The cold wind fills my lungs as I breath in. The weather is really changing. Today they decide if Rick stays or goes away. I wasn't planning on going. They wouldn't want my opinion anyways. As Crawford would say, I'm just a weak child.
I decided to go on a jog this morning. When you're outside Alexandria, running seems like a chore, you have to do it to survive but now, it's kinda fun. I stop in my tracks and hide behind a nearby tree. I watch as Glenn looks around silently, then exits out the gate. What is he doing? I decide to follow him.
I go around back behind a empty house and climb over the fence. I jump from it and land painfully on the ground. I stop myself from screaming. I slowly get up and follow where Glenn went.
I spot him in a clearing. I step forward breaking a tree branch. He whips towards me, knife in hand ready to strike but then relaxes.
"It's just me," I raise my hands to prove I'm unarmed.
"Hey, what are you doing out here, it's dangerous," he says strictly.
"Don't act like I've never been out here before," I spit back. I suddenly feel guilty, "I'm sorry, I saw you come out here and I was wondering what you were up to." There was a long pause between us.
"Plus, I kinda miss it out here," I joke but he clearly was unamused.
"I'm just on a walk, you can go back now," he lied.
"Okay," I began, "then I'll walk with you."
"Dakota," he complained but it was too late. I was already by his side, ready to walk.
We walked in silence for awhile and then we walked up a steep hill. At the top a large gunshot rung. We both fell to the ground, alert. I started to feel a pain in my shoulder. I looked at a bullet sized whole in my jacket where a blood stain started to form.
"Glenn," I said softly.
"Wait here," he said totally unaware that I've been struck.
He swiftly runs behinds a tree then attacks my attacker. I hear shoving and grunting but I still sat there, hand putting pressure on the wound. I lifted my hand for a second to look. It was soaked in red. I hear walkers approaching. I get up shooting a numbness completely down my back. I see Glenn under another man. I recognized him, he was from Alexandria. He got off him when he saw the walkers and threw one on to him. He ran after that leaving Glenn defenseless on the ground with two walkers crowding him.
"Glenn!" I yell, two heads turned to me and started approaching me. Glenn got up and crushed the skulls with a rock.
He ran to me, "Are you hurt!"
I lifted my shaking hand revealing the bloodstain and my wound. He ripped apart of his shirt and handed it to me.
"Put pressure on it. Can you walk?" I could see the worry forming in his face.
I nod but he picks me up and slings me over his shoulder anyways. He begins running back to Alexandria.
We get close but he puts me down and whispers to me, "Wait here."
I shake my head but he already ran off. Now that the shock is over the pain settles in. My whole side starts throbbing and my head pounds. My vision begins to blur, I can hear my heart beat in my ears. I hear screaming from the direction Glenn went. I crawl over to see what was happening. Glenn was on top of the man with a gun against his fore head. He was shaking. I started to say something but it came out as a mumble no one could hear.
"You're the reason why Noah is dead! It's your fault!" Glenn yells.
It's a long pause and I think he was going to kill him but he stops. He gets up and cries for awhile. I didn't think that man was going to live. Glen turns over then looks at me. His eyes widen.
"Behind you!" He screams and I turn around sending a pain in my bullet hole. A walker falls on top of me I push it off from me but the pain in my arm makes me scream. It's too much. I need to give up. I look at his face. A W marks his fore head. I look at it, this is the walker that will kill me. Suddenly, Glenn knocks him off me and stomps on his head.
He helps me up,"Are you okay?"
I nod but I began to cry from the pain. I stumble back and fall to the ground. He picks me up again and carries me back to Alexandria. I look into the sky for awhile looking at the stars. The start to become big blobs of light.
"Stay with me Dakota," his voice shakes.
The pain and my shoulder now just feels as if pins and needles kept stabbing at it like when my foot falls asleep but this was different.
I finally see the fire light of Alexandria. "We need some help over here." Someone is screaming, 3 bodies were on the ground, I couldn't make out the faces. My eyes lids become to heavy to stay awake, people surround me and I drift away into sleep.