It ended up that only Glenn and Skylar were going on the run while the others stayed at camp which was just fine with Skylar and Glenn.
The two quietly walked through a store, careful of any creepers lurking around. Skylar stuffed random stuff in the two duffel bags that she held whilst Glenn searched for weapons.
"Glenn." Skylar whispered softly to the Korean man. Her head nodded to her left to show a bunch of weapons in a glass casing. "To risk making noise and have weapons or to not risk noise and not have weapons, such a hard choice." She whispered to herself sarcastically before pulling a bandana from her pocket and wrapping it around her knuckles. She looked at Glenn who quickly nodded and punched the glass.
They waited for a few seconds with bated breath but no walkers came. Quickly Skylar stuffed the weapons in the duffel and they made their way outside the city of Atlanta and back at camp.
"So you do talk?" Glenn questioned as they made their way back to the camp. Skylar shrugged in answer and tightened her grip on a knife. Glenn sighed and ran a hand over his youthful face tiredly.
"Sorry." She muttered just loud enough for the man to hear her. It was his turn to shrug.
"I get it, kind of, not really – I've always been pretty sociable, sorry." He sent her a sheepish grin that made her lips turn up in a slight smile. The rest of the walk was quiet save for the cicadas and their breaths.
The second they entered the camp, Xavier and Piper barrelled over to Skylar with looks of concern on their faces.
"I was so worried about you, when you didn't come back after sunset just- oh my." Skylar stared at the woman in confusion and then looked up at the sky. It was the first time that she had noticed that the sky was a nice inky black with the stars dotting it like freckles and a few stray clouds hovering over.
"Huh," Skylar spoke in astonishment, "I didn't even notice that." Her voice was even and louder than what it normally would be. Xavier and Piper shared looks but said nothing just in case this stopped. Skylar faced the two with a cheeky grin and held up the two very full duffel bags.
"We got a lot of stuff, let's just say, the city is loaded." With that she began to make her way into the centre of the camp where Glenn stood. Skylar shuffled around the bags for the stuff she got for herself and left them in the middle of the camp for the survivors to take a look.
"What took ya so long girlie? Ya got e'rryone worried for ya." A familiar voice piped up as she made her way to the van that she had practically claimed as her sleeping place. She turned to face Merle with a small smile on her face and pointed to the van. He followed her quietly and helped her inside before jumping in and sitting on the other side with his legs spread out and an expectant look on his face.
"We lost track of time." She said simply in a clear voice. She shrugged and began stuffing her things into a bag and putting the weapons in a different bag. Merle raised an eyebrow and humphed.
"Ah think tha' you an' ching chong didn't lose track of time." It was Skylar's turn to raise an eyebrow but hers was questioning.
"And what do you suppose that Glenn and I were doing Merle?" She knew the answer to the question; she just wanted to hear him say it just to piss him off. She crawled closer to the man on all fours which raised both of his eyebrows before sitting in front of him with their knees touching.
"Are ya fuckin' tha Chinese man?" He asked quite bluntly. A giggle left Skylar's lips before she could hide it. A dusty blush made its way to her tan cheeks at the sound of the laugh and the question.
"No, Merle, Glenn and I are not 'fucking'," she did air quotations around the word, "As you so pleasantly put it, we just hit the jackpot with the shops and we grabbed anything we could hold." She noted that Merle's face physically relaxed when she told him what happened. With a teasing smile she spoke again clearly,
"Merle, are you jealous." Said man's face hardened and a glare was sent her way but no words were spoken. Skylar's eyes widened in fake shock and her legs uncrossed to rest under her butt. She placed her hands on her knees to support herself and she put her face close to Merle's. The smile never left her lips as she searched his unshaven face. Her brown eyes found his nice, blue ones and slowly she got closer to where he could feel her breath on his lips.
"No need to be jealous, Merle." She whispered gently. Merle physically shivered and even though Skylar wasn't actually on him, she could feel his body vibrate with the shivers rolling over his body. Their eyes stayed locked, the pupils blown so big there was barely any colour left in there. Suddenly Merle leaned forward to seal a kiss. Their breath came in sharp and fast. Neither moved forward nor backwards, testing the limits of one another. The only noise came from their breaths and the slight sound of the campers conversing outside the walls of the cube truck.
Suddenly footsteps were heard quite close to the truck causing the two to jump apart swiftly. Xavier rounded the corner with an angry look on his handsome face. Merle jumped out of the truck and made his way to his tent which was a little way away from the camp.
"What did I tell you?" Xavier whispered harshly. Skylar flinched back slightly.
"To stay away from him," She whispered back softly to her comrade.
"And what did you do?" He was physically seething by that point. Skylar gave him a strange look and stood up to her full height of 5 feet, eight inches.
"What is your problem with him? He's done nothing to you or to me." Xavier rubbed the bridge of his nose tiredly.
"Just go to bed Skylar." With that he walked off, leaving a confused and mad Skylar.