Author's note: Hey everyone I'm back for the second chapter, I'm not sure when this will be up but the fourth season hasn't quite started yet, but I'm really excited for it. I just bought a shirt from that says team Daryl in preparation! I already can't wait for it to come in. Enjoy this chapter, and you shouldn't have to wait long for the next chapter because I've already finished writing it. No Daryl this chapter either, jeeze what kind of Caryl story is this?! Feel free to leave me a review, I'll love you?

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Carol ended up staying and talking to Andrea until her shift was over. Andrea hadn't questioned where she'd been for the last few weeks or why she was wearing a long sleeved shirt in the middle of a harsh summer heat. She actually suspected that Andrea knew what was happening, but still kept her mouth shut about it. God bless that woman for being the absolute best thing in her life. Andrea had distracted her all afternoon with great girl talk like; "I started seeing this real rough older guy, he's kind of perverted and like 12 years older than me, but the sex is really hot and boy does he have stamina."

Carol watched as Andrea did the log for her shift as the night shift showed up and smiled slightly, she could shake her head at the way Andrea lived her life later, because right now it brought happiness to her life to hear that someone was having a fun time. She couldn't remember we she had been having fun, back in high school before she had started dating Ed. Of course that had been years ago to her, yet still had been the best times of her life. Those complete 16 years before Ed had been magical to her, these 12 years after had been hell.

Thinking back now, she never should have married Ed, they dated throughout high school and he had always had a bad temper yet she stayed with him because he was a jock and it had made her feel important to date someone of such high status. When he proposed on the last day of school in front of everyone, she hadn't even had a chance to think about it before everyone was cheering about how happy they were for the couple. The first thing he told her after that was don't bother apply for a college loan, you're not going. That was the exact moment where she should have put a stop to the wedding; she shouldn't have just gone along because it was that moment of weakness that really put her life way off course.

Andrea tapped her on the back of her head, pointing toward the exit to say that her shift was over. Carol followed her to the exit and they continued to talk until they reached Andrea's car. "So anyway, I have to go meet my new man-friend today for dinner and he is bringing his little brother. I mean, how am I supposed to jump him on the dinner table if his brother's sitting there?" Andrea complained.

"Perhaps you guys could just talk together?" Carol suggested quietly, which just made Andrea snort. Then she gasped dramatically before looking over at Carol excitedly, Carol could tell this idea was going to be a bad one already. "You should come with me for supper and keep the brother distracted so I can jump Merle in the other room and not feel bad about it."

Carol gave Andrea a skeptical look, "Andrea I'm married I can't just go and keep some guy company, besides you don't even know his name." Andrea laughed at that, not even paying attention to the married bit. "Come on Carol it's not like a date or anything I just need you to stop him from walking in on us, maybe you guys could just talk for awhile. Besides, I really want you to meet my new man. I know I just met him last week, but I think this relationship might go somewhere." Andrea through in some puppy dog eye's at the end, knowing that Carol couldn't fight against those.

Carol sighed slightly knowing that she lost, she would let Andrea think that it was the eyes that got her, but it was really the fact that she wanted her to be the one to meet her boyfriend; she wanted Carol to approve of her. That was something that she could never say no to, and therefore she had to do what was necessary to stay important in Andrea's life. "I guess I can go then." She said with a sigh.

Andrea fist pumped the air, making her look like a rebellious teenager instead of the 26 year old that she was. The next thing that Carol knew she was in Andrea's old beat-up van, driving out to a part of town that Carol hadn't even really known that existed. Well that was a lie, she had known that the bar district did in fact exist, Ed had talked about the whores he had paid to sleep with there and how he had managed to get them to not make him pay as much. She had never wondered of there in fear that one of Ed's buddies was lurking around there and she wasn't allowed to drink anyway (Ed had once told her that alcohol shouldn't be wasted on a woman, because woman didn't have actual problems or a good sense of taste), so there was really no point.

She hadn't bothered to tell Andrea that she had never had a drink before though, because she figured that would raise a great amount of questions that she couldn't answer and didn't want to even hear. Then they turned off a dirt road and she didn't have to think about bars anymore, because now she was worrying about just how far into the woods they were going. They were now so far away from her house that it would take her hours to walk back, but mostly the worry came from Andrea was always saying how crap her van was. It would be a great walk through the woods to get back to civilization should her van decide to die or just simply not start.

No point in worrying anymore now, because they were now pulling up in front of a small log cabin that had a well outside and had a slight tilt to the whole building. Then there was an older looking guy who was sitting on the porch slicing some sort of animal up with a blood knife. By the way Andrea was grinning at him; she could make the stretch and proclaim him to be Merle.