Carl POV

"So what do you need to do?"

"I need to stay with Beth, Maggie and Glenn at all times under all circumstances." I repeated to my Mom for about the hundredth time. No scratch that, for about the thousandth time.

"We'll look after him Lori." Glenn said while putting his arm around Carl.

"I know you will Glenn." Mom replied smiling

"I can go to if you want?" Shane suggested

"No!" Maggie replied

Shane shrugged his shoulders and walked off.

"Well it's time to go then." Beth said walking over.

"Yes it is, let's go people." Maggie said.

"I love you Carl, stay safe okay." Mom said before kissing his cheek.

"Yes Mom, I will. Love you to."

"Bye."

"Bye Mom."

I walked over to Beth, Maggie and Glenn, and they were discussing what shops we were going to.

"So where are we going?"

"The pharmacy and the k-mart." Beth said smiling at me.

Whenever she smiled at me I felt my stomach twist, until I smiled back at her.

"Are we going together, or in separate groups." I asked.

Maggie looked at me smirking,

"Well, we'll be quicker if we split up."

"Yeah." Glenn added.

"Ok." Beth said.

"So who's with who?"

Maggie was still smirking at me and I think I heard her say 'I know who you'd like to be with'. I was about to ask her what she meant, as I didn't get to last time either, but Beth spoke first,

"How about boys and girls?" She said slightly blushing.

"I don't want to go with Carl." Glenn said

Everyone looked at him until he cracked,

"Woah, stop with the stares I'm joking, I'd love to go with my bro."

"I don't believe you, I think I'll go with Carl and you can go with Beth." Maggie stated.

Carl would've loved to spend alone time with Beth, but didn't want to make his feelings obvious.

"Ok." I said, with a hint of disappointment in my voice.

"Sure." Beth replied, but it also sounded like she had a little disappointed in her voice to. I probably just imagined it.

"So it's settled. Carl come here and climb on buttercup." Maggie ordered.

Buttercup was a horse Beths family owned, they owned five different horses, and buttercup was by far the prettiest. Thinking about the prettiest of things got him thinking about Beth.

I walked over to Maggie and climbed on top of buttercup, Maggie followed and sat in front of me.

"Ever ridden a horse before Carl?"

"Yeah, at my grandparents."

"Well, we can go fast then, yeehaw."

Buttercup went fast, and when I mean fast, I mean really fast. I nearly fell off twice.

We arrived at the pharmacy and immediately started to look at the list of supplies requested by everyone.

"So we need some medical drugs, med kits, which are in the back, and some private stuff."

I was intrigued,

"What kind of private stuff?"

"Well if I told you what they were it wouldn't be very private would it." Maggie replied sarcastically.

"I won't tell people, you can trust me."

Maggie looked at me, deciding whether to trust me with others personal information.

"Ok then, whose do you want to know."

I was tempted to say Beth straight away, but didn't want to know about her private life. But this was a once in a life time offer, so maybe her could ask what Beth wanted, if she wanted anything at all.

"Your stuff."

Maggie started to blush,

"Ok, viagra, condoms and tampons."

Maggie said all those things so casually that if Carl didn't know what all of these things were he wouldn't of thought anything of them.

Maggie must've noticed the small blush on my cheeks when she said,

"What, me and Glenn like to keep ourselves busy."

I nearly vomited, I was so grossed out that I faked vomited, which just made Maggie laugh.

"Want to know anyone else's PRIVATE stuff." She said, putting the emphasis on private as if I stole

this information.

"Um- Beths?" I said with a small blush on my cheeks. I still felt bad about knowing about what Beth wanted to keep private but my curiosity got the better of me.

Maggie just looked at me and smirked, saying 'of course' under her breath. It was the third time she had said something like this under her breath, and it was evermore intriguing to Carl.

"Beth, ok. She asked for contraception pills, not sure why, condoms of her own, again not sure why but here we are, and some viagra if her own. So basically the same as me."

As soon as Maggie said condoms and viagra I could feel a bad blush coming up on my face, it was so bad that my brain went into a small hibernation and shut itself off, so I could only reply with,

"Interesting."

Well fuck, that was a bad answer.

Maggie looked at me, still damn smirking,

"And why may I ask, I'd that interesting."

Shit shit shit, make up some bullshit excuse.

"Erm- well- you know. It's just you need all that stuff for yourself and Glenn, but Beths single, so it's just interesting what she'll do with all that stuff."

Phew, crisis averted

Maggie was looking at me suspiciously, then shrugged her shoulders, I was thinking that that would be the end of the conversation, but this was Maggie.

"You like her, don't you."

She had asked me that so fast and I was so unexpected of it I replied with,

"Yea-no why would you think that."

Fuck my fucking life.

"Did you just say yeah?!"

"N-n-no."

"Don't worry Carl your secret is safe with me."

I had either two options here, play dumb or admit to it. With Jimmy it was different. Jimmys an arsehole, while Maggies really nice, and funny. So, I decided to tell her the truth.

"I don't like Beth... I love Beth."

I looked down at the floor, expecting Maggie to just laugh, but what she said next suprised me,

"You know, you should just tell her that instead of doing what you're doing right now."

I was confused,

"What am I doing right now then?"

"Honestly, just fucking around to be honest. You need to tell her how you feel, imagine if something happened, and you never got to tell her. You'll regret it for the rest of your life."

Wow, I never expected Maggie to be so understanding.

"I know, it's just what if she doesn't like me that way."

I heard Maggie let out a weird, half covered snort.

"Listen, even if she doesn't, you'll never know unless you tell her how you feel."

She was right, I couldn't even try and argue with her about it.

"Ok, I will."

She hugged me, then let go and said,

"Good, we'll then, let's get all of these things shall we."

For the next half an hour we collected everything we needed, and throughout the time, I only thought about Beth.

The end of Chapter 13

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