For the most part Glenn took me around the camp introducing me to everyone. The first people I met was a woman with short hair, her husband, and her daughter.
"Avis this is Carol and her daughter Sophia." Glenn said. I waved to both of them.
"My husband is over there walking to our tent, his name is Ed." Carol said shyly. I smiled and we moved on to the next set of people. Glenn lead me to Morales' family.
"Hey Morales," Glenn said. Morales nodded back. "This is his wife Miranda. His kids, Eliza and Louis." I waved to all of them again. We then proceeded on. Next it was a man with a beard and looked to be a mechanic "This is Jim." I shook his had and told him my name. We then went to the good looking man next. "This is Shane, Avis." I shook his hand also and I told him my name too. Next was Rick's family. "Hey, Rick?" Rick turned with a smile and noticed me.
"Hey guys. Oh, this is my wife, Lori, and my son, Carl." I waved to both of them. We walked away wanting them to enjoy themselves. Glenn and I walked over to the red car and sat on the hood. That was kind of a lot to take in. Should I bring up that I feel like I know him? Yes. I sighed and looked to Glenn. He looked at me confused.
"I need to tell you something." I took some time to even think about what I was going to say. I cleared my throat. "Do you-no. I..okay as weird as this sounds. I felt like I've met you before." He slowly nodded."I mean, did we go to school with each other? High school? College? Old friends?" He sat there thinking. Thinking about college, I went to cosmetology school so that's out. Yeah, stupid.
"I don't know, maybe I have one of those familiar faces," Glenn then rubbed his chin making a smolder-type look. I laughed and he laughed too. It was getting pretty dark, which meant coldness. I grabbed my jacket from my backpack. Yes warmth. "Follow me." Glenn lead me to where everyone was sitting. When was the last time I ate? I sat in between Glenn and Sophia. The fire was warm and it made me happy. Sophia turned to me.
"I really like your hair." she said quietly.
"Thank you. It wont look so great in a couple of weeks though." I laughed. I heard Glenn chuckle a bit. I had died my hair brown, and soon enough it'll be blonde.
"Why's that?" she asked.
"Well, I'll magically turn into a blonde one day, because the dye will run out." I said and she giggled. She reminds me so much of Cathy. Carol and Lori were passing food around to the group. I didn't care if you were feeding me mushrooms and dirt, I'm starving. I slowly ate, along with most of the group.
"Carol! Sophia! Get over here." It was Ed yelling for his family. Sophia waved a goodbye and left with her mom to Ed's fire. Ed seems like douche. I turn back to the group. After eating dinner we stayed by the fire.
"Disoriented. Fear, confusion-all those things but...disoriented comes closest." Rick explained. He was shot in the shoulder by someone on the highway. He ended up in a coma and found out everything once he woke up.
"Words can be meager things. Sometimes they fall short." Dale said.
"I felt like I'd been ripped out of my life and put somewhere else. For a while I thought I was trapped in some coma dream, something I might not wake up from ever." Carl looked up to Rick.
"Mom said you died." I looked up from the ground to Carl. Kids, they say things without thinking. But Rick wasn't mad.
"She had every reason to believe that. Don't you ever doubt it." Rick replied.
"When things started to get really bad, they told me at the hospital that they were gonna medevac you and the other patients to Atlanta, and it never happened." said Lori.
"That hospital got overrun."
"Yeah, looks don't deceive. I barley got them out." said Shane.
"I can't tell you how grateful I am to you, Shane. I can't begin to express it." said Rick.
"There go those words falling short again. Paltry things." said Dale smiling. Ed suddenly placed another piece of wood into the fire.
"Hey, Ed. You want to rethink that log?" asked Shane.
"It's cold, man." Ed replied.
"The cold don't change the rules, does it? Keep our fires low, just embers so we can't be seen from a distance, right?"
"I said it's cold. You should mind your own business for once." Shane got up suddenly. I looked to Glenn and he shook his head as to ignore the situation. I looked over and Shane looked at Ed upset. Carol suddenly got up and to do something but sat back down. Shane pulled the log out and came back to our fire.