chapter seven

                                    

                                          
"nobody's gonna miss merle. well except maybe daryl." morales explains to me and rick trying to calm our nerves of leaving the man behind. 
                          
"daryl?" me and rick ask at the same time. 
                          
"his brother." morales tells us looking forward. i feel the color drain from my face. if this daryl guy was anything like his brother i wouldn't wanna be the one to tell him his brother was left, much less that i'm partly at fault. 
                          
"should i be scared?" i ask looking around the group. i laugh nervously when they just look at me. wishing we could just be there so i could be with my brother. as we pull up the dirt road i see the red car my brother was driving. everyone's standing around waiting anxiously for us to come to a stop. as soon as we do i see andrea run out the truck towards another blonde girl. 
                          
"amy!!" she yells embracing the girl. 
                          
"andrea i thought you were dead." the girl i'm assuming named amy says to andrea crying into the hug. i watch as everyone is reunited with their family while i just sit there with rick waiting for his go. 
                          
"how did y'all get out we thought we lost you?" i hear a man ask. 
                          
"new guy helped get us out. along with my sister!" glenn says happily looking over towards the car i'm assuming waiting for me to make my exit and meet the group. 
                          
"new guy? sister?" the man asks again in confusion. 
                          
"yea, crazy vatos just got into town. hey helicopter boy raleigh come say hello!" morales yells to us. 
                          
"well here goes nothing right?" i ask in more of a statement to rick. i look over at him and i could see his aggravation. 
                          
"hey we're gonna find them ok? just because they weren't in the city doesn't mean they aren't still alive. they're gonna be just fine when we find them and you're gonna be ok alright?" i say to rick trying to reassure him that i haven't forgotten about our mission to find his family. 
                          
"yea i'm just worried. where else would they be?" he asks looking over worried. i pull him into a quick hug before i read for the door handle. 
                          
"maybe they'll be in a small group like this somewhere around the outside of the city." i say trying to give the man who has become like my family some hope to find his. he just nods and we start getting out the car. i walk out and walk towards him before we started walking towards the people. i had my gaze on the ground before i feel rick stop walking next to me. i look up towards him to see him look ahead so i follow his graze before i see it. before i see them. 
                          
"oh my god." was all rick could say before he starts walking forward with tears in his eyes.  
                          
"dad! dad!" i hear the boy call out to rick before they go to the ground in a hug. i watch with a smile as rick picks up carl and walks to his wife and hugs her. i look around the group to see surprise in all their faces before my eyes land on the man. shane. ricks bestfriend. i met him in the hospital waiting room he was with lori and carl waiting for an update when i met him. i watched as him and lori just looked at each other. lori had a look of surprise and guilty look on her face while shane had a look of hurt and jealousy. maybe a little bit of hate. i looked away from them towards my brother to see him smiling like an idiot before walking towards me. 
                          
"looks like we aren't the only family reunited today." he says with a big smile while he takes me into his embrace. i just smile and hug him back finally being able to enjoy the feeling of being in my brothers arms again without having to worry about something trying to eat us. as the day went by me and rick were introduced to everyone. they all welcomed us with open arms. not like they had a choice seeing as we were ricks and glenn's family.