'What are you going to talk about?' Sophia asked as her Dad parked in the drive of the house, Carol sent Sophia inside saying that she and Daryl needed to talk. They had spent a good part of the day together, Daryl was dropping them off home.

'Boarding school!' Daryl told her, 'See you Thursday, ring me though,'

'Bye then,' Sophia got out with her bag unlocking the house to go inside.

'Wana bet she's looking out the window?' Daryl mumbled.

Carol nodded, she turned on her seat to look at him.

'This morning shouldn't have happened.' Carol told him, 'I can't move on if we keep having sex.'

'You want to move on?' Daryl glanced at her, gripping the steering wheel hard, Carol looked.

'I don't want to be alone for the rest of my life, so I want to move on,' she stole another look. 'I also want to sell the house.'

'Sell the house, but its Sophia's home,' Daryl looked surprised.

'No it was our home, and now its not, I can't afford to run it, Daryl its 5 bedrooms, Soph and I don't need 5 bedrooms,' Carol told him.

'I'm still paying half,' Daryl looked at her.

'I'm paying everything else. I can't do it Daryl, I only work part time,' Carol told him. 'I want to sell it, I want to move on, I want you to agree to sell it.'

'Then what? You going to rent something?' Daryl asked her.

'No hopefully out of my share I can buy something smaller that I can afford on my own,' Carol told him. 'Soph older now, she's going to be finishing high school soon, I don't need a 5 bedroom empty house.'

'Its not my fault its empty, I had an accident,' Daryl growled.

'You had an accident, that's all, but you chose to leave me with this stinking house I can't afford. Just sign the selling papers, don't come knocking for me unless you mean to come back,' Carol told him reaching for her clothes from last night in the bag at her feet. 'Soph will get you your clothes back on Thursday.'

In the end the house was going to sell easily, there were families around looking for big houses, Carol and Sophia started looking for a smaller house quickly. 3 bedrooms was all they really needed, Andrea was moving with them.

Daryl come over to sign the papers with the real estate people to sell the house. Merle and Daryl agreed to help shift them into a new house when they found one. Daryl didn't look happy about selling both were walking away with a healthy bank balance. Carol was walking away with enough to just about buy a cheaper house outright. The only problem was the three cheaper houses she looked at were within a 7 minute walking distance of Daryl's place. Sophia had walked it out. She wanted the house closest to her Dads place.

Carol looked around, out of the three houses she looked at the house it was the one that required the least amount of work needed. It was on a bus route for the high school and the walking distance to her work wasn't that bad, less than from her old house.

Andrea and Sophia liked the house, Carol liked the house, it was all on one level. It had pretty flowers in the garden, the main bedroom had an en suite. The kitchen was sunny and the dining room was cute. Sophia had already claimed a bedroom, she was excited because she could go to her Dads without having to be driven across town. In the end Carol nodded that this was the house they would take.

They were still looking around the house and there was a knock at the door Sophia told Daryl where they were looking and he promise he would come look at it with Sophia. He looked a bit awkward gave Carol and Andrea a nod as Sophia lead him around the house.

'Its cute,' He told Carol, 'You want me to look underneath? and on the roof?'

She nodded and followed him outside he pulled a ladder out the back of the work truck he brought over.

'How much?' He asked her. She told him, 'I can give you the rest? A loan or something, its only 15k?'

'Really?' Carol looked at him.

'Yeah I come into some money, sold a house, recently,... no strings,' Daryl told her. She looked at him trying to figure it out if she should take it or not. 'OK how about I give Soph 15k and she just don't know about it,'

'If you give it to Soph,' Carol told him, he nodded. 'Don't tell her.'

'If you don't have a mortgage you can finish your school stuff faster?' Daryl asked her climbing down off the roof, 'Looks good, we need to clean the gutters though, looks ok.'

'You know about the school stuff?' Carol asked.

'Soph talks about everything, you should go for it, the house,' Daryl stopped in front of her, 'I'm sorry I didn't realize you couldn't afford the big house, I just didn't think that you wouldn't be able to afford it.'

Carol wandered down the drive towards the women hovering in the garden to tell her they wanted to buy the house. Carol filled in the paper work to put their offer in. Daryl stayed nearby listening to the women talk. Carol looked happy so did Sophia who come out around the garden hanging off his arm talking about how she could come visit him, she was very excited.

Carol shot her a warning look to get all thoughts out of her head. They opted to go for quick settlement between both houses, so they would be moving quickly. Next weekend they would be moved into their new house. Carol was smiling about that.