After breakfast was cleaned up, Carl motion for me to follow him into his room. I followed as Daryl watched my every move. "I'm fine", I mouthed. He nodded.
Once in his room, Carl asked, "So, are you and Daryl like... A thing?" "Yea, why?" I said confused.
"Isn't he a little too old for you?" he implied. "Um... Yea but seems the whole world has gone to shit and I have no parents, I really don't think it is any of your concern." I said loudly.
"Oh! Well then!" he said dramatically. "Wait... Was this just a scheme to get me in your room alone?" I curiously said. "No!" he said vigorously, he kissed me and ran out.
I sat there motionless until Daryl came in, "What's wrong?" "Carl just kissed me!" I said.
"Sorry, come again" he said furiously. "I'm gonna kill that little son-of-a-b" I put my lips to his. "I would never consider that! You know that, right?" I said.
"What did he say to you?" he said with his arms crossed. "He was saying how you were too old for me" I explained.
"I'm gonna kill that..." "Stop! He's a child!" I screamed.
"So are you", he said. "Do children do this?" I said giving him a long, soft kiss.
"I guess not" he said kissing me back.
CARL'S P.O.V.- "What did you do?" dad asked. "Nothin'!" I screamed back.
"Bullshit! I saw how red your face was when you stormed outta there", he said. "Ok fine... I'll tell ya... I kissed Taylor", I said ashamed.
"Um... What... Ah... No... Daryl's gonna be pissed!" Dad said vigorously."I know I was completely outta line. I will apologize to her, later." I said.
"Ok, but Carl you need to learn to keep your emotions instead.", he said. "Coming from the guy that used to talk to my dead mom", I said as he glared at me and stormed out of the room.
TAYLOR'S P.O.V.- A couple hours later it was lunch time. We had squirrel sandwiches and Ritz crackers. At the table, Daryl didn't take his eyes off of Carl. He wanted to say something so bad, but each time he tried I squeezed his thigh really hard.
After lunch, I pulled Carl aside and talked about him and of course Daryl was there. "What you did, you know you can never do that ever again." I said. " I'm so sorry. It's just...", he stopped. "Just what... Anything that you say to me you can say to him", I said grabbing Daryl's hand.
"Nothing", he screamed and ran away. "Ok then", I said.
"Are you okay?" Daryl said. I nodded.
"Hey, Taylor, can you come here for a minute?" Rick yelled. I walked into the library where he was standing. "If this is about Carl, I really don't wanna talk about it", I said.
"It's not, but now that you mentioned it, I hope he didn't complicate things with you two", he said pointing to us. "He didn't, but Daryl's pretty pissed off." I said.
"I bet he is, so let's get down to business. We have no more medical supplies and with Maggie being pregnant, we need to be prepared" he said. "Ok, there's a hospital about two miles down the road." I told him.
"Ok, I appreciate that", he said.
I went in the back yard, where Daryl was blowing off steam. "We have to go to the hospital down the road for medical supplies tomorrow", I said. He didn't respond. "Did you hear me? Hello?! Are you ok?" I said.
"Do you have feelings for him?" he said. "Carl! Who else?!" he yelled.
"NO! I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE YOU YOU WOULD CONSIDER THAT!" I screamed. "Daryl, I love you and only you. Do you understand me?" I said holding his face. His eyes opened wide and grabbed my waist and kissed me.
"I love you too", he whispered in my ear.