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Aaron's Pov
"Get the hell out of my house! You're no longer welcome here!" What part of we're over is he not getting.
"This is my house too, Aaron. You have no right to kick me out." Eric stated calmly, leaning against the kitchen counter.
"You cheated on me, I have every right, just move in with Aiden I'm sure he won't mind." I said, fuming that we were fighting about this.
"Why don't you just move in with your 'Redneck Sex Toy', I'm positive he wouldn't mind, I mean he was practically blubbering like a baby when I told him we got back together." Eric laughed.
"Why the hell did you tell him that, Eric? You know what, I want you gone, please, just get out of MY house." I said calmly, hoping he would comply.
"Fine, I'll live with Aiden, but don't think for one second that I'm done with you." With that, Eric left. Finally, some peace and quiet.
I should check on Daryl, I haven't talked to him since yesterday, when we… did stuff. Does he want to be with me, like that? What the hell, I sound like a 3RD grader, I mean we haven't been intimate, but I really, really like Daryl and I'm pretty sure the feeling is mutual.
He should be coming over today to work on the bike; I'll talk with him then. I don't want to push him though, if he doesn't see us going any further, then I guess we won't, but god do I want us to go further, I wouldn't mind living out the rest of my days with Daryl Dixon.
Daryl's Pov
The morning was so beautiful; it had everybody in Alexandria outside and being social with their neighbors.
I was sitting on the last step of the porch talking with Carol when Aaron walked up, in his blue plaid shirt and jeans.
"Hey Daryl, Carol. I hope I'm not interrupting." Aaron said with a smile.
"Not at all, I was just leaving. Don't wanna be late for my first day of teaching." Carol said as she stood up.
"That's right, I hope all goes well." Aaron smiled again.
"Me too, bye Daryl, have a good day." With that Carol was gone. I kept sitting down, not knowing what to do. What if Aaron came to tell me he didn't want to see me anymore after what we did yesterday?
"Can I sit down?" Aaron asked, hesitantly.
"Sure." Was my curt reply.
Aaron sat down on the step and we just stayed in silence, until he finally broke it.
"We should probably talk about what happened yesterday."
"Yeah, I was thinking about that, what do you want?" I said looking at Aaron.
"I want whatever you want, if you don't want this," he said gesturing between us, "to go further, then it won't, I'll back off… but, if you want to at least try, than I say yes, let's do it." Aaron looked at me with his beautiful blue eyes.
"I…. yes, Aaron, I want this to go further, but … what would people think, I mean, you just left Eric?" God, Yes, I wanted Aaron so bad, but I also didn't want to look like the town slut.
"Well, I know it doesn't look good, that I just left Eric and now I'm with a new guy, but, I haven't really been with Eric for years now, even before the apocalypse, we just lived together, like roommates, nothing more, and to be honest I don't care what these people think, I just really like you and want to be with you, that's all I know." Aaron looked at me desperately and scooted closer.
"I understand, and I really want to be with you, just let's keep it quiet, for now. Okay?" Aaron shook his head with a huge smile plastered to his face.
"Yes, that's great." He went to grab my hand but stopped abruptly.
"Late for school, bye Daryl!" Carl yelled as he ran past us, Aaron scooted back to where he originally was.
"Bye, Carl." I said then turned to Aaron sighing, "You ready to work on that bike?"
"As ever." Aaron stood up and started heading towards his house, I jumped up to follow and soon we arrived.
Aaron opened his garage and I got to work, this would be a very quick fix.
It was about lunch time when Aaron entered the garage again.
"Hey, you ready to eat?" Aaron asked.
"Yeah, just let me finish up, I'm almost done." I said, while lying under the bike.
"How much more is left to fix?" Aaron asked, slowly walking towards me.
"Nothing, I'm done, let's see how it runs." I jumped up and staggered back, when did Aaron get that close?
"Woah, watch out there." He said, laughing while helping me get my balance back, "Seems like one of us is always falling over the other."
"No horse this time though." I said, then slowly leaned in and captured his lips in mine. We stood like that for minutes before we finally broke apart for air.
"I think I'll start falling more often." Aaron said, "Now show if this bike is road ready."
I jumped on the bike and turned the key, slowly the engine roared to life.
"It sounds great!" Aaron yelled over the engine, "Is it always that loud?"
I turned the bike off and hoped down.
"Yeah, they aren't quiet, but that's okay, anyways you mentioned food?" I said with my hands on his hips.
"Sorry forgot all about that, seeing you on that bike, man." Aaron joked as he walked into the house.
"When are we gonna take her out? I'm ready to ride, haven't rode on a bike since forever." I asked as I helped Aaron with the sandwiches.
"Well, I was thinking we could head out today, start recruiting, we could use some new people, what do you think?"
"Yeah, sounds good." I said kissing his cheek and grabbing my sandwich.
We ate lunch and started packing our supplies; Aaron said normally the recruiting takes about three or so days, if we're lucky it will only take two.
I took the bike out and Aaron took the car, soon we we're off on the road.
After driving for about thirty minutes, I signaled Aaron to pull over.
It was still light out, somebody had a fire going.
"What is it?" Aaron asked as he climbed out of the car.
"Do you smell that? Somebody has a fire going." I could see the smoke rising over the tree line.
"Or something is on fire." Aaron stated, "We should check it out."
"Yeah, come on." We got our stuff together and headed out on foot towards the smell of the fire.
Once we started to hear voices we slowed down and took more precise steps, so we wouldn't be heard. I couldn't make out what they were saying but it sounded like two people. Aaron hunched behind a tree and signaled me to come over, he could hear them.
"Come on sweetie; don't be afraid, I'll be just fine, see… all better."
"Okay daddy." I could hear tiny footsteps coming closer to where we were.
"Come on baby girl, we'll be okay, the monsters are all gone… there, there… shhhhh."
Aaron turned to me and whispered, "How dangerous can a father and little girl be?"
"You think we should confront them?" I asked, not sure what to do.
"Yeah, I do, the father is clearly strong if he took down some walkers and a little girl would be great for the town." Aaron looked hopeful.
"Okay, but slowly and calmly, so we don't spook them." I stood up and gently made my way out of hiding, Aaron followed me.
"HI, before you do anything, I want you to know that we come in peace." Aaron said when the man noticed us.
"Who are you? Where did you come from?" The dad said as he hid his daughter behind him.
"I'm Aaron and this is Daryl, were recruiters from a town of people not to far from here, called Alexandria." Aaron said softly, I can see why he has this job.
"How do I know you won't hurt us? It's hard to trust people nowadays."
"You should believe him, I know it's hard, but trust me, my group and I were out here, I know how hard it is, but… you won't regret coming with us." I said, trying to convince him.
"I need to protect my girl, how can I trust you? I could be signing my death certificate by trusting you."
"Your right but, roaming around in this world, on your own, aren't you still signing your death certificate?" I said, hoping he would listen to us and come, that little girl doesn't deserve to live running from those monsters all her life, growing up the way Carl had to, if I could just save one pure, innocent life.
"Fine, crazy as it is, I believe you, I'm a little desperate right now, but if you do anything.. I won't hesitate to kill you."
"We understand." Aaron said.
Now that I knew everything was okay I got a good look at them. The dad was tall and muscular with brown hair and brown eyes, the little girl had to be around five or six, she had her dads brown hair, and when she looked out from behind her dad I could see that she had light blue eyes, just like mine.
"Well, I'm Ryan and this is my little girl, Addison." He said, holding out his hand, we both shook it. Addison slowly started walking towards us; she stopped when she was in front of me and held out her hand.
"Hi, my names Addison! This is my daddy," she said pointing to Ryan. "My favorite color is green and I really, really love horses…. Oh and I'm six!" she said enthusiastically.
"Hi Addison, it's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Daryl." I said shaking her tiny hand.
"Is that your daddy?" She asked looking at Aaron with curiosity.
"No, that's Aaron, he's my …friend." Not knowing what to label our relationship.
"Oh… HI." She said waving at Aaron.
"Hi, it's nice to meet you both." He said looking at Ryan.
"Wow. Normally she won't talk to anyone, that's just crazy, she hasn't said this much in awhile." Ryan said; astonished by the way Addison acted.
Addison ran back to her dad. "Daddy! That's Daryl and that's Aaron, but he's not Daryl's daddy."
"Oh okay Sweetie." Ryan said, hugging her against his leg.
"Well, we should probably set up a camp; it's getting kinda dark out." Aaron said.
We pulled out all the supplies we had for a camp and set it up, just some cans to set up around the perimeter and sleeping bags, Ryan and Addison had their own.
"So, why'd you guys have a fire so early in the day?" I asked as we set around the fire.
"Well, I was trying to cook some food, but I learned my lesson when those monsters started coming from everywhere."Ryan said, rubbing his left ankle, mindlessly.
"How long have you been out here?" Aaron asked, then added, "Sorry to bombard you with questions, I'm just noisy."
"No, your fine, I understand. We've been out here since the beginning of it, but we had a group, it was a big group too…. Slowly, everyone started dying away, it was sad, but then we got used to it, you know?... Damn I must sound crazy, who'd ever think that I would be sitting here saying that.. I'm used to death now, it destroyed me at first, every time we lost someone. The death that really took me down though, was the death of my wife, she was so, so beautiful, a real great person, and those damned things took her from me, from my daughter," Ryan just stared off into space for awhile, "I'm sorry, you didn't ask for my pity party but…yeah, we've been out here for a little too long."Ryan sighed.
"I understand how that feels, losing so many people you can't think… I understand, this… this world can take everything from you, then throw some more shit in your face just for laughs, but to survive, to live, that's something… and it takes a strong ass person to do so." I said, remembering everything that's happened to me since this shithole began.
"It's good to know I'm not the only one."Ryan said.
"Daddy, I'm tired." Addison said as she climbed onto Ryan's lap.
"Alright pumpkin let's get some sleep, goodnight guys." Ryan said as he put Addison in the sleeping bag right beside him.
"How come you never mentioned your connection with kids?" Aaron asked when he was sure that Addison and Ryan were asleep, then started scooting near me and leaning on my side.
"Never knew I had a connection with kids, she probably hadn't seen a real new person in months, nothing to do with me." I said.
"Come on, she looked at you like you were the queen of Unicorn and Fairy Land, you have a thing with kids." Aaron said, smiling.
"If you say so." I said, blushing.
"Oh, I think it's so adorable…. The Big Bad Wolf tucking Little Red Riding Hood in, not that you're anything like the Big Bad Wolf, yeah… you look scary but you're kinda like a teddy bear." Aaron said looking up at me with his big blue eyes.
"Can we stop comparing me queens and wolves, and just go to bed?" I said laughing, climbing away from Aaron and into my sleeping bag.
"Okay, goodnight….Prince Charming." Aaron said as he got in his sleeping bag, I could practically hear the smirk in his voice.
"Goodnight." I said, quietly laughing to myself.
Ryan's POV
Oh my god! I'm sweating like a crazy man; I think I might be getting sick; my ankle is really hurting too. I probably sprained it fighting off those monsters, I should check and make sure everything's alright.
I turned around in my sleeping bag, everybody was asleep, I stood up and got some water then headed back to my sleeping bag. When I got there and sat down I pulled my jeans up to look at my ankle.
NO! NO NO NO! I got bit! What am I going to do, I'll turn. I need to warn these guys, but… what about my daughter! I can't trust them with her life, they could kill her! Oh no! My vision! What's happening to me?
The last thing I saw was my daughter looking up at me from her sleeping bag. Oh God no!
"Daddy?" Addison whispered, her big blue eyes looking at me with fright.
Darkness…
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