They left to go buy some more stuff for Sophia, Daryl could see that she was getting real tired, she cried herself out. Shattered, emotional, but needed to sleep, Maggie left to go find Merle. They were locked out of the club while the police finished their investigations. Daryl promised to buy them something for dinner and come back and eat with her so Carol could kiss Sophia good night.

Daryl looked at the row's and row's of little girls clothes. She basically had nothing but what he brought her last night. He had checked with Carol for what she wore to school so he had some idea of what he should be buying. What he knew he should be buying and what Sophia was talking him into were two different stories.

Carol had said, tidy jean's, skirts with tights or leggings underneath, leggings, and tee shirts, that was fine if he knew what leggings actually were. She had what she deemed she must have, he could tell it wasn't a school outfit. A blue sparkly shinny princess dress she told him was from 'Frozen,'.

He stood there chewing on his gum watching her gush over the clothes, holding them up to herself, putting them into the trolley. He knew the sizes, but she told him they would have to try stuff on. He pointed at some cargo pants, camo ones, they looked cool to him, big pockets in them she could stick stuff into. She started stripping in the isle which he quickly stopped her. He moved forward, grabbing, leggings in 4 different colours, jean's, tee shirts, socks, tights which he hoped he didn't have to put them on, a couple of sweat shirts.

Sophia was looking at the swim suits, then looked at him with a question in her eyes, 'My Mama didn't take me swimming,'

'Ok, get one, I'll take you swimming,' he told her, he knew there was a swimming pool around somewhere.

'I don't know how to swim,' she told him.

'I won't let you drown. I'll help you,' Daryl told her, she nodded, flicking through the swim suits, he shook his head towards two piece bikini's. He couldn't understand why they made them for little girls, he pointed to one two piece one with boy leg shorts and a tank top one which covered her up from the sun. She looked for her size.

'Come on, we gotta try this stuff on,' Daryl told her, getting her to follow him to the changing rooms, Daryl barely tried his own clothes on, it was going to take forever to try all this stuff on. He figured he only have to try one pair of leggings on if they all were the different colours, same with jean and tee shirts.

'I need p.j's,' Sophia tugged on his arm.

'Don't you just sleep in a tee shirt or something?' Daryl suggested, he'd see the p.j isle he didn't want to venture into it. She shook her head, he shrugged and followed her in. He couldn't help wonder if she was really smart for her age. She seemed to be able to read her size looking at tags. She knew what she wanted and seemed to have him wrapped around her finger quite quickly. She talked him into a few fairy dress up outfits. They hadn't even visited the toy isle yet.

He managed to get her to the entrance of the changing rooms, Sophia was hanging off his jeans, it seemed to be her signature move for greeting people behind counters. He had to make sure his pants were done up properly every day. The lady looked him up and down when he said he wanted to try some clothes on Sophia. She showed them an empty changing room.

'Let me know if you need help,' she told him.

'Yeah, we are still learning this aren't we princess,' Daryl told her.

'Ok, let me know, the domes on those jean's can be tricky just stick your head out,' she told him.

He was already on his knees in front of Sophia tugging at her shirt. He pulled it off, and pulled on a new tee shirt, then pulled it off. He started a pile of yes and a pile of no. Sophia was quite compliant with him, helping stepping into clothes letting him help so they got through their pile fast. He had just about come to the end when she started getting bored at preening herself in the mirror and started playing with his face.

He handled it when she started playing with his hair, then she stuck a wet finger in his ear that she sucked on.

'Wet willie,' she told him, 'the boys like that,' she giggled, he shook his head, she pulled at his goatee, stroking it up against the grin of his hair growth and back down again. Her little fingers trying to grab hold of longer strands pulling on them.

'Ouch, don't do that, come on Soph, ok, lets just get them,' Daryl put the rest in the buy pile, 'we need to try the swim suit, can you lift your arm's up,' He pulled it on over her leggings she had on and tee shirt it fitted and he was done with shopping for girls clothes.

'Your not suposed to wear clothes under,' Sophia told him.

'I know, I just wanted to make sure it would fit,' He quickly dressed her in her own clothes. Left the clothes they didn't want in the changing rooms, piled the clothes he did want in the trolley, Sophia yawned, started holding her hands up to him to carry her. He did, he picked her up and put her on top of her clothes in the trolley. He thanked the women and they moved around the toy isle, picking some toys for Sophia. He stopped by the dvd isle and picked up the 'Frozen' dvd, and a few more for her to watch. They brought some books to read and then headed to the furniture area of the huge store.

He ordered a bed set in white, with dresser and toy box, book shelf which would come tomorrow. Sophia thought she won the major prize when she was allowed the bed cover she wanted. He knew he would have to get curtains too, she picked those too. He couldn't help thinking the spare room was getting a 5 year old make over. He paid for everything, he let Sophia change into her Frozen outfit in the truck before they picked up some dinner to go to visit Carol again.