❛you motivate me to make myself a better person.❜ // rick !
ever since her father came back into her life, judith had been much softer. she’d grown up tough. like michonne. almost too much so sometimes. not many saw her soft side outside of her closest friends and family. she was taught to not trust anyone, to always be on her guard. carl and rick put that into her ever since she was a little girl. which was exactly why she’d had such a tough exterior all her life. but now she felt like that four-year-old girl again, who was giggling and hugging her brother or father nonstop. just being in rick’s presence made everything infinitely better for her, but the words he said only helped more. she still felt some sort of aggravation towards him for leaving her alone so young. but when he said things like this, she completely forgot every inch of it. tears pricked her eyes as a sorrowful smile tugged at her lips. without hesitation, she jogged forward and threw herself into his arms, hugging him tightly. she was probably hugging him ten to fifteen times a day now, but it would never be enough. “i-i love you so much,” she wept quietly, hiding her face in his shoulder. she’d always be his little girl. that would never change, no matter what happened.