THE WORLD WAS SILENT.

The only thing Abigail Greene could hear was the gunshots that cascaded through the air after the evident death of a kind man. A man who only wanted peace, who wanted everything to be what it once was

The crimson blood trickled down his neck and onto his shoulder as his proud fexpression fell. The blood cleared his yellow-orange shirt as he fell to the floor, gone, dead. Never to return.

No muscles moved in Abi's body. She was frozen, ready for a bullet, ready for it to stop. But it didn't. The gunshots and yelling kept going yet Abi heard nothing.

It all happened to fast.

One moment the Governor was co-operating, him and Rick negotiating a plan. A dumb plan. They wouldn't be able to live together and Philip knew that. He wanted to prove it. And he proved it by making three girls orphans.

Abi felt something pull at her blue shirt, she couldn't tell who, she couldn't tell what she could only tell her father was dead.

Slowly, sounds started to become conscious to Abi Greene as the image of her nearly decapitated father at left her eyesight, now the smoke and walkers being evident to her as Maggie seemed to say something - or Beth.

Somehow, along the way, the young Greene ended up with her older sister, Beth and Daryl Dixon.

Everything was a blur for a while. She wouldn't talk - she couldn't talk. The other two understood, after everything she had been through with the barn - Lori, something was going to break Abigail Greene. And that was exactly what the Governor did.

They walked around for days, maybe hours or weeks. It all turned into one long walk for Abi. Going place to place. Beth tried a drink. The two older ones got drunk. It led to a fight. Where both Abi and Beth were left tearful, Daryl too. Abi wasn't sure what happened, someone had gotten mad and that left to them talking about the dead. More the possibly dead. Abi had just lost her father and know she had to think about the fact that the girl who had helped raise her might be dead to.

Next thing she knew they were fine again, watching as the place they were at burnt down. Soon they were at a house, Beth seemed happier. Abi didn't.

The house had food and drinks, almost like someone was staying here. There best bet was he was either one of the dead or a friendly stranger. The trio stayed for a bit. What was a happy moment suddenly took a turn for the worst as a few moments later Daryl was holding the door shut as walkers tried to pry their way through.

Next thing Abi Greene knew was Beth was squeezing her hand tightly as they ran out of the building, Daryl saying how'd he'd catch ups.

One second the two girls were together, the next they were on the floor completely blacked out.

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DEAR DIARY,

I don't know. I don't know anymore. I used to write in here everyday. About all the things that are running through my mind. Now there's nothing. I'm scared i'm just a black void sitting in a tunnel of nothingness. Daddy's dead. I watched it happen. I watch it all the time. I was with Daryl. Now I don't know if he's okay. I don't know how long me and Beth have been here. To be honest, I don't know what 'here' is. What do I do? You can't help, your nothing.

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DEAR DIARY,

Me and Beth met a boy named Noah. He gave us lollipops and we tried to escape this 'hospital'. I'm happy he got out but me and Beth are still here. I don't mean to be offensive to any God when I called this place a shithole. Beth's being punished for us escaping. I can hear it. Please God help us get out of here.

Amen

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DEAR DIARY,

Carol's here! Carol's actually here. She's alive. Not in a great condition, but she's alive. This could mean the others are too. This could mean Noah found them! I've been trying not to get my hopes up, but this is the best i've been since the Prison. Might as well enjoy it now before it's all crumbled down.

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"I GET IT NOW." Beth Greene spoke whilst she picked up the scissors, driving them into Dawn's shoulders as gasps filled the room. Nothing could mend Abi's heart as the gunshot went off. The gunshot. The gunshot that marked an innocent girl's death, a gunshot that marked Abi Greene had lost her older sister that had helped raised her. Just not the one she thought.

Suddenly, the world was quiet again. No, she thought. No, no, no, no, no. This isn't real, this isn't happing. Another gunshot. She's alive, she's laughing. The laugh you'd get if someone made a pathetic joke and she wanted to cheer them up. The laugh that sounded when Judith babbled or did something funny. Beth Greene was making that sound. She is okay. Expect she wasn't, Beth Greene wasn't okay. And Abi Greene felt that she wouldn't ever be either.

Walking out of those doors felt like walking into death. Knowing the dread that awaits on the other side. The tears washed through Abi's eyes as they stayed fixated on the ground. Nothing could describe her emotion, she wanted to break down and scream. To run away from everybody. Abi Greene didn't want to say what she truly wanted to do as she walked behind Rick. The blonde didn't want anyone to know the urge she felt to be lying beside Beth. To be lying there instead of Beth.

No one had tried to comfort her yet, too involved in their own shock and sadness. They wanted to, but didn't know how. That was Beth's job, to stand by her little sister and hug her as tears fell from her eyes. When girls were mean to her at school to when their mother had to go into the barn because of her illness. Beth was there for her when they had to leave the farm, after she had to help Maggie with the birth of Judith. Beth was always there, and now she wasn't. Abi Greene didn't know what to do.

The youngest Greene walked ahead of Rick as her eyes had lifted from the sounds of another person's sobs. Maggie instantly clutched onto her baby sister as she tried to avert her eyes from the body that laid in Daryl's arms.

Abi didn't hug back. She couldn't. It felt wrong knowing if Beth was there, she would've joined. Maggie would've been able to comfort both of her sisters. To be happy that they were alive. But she couldn't, because only one of them was alive. Maggie felt it would be wrong to celebrate, even though the excited feeling had bubbled in her stomach once she saw Abi beside Rick. It had come crashing down once she took a good look at her. Maggie instantly knew.

Maggie couldn't help it as her legs gave out and Abi gave in, finally holding her sister as they both cried into the others shoulder. This is what it was now. Just the two of them.

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DEAR DIARY,

Tyreese is dead. He died not long after Beth. I haven't talked to anyone. I can't. The last person I talked to was Beth, it has to be Beth.

We were gonna grow old. Have our husbands, as us, Maggie and Glenn sat around a table playing cards.

We'll never get that now.

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DEAR DIARY,

We found a barn. Maggie and Sasha found a strange man. He's told us about how he lives in a 'community' and we were good enough to 'audition.'

He didn't word it the greatest. Rick did not like this guy. Like, at all. The man, Aaron, said he was out with one other person.

Now we're driving to retrieve said person and head to 'Alexandria.'

Sorry to say this but—Jesus Christ.

author notes -
This is longer than I intended it to be but oh well. The diary entries will be an occurring thing!!

I had to skip past all these bits because I needed to get to Alexandria. Anyways Abi will have a bit of a swearing problem so that'll be fun. Her dealing with death is just dissociating but that will change over time.

23rd August - This was edited and hopefully a bit better than before. It is also longer since I added more paragraphs and changed some sentence because it was very bland.

23rd september - this wasn't edited because i had done it so recently! i'm glad the book is up again :)

7th march 2024 - if you are wondering why the book is getting sudden updates, i am not rewriting just changing the layout since i wasn't happy with how it used to be. i did, however, switch up a few grammar/spelling mistakes i noticed and added a few new little bits. nothing important, only for new readers.

Anyways,
Byee </3