Carl POV
"Carl"
I ran and hugged Sophia, with Beth behind me.
"We thought you were dead!"
She shook her head,
"No, not dead. Hungry though."
"We'd better get you back to camp, your mother will want to see you!"
She smiled,
"I missed mom, and everyone else."
She then looked at Beth, who looked a little pale,
"Hello, my names Sophia." She said while reaching out her hand
It took Beth a few seconds to reply with,
"Hi, my names Beth, Beth Greene."
She smiled at Beth, who still didn't smile back.
"Let's go."
"SOPHIA!!!" Carol screamed as she dropped all the washing on the floor and ran over to Carl, Beth and Sophia.
She hugged Sophia so hard I thought that maybe her spine was going to break. Everyone else was coming over and hugging her now. Hershel came out with fruit for her, and through all this celebration, Beth still looked sad.
She saw me looking at her, and blushed. She walked back to the house and I followed.
"Beth?"
We was in the front room now and she turned around.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine, just feel a little sick."
Then I started to worry.
"Do you want me to go and get Hershel? It wasn't because of the back rub I gave you was it?!?"
Even though Carl was embarrassed to admit it, when Beth moaned, he got an erection. Which was normal when it came from the girl you loved, right?
"No, I'm just going to get a drink."
"Okay, you're sure your okay though."
She nodded and walked into the kitchen.
I was tempted to follow her as she was lying, he could tell something was up. She started to act like this every since we found Sophia. Then it hit me.
She was sad because Hershel had said that when we found Sophia he expected us to move on. My Dad was still working it out with him, but for now, our future looked uncertain.
I walked out of the front door and over to the group who was still surrounding Sophia, I tapped Maggie on the shoulder and asked if we could talk. She looked at Glenn, who was talking to Daryl about how he knew they'd find Sophia.
We walked round the other side of the house until Maggie asked,
"What's up."
"It's about Beth."
She looked at me suspiciously, but smirking.
"What about her."
"I think she's sad that we found Sophia, cause you're dad wants us to move on."
"Ahh yes. I forgot to say, that my Dad has said you all can stay."
My jaw dropped,
"Really?!?"
She smiled at me,
"Yeah, you guys live here now I guess."
I now live with Beth!!!
"That's brilliant!"
I hugged her, and I think I heard her murmur that I should 'save these for Beth'. I was about to ask her what she meant, but at that moment, Glenn came round the corner.
"What's up."
"Just telling Carl here that you guys are moving in with us."
Glenn seemed to not get it at first, then picked up on it.
"Ohh yeah, we kinda forgot to tell everyone."
"Well we were busy last night."
Maggie burst out laughing, Glenn went red, and i sadly knew that they were talking about 'sex'
"And that's my cue to leave. Bye guys."
Maggie barley managed to get out a 'bye' and Glenn just waved.
I made my way back to the camp, when my Dad walked over to me,
"We're gonna have a sort of party tonight for finding Sophia."
"That's gonna be fun!"
And it was. According to Dale it was eleven when the party stopped. During this time Maggie and Glenn had announced that we were allowed to live at the farm. I found my eyes lookin at Beth when she mentioned this, and her eyes looking at mine. We both looked away and blushed, but were smiling.
Sophia had told us all how she survived so long out there in the wild. She said that she found a house with food and water in it and started there a few days. Daryl said that he found that house and told us that she was there. She then tried to get back to the road, but couldn't as there was lots of walkers around the area surrounding the highway. She then went into a small village and hid there for a few days until one night where she heard voices. Lots of them, they were scavenging the houses and so Sophia left and ran back into the woods. Than she said how she saw a farm, but stayed away as she saw people she didn't know. She was just about to walk away when she heard Carl's voice. Then the rest was history.
Carl and Sophia were now sitting on a log, talking about Carl getting shot, Carl said,
"It was just below my small intestine."
She looked confused at first,
"And that's good right."
"Yeah that's good, if it did hit it, I would've probably died."
"Oh" was all she replied with.
"You okay Sophs?"
"Yeah I'm fine. I'm just so glad I found everyone again you know."
She started to sniffle
I put my arm around her,
"I know, it's a Miracle."
Carol called Sophia over and they said goodnight to each other. He was going to see Beth when he heard his Dad, Shane and Daryl talking,
"Rick, if there another group out there, we need to do something." Shane said.
"Or maybe we don't need to do anything at all." Dad replied.
"Rick, man. You know I agree with you on most things, but these guys were close. The village Sophia was at is just one or two miles away, and these guys don't sound like the friendliest of people from what Sophia described of them." Daryl explained
"Listen, this is my call. We don't do anything. If they come here we'll talk to them. If they start any trouble we'll deal with it then ok!"
"Ok, fine. But if they come here and kill us all, I'll kill you Rick." Shane said before walking off.
Rick turned back to Daryl,
"What about you?"
"I don't much care, but if they get to close we'll need to deal with them."
"Yeah I know."
"See ya"
"Bye Daryl."
Carl was hidden behind a tree the whole time, before his Dad called out,
"Carl, is it polite to listen in to other people's private conversations?"
I stepped to the side of the tree.
"No Dad."
He came over and put his hands on my shoulders,
"Next time, just join in the conversation ok."
That suprised me,
"Yeah ok!"
Dad laughed,
"Ok, to bed now then."
As Carl drifted off to sleep, he thought about how he saved Sophia, and hoped he could do the same for Beth if she ever needed saving.
The end of chapter 9
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Just a little update, I've already wrote on how the farm gets overrun, so dont worry about that.
And so far It's a tie between
Daryl with two votes
And
Carol with two votes
If you haven't already voted, please do. Right now I kinda need you to. So leave a review to let me know who to kill off, Daryl, Carol or anyone else except:
Rick, Lori, Hershel, Maggie and Glenn
(And Carl and Beth)
So until next time,Goodbye