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F O U R

The next day, when she actually gets there.

[ A L E X A ]

As soon as I approached the gates, they were opened by Eugene.

"Nice to see you again." He still had that straight face.

"Eugene who the hell did you open the gates f-" I heard Carl's voice. When he appeared from being hidden behind the walls, he stopped in his tracks.

"Alexa." He whispered.

I smiled lightly.

"Hi... is there anyway that offer of staying here is still up?" I wiped my clammy hands on my jeans.

"Yeah of course." Carl answered quickly, waving his hand at me to come in.

I inhaled a deep breath before stepping in. I heard the gates close.

Here goes a month or maybe more without my family. "I thought you didn't want to be here." Carl looked at me in shock. He then pulled me into a tight hug. I couldn't help but feel my heart explode.

"Well, what can I say? There's people here to talk to. There's a community who has eachothers back." That made shivers make its way up my spine.

For a minute I nearly forgot about my dad sending me here and not me being here on my own. I was just trying to live a life I didn't belong in.

"Let's go tell my dad you're here. God I'm so happy you decided to come back." Carl's smile was so bright.

It made me feel so wrong.

Because dad was going to come here soon and probably kill them all.

My dad told me not to get attached but Carl already had me stitched.

He was so happy that I was here. It's all going to be ruined soon.

My smile wiped away.

"Come on." Carl excitedly took my wrist gently in his hand, pulling me with him. My smile was brought back by this.

"Carl, slow down." I giggled."Sorry... it's just I thought I wasn't going to see you again. You didn't come to the spot and I thought you were mad so I went looking for you and I couldn't find you. I got scared and thought you might've gotten hurt... or... dead." He spoke fastly.

"You went looking for me?" I asked.

"Well... kinda. If you were hurt, I wanted to be able to help you." He immediately had regret on his face. I just smiled to encourage him.

"It's okay... that's sweet."

Carl just continued to drag me through Alexandria happily.

The entire time all I could thing of is how upset he'll be when he finds out who I am. How bad it's going to feel when he dies.

"Carl, careful, you'll rip her arm out of her socket." It was the southern accent that I remembered. Maggie, I'm sure.

"Oh it's okay. He's not pulling hard." I assured as Carl came to a stop.

We stood next to eachother, Carl's hand still holding my wrist. "Hey, have you seen my dad?" Carl asked Maggie.

"No, not recently." As Maggie said that, Carl's hand went a little lower off of my wrist and onto my hand. I didn't think much of it.

I was too busy thinking about what we were going to do to these people.

But they killed our friends.

"Okay he must be at the house, come on." Carl began to pull me gently with him.

When we made it to the house and no one was in there."God damnit." Carl let go of the palm of my hand.

"You know what, I don't feel like searching for him." He laughed a bit."Me either. I've been walking all morning." I fanned myself off with my hand.

"Me too. I tried finding you." He mentioned again.

"I'm sorry." I whined a bit."It's okay, Alexa." He chuckled.

I looked around the giant house for a second.

"It's nice in here." I whispered."Yeah. We were lucky we found this place." Carl agreed.

"I bet."

"Are you hungry? We have plenty-"

"No I'm okay." I shook my head.

"Are you sure?" Carl asked.

"I'm sure." I chuckled.

"Okay so what made you change your mind? No bullshit." Carl went a little serious.

I didn't know what to say. I couldn't tell him the truth, clearly. I couldn't just say my dad- the leader of the saviors- sent me as a spy.

"You're here." I spat out. I wish I could say that was a complete lie, but it wasn't. He was Carl. I couldn't explain him, he was just Carl... and I liked it.

Carl seemed a little taken back, but then smirked.

"I knew that, I just wanted to hear it." Carl said cockily. I rolled my eyes playfully.

I've never had a friend like Carl. He was so different and I liked it. There was definitely some sort of tension between us but I couldn't exactly put my finger on it.

"You're too cocky." I joked.

"Mm, a little." He stood infront of me. Our bodies were like magnets. It felt like I was being pulled closer and closer to him. I didn't want to pull away.

Our eyes never once broke eye contact.

"Hey son, oh... and Alexa. What a surprise. Glad you decided to stay with us." The front door opened and closed.

I turned around to see rick. The one and only. I backed away from Carl a little.

"Me too." Rick was my enemy. Hell, they all were. But rick ticked me off in such a way I wanted to slash his throat and make my dad proud.

But I knew I couldn't do that.

Even as much as I wanted to, I didn't. He was Carl's dad, and I knew deep down inside he was a good person. All of us used to be.

"I tried to find you to tell you she was here but I couldn't find you." Carl spoke, standing next to me.

"I was talking with some others. My bad, son." Rick told him as a few people entered the house.

"It's okay... Alexa, do you wanna go on a walk? Catch up on things?" Carl turned to me."Sure." I smiled.

He gently grabbed my wrist and lead me outside.

"What is there to catch up on?" I stopped."Would you rather have an awkward conversation with my dad?" Carl turned to me, a small smirk on his face.

"Oh wow, teenage awkward conversations. How brutal." I crossed my arms, chuckling.

"Okay then go back in there and go talk to mr.grimes." Carl said."No, I'm good." I playfully pushed passed him, hopping down the steps.

"Exactly!" He called out."Bite me!" I called back, turning around.

Carl stepped down the stairs. He made a biting motion with his teeth and laughed after.

"Alright, Alexa, lets go."

They r so cute to me