WOW! It has been a long while since I updated this!(Like 2 years...) I honestly kinda forgot about it...But thanks to all of your wonderful reviews asking me to continue, I've decided to get back to it! Also, please note I have not seen any of the new season yet.

Glenn's POV:

"Maggie, calm down! You're going to wear your self out before Kathy and her daughter even get here."

"I want everything to look nice,Glenn. Is there anything wrong with that?" Maggie raised her eyebrows at me.

"No, but I want you to have energy to actually visit with them. Let me finish the dusting." I said as I walked up behind her and wrapped her in a hug. She smiled as I took the dust rag from her hand and began to dust the mantel. Man, that thing was dusty! Maggie watched me for a bit and then hurried into the kitchen.

I drew 4 stick figures in the dust, making the 4th one extra small. I smiled. I had a family. Me, a pizza delivery guy with student loan debts and terrible luck with the ladies had managed to somehow get here. I had a beautiful wife,a wonderful daughter, and a baby on the way. Not to mention a job organizing runs and helping people get what they needed. It may have taken an apocalypse to do it, but I was happy with my life anyway. I was so lost in my grateful thoughts that I didn't hear Enid come downstairs.

"Hey." She said, startling me.

"Hi! Sorry, I didn't hear you come down!" I said.

"When are they supposed to be here again?" She asked

"Um pretty soon I think. Maggie told me but I wasn't listening."

"Selective hearing perhaps?" Enid asked with a smirk.

"Something like that."I smiled."So what are you and Brittany going to do?"

"I don't know yet. She doesn't seem to like much of the same stuff as me." She answered.

"Well maybe you'll find something you both enjoy as you talk and get to know one another better." I said, giving her my best dad-style advice.

"Yeah, maybe." She eyed my stick figure family portrait and smiled. I hoped she knew how happy I was to have her in our family. I also hoped that she and Brittany would be great friends. But most importantly, I hoped she knew that I loved her. They say you can't choose your family, but we had chosen Enid and she had chosen us. The old saying may not have been entirely true, but I knew that no matter what happened,no matter what anyone did, I could never stop loving my wife and 2 children.

Enid's POV:

I wandered into the kitchen to see what Maggie/Adoptive Female Parental Unit was up to. She was preparing a salad for later.

"How are you doing today, Enid?" She asked as she motioned for me to pass her the carrots.

"Good," I said "I was just wondering when Brittany and her mom were-" I was interrupted by the doorbell.

"Does that answer your question?" Maggie chuckled as she dried her hands on a towel. I nodded and answered the door.

After we ate I took Brittany up to my room.

"It's so...empty." She said after a few seconds.

"Yeah, I just moved in the other day. I haven't unpacked everything yet."

"So how long have you been here in Alexandria?" She asked.

"Uh, probably like 6 months or so? I don't remember the exact date." I answered. There was an awkward silence. The kind that usually always occurs during forced small-talk. I wish this chick liked Star Wars. I thought. Sure would make this day a lot easier.

"So are there any cute guys around here?" She asked breaking the silence and pulling me back from my AT-AT themed day dreams. The question caught me off guard a bit. Who asks that the second time they meet someone? Rushing it much?I thought. This girl annoyed me for some reason. She wasn't trying to, but something about her just seemed...off.

"I 's probably like 5 if you rule out the ones that are married,older,or seeing someone." I responded. Brittany smiled as she sat down on the bed.

"Is Carl 1 of the 5?" she asked, dragging out his name dreamily. And here I thought teenage girls were only this cheezy in movies. I thought. To be honest I wasn't sure about the answer to her question though. Carl and I hung out a lot and he hung out with me more than anyone else, but we weren't what you would call a thing.

"Well yeah, I guess so." I answered awkwardly. I didn't know why her mentioning Carl bugged me so much. After all Carl and I were just friends and if some girl potentially liked him that happened to be gorgeous, who was I to get in the way? I decided right then and there that even though I didn't really want to be BFFs with this girl, I wouldn't lie to her about Carl and/or do anything mean.

"Great!" she said with an almost creepy amount of enthusiasm. " I can't wait to talk to him more, he seems really nice." she smiled.

"Carl is nice." and he was. I didn't mention that he was weird and goofy sometimes too, or that he was one of the few people that made me start caring about life again.

"Are there any other teenage girls besides us?" she asked.

"Just us. We used to have another but...ya know." I responded, grateful for the subject change.

"That's too bad." she said as her smile faded. There was another awkward silence. As usual she broke it.

"So is Glenn like your step-Dad or what?" she asked. Oh crap! I thought, What do I say? How about the truth?

"He and Maggie adopted me, my biological parents are gone." I answered. I amazed myself by how easily I could talk about my "real" parents now. I still missed them, but grief wasn't the main emotion I felt anymore. Sometimes I didn't feel it at all. Brittany was about to ask something else when I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in!" I called. Carl entered the room,carrying a board game.

"Hey, Brittany! Hi, Enid! I just got off watch." He said setting the game in the middle of the floor. "Do you guys wanna play Life?"

"Sure!" Brittany said, plopping herself down way closer to Carl than was necessary.

"It's probably the only way I'm ever going to have a life , so I guess I'm down." I said. Carl chuckled and passed me the instructions. Brittany was unamused. We played until Carl proved to be victorious and decent at the whole life thing. Compared to me outside of the game though, he's definitely better at life.

After we finished playing, Carl had to leave and it was just me and Little Miss Lovestruck again.

"So you said you're adopted?" she asked.

"Yep." I replied.

"Aren't you kinda old for that? Especially now with the crazy apocalypse and all..."

Excuse me?! I thought.

"Um...I don't know." I stuttered, unsure of how to respond.

"I mean, like, It's so obvious they're just trying to make you feel better or whatever. They have a baby on the way for crying out loud, so why would they want a kid that isn't even theirs? I'd be mad about it if I were you."she said.

And I was mad. At her. It was all I could do not to punch her in the mouth. How could she stand there and judge people she barely knew? How could she say that, much less to my face? I was just about to give her a piece of my mind when we heard her mother call her from downstairs. Thankfully she left before I did something unwise.

Later that evening we were sitting around the living room when Maggie spoke up.

"I must say I enjoyed having Kathy over, we had a great time. I'm glad you have a new friend too, Enid" she said happily. "How was your time with Brittany?"

I'm not sure you'd call us friends though... I thought. And my time was terrible. But for some strange reason I didn't say that. Maybe I was trying to preserve Maggie"s happiness, or maybe I had a momentary lapse in sanity, but one thing was for sure: I wish I hadn't.

"Oh yeah," I blurted out "it was great, she's super cool!"

Needless to say, I did not sleep well that night. I kept thinking about what Brittany had said. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense. She had phrased it rather unkindly, but could I honestly say she was wrong? No, I couldn't and for that reason, I left the house and headed to Daryl's jerky shack.

I know this was short, but hopefully it was better than the nothing I've been posting,lol.