Alexander's POV
"Nick Stop!" I Whined Playfully Annoyed As He Kept Snuggling His Head Into My Neck, Kissing It, While Having His Arms Wrapped Around My Waist.
"Not Until You Forgive Me" Nick Answered, I Sighed And Rolled My Eyes
"All Right Fine, I'll For-Forgive You!" I Choked Out As He Started Tickling Me, Which Caused Me to Laugh
"Ah, I Love it When You Smile" Nick Smirked Before Giving Me A Long Passionate Kiss Before We Walked Out And Downstairs To Greet Our Fellow Members.
"Took You Long Enough..." Pete Smirked, But I Just Playfully Rolled My Eyes But My Expression Soon Changed When Clementine Walked In
"Hey Alex...And Others" Clementine Awkwardly Greeted, Forming An Awkward Silence Around Us
"Let's Just Go..." Nick Said Before Walking, Going Back to His Glum State As I Watched Them Walk Off to Hunt.
I Remember When Lee, Kenny And Mark Walked Off Into The Woods And Came Back With...An Injured Man And...Ben, Just Thinking Back, All of The Crazy Times We Shared Together, Our First Break-Up, First Make-Up, Our Second Break Up...
'I Love You' Was The Words He Last Said to Me, Oh My God...Please Tell Me I'm Not Crying Right Now...It's Just Ugh...I Always Find Myself Thinking About The Past That t Gets Me...I Can't Help But Think About The Past...
"Hey Al, You Alright? You Just Standing There Like You're Lost Or Something" I Heard Luke Ask From Behind Me, I Turned to See Luke Walking Into The Kitchen, I Decided to Follow Him And Hang With Him, Since Were Going Hunting Today...
Clementine's POV
Walking In The Woods, In The Sun With No Walkers Around Was New to Me...Never Felt This Calm After My Night In The Woods, I'm Just Glad Luke and Pete Found Me When I Did, Or I Would've Ended With More Than Just A Dog Bite...Which Is Kind Of Throbbing...I Guess, Under These Wrapped Up White Sheets...
"How You Holding Up? Heard You Got A Earful From Rebecca Last Night. Once She Gets Going There's No Bringing Her Back" I Narrowed my Eyes Thinking About My Conversation With Her Last Night, I Get That She's Pregnant But That Doesn't Mean She Can Tell Me Off, I Was Just A Little Girl..."Her Bark's Worse Than Her Bite."
"What's Her Problem?" I Asked
"Well She's Got A Lot On Her Mind, Lately. Bringing A baby Into A World Like This?" Pete Answered As I Ran Up A Little To Catch Up
"How Far Are These Fish Traps?" I Asked, Tired Of Walking
"It Ain't Much Further."" He Answered As I Looked Down At His Gun, Smirking A Little. It's Been A While Since I've Shotten, Especially When Lee Taught Me, And Then Alex Started Running With Tears...What A Day...
"Anyone Teach You How to Shoot?" Pete Smiled, I Looked Up At Him "By That I Mean Taught Papper. Any Idiot With A Finger Can Shoot."
"My Friend Lee, Taught Me" I Smiled Thinking Of Lee
"That's Good. That's Important Nowadays." Pete Said As He Crossed Over A Fence, With Me Following Behind...
"Nick Was About Your Age, When I First Took Him Huntin'." Pete Started. Oh, You Mean Alex's Grumpy Old Boyfriend, What's His Problem? What Does Alex See In Him, Anyways? He Seems Grumpy, At Most. I've Always Liked Ben..."Came Across This 13-Point Buck Just Standin' there on the ridgeline. The Boy Takes The Rifle...Lines Up The Shot Just Like I Taught Him...then I Hear Him Start Whinin'. Then He Turns to Me And Says 'I Can't Do It. I Can't Shoot It, Uncle Pete. Please Don't Make Me Shoot it." I Just Smiled
"What A Baby" I Smiled. Hard to Believe He's Dating Alex...
"Hey!" I Turned My Head to See Nick Running Up to Us, With An Mad Expression. "Why Didn't You Wait?"
"You Want Us Standin' Around While You Piss On A Tree? You Know Where The River Is, Boy." Pete Answered As I Looked At Nick Before We Started Walking Again, In Front Of Nick "Anyway, So I Grab The Gun Out His Hand Before This Big Buck runs off when BANG! The Gun Fires. Boy Nearly Gut Shot Me. And Of Course the Buck Gets Away." I Smiled Until Nick intervened
"What're You Goin and Tellin' Her This Shit For?" Nick asked Annoyed
"Cause You Almost Blew her Face Off Yesterday. Seems Relevent. Tryin' to Let Her Know it's Nothin' Personal with you" Pete Answered Facing Nick, Who Looked Angry Now
"Why Are You Always Givin' Me A Hard Time?"
"Cause You're Always Givin' Everyone Else A Hard Time Especially Alex, Don't Blame Her For Your Mother's Unfortune" Pete Said back As I Looked At Nick
"First Off, I'm Not Blaming Alex For Anything, We Made Up This Morning And I Apologized Already. She Accepted it." Nick Answered Defending Himself
"Ok, Well I Didn't Know That" Pete Said Back
"Its Fine. He Apologized" I Said Trying to Help Out Nick, He's Alright I Guess, I'll Give Him A Chance Since He's Dating My Friend...
"You're Always Trying to Embarrass Me" Nick Said Back to Pete
"You're Doing A Good Enough Job Of That On Your Own, I'm Surprised Alex Is Still With Ya, Considering She Can Have Anything Guy She Wants Who Is Non-Crazy In This Word, Especially Luke..."Pete Said Back, My Eyes Widen As Nick Just Narrowed His Eyes At Pete Before Walking Off, Brushing Roughly Past Pete Not Saying A Word, I'm Guessin' From That Expression That He Felt Hurt By That Statement, I Guess He Really Does Like Alex, But Why Does Pete Keep Bringing Up 'She's Better Without Him' Stuff Off On Nick? "Leavin' Us Again?"
"I Know Where The Fucking River Is!" Nick Said Back Coldly, Still Hurt, Not Even Turning His Head Back At us But Kept Walking As We Just Watched Him Walk off, Thinking What's Going In His Mind Right Now After Pete's Words
"So Anyway...I Found That Buck Later That Season. Shot it Right in the neck. Brought it Up to my Sister's Figurin' She want freeze some of the meat...Nick didn't speak to me for weeks." Pete Continued "Sometimes you Gotta Play A Role...even if it means people you love hate you for it" I Looked Up
"He Doesn't Hate You" I Reassured
"Nick's Father Wasn't there much, and he was a piece of shit when he was, so it fell to me to keep him in line. Raise Him Right. Meant I Couldn't Just Be Nice Uncle Pete." Pete Said, I Then Became Alarmed When...
"UNCLE PETE!" Nick Yelled Out, We Both Went Running For Nick's Direction...
Alexander's POV
"That Was A Very Short Hunt, Don't Ya Think?" I Asked As We Entered Inside The Cabin. Luke Just Sighed
"Yeah, I Guess. I Mean, Those Walkers Were Everywhere, I Didn't Want Them to Hurt Us, Especially You" Luke Explained. I Just Smiled.
"Yeah Well Thanks" I Thanked As We Both Smiled At Each Other
"It's Alright, Even If They Did Attack Us, We Both Know You'll Knock Him Out With Only One Bullet" I Smiled
"Well Thank Carley And Carver For That" I Sighed As A Frown Formed On My Face.
"Hey, I Know It's Rough Here But You Got Us, Right?" Luke Reassured, I Nodded As He Pulled Me Into A Hug As I Silently Frowned Into His Neck, Thinking About Carley...
"Shit Were in Deep Shit Now" Ben Exclaimed Worriedly. I Held His Hand and Felt his Grip Get Tighter "Everything's Gonna Be Fine, If You Didn't Do it, Keep Saying it Until Lilly Get's Tired of Accusing You and Carley and We Can get back on this Van Like Nothing Happened" I Reassured. I Heard Ben Gulp Before We Walked off the Van
"Lilly's a Bitch Ain't She?" Carley Whispered to Me. I Smirked But it Soon Fell, Thinking About What Lilly Was Going through. I Stood Next to Clementine as the Interrogation Began...
"You Know What? We Shouldn't Just Kick You Out, We Should Hear What Everyone Else Thinks" Lilly Started
"I Think You Should Chill Out!" Ben Said back
"I'm not gonna take this, You can Push Ben Around But You can't push me around" Carley said
"I'm Really Sorry that You Feel that way, But I'm Starting to think maybe it was both of you" Lilly said
"NO!" Ben Denied
"Ah This Dumb Fuck Walker!" Kenny Exclaimed as he was Dealing with A Walker that was Trapped Underneath the Van
"You Okay over there?" Lee Asked
"Yeah Yeah Son of a bitch..."
"Ben, You Have no other Options..."
"Leave him alone!" I Spoke up.
"Your Gonna tell me it was Carley and then everything is gonna be right as ra..."
"There's No way it was Carley. It Was Somebody Else. It Could've been Someone Sneaking into our Camp" Lee Reasoned
"That's Ridiculous That's what you think?" Lilly Asked
"Yes."
"Okay then, Fine then, Kenny?" Lilly Called
"I Don't Know, Fuck! Just Stop, Would Ya!?" Kenny said Annoyed/Frustrated
"Well Your Vote Counts for you and Katjaa"
"We Don't Need all these VOTES! What Do I Have to Do For You to TRUST Me?! I'll Do ANYTHING! I'll-I'll-I'll do watchers for Months!" Ben Suggested. I Looked at Him with Sympathy Man I Felt Sorry For Him...
"Like Hell You Will" Lilly said Shaking her head
"I'll Get More Food, More Medicine, Anything! Just-"
"Do You think any of that is Good Now?!" Lilly exclaimed
"Just Let Me Stay! God Please! Please!" Ben Begged, I Held onto his Hand Tighter
"Your Pathetic, Look at You" Lilly Taunted. I Clenched my Jaw
"Shut Up Lilly!" I Exclaimed Angrily at her "You Have NO Right to Insult Him Like That, In my Perspective and Probably Carley and Clementine's, We think That Ben Is a Good Guy, Stop Giving him this Much Pressure! God, He's Just 17!" Lilly Looked at me Taken Back But Quickly Glared At Me
"Stop Panicking. Seriously Ben, You Need to Stop and Take a Breath." Lee Ordered Ben
"Do We Need Anymore Evidence than this?!" Lilly Exclaimed
"FUCK Evidence! Stop Treating Him Like This!" Carley Exclaimed Taking the Words Right out of my Mouth
"Shut up Carley! Ugh! I've heard enough out of you!" Lilly Exclaimed in Annoyance "Kenny What's it gonna be?"
"Just Give me a Damn Minute!"
"Ben You have until that Walker is Dealt With to tell me it was her and not you" Lilly Demanded
"Stop This! Your Torturing Him!" I Exclaimed Wanting this to Stop, This was Really Getting Outta Hand...
"NO!"
"BEN!"
"STOP!"
"This is about TRUST and I've never Trusted you" Lilly said looking at Ben
"Tell Her Just Do It Ben" Lee Said. I Gave him a Disbelieved Look
"Lee!" I Exclaimed Not Believing What He was Saying
"Lee!? Jesus Wha-Who Are You Right Now?!" Carley Exclaimed Looking at Lee
"Tell Her What?! She'll Kick Me Outta the Group!" Ben Defended
"We Won't. We'll Understand" Lee Reassured
"Tell Me. Now."
"THERE. I Got it" Kenny Said As He Pulled the Walker Out.
"Please Can We Just go back in?"
"That's Not Happening"
"You think you're some tough bitch, Don't you? Like Nothing Can Hurt you, But Your Just a scared little girl. Get the Fuck Over it" Carley Told Off. "Take a Page from Lee's Book and Try Helping Somebody For Once" Lilly Glared at Lilly. We Turned to See Kenny kicking the Walker's Head In Before Walking over to Us
"Now What the Fucks the Problem?-" I Jumped as I Heard a Gunshot and Carley was Down on the Ground with a Bullet in her Head.
I Squinted My Eyes At That Exact Moment, Carley Told Her Off Leading to Lilly Shooting Her...Back Then It Was So Much Louder, The Gunshot, Because I Was Kind Of Next to Her And She Was Just Shot There...With Free Will
"Alex! Yay I Get to Do Your Hair!" Sarah Exclaimed As She Ran Up to Me, Seperating Me And Luke From Our Hug, And Sarah Grabbed My Hand Leading Me to The Couch And Started Picking At My Hair, And Luke Just Walked Off Somewhere, Making Me Unaware Of His Whereabouts
"Who's Clementine?" I Heard Sarah Ask But I Still In My Thoughts So I Didn't Get Her Question
"What?" I Asked
"I Said, Who's Clementine, You know The Girl That's Staying With Us Now" I Sighed And Smiled At The Thought Of Clementine...
"Hey Alex Lee says we can take shifts holding the Talkie" Clementine said as I sat next to her. I smiled at her.
"Great, Clementine I'm Actually Glad Were in this Situation" I Confessed. Clementine's Eyes Widened at me.
"Why?"
"Because We Both Are in this Together and Met a Great Guardian in our Possession, And Plus I Know We'll Make it through together, All We have to do is Believe and Have Hope" I Explained. Clementine nodded,
"You Betcha' I'm Wherever You Are, Sis..." Clementine confessed but put her hand over her mouth Once She said 'Sis'. My Eyes Widen Noticing What she Said. She thought I Was a Sister to her?!
"It's Okay Clem, Your a Sister to me Too And Sisters Always Have each other's Back, Promise?" I asked pulling up my Pinky. Clementine Smiled and pulled up her Pinky as We Put out Pinkies Together, Promising.
"Alex? Earth To Alexa.." I Heard Sarah As I Got Out Of My Thoughts
"Oh Umm, Yeah? Clementine's A Special Friend Of Mine, We've Bee With Each Other Through Thick And Thin" I Answered Smiling Faintly
"Oh Is She Nice?" Sarah Asked, Starting to Braid My Hair, I Nodded In Reponse
"Good. Because I Just Met Her Last Night And Were Besties Already. This Is Gonna Be So Great, Me, Clementine And You All Three Besties, We'll Be The Three Awesome Girls" I Smiled And Nodded Just Going With What She Says, She's A Sweetie But Sometimes, I Wonder What Goes In Her Head Sometimes...