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»»————　act two. on the hunt
CHAPTER THIRTEEN ━━ secrets

Josie was woken up by tiff, the younger girl practically jumping on her, telling Josie to wake up. And when Josie asked why, tiff simply said; "I'm bored."

But Josie got up nevertheless, helping Carol put the washed clothes on the wire they made. Josie still had to ask Lori if she had done the test and if it was positive or negative.

But Josie also helped Riley and Maggie was up in the house, wanting to keep busy. Whilst Tiffany was bonding with Beth.

Josephine walked out of the Greene house, wiping her hands on her flannel as she turned to see Glenn, holding a guitar.

"Since when did we have a guitar?" Josie chuckled as she moved towards him, making him look up with a grin.

"Dale found it on the highway." Glenn shrugged his shoulders as Josie sat beside him.

"Can you play anything?" Josie asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Uh, no." Glenn shook his head as Josie grinned, holding her hand out for the guitar. "Can you?" He asked as he handed the guitar over to her—Josie holding it right as she strummed the cords.

"Not really, I learned a bit. Lori use to have one." Josie tilted her head as she tuned the guitar. "Me and Carl use to make up songs as I played it." She chuckled at the memory.

She strummed on the guitar, concentrating as she bit down on her tongue, deep in thought. "What you think about?" Glenn asked her as she sighed, placing her hand on her head.

"I've been sworn to secrecy but—you know.." Josie let out a groan, laying her head on the guitar. "Okay, I trust you, enough to tell you my weird, fucked up, family drama. Okay. Promise?" She tilted her head. She had to tell someone.

"I promise." Glenn nodded his head, leaning closer to the girl.

Josie let out a deep breath, nodding her head as she looked down at the camp. "When I went out on the run, Lori asked me to get her something. I said yeah and she gave me a piece of paper." She fiddled with the arms in the sleeve. "A pregnancy test. My guess, it's Shane's."

Glenn's eyes widened at josie's words. "Oh, god." Josie hummed, nodding her head. "Is she?"

"I don't know. I haven asked if she's done the test. What if she is? What are we gonna do with a baby?" Josie shook her head, rambling.

"Look, I'm sure we can all figure this out." Glenn let out a sigh, as Josie breathed out, nodding her head. "Shes down there, maybe ask her."

"You're right." Josie hummed, passing the guitar back over to him. "Please, Glenn. Don't tell a soul. I will throw you to the walkers myself." She turned around as he nodded his head. "Wish me luck."

She walked down the steps of the Greene house, towards their camp and towards Lori. "Lori." Josie called out as the woman turned to face her. "Did you-?" She nervously said with a small smile. "Y'know."

"Jj." Lori sighed as she ran a hand through her hair. "Yes, but you can't tell anyone. N-not even Rick or Shane."

Josies eyes widened. "You haven't told Rick? Or even shane? Lori, you're gonna have to tell them sooner or later. We need to prepare." Josie told her.

"I know—I will. I just need to find the right time to tell them." Lori nodded her head as josie sent her a soft smile.

"Good. If you need anything, I'm the one you holler for, okay." Josie told her, pulling Lori into a hug. "You need things, I'll go get 'em."

"Thank you, Josie." Lori thanked her as she pulled out of the hug. "I will."

Glenn sat in the RV, holding one of Dales books in his hand. The dale walked in, making Glenn hold the book up. "Sorry. Just returning your book josie finished."

"She finished it? Already?" Dale asked as he picked up the book, making Glenn nod. "She's read half of my books already." He said as he placed the book down, making Glenn chuckle.

He dropped his hat as he stood up, turning to Dale, "uh, Dale, you think Andrea's on her period?" He asked as Dale faulted, turning to Glenn with a frown, holding his hand up. Andrea and Tiffany were on the roof. "I'm onto asking 'cause it's like all the women are acting really weird, except Tiffany. And-and I read somewhere that when women spend a lot of time together, their cycles line up and they all get super crazy hormonal at the same time." He theorised as Dale held up his hand one more.

"I'm-I'm, uh, I'm gonna advise you to keep that theory to yourself." Dale slowly nodded his head at Glenn.

"Yeah."

"Who else is acting weird?" Dale asked him as Glenn sat himself down, pointing forward.

"Uh, Josie." He simply said as Dale frowned.

"Josie?" Dale raised a brow as Glenn nodded his head.

"Well, she's not now. Before, uh, CDC." Glenn shook his head as Dale held his hand on his hip. "We were drunk and—"

"Oh, son, don't tell me..." Dale shook his head as Glenn shook his head.

"Oh, no. Shane would kill me." Glenn was fast to shut down dales words. "We just kissed that's all. And on the road, she shut it down, making it weird between us and now she acts like it didn't happen." He shrugged. "And I don't even want to know what's going on with Lori." He blurted out as Dale tilted his head.

"What's going on with Lori?" Dale questioned as Glenn's eyes widened.

"Uh, nothing. I don't know." Glenn quickly shook his head, shrugging his shoulders.

"All right, let's take this back a step." Dale slowly nodded his head, letting out a chuckle. "You and Josephine..." Glenn leaned on his hand, shrugging his shoulders. "Do you like the girl?"

"I mean, I don't know...yeah." Glenn slowly nodded his head as Dale crossed his arms over his chest. "It's complicated. She doesn't feel the same."

"How would you know?" Dale questioned him.

"She said it herself." Glenn leaned back on the seat as dale sighed, leaning on the wall of the rv. "Sorta..."

"Well, I'd talk to her about it before it's too late." Dale simply said as Glenn listened to his words.

"Walker! Walker!" Andreas voice made the two stop their talking and walk out of the rv, Tiffany climbing down.

"Just the one?" Rick asked ad josie ran down by his side. She sent Glenn a small smile, him sending her a short nod, making her frown.

Andrea picked up her binoculars as Tiffany joined Josephine's side. "I bet I can nail it from here." Andrea said as she picked up her gun.

"No, no, Andrea. Put the gun down." Rick shook his head at the blonde.

"You're fire that gun, it'll draw more walkers out! We listen to Hershel's rules!" Josephine shouted up to her.

"You'd best let us handle this." Shane said as he held an axe in his hand, T-Dog by his side.

"Shane, hold up. Hershel wants to deal with the walkers." Rick held up his hand as Josephine turned around.

"What for, man? We got it covered." Shane told him as they walked down. Josephine sighed as she walked over to her tent, grabbing her sword as tiff grabbed her knife, following the men down to the walker.

They all ran down to the 'Walker', but it was Daryl, making everyone lower their weapons. "That's the third time you've pointed that thing at my head." Josie sighed as he walked forward. "You gonna pull the trigger or what?"

Then a shot fired, but it wasn't Rick. It was Andrea. Daryl fell to the floor as Josephine turned, to see Andrea lowering her gun. "No!" Rick yelled as Josie made her way towards Daryl, the bullet scraping his head.

Rick and Shane helped Daryl up. "Okay, come over here."

"I was kidding." Daryl said sarcastically as the two helped him stand up. Dale and Andrea came running over, making josie scoffed.

"We told you, don't fire!" Josie turned to Andrea, who was panting. "You just wanted to prove a point! Now you've gone and shot him in the head. Your point wasn't proven, you missed." Josie narrowed as she brushed past the blonde. She didn't mean but Andrea didn't listen, and almost killed Daryl.

"Guys, isn't this Sophia's?" Everyone turned to T-dog as he held the little girls teddy. It was Sophia's.

Daryl was fine, Hershel had stitched his wounds up. And Lori and Carol had made dinner for everyone. But Josie, Glenn and Tiffany were made to sit on their own "kiddies" table.

Josie poked at her food as she looked up at Tiffany, who leaned back in her chair, talking to Beth with a smile.

"Does anybody know how to play guitar?" Glenn asked, breaking the awkward silence between everyone. Josie lowered her fork from her mouth as she turned around. "Dale found a cool one." He chucked. "Someone's got to know how to play."

"Otis did." The older woman said as josie lowered her head, biting down on her bottom lip as Glenn's face faltered.

"Yeah, and he was very good too." Hershel nodded his head. And then everyone went back to eating. Josephine took a sip of her water, sharing a smile with Maggie.

Josephine was abruptly woken up by Glenn, who was practically shaking her awake. "Jesus, Glenn. That's one way to wake a woman up." She groaned, turning to Tiffany, who was soundly asleep.

"I need to tell you something." He simply said,  worried look on his face, which made josie sit up, carefully getting out of the tent.

"What?" Josie whispered as they walked away from the tents.

"I couldn't get to sleep, and I was just walking around the farm. I walked past the barn, down there—" Glenn pointed to the barn as josie slowly nodded their head. "There is a bunch of walkers in there." He told her as josies eyes widened, turning to him.

"They've been putting the walkers in there?" Josie said in a hushed whisper, eyes wide. "We need to tell Rick or Shane. It's dangerous."

"But what if they kick us out? If we tell everyone and they make us leave." Glenn said as josie sighed, slowly nodding her head.

"Well, what do we do?" Josie asked as Glenn shrugged his shoulders. "What was you even doing walking around at this time?" Josie rubbed her eyes as Glenn tried to think of something.

"I, uh, was just trying to get tired, thinking about things." He simply said as Josie raised a brow, slowly nodding her head.

"Okay, well, get some sleep. We'll think of something tomorrow. Talk to Riley or Maggie about it." Josie breathed out as Glenn nodded his head. "Goodnight." She squeezed his shoulder before retuning back to her tent

— MADELEINES WORDS

AYYY MY TWD OBSESSION HAS RETURNED!?!?

JOSIE IS BACK BABIES AHHHH

if you're interested I do have a negan fic.... Yes, ik, I'm writing a Glenn & negan fic... SUE ME BIATCHES🎀

But no I've been obsessing over jdm recently it's so bad. And I got a dolphin from my holiday and I named it dean Morgan the dolphin 🎀

5th April 2024
1916 words