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I was walking that day until I felt a tug on my pony tail, I whip around expecting a hungry walkerto grab me but instead I saw a friendly face. I almost forgot I was in Alexandria.
"Hey Tara."
"Dakota, your hair! I've never seen it so blonde!" She fiddles around with it in her fingers, I pull it away.
"You aren't the first one to say that," I say blushing.
"Glenn wanted me to tell you that he and I are going on a run," she says.
"Thanks for letting me know." I watch her run off and wave. Everyone is so happy here.
I walked for a long time studying my surroundings. People were out and about, some were jogging others sat on their porches. I walked by a house and an elderly couple was talking to Carl. I began to walk over but is pushed out of the way by Rick.
"Sorry," he says rushing to Carl. He talks to him for awhile but I only hear the tail of the conversation, "How bout you invite Dakota to come too," Rick says kinda anxiously.
"Okay," Carl says walking to me.
"Where are we going?" I ask.
"To meet the other kids," he says looking just as unhappy as I.
"Okay."
We reach a house and we are invited in by the kid who invited me to play ball yesterday.
"Hey," he says, "you never came back to play kick ball with us."
"I said maybe, that doesn't mean yes."
He opened his mouth to talk but stopped himself.
We went up in him room and introduced us to Mikey and Enid. Carl looked a little shocked.
"So... Are you guys into video games?" He offered, "You don't have talk yet, it took Enid 3 weeks before she spoke to us," he said noticing Carl's worry.
Enid mumbled something.
Carl finally shook his head, "Alright, let's play video games."
After playing video games for awhile, we decided to play kick ball. Enid didn't didn't come play with us. It was Carl and I against Ron and Mikey.
We were winning by a little and it was my turn to kick. I kicked the ball hard and it went straight up and over the fence.
"That was our only ball!" Mikey yelled.
"I'll get it," I ran over to climb over the fence.
"No, we can get someone to get it tomorrow, "Ron said but it was too late. I started climbing up the fence.
I dropped myself down and went out to find the ball. I searched around the woods for awhile until I found it sticking out. I grabbed it and went back over to the fence. I heard a low growl from behind me. I turned and a walker grabbed at me. I kicked the walker against a tree. I grabbed for my knife but it wasn't there. Uh oh. I dodged the walker once more trying to find something to destroy it's skull. I kicked her down once more and grabbed a heavy rock. I went on top of it. She snapped at me from underneath me. I grabbed the rock and bashed her skull repetitively until she was long gone. I got up and brushed myself down, catching my breath. I grabbed the ball and climbed over the fence again. I threw the ball down at them. They all stood there in shock.
"Got it," I say.
"Are you insane?" Mikey hisses my direction.
"You can't just go over the walls like that!" Ron spits out.
"It's fine," I say.
"Really, what's on your hands?" Ron points at my hand which was covered in walker blood.
"I'm fine," I snap, "You're saying you've never been out there yet?"
"I'm going to go," Carl says and sprints away.
"Good thing no one saw you, you would be in huge trouble," Mikey says nervously.
"I'm going in," Ron says, "wash yourself before someone notices."
Ron and Mikey leave me in the empty yard, covered in walker guts. I go back home hiding my hands in my jean pockets.
"What happened?" Maggie asks as I walk over to wash off.
"I was playing kick ball and I kicked a ball over the fence and I went over to get it and," I stopped, "These kids have no idea how bad it is out there. No one here does."
Soon after I say that Glenn comes in red as a tomato with anger.
"What happened?" Maggie asks her husband.
"Nothing,"he replies.
"Well, wash up Deanna is having a party for us."
"Do I have to go?" Glenn argued.
"Yes, it's a nice gesture," she says.
"I'll get ready," he groans, slamming the bathroom door. Maggie sighs.
"He'll get used to this one day," she shakes her head.
"I don't know if these people know what they're doing," I say.
"It's just not what we are used to."
"I guess," I say.
She pauses and looks at me, "I'm glad we found you again Dakota," she hesitates to say the next thing, "you remind me so much of Beth." She wipes her eyes.
"Thanks," I say. I never knew Beth but I guess she was the one Rick left to get back at the church.
"I'm sorry, I'm a mess," she apologizes.
"Aren't we all?" I try to comfort her but, not being around people much means I suck at people skills.
Glenn comes out and grabs her shoulder, "Ready?"
"Yeah."
The party was nice, the house was bright and people were smiling, laughing, and drinking. I saw Ron in the conner of the dining room with Mikey.
I walked over, "You guys," I came in closer and whispered, "you didn't tell anyone right?"
"No, you're welcome by the way," Ron said snobbishly.
"She didn't know Ron, give it up," Mikey rolled his eyes, "Sorry about him."
"It's fine," I say turning away.
"Don't do it again, I'm surprise you didn't get caught," Mikey said whispering.
"Well, I guess I forgot what's out there for awhile," I shrug. To be honest that's not hard to do in Alexandria. It's so happy here, so different from the several months before we found this place. Things were different here.