Big surprise at the end of this chapter! :O

I stayed awake all night and kept watch while my brother slept. I redeemed myself from last time. I only had to kill one walker. It came walking by, I heard it from a distance and prepared myself. Once it came into the view I immediately killed it. I tried to be as quiet as possible so I wouldn't wake up Daryl. I really wanted him to sleep. He earned it. He's always doing a lot for the both of us. Plus, he just got injured pretty badly.

We got up bright in early the next day, just like my brother said we would. "Tired?" He asked me.

"A little."

"Well, we can stop fer a rest whenever. There's no rush." Daryl said stretching. "I'm proud 'a you." He smiled. I just smiled back.

"Guess we should get goin'." I said.

"I spy somethin' yella." I said while we were walking.

"It's the sign."

"Yeah."

"Good one." Daryl said sarcastically. I giggled.

"There's nothin' out here."

"Play a different game then."

"How 'bout twenty questions?"

"Ugh. Let's not and say we did."

I laughed. "Let's just talk then. I don't know what about, though."

My brother sighed and looked at the sky. "It might rain."

"No, it ain't." I shook my head. "It's just cloudy today. It won't rain cuz my knee don't hurt."

"Okay, Leann. That don't always work."

"Yeah huh!"

"We'll see."

"Yeah, we will see." I said with a smirk and crossed my arms in front of my chest. Then, I thought I saw something through the trees. "Hey, look." I pointed.

"Looks like houses or somethin'." We got a little closer and saw a sign for cottages. That must be what those houses are. "Let's check 'em out." I said.

My brother gave me a weird look. "Le, we still got plenty 'a daylight left."

"So?" I said. "Holiday Camplands ain't that much farther. We should stop somewhere again 'fore we get there."

"Sure." He sighed. "Whatever ya want."

We went down the road that the cottages were on. If we continued straight, that's the way to the place we were headed, but we went left instead to the cottages. "That one looks nice." I pointed.

"Check it out."

"Kay." I ran up to it with my gun up. After looking in the window and not seeing anything, I knocked on the window. I waited a little and when nothing happened, I went in. I checked around inside for safe keeping. It was clear.

There was a room that had four bunk beds. I found that interesting for some reason. There was another bedroom, a master bedroom I believe. There was a living room, kitchen and bathroom. It was a nice little cottage. I saw my brother looking at a picture on the wall in the living room. He looked over when he heard me walk in the room. "Hey, ya never told me it was it clear."

"Oh, sorry. Musta fergot."

"That's all right. Just remember next time." He told me.

I walked towards a rack that had a bunch of movies. I couldn't believe what I found! "Look, Daryl!" I showed him. "A portable DVD player!"

"Yeah? So, what?"

"We can watch a movie!" I said excitedly. "Can we watch one later? Huh, can we?"

"Ugh." My brother said. "Sure."

"Yay!" I jumped up and hugged him. He chuckled.

Once we got situated and ate dinner, we sat down on the couch to watch a movie on the portable DVD player. "You can pick the movie, just don't pick a chick flick."

"I never would." I said annoyed that he would even think that.

I dug through the movie stack. "What about this one?"

"Nah." Daryl said.

"Okay, well…what about…this one?" I held up another.

"Looks gay."

I giggled. "And this one?"

"No."

I sighed. "Why don't you just pick the movie then?"

"Cuz I won't pick one."

"All right, fine." I huffed. "Then, I'm pickin' a random movie and puttin' it on."

"Fine."

"Mmm…here." I grabbed one called, Legends of the Fall. I popped it in the disc tray and pressed play. It seemed pretty boring at first.

"Why's that little girl wanna marry that older man?" I questioned my brother.

"I don't know."

"It's weird."

A little later in the movie. "So, she did end up marryin' him."

"Apparently." My brother said.

"This is a weird movie."

"Well, you picked it."

"I know."

A litte later. "…she just died. She caused all those problems fer them and she just died?" I said sounding annoyed.

"Yeah. Dumb bitch." He said. I gave my brother a shocked look. "Not you the girl in the movie!"

"Oh okay." I giggled.

A little later. "How long is this damn movie?" Daryl asked roughly.

"Pretty damn long."

A little later when the movie finally ended. "That's how it ends?" I questioned. "We don't even get to know if…" I trailed off.

"What a dumb movie. I cain't believe I wasted my time watchin' it."

"I never wanna see that movie again." I said wide-eyed still staring at the screen. After a minute, we both laughed. I closed the DVD player and pushed it aside.

"So, what now?" My brother asked.

"We could play a game?"

"Nah, I'm done with games."

"Me too." I looked down.

It was quiet for a long time. I started thinking about Holiday Camplands again and got nervous. I'm glad we stopped here, this definitely stalled us. Bought us some time. I wonder how long I can keep Daryl here. I wonder how long it will be before he gets suspicious of me. My brother is smart. He'll figure it out eventually.

"Hey, Daryl?" I finally said.

"Hm?"

"…maybe…maybe we don't have to go to this place." I said earning a look from my brother. "Maybe we could just stay here. Like we said before, it's just us now. I know you and you know me, so…we don't really need no one else." I finished. Daryl blinked at me in confusion.

"…well," he started, "we can do whatever ya want, sissy. You know I'll do what ya want. I don't care about no one else but you." He paused. "But…you ain't just sayin' this cuz yer scared, are ya?"

"Yes." I admitted. "I'm worried about the people. I know what ya said before, but I don't wanna get my hopes up like the other times and then everythang gets ruined."

My brother sighed and turned to face me better. "Baby…listen, that's fine. I understand how ya feel, but I thank we should try at least. Ya never know what could happen. This might be a good thang. I just want what's best fer ya and want ya to be safe." He put his arm around me. "Help me keep ya safe."

I thought about what he just said and he's right. I should do this for him, if I don't want to do it for myself. "Sure." I smiled. "Sure, let's go. In the mornin' I mean."

"Okay." Daryl said and kissed my forehead. "Good, now…come sit with me." I moved closer to my brother and snuggled up against him. "That's it." He wrapped his arms around me. "Everythang's gonna be all right. You'll see. Don't ya worry."

I am worried, but I'm willing to try at least.

"Check out the bridge!" I said excitedly and pointed. There was a bridge ahead with big water under it! It looked amazing! Almost like how I pictured the ocean. I never been to the ocean before. I kind of always wanted to.

"Looks nice, don't it?"

"Yeah, sure does!" As we walked across the bridge, we saw a sign that said, Welcome to Andover, Ohio! I got excited. "We made it, Daryl! It should be up ahead."

"Yeah." He chuckled at me. We approached a sign that said we were very close to Holiday Camplands. It was just down the road at the end of the bridge. We're supposed to turn right.

"It's too bad we're so close to Holiday Camplands." I said to my brother. "I kinda wanna see the water."

"Well, let's do it." Daryl said.

"Really?" I perked up.

"Yeah, why not? Hell, let's go fer a swim."

"I thank it's a little too cold to swim."

"So? It ain't gonna kill ya." He said holding out his hand. "Come on." I took his hand while smiling and we walked down to the shore.

I took my jacket off along with my shoes and socks. Walking over to the water, I dipped a toe in. "Burrrr!" I yelled and shivered. "It's freezin'."

"It is, ain't it?"

"I don't know about this."

"Huh." My brother said. "Suit yerself." He jumped in. I gasped.

"Oh my God, Daryl! I cain't believe ya just did that!"

"Come on in!" He yelled at me.

"Fine." I said and jumped in too. It was freezing. I shivered immediately. "Too cold." I said through chattered teeth.

"Come'er. I'll warm ya up." Daryl said. I walked closer to him and hugged him. Then, he lifted me and threw me into the water.

"Hey!" I said once I emerged. "You tricked me!" He stood there laughing. I splashed him the face. He laughed even harder. I laughed along with him.

We ended up having a really nice time despite how cold the water was.

Daryl and I sat on the shore after we were done swimming. We wanted to dry off a little before we went on to this camp. We sat, talked and ate snacks.

"Ya still scared?" Daryl asked me.

"Yeah." I nodded.

"Me too."

I gave him a questioning look. "Yer scared, Daryl? But you ain't never scared?"

"Nah, I do. I just don't show it."

"How come?" I looked at him innocently.

He sighed. "Gotta be tough. If yer scared and I'm scared then who's gonna take care 'a thangs?"

I thought about what he just said. "Guess yer right." I leaned back. "Hey, maybe some time…I'll be tough so you can be scared fer once." I smiled at him.

"Okay." He let out a small laugh. "Come'er." He hugged me tightly. "Love ya so much ya don't even know."

"Well, I love you more!"

"I doubt that." He chuckled and kissed the top of my head. "Come on, I thank yer dry enough."

"Yeah, we better get a move on." I said. "I wanna get there before dark."

"Oh, we got plenty 'a time. But yeah, yer right." Daryl stood up and brushed himself off then helped me up. He brushed off the back of me. "Let's go."

We finally arrived at the gates of Holiday Camplands. We stood there just looking at it. The nervous feeling in my belly was back. I swallowed hard. "Ya ready?" Daryl asked me. I just nodded. He grabbed my hand and we started walking again.

There was a man in a booth in front of the gate. "Stop right there." He said. We stopped.

"We're here fer sanctuary." Daryl said.

"Are ya now?" The man questioned us. "Ya don't plan on robbin' us do ya?"

My brother hesitated. "…no, we don't."

"Really?" He asked. "…you two been on the road a long time?"

"Yes." I said. "Yes, we have."

There was a long pause. "Come on in." The man finally said. He opened the gates for us. We slowly stepped inside. "Welcome to Holiday Camplands." The man said again. "I'm Gary." I was surprised at how fast he let us in.

My brother nodded. "I'm Daryl. This is my baby sister, Leann."

"Nice to meet you." Gary greeted. "Where you two from anyway?"

"Atlanta." Daryl replied. "Georgia."

"Wow." Gary said. "That's funny. We got a few folks here that came from Atlanta, Georgia, too. They arrived a while back. One guy said he used to be a cop or somethin'."

My brother and I shared a look. It couldn't be, could it? "Wait…is his name Rick?" Daryl asked. "Rick Grimes?"

The man gave us a shocked look. "Yeah. It is."

My brother and I shared another look. It can't be! I don't believe it!

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