I had all the windows rolled down and the roof off of the old 1987 YJ Wrangler Jeep. Beside me my boyfriend Carl stared out the window. Everything seemed so normal as if it wasn't the apocalypse the only thing that made it so different from what the world use to be like was the several walkers that roamed the fields and the abandonment of cars along the sides of the street. I cranked up the radio that had an old CD mix in it not really caring who or even what heard us. The next song that played was "Sweet Caroline" Carl looked at me and smiled as we belted out the lyrics to the song. As I drove down the long backroad the autumn leaves falling off the trees. I was wearing a green fall jacket along with light blue jeans and my brown combat boots. I smiled as I let my Y/C/H hair down letting it blow behind me in the wind. Carl smiled at me laughing as we belted out every word. He grabbed my hand as we made our way back to Alexandria. We were still about an hour away the food and supplies were in three duffle bags in the back. Rick and my dad Daryl let us go out on our own since they knew things were getting very hectic around Alexandria.
I turned down an old street with no cars broken down on it. Carl looked at me confused about why I had chosen to go this way and I shrugged.
"It's a longer route, gives us more time to feel normal," I said loudly over the wind and the music. He laughed and shook his head raising my hand kissing the top of it before placing it back down by his side, our fingers still interlaced.
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CARL'S P.O.V:
The sun was beating down on my skin making me feel cozy preventing the wind from giving me a chill. I looked over at Y/N, the sun-kissed her skin in all the right ways. Her glasses over her eyes blocking the sun from getting in her eyes. Her hair blowing back in the wind perfectly. Everything was perfect. The scenery was beautiful as we passed by the open grassy fields, the music that was now softly playing in the background, I don't know how I was lucky enough to get a girl as beautiful and smart and loving as Y/N but I knew that this was going to be a memory I would remember forever.
I searched in Y/N white lace bag that she brought on the trip and pulled out the Polaroid camera. She looked over at me and smiled shyly, focusing back onto the road as I sneekly captured a picture of her driving. The sun blocked the view of her face just a little giving it a warm glow, but not enough so you couldn't see her face anymore. It was perfect. I took another one of our hands interlocked together. She wore a ring with a small purple gem in the middle of it and her nails were painted a light beige-pink colour. And I took a couple more of the road and fields around us. She was so beautiful and amazing that I couldn't believe I found her.
We came up to the gates of Alexandria and as they opened I knew we would go back to the same routine. The same day's and nights of watching for walkers and intruders, the same stress, but it was all worth it if even just once a month we could do something that felt completely and utterly normal for just a couple hours. And those....those are the memories that will be locked in my head for the rest of my life. Not the amount of walkers I have killed, not the amount of stressful day's and night's we have had, but the day's where I got to spend it looking at my beautiful girlfriend smile for the first time in forever, where I got to see her happy, and where it was just us loving each other as the sun beat down on our skins, and we drove the long roads back to our home.
