Ok so its short but I do have to go to work in a minute, hope this is good for you all, thank you for all the support, much love to you all xx
It was the last day of his stay with the Greene's he would be leaving to go to his Uncle's first thing in the morning, they had given him a lot of old furniture and things from out of the barn and the attics in the house, and he was really grateful for it all, so he decided to go out hunting this morning, he rose early and crept out of the house with the sun only just showing its face on the horizon, making small shimmers to the colours of the trees, Daryl loved this time of day everything seemed peaceful, normal just for a while.
He tracked a deer for a couple of hours, when he finally got it, he strung it from a tree and prepared it out there, then lacing two poles together Daryl led the carcass on top and pulled it back towards the house, as he approached he realised he actually looked like a mad axe murder and knew that Beth's mother would freak if he trailed this into the house, he remembered that there was a near the front so he stopped the sun was up now and was warming the sky so he stripped his shirt and boots off then sprang into the water, his wounds had heeled and the water was soothing on his skin. As he reached the other side of the pond and began to pull himself out of the water, he found to feet stood before him, dropping back into the water he looked up to find Beth stood there with an amused look on her face.
"What's with the smirk" he asked her wrenching his wet hair out of his eyes, she raised an eyebrow but said nothing.
"Nothing at all Daryl, want a hand out?" she asked him and he reached up to her, as she took his hand he couldn't resist and pulled her in with him, she squealed as she toppled into the cold water, then bobbed up and slapped his arm lightly. "Not funny" she exclaimed giggling.
"Really? Coz amused me to hell" he laughed at her, he put his arm around her waist to keep her to his height realising she was just to short to touch the floor, he pushed some of her wet blonde hair from her face.
"You know if you wanted to re-enact it your supposed to climb all the way out of the pond" she smirked, he looked at her confused, what the hell was she talking about? "The chapter from pride and prejudice" she smirked.
"Oh forgot about that" she giggled hitching herself closer to him.
"Daryl?" he gazed into her eyes "I'm really going to miss not having you around." she sighed, he swallowed hard at all the emotions that simple statement churned in him.
"Yeah, well I ain't leaving the country just be a few miles away. Your coming today anyway, your mother insisted on seeing the apartment remember?" she placed her small hand on his chest.
"I know" she said sadly, his heart was in his mouth but he had to just once, and he let his head dip and placed a small feather light kiss on her lips, when he pulled away they were both blushing.
"Going to miss you too, but we can ring and text, I get Saturday afternoons and all day Sunday off and ya barn is pretty damned comfy if I remember right" he smiled, she was looking down into the water, when her other hand came flying up out of it splashing him, she laughed and started to pull away, he sent a wave of water flying towards her with his bigger arm and the water fight began, after a little while they crawled from the water and led on the bank breathing heavily, both giggling.
"Best get this back or won't be worth the effort I put into getting for everyone" he pointed towards the carcass by the grass.
"Yeah" she stood up and watched as he took up the make shift sledge. "What were you doing in the water anyway?"
"Was covered in yuck from the deer so thought I would wash it off before I got back, so ya ma would let me in the house" he explained.
"Thought that one through well didn't ya?" she asked "Your all wet now, she ain't going to let either of us in this wet" she explained, he looked down at himself then over to her and chuckled.
"Opps" he shrugged.
Beth led staring at her phone the following night, making a decision she flipped it open.
You awake? She sent
Yeah, its really quiet here when the garage is shut.
I just wanted to say good night to you.
Beth it's quarter past three in the morning, you said goodnight at half nine.
Ok so I just wanted to talk to you.
I have only been gone for couple of hours.
I know but its ages till Saturday.
Miss you too, now get some sleep some of us have work to do, others have to go back to school, and kick their legs around cheering on other men.
Jealous?
No reason to be.
Why?
You know why.
Good night Daryl.
Night Beth.
She flipped her phone shut, curling up with it under her pillow, Beth slept all night soundly.
"Beth we need to go shopping" her mother called up the stairs, Beth went down to meet her mother.
"Why?" she asked.
"Well we need to get your graduation robes, it won't be long now, only got you two months left at school then your off to college, which one have you picked?" Beth shrugged her shoulder's she just couldn't decide.
"I don't know, there are a couple that are close but oh I don't know" she had been arguing with herself about this for days.
"He will understand if you want to go away to college, it's not like you two are actually dating, extremely good friends but from what I can see nothing else." her mother stated. Beth shifted the thought had occurred to her too, they hadn't declared undying love to each, they hadn't really declared much to each other.
"I will decide so where are we going shopping then?" Beth's mother led her out of the door and towards her small car.
"Oh I don't know lets just go and find some nice clothes and do girlie things for the rest of the day" Beth followed her mother, quality time that's just what she needed.
She was sitting with her mother eating lunch when her phone began to ring, taking it from her pocket she saw Daryl's name on the front, she flipped it open.
"Hello" she spoke with a smile.
"Mind if I join you?" came the voice down the phone then a hand touched her shoulder lightly, she turned in her seat and squeaked with excitement.
"Your here" she breathed, he nodded and lightly placed a kiss on Mrs Greene's cheek, Beth watched with a raised eyebrow.
"Thank you for letting me come" he sat down between the two women.
"Well it is Saturday." she smiled, the waiter came straight over and placed a plated of steak and potatoes before Daryl he looked confused. "Took the liberty of ordering it before you got here" she smiled at him. Beth watched the interaction between the two of them amazed, only five months ago he would have run a mile, not kissed her mother on the cheek. "Beth honey close your mouth, if the wind changes you will stay that way" she felt her mothers fingers touch her chin and Beth snapped her mouth closed.
"How did you?" she asked.
"She phoned me before you left the house, said you'd be at the mall, didn't take me long to know at this time of day you'd want to be eating." he laughed, Beth frowned at him then slapped him on the arm. "So get your stuff you need for the big day?" he asked her.
"Yes more or less, are you coming?" she asked cautiously.
"Yep booked me the whole day off, couldn't let ya graduate with out me" he smiled at her then started tucking into his food happily, how was she going to tell him she wanted to go out of state for college?
