GLENN'S POV:
She was remembering more and more every day. I didn't want to rush her memory and flood her with too much information, but I was anxious to pull out all of the photographs she had shoved in her backpack when we left her house the morning of the apocalypse and show them to her. I decided to wait until tomorrow; she had already made so much progress today.
We positioned the cars in a tight circle around a very small section of the middle of the road, making sure we had everything set up before night fell. We would be staying near the center of the vehicles that were crowded around until morning when we could continue exploring. Shane would be riding in the Cherokee since we couldn't find any fuel for him. We had nowhere to go, no will to go on, and no hope.
But Kaiya seemed to be in her own little world, oblivious to the decay of society all around us. I guess there was a bright side to her sudden memory loss.
We had a quiet dinner of the things that we had been able to scavenge from Fort Benning before we had been forced to escape. We were running out of places to go, and Rick knew it.
You could see it in his face, in his eyes when he gazed for long minutes at the ground, as though expecting to find the solution there in the dirt. Tenseness seemed to be running high between Rick and Shane. It seemed like everything Shane was doing was pissing Rick off and that was screwing with Rick's decision-making skills.
Everyone was feeling a bit more exposed now, without Kaiya up and able to fight alongside Daryl like she used to. If not for her own good, and if not for my own returning sense of home, then I hoped Kaiya got her memory back for the protection of the other campers. Speaking of Daryl…
I gazed around and found he, Merle, and Emily sitting off on their own (although, in the confines of our cozy little circle, they weren't able to put much space between themselves and the rest of camp). Taking a glance at Emily, I realized I hadn't noticed her hanging all over Daryl like she used to. Come to think of it, ever since Merle showed up, she had been spending less and less time with Daryl.
I don't think Kaiya noticed, but she probably didn't remember enough of before to be able to tell the difference. It seemed even through the amnesia, she remembered how Daryl made her feel.
Maybe she didn't consciously remember it, but with how close they used to be, her body seemed to have picked up a on a few of the signals she was getting. It was like we were right back at the quarry all over again. Anytime Daryl (once again shrouded in mystery to Kaiya) glanced over at her, she blushed and quickly looked down. If he spoke directly to her, she seemed to stumble over her words in reply. And whenever he moved, her eyes darted up to him.
It was like it was happening all over again. She was falling in love all over again. And I didn't want to see her heart get broken again.
Okay, so I would like to ask you guys a favor. If any of you like drawing and would like to make a picture of Kaiya and Daryl together, I would LOVE to see your ideas of what they would look like together. Please let me know if any of you guys would be interested in doing this! :) This sounds like shameless self-promotion, doesn't it? :/ Oh well! :) I would still like to see what you guys think of it.