Carl POV

I was sitting down with Mom, Dad and Shane eating our dinner, when Glenn walked up to the group looking very nervous.

"What's wrong chinaman?" Daryl said sarcastically.

"Guys, there's walkers in the barn!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Glenn.

"What" my Dad asked

Glenn was looking pale, almost as if he was about to pass out.

"There's walkers in the barn." Glenn repeated.

Shane jumped up, went over to the RV, took the gun bag out and started to hand out guns.

"Shane, No."

"What Rick, we just learned that this place isn't safe, that while we sleep out here at night, there are walkers right next door to us. And I don't know about you, but that makes me worry about the safety of all of us."

"I know, I know. Just let me talk to Hershel."

"Nah Rick, the days of talking to that man are over. We need to take action, and by action, we need to break those barn doors down, and kill every last one of them."

"Shane listen, if there are walkers in there, one or two might be his family, and imagine if that was your family in there. I'm begging you, don't do this brother."

"It's to late Rick, that man lied to us, threatened our safety. And now, it's time we sort this out."

Shane proceeded to hand guns to Andrea, Glenn, T-Dog and me.

"You'll need to protect yourself. You're ready."

I looked at my Mom, then Dad.

"Thanks." I said

"Shane-"

"Rick, we need to do this. Even if you talk to Hershel, he won't let us do anything about it!"

"If you do this brother, you'll risk everything we have here!"

"Well were not safe here, there's walkers right there, you really want Carl and Lori to be next to that?!"

My Dad took a few seconds to reply.

"Just give me an hour. That's all I need."

Shane shook his head

"Still trying to be the good guy, that won't work here Rick. Everyone come on."

Shane, Andre and T-Dog started to walk over to the barn, my Dad ran for the house to get Hershel. Glenn followed behind.

Me, Mom, Carol, Dale and Sophia followed Shane. We arrived at the barn before we heard a glass shattering 'BANG'.

"Get away from the barn!"

It was Hershel with his shotgun. Dad and Glenn was with him with Maggie and Beth behind them.

"Listen Hershel, I have nothing personal with you or your family, its just not telling us that this was here, and letting us sleep next to it while we have kids. This is the right thing to do man."

Hershel still looked pissed and still had his shotgun aimed at Shane.

"Leave it now."

Shane then ran over to the door and proceded to unlock it.

There was another loud 'BANG'. This time it hit the barn door near Shane's hands. It still didn't stop him. He got the last chain off and opened the doors. Walkers started to pile out.

Shane, Andrea, T-Dog and eventually me started to pick off the walkers one by one. I looked behind me to Beth and she looked heart-broken, and that destroyed me.

We eventually killed the last few and Beth walked past me, crying. I was going to catch up to her but my Mom held me back, whispering,

"Let her do this on her own."

I didn't know what she was talking about until I saw that Beth has stopped next to a walker corpse. It looked as if the human had been a female, maybe Beth knew this woman.

She knelt next to the deceased walker and started to hug it. At that moment the walker 'woke up' and cling onto Beth trying to bite her. I did what needed to be done. While Beth was screaming I aimed my gun at the walkers head, and fired

'BANG'

Beth screamed and Maggie ran over to her. Everyone else looked at me, I looked behind at my Dad, who looked shocked. My Mom looked shocked to.

"What? I saved her."

My Mom shook her head

"You could've killed her, it's pitch black!"

I couldn't believe this, I saved the love of my life while everyone else was standing still, and I'm getting told off.

"But all of you were standing still, if I didn't do what I did, she'd be dead!"

"I know, but you need to let the adults handle things like that. Okay!"

I didn't want to argue, especially after what just happened.

"Fine."

"Good boy, now how about we head back to camp?"

That was a tempting offer as I didn't want to be here any longer, but I needed to see if Beth was okay. Maggie carried Beth as they headed for the house. I tried to go I'm and see her but Hershel and Maggie insisted she needed rest.

So I went back to camp, where the mood was deathly. Dad and Shane had gone on a 'walk' as my Mom put it, but everyone knew that our future was more uncertain than ever.

"Glenn."

Glenn looked up at me,

"Yeah?"

"How long did you know before telling us today?"

He blushed and looked down,

"Two days."

Two days, then why tell is today? I decided not to press him as technically this was his fault but I didn't want to make him even more distraught. I went over to the RV and went inside where Dale and Andrea were discussing something.

"What's up."

They both turned and looked at me.

"Nothings up kid, now beat it. We're discussing something important." Andrea replied

Andrea has never liked me. Maybe it was because she just didn't like kids, she told Beth to kill herself so that's a possibility. Or maybe Carl reminded her of a kid she used to have, either way, Carl hated her to.

"Come on Andrea, it's just the kid, he's not harming anyone."

"Yeah he is, our privacy, now get out."

So I left, Dale was nice, the nicest guy in our little camp, but Andrea was the biggest bitch ever. If she were to die, I wouldn't feel any remorse.

About an hour after the barn incident, according to Dale, the time was ten o'clock. So it was time for bed.

The next day flew by, the group sort of stayed in the camp, except Dad who went to talk to Hershel, who we discovered had left last night to go to the pub. After yesterday, losing his wife and son (walkers) I couldn't blame him. So Dad and Glenn went of to bring him back.

It was about eight o'clock and I was walking around the fence surrounding the farm when I heard a sound. I looked behind me and there she was, Beth.

She was sitting on the grass at the back of the house.

"Beth." I said softly

She looked up, eyes red from crying

"Yeah." She replied while drying her eyes.

I couldn't really think of what to say except,

"How are you doing?"

It was pretty lame as it was quite clear how she was doing, but it was the best Carl had got.

"I'm alright, thanks."

I couldn't think of much else to say, so I sat next to her in the grass. We sat in silence for about five minutes until Beth broke the silence,

"You know, my Mom used to make wedding cakes. When she finished making them she used to let me, Maggie and Shawn eat all the leftover icing she didn't use."

"That sounds fun."

Again, shitty response, but the best he had.

"Yeah it was." She said as she started to smile.

Until she began to cry again.

"Listen Beth, youll be fine, everything will be fine, no-one else will die. I promise."

She looked up into my eyes,

"Don't make promises you can't keep Carl."

I guess I couldn't keep that promise, but i could keep this one,

"Ok then, I can't promise that. But I promise I will always protect you, everyday, for the rest of my life."

I suddenly felt a little bit of confidence, which I hadn't really felt before.

She smiled again as she said,

"Ok, you'd better keep that promise."

We both laughed,

"I think I'm gonna go back to my room now and get some sleep." She said.

Damn it, already. Being with Beth was like being in heaven for Carl, but at least he could do this,

"Ok, but let me walk you to your room then."

He could feel his blush come up, but he could also see hers to, which made him a little less embarrassed.

She looked up at him and smiled,

"Yes please, I'd love that."

"Let's go then."

We got up and started to walk to Beths room in silence. One thing I did notice was how close our hands were, it was like a magnetic force was pulling them towards each other. As I looked up I could see Beth looking at our hands to, then she looked up at me looking at her and she turned away blushing. Why did she blush? Was she embarrassed to? Did she like him, the same way he liked her. No, of course she didn't, get real.

We arrived at her room and she turned around to face me,

"Thank you Carl, for everything. You're the best friend ever, you always make me feel better."

And after she finished she leaned over to him and kissed him on the cheek. Carl froze, his brain in a continuous loop. Carl and Beth were both blushing like mad, Carl even worse.

"N-N-Night B-Beth."

She smiled at me,

"Night Carl." She replied in her angel voice.

Carl walked out of the house and into his tent. It was official, this was the best day of his life. Beth has kissed him.

The end of chapter 11

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