FORGOTTEN SOULS.

❝sometimes it's hard, you know? living with the fact that we're in here and they're out there.❞

❝yeah, i know. but we're in here together, right? here, together, with flat, off brand soda. we really are living the dream.❞

amandla stenberg ────── chermaine ❝ cher ❞ jackman

❝ i think of life as a placeholder for death. i mean, we all die at some point, right? we all just spend our entire lives delaying the inevitable. ❞

ooo. CHER JACKMAN was once an innocent girl who was not prepared for the world that awaited her; a kind child whose warm smile was soon to fade; once someone who was able to bring a smile to everyone's face. That person had been destroyed from within and thrown to the side, strikingly similar to the world she had grown to hate. The girl was left there like garbage as she waited for someone, anyone, to come fix her.

After a while, she had lost her once firm grasp on hope. It slipped through her fingers like sand.

She came to the conclusion that no one would fix her, that she'd be broken forever, her insides matching the world around her — empty. Cher had come to terms with this fact, albeit after a while. That no one would truly care for her. That the world had cheated her. But that was fine, she didn't need anyone, not anymore.

There were words that, upon coming out of her mouth, felt foreign. Words like hope and faith were words that she had crossed out of her vocabulary - she had vigorously rubbed the worn eraser over the thin page until it ripped, trying to make no trace that she had believed in such a foolish thing to begin with. It was embarrassing that she'd believed in such a witless concept at all. She'd never believe in such idiotic fairytales again. She'd never again use the words that used to strike a pleasant, but now outlandish, feeling within her heart.

Words like family. Friends. Living.

Love.

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FORGOTTEN SOULS, a cupidslvrr fanfiction.

carl grimes x fem!oc !

trigger warnings . . . gore, death, sexual themes, fear, and other things in the walking dead.

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