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carrie had never meant to make a friend . if they were even friends . she thought that they were , but a worry in the back of her mind tugged at her . tommy ross had been kind too . so had sue snell . that didn’t stop the carnage that carrie had made them bear witness too . she tried to blink away the thoughts of prom , and the guilt she carried . no matter how many towns she had run to it had always followed her . even still she tried to trust him , in her own way . nervously tugging at the ends of her sleeves she stopped , the brisk air cold on her face . “ where are we going exactly ? ” carrie rocked back on her heels , shoving her hands into her pockets .
she didn’t often get to spend time in nature . carrie had never sought the comfort of a babbling brook or the looming figure of the treetops . it seemed like that was something that forrest new well though . like it somehow had become an extension of himself . carrie chewed on her bottom lip , trying to follow his footsteps . chamberlain had felt flatter in her mind somehow in contrast . although maine was so far from her fingertips that she tried to let the memory of it fade , so that her carnage , and by association guilt , might fade too . carrie allowed herself to dip her boots into a newly formed puddle , smile accompanying such a childish act . “ my mama never let wander off alone , she said that the darkness of the world lived in the wilderness . perhaps it’s because all the blue birds don’t attend mass as devoutly as her . ”
carrie was trying to make a joke , a sheepish smile working it’s way onto her features . mama was so far away and right there all at the same time . she always lived in carrie’s shoulders , the voice of judgement in her head . carrie didn’t want her newfound friend to worry though , so there is a gentle force to make it into something that might be funny . “ it’s nice here though . quiet , but not in the way where you’re left in a d-dark room . just in the way that everything here might be at peace . ”