My vision was blurry, I felt something coming down my face. I lifted 2 of my fingers to my head and wiped the liquid substance away. I looked at my fingers they were coated in a dark shade of blood. I felt a sharp pain coming from the palm of my hand. I looked at it, it had a shard of glass in. I looked to my left and saw Lori stirring awake from a walker that was trying to bite her. She woke up and asked me if I was ok before seeing the walker. She turned and told me to get into the backseat of the car.

Once I got into the backseat she climbed to the back, opened the door and left. She killed the walkers that were out there and told me to come out. "Are you ok? Are you hurt?" She asked me. We both knew if my dad saw me out here, he would go ballistic at us. I showed her my hand I wanted to find Rick, Glenn and Hershel, so I told her that I'd be fine and to continue our search for them. We had started to walk up the road to town to find them.

I kept walking by I started to a headache must have been from the incident. I could hear a car pulling up behind us. Lori told me to be calm and no one would hurt me as long as she's there. The car came to a stop. I heard the door open I looked behind me. It was only my dad, crap my dad. He started checking Lori to see if she was ok, then he saw me. "Don't you ever do anything like that again. You hear me!" He yelled at me. He started to check if I was ok then he saw my hand.

He told us that Rick, Glenn and Hershel were back. I believe him but it was probably another bullshit lie. I sat in the back of the car, it was quite. I kept looking at my hand, it was covered in blood. When we made it back to the farm the group surrounded us except Carl and Beth obviously. Dad started shouting at us, I looked to the ground. Lori started asking where Rick was. "Now look, first things first I gotta I gotta look after you. I gotta make sure the baby's all right, okay?" Dad told her.

"You're having a baby? Why didn't you tell me?" Carl said from behind a few people. He started to walk away. I was debating on following him or leaving him alone. I decided to follow him, he was walking towards the house so I didn't have to walk that far. He looked down, he should be happy.

"Hey, Carl. Wait up." I said to him. He stopped and looked at me. I winced in pain as I moved my hand a bit. I looked down and found out it was bleeding again. Just great I thought. He looked at my hand. "Are you ok?" He asked me did I look ok. I still had dried blood on my fingers. "Not really. But hey your going to be a big brother now." I said brightening the mood a bit. We both walked inside the house. Maggie walked over to me. Carl sat on the couch. She took me into the kitchen so she could take the piece of glass out, of course with no pain medication or anything. I prepared myself for pain. I looked away so I wouldn't be able to see.

There was an excruciating pain in my hand. It was going to leave a nasty scar on my hand but at least I have a battle wound. She cleaned my hand and wrapped it up. She moved on to my head. It stung as she was cleaning it. I put a strong and brave face on and held in my tears from the pain. She'd finished cleaning me up. "You know, I wouldn't have been that brave if I was your age and that happened to me. I would have cried but you didn't." She told me. I laughed I was still in pain though.

She left to go and sit with Beth. I heard the door open it was probably my dad. A few minutes later Carl, Andrea and Dale walked into the dining room where I was sitting. "How's your hand?" Dale asked me. "It's still in pain. There's gonna be a scar there but it'll be my first battle scar." I said smiling. Dale started chuckling at my comment. Carl was sat next to me. I couldn't believe my dad told me and Lori another bullshit lie only to 'make sure Lori and her baby was ok' but what about me.

I remembered something, dad had threatened Dale. "Dale, how many times has my dad threatened you exactly?" I asked him. I was curious to see how bad of a man he was. "About 2. Why?" He asked me curious to find out why I was asking him. "I wanted to see how bad of a man he is. He's proved that he doesn't care about me and Grace being safe." I told him. He had a look of sympathy on his face. I guess he didn't know. That's why T-Dog became my father figure because he saw it happen.

"Your dad does care about you 2 he just doesn't show it." Andrea told me. That was a lie if I've ever heard one. "Well he has a funny way of showing it." I told her. I knew her and dad grew close together. I was hungry seeming as when me and Lori left before dinner was about to be served so I was starving. Of course it was nightfall and still no sign of the trio coming back. "Is there any left over food I'm starving?" I asked them. They all laughed a little at me. It was true.

"There should be." Dale said. Fixing me up a plate full of food. I started eating it, yes it may have been a bit cold but who cares I was starving. "How does it feel your joining the older sibling club?" I asked Carl making us both laugh. "I don't really know. Happy but annoyed she didn't tell me." He told me. I felt bad for him, he should have been one of the first people to know not one of the last. Of course Lori would be treated like royalty now seeming as she's pregnant. But that baby will get us killed.

Dale and Andrea had left me and Carl alone. I had finished my dinner and I started to wash up my dish, while trying not to get water on my bandage, before sitting back at the table. My hand started to sting again. "Are you ok?" He asked me all panicked. "Yeah I'm fine." I reassured him. I was tired I had barely slept at all. "I think your going to make a great big brother." I said to him smiling as I stood up. "And your a great big sister." He told me smiling. I walked out the house to my tent to sleep.

I saw Grace, she was sat up. "Hey, are you alright?" I asked her. She looked worried about something or someone and I didn't like it. "What if Beth doesn't wake up or something bad happened to Rick, Glenn and Hershel?" She asked me. I felt bad for her, she and Beth got on like a house on fire. "Listen if Rick's with them we know that they are going to be fine. You just have to be strong and think that they are coming back and trust me Beth is going to wake up." I reassured her maybe I was a great older sister.

I gave her a hug then fell asleep. Dreaming of all the events that took place today. The car accident, the news about the baby, the biggest lie of the century. I could barely sleep comfortably my head and my hand were just in pain all night. When I woke up I saw that Grace was still asleep I had to do my now normal routine. I walked outside to see if the Hershel, Glenn and Rick were back, there weren't. I could tell that people were worrying. Something could've happened to them I went up to the house to check on Beth.

When I reached her room I saw Ellie and Maggie sat in there. I decided that I would just leave them be, I was walking back outside when I heard a car pull up. It was them. We all crowded around them, T-Dog noticed another person in the back of the car. They said his name was Randall and that he ripped his muscle calf so he needed surgery. I didn't trust him for a second but then again I didn't trust my dad after all the lies he's told me.

We all went inside of the house. Me, Carl, Grace, Aria and Ellie were all sent out the room so they could 'talk'. We went upstairs Ellie told us that we could sit in her room. So we did. We all sat on her bed, I sat crossed legged so I was comfortable. Carl sat next to me, I could see Ellie pointing it out to Aria and Grace. They started laughing and smiling at us. I shook my head at them, they can be so immature about things sometimes. They were as worse as dad except they never lie.

I heard footsteps coming up the stairs I guess we all did. I looked to the door instantly. To my surprise it was only Jimmy. He told us we could go back downstairs. Of course I stood up and went downstairs, Beth was doing better at least. That was the main thing that we were worried about. I wanted to know what they were going to do to Randall but we all know that will  be a secret covered up with yet again another lie. To hide the truth about everything in the situation. I couldn't trust Randall there was just something about him I didn't like.

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A/N: my grandad passed away today but I wanted to post this chapter. So I just hope you guys enjoyed it!