Walking dead Chapter 2

The next morning I awoke to see that I was alone in the tent. At least now Daryl won't see my terrible case of bedhead. I grabbed my hoodie and put it on over my tank top, not even bothering to zip it up. I made sure my hood was up to cover the rats nest that is my hair. I left the tent and found my way back to the others.

"Morning sleeping beauty." Glenn said when he noticed me walking towards him and the others at the fire ring. The fire long extinguished since last night.

"Morning," the woman who I believe is Carol handed me a plate with some eggs on it, "Thank you."

"No problem"

"Aren't you supposed to be in Atlanta looking for Daryl's brother and some guns?" I asked Glenn.

"Yeah, everyone is ready we're just waiting for Daryl to wake up."

"What do you mean? He wasn't in the tent when I got up."

"Then where is-" Glenn was cut off by Daryl coming into camp.

"You idiots ready to go or what!" Daryl walked by, with his crossbow strapped to his back, and jumped into the truck. As Rick was trying to say goodbye to his wife and son, Daryl grew impatient and started to practically jump on the horn.

"Good luck, try not to get killed." I yelled quickly to Glenn as he ran off to join the others for the city.

After they left I walked around camp for about half an hour just exploring. I walk up to the RV and climb to the roof to sit by Dale.

"How are you making out Lilly?" Dale asked

"Okay so far, I just wish that someone would give me my bag back so I can brush my rats nest hair and put on a cleaner pair of clothes."

"Oh one moment." he got up and climb down off the RV and went inside for something. He came back and handed me my bag. "There you go, better?"

"Yes! Thank you so much." I opened my bag to see all of my stuff is messed up and my weapons, food, and medicine is gone. "Well I'm gonna go change and brush my hair, I'll be back later." I told dale as I started to climb off the RV and head towards where Daryl's tent is. I entered and pulled out all my stuff and reorganized it in my back pack. I brushed my hair with much struggle and pulled it up into high pigtails, kind of like an anime character. I pulled out shorts and a v-neck ninja turtle shirt. I grabbed a small black case, that had the word sharpie on the front, and left the tent. I saw Lori, carol, Amy, Andrea, and another woman, who I think is Jacqui, by a huge lake. I walk down to see them doing laundry and laughing together.

"Hey." I call out to them calmly.

"Oh, hey I didn't see you there." Andrea looks over to me.

"You don't have to be afraid, you can sit and talk with us" Amy tells me. I sit by Amy and join in their gossip session. We started taking about what we missed most from before the outbreak.

"I miss my vibrator." Jacqui admits to us.

"So do I," carol admits while laughing.

"What about you? What do you miss most Lilly?" Lori asks me.

"I'd say my iPod I would sit for hours on end listening to music cranked up so loud you could hear it down the street. That's really all though, I mean I still have my artsy stuff."

None of us noticed but carol husband, Ed, came over, "what are y'all laughing at."

"Nothing Ed" Andrea spoke up.

"Less talking and more cleaning."

"Or what Ed?"

"Carol come on" he grabbed her arm.

"She doesn't have to go anywhere with you."

"Come on, hurry up."

"Why so she can show up with fresh bruises later?" They continued to argue, becoming more and more heated as it continues. Until Ed slaps carol. Shane suddenly runs over and tackles Ed to the ground. He was mercilessly beating him, for a moment I thought he might kill Ed. Carol was begging him to stop.

"You touch her or anyone else again and I won't stop" he finally threatens before walking off. Leaving Carol on the ground weeping beside Ed.

After taking care of Carol and Ed, I went back to sit with Dale again.

"What you got there?" He asked pointing to my sharpie case. I sat down on the roof and set the case in between my legs.

"These are my babies." I opened the case to show dale the beautiful sharpie collection.

"Wow. That's a lot. How many do you have?"

"I have about 53 last time I counted." I replied. I looked down at my sharpies and suddenly realized that they're out of order and a complete mess. "What the fuck!" I yell, probably heard through out the camp.

"What is it?" Dale asks concerned.

"Someone messed up my damn sharpies!" I dumped out the case and started to sort them in rainbow order. "I have extreme OCD when it comes to pencils, marker, crayons, anything color related, and especially my sharpies." I counted the sharpies and realized that one was missing. "Shane!"

"What?" He came to the RV to see what I wanted.

"Where the hell is my silver sharpie!"

"But you already have a silver one?" Dale spoke curiously.

"Yes, but I had 2 of them and one is missing! Where is it!" Shane ran in the RV for a couple moments then camp back out with a silver sharpie and throwing it up to me. "Thank you!" He just walked away. I pulled out the thin black sharpie and started to draw on my left hand giving myself two different tattoos. One is a bow and arrow and the other an arrow in my wrist (picture above).

"You're pretty good." Dale said watching me continue.

"Thanks, I did this all the time, even before the apocalypse. I've been drawing on myself since I was in 9th grade."

"How do you not have any sort of skin disease?"

"Just lucky I guess."

"Why a bow and arrow?" I looked over at him, "If you don't mind me asking."

"It's a reminder of someone I once knew." that was all I could say about it.

I was sitting by the fire ring with my sharpies doodling randomly, when Carl and Sophia come and sit beside me.

"Hi Lillian." Carl says to me.

"Hey, you guys can call my Lilly, it just sounds weird being called Lillian by you guys."

"What are you doing Lilly?" Sophia asking coming closer to take a look at me doodling on my arm.

"Drawing."

"You're really good."

"Thank you."

"Can you draw something on my arm?" Sophia asked me.

"And me too?"

"Go ask your mothers, if they say its okay then sure." They jumped up and ran as fast as they could to find their mothers. A few moments later they came back. "What they say?"

"My mom says it's okay, as long as I wash it off later." Carl told me.

"And mine says it's fine." Sophia answered as well.

"Awesome. So here are the colors I have,"I opened the case completely showing them all the colors, "who's first?" Sophia sat down in front of me first and gave me her wrist. "What do you want me to draw sweetie?"

"How about a rose?"

"Sure thing. Do you want it to be any special colors or do you want it to be the normal red?" She choose the colors pink, purple, and blue. I got to work and it looked beautiful when done. Now it was Carl's turn. "What do you want bud?"

"I want a sheriffs badge."

"In gold, bronze or normal yellow?" He chose gold and when I finished it was pretty good. "There you go. Do you guys like them?"

"We love them." Sophia gushed as her and Carl hugged me.

Night fall had come and everyone was relaxing around the fire enjoying ourselves and eating the fish that Amy and Andrea had caught. Sophia and Carl were still loving their "tattoos" and were walking around showing everyone.

"These are really good." Lori said admiring the drawings on the children arms.

"Thanks. It took me a long time to get good at sharpie tattoos."

"Your able to wash them off right?"

"Yeah of course, just set your arm in water for a minute or two and it'll just wash off. But I heard that if you put baby powder and hairspray on it then it lasts for about a month. I'm not sure if it's true though, I never tried it before."

Amy gets up and Andrea nudges her, "where you going?"

"I have to pee, gees try to be discreet around here." And everyone just kind of laughs a couple minutes later we all hear Amy's scream and turn to see her get bitten by a walker. A huge horde comes into camp. Right now I really wish I had my guns.