saw T-Dog with the gun and Rick scanning the crowd.
"I think you're lying." He turned back to Jenner.
"What?"
"You're lying, about no hope. If that was true you would've been like the rest and taken the easy way out. You didn't, you chose the hard path, why?"
"It doesn't matter."
"It does matter, it always matters. You stayed when others ran why?" Rick demanded.
"I didn't stay become I wanted too. I made a promise." He stood up and pointed at the screen. "To her, my wife." His wife, does he mean-
"Test-Subject 19, your wife?" Lori questioned.
"She made me keep going as long as I could. How could I say no, she was dying." Daryl's pounding on the doors were drawn away by Jenner's words. "It should've been me on that table; she was one of the finest scientists in the world! Hell she ran this place, I just-I just worked here! In our field she was an Einstein. Me I'm-I'm just Edwin Jenner, she could've done something about this. Not me." He told us.
"Your wife didn't have a choice. You do and that's, that's all we want." Rick tried to explain, making hand movements. "That's all we want, a chance."
"Let us keep trying as long as we can." Lori pleaded with Carl in her arms. Jenner took another look at everyone and took a deep breath.
"I told you topside's locked down I can't open those." He pressed some buttons and all of a sudden the doors opened. I froze for a minute not knowing if I should run since the group still wasn't moving.
"Come on let's go!" Glenn and Daryl yelled to us. We all made a dash for the doors but I stopped when I noticed Rick wasn't behind us. Lori left Carl with me and I held his hand waiting for Rick to follow.
"We've got four minutes left-come on!" Glenn shouted from behind us and that's when I noticed someone was holding Carl and me.
"Let's go, let's go Jac-" T-Dog was holding on to Jacqui.
"No, I'm staying! Uh uh, I'm staying sweetie."
"But that's insane!"
"Not it's completely sane. For the first time in a long time. I'm not ending up like Jim and Amy. There's no time to argue, no point now if you wanna get out, just get out. Get out." Jacqui told T-Dog while holding his face. I ran with everyone on ahead and up the stairs till we reached the locked doors. Everyone tried desperately to break the windows with whatever they could find. Guns, and whatnot.
"Get down!" Shane yelled. I dropped down between Glenn and Sophia.
"The glass won't break?" Sophia asked. I held onto Sophia's hand unsure of what to do.
"It'll break. They'll find a way, I'm sure of it." I don't know if this lie was to comfort her or me.
"I think I have something that might help," Carol says, fumbling in her purse.
"Carol, I don't think a nail file's gonna do it." I looked up to see what she was going to do.
"Your first morning at camp," She tells Rick. "When I washed your uniform? I found this in your pocket." She pulls out the hand grenade that Rick had found when we were in the tank. That's the thing! That's the important thing I was trying to remember!
"Sophia, look it was your mom, she was the one who found the way!" T told her excitedly. She threw herself at me when I had my arms open. We held on tightly to each other as Rick began to detonate the grenade. The glass shattered and I held onto Sophia's hand as we fought our ways through walkers who were attracted to the loud sound. I would've helped if I had my gun but then I wouldn't be able to have felt this warmth in my hand. I clenched her hand tightly when a walker neared and turned my head when Daryl took a swing at it. Thankfully, the blood splattered elsewhere and not on us. Once we reached the cars, I let go of her hand and ran into the RV. Glenn close behind. That's when I remembered that Andrea was nowhere with us. Or Dale.
"Wait, wait, wait-where's Andre and Dale?" I questioned Rick. He had gotten quiet for a moment.
"We need to leave."
"No we can't. We-we can't just leave them there!" I yelled at him. My voice beginning to crack.
"Rinella, we have to, they-"
"No they're coming!" Lori exclaimed, pointing at Dale and Andrea who just climbed out of the blasted window.
"Dale get down, get down! Everybody get down!" Rick ushered us to the back and I crouched down beside Carl with my hands covering my head. Glenn covered me while Lori covered Carl and Rick covered all of us. A loud and resounding "Boom" was heard. We all lifted our heads once the sound had stopped and all that was seen were flames.
"Come on, come on!" Glenn beckoned Dale and Andrea to the RV. I sat down with Andrea, my head resting on her shoulder clearly exhausted from today's events. My mind was completely numbed of any thoughts and that's when I realized something.
How long has it been since I've slept?
Author's Note
I am truly and deeply sorry for not updating these past few days but I'll probably start up again tonight. So yeah if you have any questions about Rinella concerning her relationship with people, traits, habits, favorite foods, animals, um even about her birthday? Running gags that I plan to keep in this story? Then ask away. Oh and if you have any requests, then I'll gladly start on them…if I have inspiration. Nah but seriously I'll get to them. That'll probably be a small bonus chapter if you want. So yeah I hope you enjoyed and this chapter was completed at 3 in the afternoon, yay only "early" time! Sorry for any mistakes but I do not read my chapters over and over just to find them. Oh and Christmas break is coming which means, more staying up late which also means more time on working on chapters!
Inspirational Song – I don't really have one for this chapter so I'll just put one that I love and kinda relates to the chapter? Die Young
Artist – K-E-S-H-A
Yeah so, pretty awkward.
