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-Ashley
You and Carl walk back inside and see Lizzie stomp off towards her cell block. Everyone is getting ready for bed. Carl goes off to his own cell and you go to yours. Brent was already in bed on the top bunk. He was deep asleep and snoring. You smile knowing that now he doesn't have to stay up all night and keep watch. You lie down on your bed and look around the room. The room was dull and boring. You think of what kind of home we can make this place. You and everyone else can stay here forever and have a normal life. You drift off to sleep imagining about the future.
Carl's P.O.V
Carl watched as Crystal entered her cell, he stood out there until she turned out her light. Carl let his breath out. He set his hat down on his dresser and got under the covers of his bed. Carl was thankful for his own room, he didn't like sharing his personal space.
Carl lay awake thinking, about Crystal. He knows that she doesn't like him very much, and he feels really bad about it. Carl did seem a little mean when he talked to her. He hadn't seen people his age in forever, he just didn't know how to react. He didn't want to seem weak, he wanted to seem strong and not afraid of anything. He was sorry...
. . .
Carl jumps awake, he was dreaming that he was falling out of the sky into a herd of walkers. The sky was dark and gray, maybe some rain would come today. Carl gets off of his bed and gets dressed. He puts on his hat and walks out the cell into the hallway. He walks past Crystal's cell and peeks inside. She must've already gone out. He walks down the hallway into the cafeteria, everyone looks at him.
"Well, goodmorning. You look handsome this morning.", Michonne says sarcastically. Carl sighs and grabs an apple from off of the counter. Carl sits in front of Crystal again. Crystal has her hair up in a messy bun, you can see her green eyes better, she looks tired. Her bangs frame her round face. And she wears a purple t-shirt with some sweats. Crystal doesn't look at Carl she was too busy talking to her brother, Brent. Carl put his head down, he wanted to talk to her, he really did. He just didn't know what to say. She probably hated him anyway. Suddenly, his thoughts are interupted with a nudge in his side.
"What's the long face for kid?", Michonne says facing towards him.
"Nothing.".
"Okay, suit yourself.".
Carl gets up from the table and walks over to Rick and Daryl.
"Are we goin' on any runs today?", Carl asks hopefully, he wanted to get out of this damn place for awhile.
"Yeah, we're goin' to find some food, were runnin' kinda low with all these mouths to feed.", Daryl replies.
"Can I go?"
"Yeah guess so. Bring Crystal along too, she needs somethin' to do.", Rick orders. Carl walks over to Crystal and taps her on her shoulder, she faces toward him and gives him a cold glare.
"Get dressed, we're going on a run.". Crystal nods, gets up, and walks toward her cell.
Crystal's P.O.V.
You were kind of excited, but a little nervous at the same time not knowing what was going to happen. Your brother walks into the cell.
"Where are you going?", he asks with a confused face.
"On a run, don't worry im not going alone.", you reassure.
"Fine, but be careful.", he says hugging you, he squeezes you tight! You try to get out of his bear hug, but he was holding on to tight.
"Uh...can you let go?", you laugh.
" Oh yeah, sure.", he says letting you go, chuckling.
You, Rick, Daryl, Michonne, and Carl climb into the van. Rick drives the car towards the gates and Glenn and Maggie open them and you guys go through. You sit next to Daryl and Carl, and Michonne and Rick sit in the front.
"Where are we going?", you ask, tapping Daryl on the shoulder. He looks at you, wondering why you had to reach over Carl and didn't ask him.
"Were gonna find a town, to look for some supplies.", he replies. You nod your head and look out the window. There were naked trees and some that were a bright orange and red. You haven't seen any walkers yet though. 20 minutes later you guys end up in a small town with a chocloate shop, a post office, a grocery store, and a comic book store. Yes!
Rick orders for all of you to go in the grocery store. Rick walks up to the glass doors and pounds on them with his fist. Nothing. He breaks the glass with the butt of his gun, and you guys step inside. Rick makes you and Carl look down the pharmacy aisle for any medicine you guys might need. Him and the others search for food and anything else they can find.
You and Carl walk in silence for a while walking up and down the aisle. You find an aisle with some pain reliever and shove them into your backpack, Carl was grabbing other medicine in the next aisle over. Just then, you hear a noise not to far away, maybe over towards the toys. You look over towards Carl, but he didn't seem to notice so you walk over the way the sound came from. You carefully peeked around the corner, there was nothing there, maybe somebody just bumped something off the shelf, so you turn around. Smack! You fall to the ground.
A tall man, with a beard and a dark blue jacket on had smacked you in the face. He covered your mouth so you couldn't scream. All you could hear was your muffled voice. You tried to call for anyone, as loud as you could but no one could hear you.
"No one can hear you, little girl.", the man said in a deep hushed voice. You tried to kick him off of you but it was no use. He touched you. You screamed and screamed, tears forming in your eyes.
"It's alright, you'll be okay. ", he says, still whispering. He won't keep his hands off you. Bang! Blood splatters all over your clothes and face. He falls on top of you. You pushed him off and see Carl standing there with a gun in his hands and a terrified look on his face. He holds his hand out for you and you grab it, pulling yourself up. You hug him. You were scared to death, you were bawling by now. He stood there awkwardly but hugged you back, holding you close.
"Are you okay, Crystal?", he says letting go of you, holding you by the shoulders. You nod, too shocked to say anything. Soon, Rick runs over, followed by Daryl and Michonne.
"What happened?", Rick asks with worry in his eyes. He looks around and sees a man on the ground, blood surrounding him. You take a deep breath and try to speak.
"I walked around the aisle, beacuse I-I thought i heard something. There was nothing there so i turn around and he slapped me...he touched me.", you say putting your head down. You are crying your eyes out, it was scary. That has never happened before.
"We should get back.", Daryl suggests walking away.
. . .
As soon as you get back to the prison, Brent comes running towards you.
"What happened? Are you alright.", Brent asks checking you. You don't say anything, you weren't sure if you should tell him or not, beacuse if you do you might not be able to go out again.
"I'm fine.", you answer a moment later.
"No you're not. Your face is red like someone slapped you and you have bruises all over. What happened?", he says more demanding pointing to your wounds. You start to tear up just thinking about it.
"I was attacked.". Brent stood there shocked.
"Did they touch you?", he says quietly.
You hesitate, "Yes."
Brent angrily walks toward the leader, Rick.
"What happened? And I want the damn truth.", he says poking Rick hard in the chest.
"Hey calm down!", you shout, you were not in the mood for Brent's crap.
"Didn't she tell ya'?"
"Yes, but I want to know where you were! Why weren't you around to protect her? You don't seem like much of a leader, Rick.", Brent shouts, getting closer towards him. Daryl steps in and shoves Brent away.
"Hey, you ain't just gonna barge in here an' start yelling at us just cause' you don't know what happened.", Daryl spits at Brent. Brent shoves him.
"Hey! Stop it! Brent, leave them alone! I'm fine!", you scream.
"This isn't none of your buisness, redneck!".
Daryl tackles Brent and knock him to the ground. Daryl takes a hard blow to the face. Brent kicks him in the stomach. They throw punches at each other and wrestle on the gorund. Daryl gets up and starts to kick Brent in the side. They both have bloody knuckles and black eyes.
"Stop!", you yell trying to shove Daryl off of him. He throws you off of him and you land on Carl, knocking him over.
"Daryl, that's enough!", Rick says pulling Daryl off. Rick grabs his handcuffs out of his pockets and puts them on Brent.
"I'll let you out when you learn your lesson.", he says to Brent while putting them on him.
They dragged Brent into the prison and left me and Carl outside.
"Thanks, for uh, helping me back there, and sorry for my brother being such an ass.", you apologize.
"No problem.", he replies.