Shane was back, that meant that Carl had a very good chance to survive. They got back in time, it it was just a hour later, Carl wouldn't had such a good chance to survive.
Shane didn't seemed like he was okay, he just handed Hershel the equipments and then he went outside.
Lana made her back at the porch, glancing at Shane, who didn't realized that she was sitting there.
"What's up with you?" The Dixon woman asked him with a raised eyebrow.
Shane quickly shook his head, wiping the little tears from his eyes.
"Nothing," he tried to act all tough, and brave but it didn't worked so well.
"Where is the other dude?" Lana asked again, expecting to hear what she thinks.
"H-He said he would cover for me."
"And that I should get going, and that's what I did, I just.."
Lana glanced at him, while he said that, something in Lana told her that he wasn't telling her everything. That Shane left out a little detail, but she couldn't tell what.
In the mean time, as Lana thought to herself, Shane sat down on a bench.
"Why aren't you with the others?"
"Oh Lori made herself clear, that I shouldn't be near Carl or her family, even when her family is broken."
Lana laughed at the last part, but Shane's gaze was very fast on Lana. Did she knew about him and Lori?
"What do you mean?" He tried to overplay it.
"I know about you two.." The black haired girl glanced over her shoulder at him.
"I'm not stupid, everyone could see it when they'd look a little closer."
"Does he know it..?" Shane sallowed when he asked that, he was very embarrassed and uncomfortable that of all people, Lana was the one who knew it.
"No, but he isn't blind..!" Lana made a point, Rick definitely knew that something was going on.
"He's gonna find out, sooner or later, Shane."
With that Lana got off the porch to get her head free, with all the bad thoughts.
It was cold, and pretty dark but the stars were making enough light to see something.
Out of the blue, her arm was twitching again, it started burning too. Lana figured out that she'd have that pain when walkers were near. On one side it was pretty useful to know when the danger is coming, but on the other side, it hurts like hell.
Her gaze was on a barn, it felt like her arm was moving her towards it.
When she stood in front of the barn, there was a lock on the door. It seemed like there was something in there, what people aren't supposed to see.
Lana walked around the barn, then she finally saw a ladder who was leaning on a open hole in the barn.
The Dixon woman hadn't much to lose, so she decided to go up.
Her eyes widen when she saw what was in there, it was full of walkers. Now she understood why Hershel said that they aren't allowed to go near the barn.
Lana tried to make not much noise as possible.
The black haired woman's heart was pounding in her chest. Should she tell the others about this?
Her bite didn't stopped hurting, but she tried to forget the pain.
Lana's eyes widen more when she a little girl, blond short hair, a blue shirt on..wait wasn't that same that Sophia wore when she disappeared?
Dixons body tensed up, her mouth fell open as she realized that the little girl was Sophia.
She stumbled a little back, the ladder made a sound.
Of course attract that the attention of the Walkers.
So Lana quickly went off the ladder again, not wanting to make more noise then she already did.
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"You should eat something," A voice echoed in the room. Lana was in the kitchen staring out the window.
"I'm fine," She replied back. The woman didn't listen to Lana, and handed her a piece of bread.
"I'm Maggie," Maggie smiled a little when she saw that Lana took the bread.
"Lana," The Dixon woman introduced herself.
"Tomorrow is the funeral.." Maggie said after a little silence.
"How are they?" Lana asked, well knowing how it felt to lose someone.
"Beth, the youngest isn't doing so well with this whole thing. Flora is more respecting the situation, and tries to see in every something positive."
Maggie smiled at the mention of Flora, she was really like a butterfly.
"Did you lose someone too? Not just in the apocalypse." Maggie was a hesitating to ask the question, she didn't knew Lana that long to know how she'd react.
Lana nodded, her gaze was locked at the window again, when she thought about him.
"My best friend, Ethan.." Lana's eyes was full with tears. It was a long time ago when she spoke about him.
"When the outbreak started, I was on the phone with him. He told me to run as soon as I could, and go somewhere nobody could find me. When I tried to ask him what was happening-"
Lana's words got stuck up on her throat, she hated that she was so vulnerable again.
"I just heard a scream, and groaning..."
"Do you think he's dead?"
"I don't know, but it feels like it."
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The funeral was not that bad as Lana thought, it turned out that the Greenes were super religious and Hershel was giving a speech about how god will bring Otis to a better place, and how a great guy he was.
Lana didn't stood near the group, after what Lori told her.
But she felt Ricks eyes on her back, it seems like Rick wanted to tell her something.
As the funeral ended, Lana made her way to go back to the forest.
"Lana!"
That voice made her whole body shiver, Lana felt how the madness was staring boiling in her.
"Lana, wait please! Just for a moment, I have to talk to you."
Lori stopped running when she saw that Lana also stopped walking.
"What?!"
Lana's voice was mad, her breath was going loudly out of her mouth.
"I wanted to apologize about yesterday-"
Lori couldn't even finishing her sentence.
"About what, huh? Lori I don't even want anything what you say, because it's making me going fucking insane."
"He asked after you," Lori was standing with her arms on her hips, her gaze was embarrassing on the ground.
"Wasn't it you who told me to stay away from your son?! And that it was my fault about what happened? And that I should've getting shot and not him?!"
Lana's whole body was tensing up the more she spoke to that woman.
"Don't you think that I wished that it was me laying there, and not me?!"
"You said that I ruined your family, but did it on your own. By sleeping with your husbands best friend!"
"Stop-"
"No Lori I won't fucking stop! I'm doing what you wanted, and now it's wrong again?!"
"I'm gonna stay away from Carl, when it's that what you want, but don't you dare to blame your family crisis on me!"
"You did what?"
Rick was standing behind them, very shocked to hear what he just heard.
That's when Lori realized he heard everything.
"Fuck.."
Lana whispered while not taking her eye of Rick.
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Helloooo
First I'm sorry that it's not much rick and Lana in this chapter but it feel come in the next chapter.
What do you guys think about Ethan? Do you think he is still alive, or dead?
thanks for 5k reads!!! I'm so grateful I love you all so much💋
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(I'll try to make longer chapters but it's a lot of school right now, but I'll have winter break on Friday!!)
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