Chapter 39- "What was that about?"

Axel's POV-

"Axel!" I heard someone call. Me and Glenn both turned around to see Carl running over to us. I got up. He stopped when he got close to me and swung his arms around my neck. "Where have you been?" he asked with a hug smile on his face. "I was with my dad." I said. "Oh. Well do you want to hang out with us." he said pointing back to the group of kids. "Sure." I said. I said goodbye to Glenn and we made our way over there. Hand in hand. I'm just happy he's not like ashamed of me or whatever.

"What's up dude?" Mikey asked. "Nothin. You?" I asked. "Nada." "Do you guys want to go watch a movie?" Ron asked. Everybody gave an answer along the lines of sure or yes. "Hey Carl!" I heard and saw Rick walking towards us. I noticed that Carl had a nasty look on his face. "What do you want Rick?" he asked sighing. Rick grunted a bit showing his displease. Rick? When did that start, I wondered. "What I want Son, is to let you three know that Deanna's having some sort of thing for us tonight." he said emphazing the word son. He went to walk away but turned back around. "And change out of that flannel. You look ridiculous." he said and walked away.

I wanted to know what was up with that but just decided to let it go for now. "Who's Deanna?" I asked. "She's the lady who runs this place." Tanner said. "Well I guess we should go get ready. You know take some showers." Tanner said. "Yeah." I said and started walking with her. I then realized Carl wasn't holding my hand anymore. I looked back. "Carl?" I asked. He didn't respond he just kept staring off into the distance. "Carl?" I said slightly louder. He turned towards me slowly. "Yeah?" he asked. "You coming?" I asked. "Yeah." he said and ran forward catching my hand.

The three of us walked off. I stopped after about a minute of walking. "Wait." I said. "What?" Both of them said. "Did you say shower." I asked. "Mhm." Tanner replied with a smile. "I call first!" I said as if I was a little kid getting ice cream. "Your cute." Carl said as he grabbed my hand again. "No. I'm hot. Your cute." I said kissing his cheek. "I'll take it." he said laughing a bit. When we finally stopped I starred up in awe. "I know right. It's so big." he said. I just continued to stare. "Come on. Time to take a shower. With hot water." Tanner said. I ran into the house only to recieve some weird looks.

"Welcome back buddy." Tara said. "Hey." I said basically jumping around. "What's got you all excited?"Abraham asked. "Showers." Tanner said from behind me, making everyone laugh. "Well handle your buisness little dude." Abraham said with a smile. "I'm literally taller than you." I said laughing. "Yeah whatever." he said. "Come on. I'll show you where the shower is." Carl said. He led me upstairs into a bedroom. "The bathrooms just through there." he said pointing to a door on the other side of the room. "I'll be in here attempting to get ready. Also don't worry. There's clothes for you too. It seems your the only one who was smart enough to actually pack clothes when we left the prison." he said smiling.

I walked into the bathroom and was amazed. It was huge. It had a massive bath tub and an even bigger shower. I walked over to the bath tub and turned the faucet. Water started spilling out. Okay good to know, I thought. I then walked over to the shower and turned the faucet over to hot. When it actually started heating up I couldn't help a huge smile that made it's way onto my face. I started to take off my clothes. I got down to my boxers when the door opened. I turned around to see Carl. "Sorry." he said. He looked so flustered. I chuckled a bit at the fact that since he walked in he hadn't taken his eyes of my abs. He's so adorable. "It's fine. What's up?" I asked.

"Ummm. Abs." he said quietly causing me to laugh a bit more loudly. "Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" he exclaimed. "I just- I mean- Your so- It's just that-" I cut him off. "It's fine." I said. Except now I was standing right in front of him. "I-I brought you a towel." he said. His face was as red as a tomato. "Thank you." I said and leaned down connecting our lips. He tensed up at first before giving into the kiss. He wrapped his arms around my neck as we made out. Although unfortanutly all good things must come to an end.

We pulled away for air and his face was 10 times brighter than it was before. "I'm gonna go." he said quietly looking at the ground. "Okay." I said with a smirk on my face. He walked out closing the door behind him. I can't believe I got him hard. I thought chuckling. Well time to get in the shower. I slipped off my boxers and hoped in the shower. That huge smile made it's way back to my face. "Oh my god." I said quietly. I forgot how amazing this was. After about 45 minutes I was done. I hoped out and dried off, wrapping a towel around my waist. I walked out of the bathroom.

"Hey where did you say those clothes were?" I asked. He pointed to my bag in the corner of the room. "Thanks." I said. I grabbed it and walked back into the bathroom. I decided to wear one of the outfits I hadn't before. Once when I went on a run with Glenn and he picked the outfit out. It was black sweatpants with a white and black stripped long sleeve shirt and a black tee shirt over it. As I was sliding the pants on I heard someone enter the bedroom. "Why are you still wearing that stupid flannel?" It was Rick of course. "I haven't gotten dressed yet Rick!" he bit. "Well hurry up the parties in an hour and I don't need you looking like a bum." he said.

The next thing I heard was the door closing. I walked out of the bathroom with my shirts in hand. "What was that about?" I asked. "Nothing." he said quietly. "What should I wear?" he asked. "Whatever you want." I said simply. "I'm just gonna wear this. It's clean and I couldn't care less what Rick has to say. "When did that start?" I asked. "What?" "Rick." I said simply. "We got into a fight." he said. "About what?" I asked. "Can we just not talk about it." he said. I was gonna press a little more but Tanner walked in. "Hey bubba can you do my hair?" she asked. "Sure." I said and quickly threw on my shirts.

"What is that?" I asked noticing her outfit. She had on a black body con dress with a heart neck line and spaggethi straps. It went about halfway down her thighs so a bit of her scars were sticking out. "And your okay with that?" I asked looking down to her leg. Her gaze followed. "Yeah. I mean there's nothing to be ashamed of. I don't do it anymore." she said. Carl was just staring at us. "Problem?" Tanner asked. He shock his head violently. I didn't have a problem with it either I just remember once when we were in Woodbury she put on a pair of shorts totally forgetting and cried for like two days.

"Fishtail braids?" I asked. she nodded with a smile. "You've got to do mine sometime." Carl said laughing as I finished Tanner's. "How about now?" I asked. "Funny." he said. "I'm not joking." I said. "Come here." I said. He sat in between my legs and I got to work. I did a waterfall braid with the rest of his hair down. "There you go." I said as I finished. "Is it cute?" he asked teasingly putting his hand on his hip. "Very." I said pulling him into my lap and kissing him. The short make out session was interuppted by a voice. "Excuse me. I'm right here." Tanner said.