Just because you lost someone
Carls POV
<4 months later>
I fiddled around with the locket around my neck. We are on a run, and my dad said that I've been too distant lately and that I should go on the run with them.
I haven't talked to barely anybody since Melissa. I didn't want to. I lost my everything four months ago.
'You don't just stop living because you lost someone.' Abrahams voice rang through my ears. I ignored him.
"Son!" Dad yelled, pulling me from my thoughts. I turned around.
"What?" I asked, still holding onto the locket. He noticed and sighed.
"I know you loved her...but you're being so distant lately." He said.
"You don't get it! Today's her birthday! I wanted to marry her! I wanted to grow old with her! She was the one thing I had left and she was taken away from me! I'll never kiss her again, hug her again, see her smile, hold her hand, talk to her... Sometimes I'll turn around and tell her to stop being so quiet and distant, but then I realize she's gone! She's gone... And-and maybe if I protected her she would still be here right now! If I didn't let her go on the run with us, she'd be here, right now with us! I think about her everyday, dad! I still have dreams about her and she's here, laughing, smiling... But then I wake up... And she's gone...I'll reach out for her in the middle of the night, but I'll only feel the empty space beside me! I need her and she's gone, dad..." I said, my voice cracking. "A-and I can't even look at Daryl because they looked so much alike... I see her eyes and I just loose it. I'm lost, dad..." He looked at me and blinks back tears.
"I know, son... We all miss her. She didn't deserve that..." He said, hugging me. He let me cry and I'm glad because if I didn't I would have probably exploded at the worst possible time.
"She's probably watching us right now, you know?" He asked. I nodded.
"This was supposed to be a new start. For us. But she...the first day here. This wasn't how it was supposed to happen, dad. We were supposed to grow old together, get married, I don't know...have kids, but she's gone. So much for hope, huh?" I asked through sobs. "I was gonna ask her to marry me, dad... When-when we got older. In like a year or something. We were gonna be together forever... But we can't. She can't be mine anymore because she's gone. I waited for too long and now I can't have her anymore." I cried.
"She's gone just like mom." I cried.
Daryl's POV
"Hun, you've gotta get out and do something..." Carol said, walking into my house. I didn't move as I looked at the angel wing necklace in my hands. She sighed.
"I know what you're going through, Daryl. The same thing happened to me with my daughter, remember? She was taken when the barn got overrun... Melissa was like my daughter, too... I'm not telling you to get over it, trust me...I'm just saying that you can't just mope around forever.
"Carl was gonna propose." I said. "He asked me. The boy was nervous as hell, though." I let out a single chuckle. "When she turned seventeen, he was gonna ask her to marry him. it didn't happen... Her birthdays today... My baby girl was gonna be seventeen... If she just lived a couple more months then maybe..." I trailed off. "I shouldn't have let her go, carol. I should have made her stay instead of going on that run. If I did then she would be here right now. She was all I had left. When I lost her before the CDC I didn't know what to do with myself. I isolated myself from everyone. Then Merle went missing, too and I didn't know what to do... Now everyone's gone and I'm alone again." I confessed. She sighed and wiped her eyes.
"We all lost her." She told me. I nodded and she stood up, walking out of the house. I wrapped my hand around the necklace as I cried. I walked over to the backyard, where we buried her, and kneeled down beside the gravestone. I sat down as I wiped tears from my eyes.
I felt something in my back pocket. I took out the picture she drew when she was younger. It was me, Merle and her. My lips formed a small smile.
"I miss you, baby girl." I said. And then it finally hit me.
She's gone.
Forever.
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Ahh last chapter😭😭😭😭
This is so sad I'm crying jeez:((
#RIPmelissa
So this is most likely the end of The Archers Daughter... I'm gonna miss it...
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I have another book, it's Daryl Dixon's sister, and it's called 'Don't Let Me Go.' And I'm also currently working on a chandler book so keep on the watch for that:)
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