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So guess what, they're out of the room, I told you eventually they would be.

Carol opened the door to her dorm room later that day. Her two roommates Lori and Tara were laying on their beds studying.

Their room was also adorned with posters. Over Carol's bed was a poster of some TV show she liked, Tara's wall had Star Trek and Lori's had Magic Mike. For a dorm room with three girls in it there wasn't much mess. Tara and Lori were great roommates, they had met freshman year, this year they were roommates. It was working out well.

"Hmmm walk of shame at, what time is it Tara, 2:45 pm on a Tuesday?" Lori said looking at the wall clock.

She leaned against the door and groaned.

"Heard you tried to dip out on Daryl, while he was sleeping." Tara said. Closing her book and sitting up.

"Oh for God's sake, isn't anything sacred around here?" Carol cried.

She flopped on her bed and covered her head with her blanket.

"Nope, nothing is sacred, Tara wanted to play "I just had sex" when you walked in, be thankful. I put the kibosh on that, Akon almost outed you to the whole dorm" Lori said.

"You missed Art History." Tara said, laughing. "I'm sure you had a better time than us though."

"Rick has a big mouth." She said to Lori.

"Yes he does, but all the same, Daryl told Rick you tried to run." Lori replied. "That's usually what the guy does."

Tara came over and laid down next to her and Lori followed. There wasn't a lot of room but they all laid next to each other. These were her two best friends, she knew she could talk to them. But first she needed to know why they didn't stop her.

"What happened to the pact guys? We aren't supposed to let each other go home with anyone." She asked.

"No." Tara said. "We aren't supposed to let each other go home with strangers, that was Daryl, we were all glad he was finally getting out of the minors." Tara laughed. "He asked you to dance and we were all like 'it's going down."

"Thanks Tara." Carol shook her head. "As usual your wit is both sharp and offensive."

She hugged her friends, on each side of her.

"What am I going to do?"

"I didn't think you'd be this upset. It's Daryl." Lori asked. "You know him."

"That's why I'm so upset, he's my best friend, and I don't know how to do this."

"He followed you here, ever wonder why?" Tara said. "We all saw this coming a mile away."

"He got a scholarship..." Her voice trailed off, he had told her different just that morning, in his roundabout way.

Well not different, just the parts she hadn't known. Like Merle selling his car for Daryl to go to school, like when Merle called her Daryl's girlfriend.

'Whatever," Tara rolled her eyes. "All I know and you'll agree Lor, she gets here last fall, and he shows up halfway through the semester, what was it second week in October? Late admission to the biggest earth science program in the state. Strings had to have been pulled. Then he moves into the same dorm, one floor down, and we've been watching you two eye fuck each other for a year and a half."

Lori nodded vigorously.

"We don't do that." She sat up looking at them. "And he transferred from Community."

"Whatever." Tara waved her hand.

"He never stops watching you, and you never stop watching him. Are you sure nothing ever happened back home." Lori said.

"No. Never." she sat up. "I'm blown away."

"I sure hope so." Tara said laughing.

Carol smacked her arm lightly, she wasn't really mad, she had expected her friends to bust her about this, and she was prepared.

"He looks at you like he wants to eat you for dinner, how could you not ever notice." Lori said, "Rick doesn't even look at me like that."

"No that would be Shane Walsh. " Tara said. "Looking at you like that."

"Well, he can forget it, that's not happening." Lori said. "He's too creepy for words."

"You were too busy looking at him, that's how, Carol" Tara said. "Trying not to be obvious, it's a lot of work, so I can see how you didn't notice him looking at you, but we all did."

Carol laid down. Thinking about it all now, she knew they were right. But that didn't make it any easier to handle. At least she wasn't feeling like she wanted to run so much now. Not that much anyway.

"Well, I gotta let you know Maggie won the pool, she said breaking up with Ed was gonna make Daryl step up to the plate." Lori said. "She's two hundred bucks richer now."

"We were gonna start a side bet last night, but it was pretty obvious it was going down, you two were all over each other, so we scrapped that idea." Tara said, laughing. "Maggie told Glenn to suck it too, she's keeping all the money, and going for a spa day, which I find hilarious because this was Glenn's idea, she cut him right out of the action."

"Really? There was a bet." Carol said, sitting back up. "My life was the subject of a bet? With Glenn as the instigator? I introduced him to all of you!"

"Yeah, what can I say? But you had to name the circumstances, ya know, to keep it interesting." Tara said. "Maggie won, you dumped Ed last week, so it counted."

"Eugene thought it was gonna be at the spring fling if you wore your red dress, with the black heels. He didn't leave your side last time you wore it. Homecoming wasn't it? Remember how pissed Ed was?" Lori said. "Are you really that blind?"

Carol groaned "What is this a game of clue? Carol in the red dress at the spring fling?"

Just then Andrea and Michhone walked in from their room across the hall. Holding potato chips, pretzels, dip and a six pack of soda. They had met this year when Andrea and Michonne moved into the room across the hall. The five of them, plus Maggie and Rosita were a tight group of girls, who had each other's backs.

"Told ya she was back, spill it Bergan." Andrea said. "And I mean details. Details."

They bounced on the bed. And sat at the foot of it the other girls sat up also, opposite them. The chips and soda were opened and they settled in to get the details. All five of them on Carol's bed. Tara, Lori and Carol at one end, Michonne and Andrea on the other. Their legs stretched out in front of them.

"Was it the best night of your life, it sure looked like it was going that way." Michonne said.

"Um yeah." Andrea said "It looked like you two were gonna rip off each other's cloths right there on the dance floor, I needed a glass of ice water after that."

"You make it sound like we were obscene." Carol said incredulously.

"No it wasn't obscene, just, I dunno." Tara said. "Like no one else was in the room, even before you started dancing, like you had just noticed each other."

"Yup. I agree" Andrea said eating a chip. "Did you get my text?"

"Yeah." Carol groaned.

"What was the text? Michonne asked.

Andrea put up the thumbs up sign.

"No, what was the text." Michonne said.

"This, thumbs up." She did it again. "I approved."

"Andrea has approved this mess." Carol said. Blowing the hair out of her face.

"I just want to know if you all are going to do it again." Tara said.

Carol pulled her blanket over her head, "We already did…twice."

The room erupted in laughter. Of course she was going to do it again. She wasn't stupid. Embarrassed and mortified, but not enough to let it stop her.

"I was so embarrassed, I almost couldn't look at him."

"It was a long time coming according to Glenn and Maggie, they said in High School Daryl used to scare off all your dates." Lori said.

"It wasn't like that." Carol said. "We only have ever been friends."

'Yeah it was just suddenly a good idea now…after how many years….twice." Michonne deadpanned and they all laughed again.

"Well, twice this morning." She egged them on.

"Holy crap, I should be so lucky." Lori said. "Not that I'm complaining."

"Look, I just have to know how was it, I bet it was fanfuckingtastic, because do you ever notice how he walks?" Andrea started.

"What are you talking about?" Lori asked.

"He has dick confidence, you can tell by the way he walks." Andrea continued. "Don't pretend you never noticed, Carol, because you can't miss it, right guys?"

"He does have a walk." Lori admitted. Michonne shrugged, nodding her head slightly.

"Don't look at me." Tara said. "Not my wheelhouse."

"Well, Andrea, as a matter of fact I have noticed, I've been watching him walk all my life." Carol said kind of pissed off, she hadn't known her friends were checking him out. "What the fuck is dick confidence?"

"Think about it." Michhone said, raising her eye brows. "And by now you know all about that."

Carol narrowed her eyes at them. Grabbing for the potato chips, she was hungry.

"Hey listen, I may notice, but everyone knows he's yours, from day one that was never a question." Andrea said.

"Why are you all saying that, I was with Ed and Daryl's gone out with lots of girls here and back home, and had that whatever with Karen and Amy?" She asked. "That's not mine."

"Yeah it is, he may have been with them, but he's yours." Michonne said "But we aren't here to go over that again, he followed you here after one month away from you, that's pretty obvious. Let's not beat that dead horse anymore. I just want to know you got your world rocked last night."

"It was look at her, she looks like she finally got laid properly." Lori said.

"What? I don't look different." Carol said.

Tara leaned over.

"Actually you do." She pointed to her forehead, between her eyes. "You don't have that tense look in your eyes anymore and your V is gone."

"What V." She said annoyed.

"The V for vexed crinkle you had right here." Tara said drawing the V between her eyes just above her nose.

"Ha, he ironed that right out for you." Andrea said.

Carol sighed. "I can still feel his hands all over me."

"Oh, that good huh?" Lori said.

"What the fuck am I gonna do now. "She sighed. "He wants to take me to the movies Friday night."

"So what's your problem, haven't you seen like two thousand movies with him?" Andrea asked.

"I don't know, suddenly I'm worried about what to wear and how my hair is. It was never like that with us, now it's all different."

"Yeah, that's a huge pain in the ass." Andrea said. "But we're going to help you."