A/N: Ok I am not a dude, I have no idea how they would talk to each other, but I did my best. This is a shorter chapter but I wanted to give the guys their own chapter, like I did the girls

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Rick busted into the room for the third time that day. This time he didn't knock because he knew Daryl either wasn't there or was alone. Lori had texted him about Carol being back in their room, so he knew it was safe to go back. Finally, he had showered that morning and put on his cloths from the night before, he didn't even have underwear on right now. They were going to have to come up with some ground rules. Daryl never brought a girl to the room before, so this time was a pass. They needed to figure it out fast though, because Rick was not walking around with his boxers in his back pocket ever again.

Daryl had just taken a shower and was standing there in the middle of the room in his jeans. His shirt was on but unbuttoned. Rick sat his books on the chair and sat up on the desk. Daryl turned around to him, his eyes meeting Rick's merry gaze.

"What?" Daryl said.

"You missed all your classes today."

Daryl started buttoning his shirt turning to Rick. Here we go. He rolled his eyes.

"What are you my father?"

"Nope, and don't think I didn't see that hickey on your stomach either." Rick laughed. "What are you thirteen?"

"Jealous Rick?" He arched his eyebrows.

He hadn't seen it, but he sure remembered what was going on at the time. For someone as inexperienced as Carol was, she was a fast study, or she had been reading, a lot. Either way he was a happy guy. A grinning happy fool was what he was right now.

Not every guy got the girl of his dreams for his very own. He knew that.

He felt his stomach flip as he thought about her, about her mouth on his stomach. Then where she went after that. He felt goose bumps erupting on his skin and just the thought of it.

Wrong place, wrong time, time to shut it down. He turned to Rick

"You got a point or something or are you just gonna hassle me." He said.

"Just hassling, paybacks for you and Glenn giving me shit all the time." Rick said. "It's good to give it out for once."

"Whatever, what's this project about anyway?" Daryl asked sure that he had been roped into something nuts by his friends again. Last semester they had all worked in a food kitchen as volunteers, he had liked doing that. He actually was going to ask Carol if she wanted to do it again. But with this group you never knew. Andrea once suggested the guys strip in a local club for charity. Daryl had nothing against charity, but he wasn't stripping in public, no way.

"We all signed up to do freshman orientation, remember?" Rick said.

Daryl nodded, relieved, he did remember now, this was a tame project, thank god.

He remembered Carol and Andrea had talked him into it. They would all be staying on campus this summer. He had only joined the team because Carol was, she had no home to go for the summer. He wouldn't leave her on campus alone. She was too important to him. Merle had said she could come home with them for the summer, but Daryl didn't think she would want to. Not for any reason other than she wouldn't want to impose. She didn't like taking anything from others, she never did. He knew this about her. She shouldn't feel that way though it was just him and Merle. They both loved her, albeit in different ways.

Merle was going to give him ten pounds of shit more than Rick Grimes could even think of. He wasn't looking forward to that. He'd give it to Carol too, Merle didn't play favorites with his bullshit when he was dishing it out. They both were gonna get it when Merle found out, because Merle had predicted it and he would never let Daryl live it down.

"Yeah, I know."

"We have to plan out some sort of get to know you activity, for them to break the ice with each other, they start coming the last week in May." Rick said opening his notebook.

"Great, Carol and Andrea can do that part." Daryl said.

There was a knock on the door, Rick reached over and opened the door to Glenn and behind him Eugene and Shane. What was this a party? Daryl thought as they all filed in.

"Dude, we didn't think we'd see you the rest of the day." Glenn said laughing.

"Well you wouldn't have but my parole officer here wouldn't let me out of this project." Daryl waved his hand pointing at Rick.

Glenn sat down on one of the beds and Shane leaned against the door. Eugen sat down on the opposite bed from Glenn.

"Maggie said we wouldn't see you two till the weekend." Glenn snickered.

Daryl just shot him a look. "It's Tuesday, dumbass."

"What your point, word is around is…." Glenn said.

"You fucked her four times in fifteen hours." Shane said from the sidelines. "Which is just great that our girls know about it, thanks bro, it's not a competition you know."

Daryl shook his head. "Who told you that?"

"Maggie told Glenn and she heard it from Rosita Espinoza. " Glenn said. "She's all the way over in D dorm."

"Who the fuck told her?" Daryl said incredulously.

He could not believe it was through two dorms in forty five minutes. Girls always thought guys talked too much, but it was them. He knew Carol would tell Lori and Tara, they were her best friends, but he hadn't expected the whole campus to know about it. That meant Andrea, sister of Amy, knew. Amy was the voice of America, she could always be counted on to alert the media about everyone's business. That was one of the many reasons he wasn't seeing her anymore. She couldn't keep her yap shut to save her life and she lied. Daryl was a lot of things, but what Amy had said about him, Karen and her, that was a big lie.

"They say women gossip 75% more than men, and 85% more if it's of a sexual nature." Eugene said, from his place on Daryl's unmade bed. He looked down, made a face, and pulled the comforter over and then sat back down on it. Like he had just thought about what had been going on there in the last few hours.

"Well, aint that just great." Daryl said.

"I believe it, I know damn well Carol and Tara know every detail of my life with Lori. I have no doubt." Rick said.

"Well, that's really some bullshit." Daryl said putting on his boots.

"What do you care, it makes you look good." Glenn said.

"How about I don't wanna look good, ever think of that." He said.

"Since when, you are so full of shit..." Glenn started to say, then he saw the look of total unbridled anger on Daryl's face.

"It's because it's her isn't it." Shane said from his spot holding up the door.

"You're damn right, you don't get to look at her, talk about her, none of you, don't even think of her." He said sharply.

Rick's phone buzzed, he took it out and looked at it.

"Ok they're ready, we have to go to the student center first apparently Carol's hungry, guess you guys only ate the donuts?"

"Shut up Rick."

Daryl said, but he was laughing. He wasn't angry, he just didn't get how this got around so fast, and he sure didn't understand women as well as he thought.