Chapter 18

Moving forward

They had survived the winter, but it had taken its toll on john. His health was declining without proper food and rest and Abby worried about him every day.

They drove along the highway, Daryl had taken to riding merles bike so she had sole use of his truck. It had become very awkward between them since their kiss in the woods, she frowned as she thought about it.

The kiss intensified and she was grinding her hips against him as his hand slid slowly down her body and slipped beneath her denim shorts. She moaned as she felt his fingers slip beneath her underwear as his fingers cupped her, she rubbed against them hungrily. She moved his shirt so she could slide her hands over his toned back and he froze, Daryl pulled away sharply and pushed his hair out of his eyes,

'we should get back' he stated as he stood up and began walking away, Abby lay there watching him leave and trying to understand what she had done.

It didn't matter how many times she replayed it in her mind, she couldn't figure out what she'd done that had spooked Daryl so much. From that point on it had been awkward between them, Daryl had been sticking close to carol and Sophia and she spent a lot of time with Lori. They actively avoided each other and it hadn't gone unnoticed. When questioned by rick she simply stated that they were both to headstrong and could never agree and that eventually they'd be so focused on arguing with each other that it would get them killed. He'd agreed and hadn't pushed her on it anymore, she hadn't told anyone about what had happened in the woods.

Their little convoy stopped as they came to a cluster of abandoned cars in the road. Hey all climbed out and began looting the cars, it was hard to feel guilty about looting anymore. There was no one to stop them and it was now a basic survival need, they foraged or they died.

Dale was keeping watch on the roof of the RV, john sat with him. She smiled at the two of them, it was nice that they both had someone to talk to. She walked further on through the cars and avoided Daryl's gaze, she knew he was watching her, he always did.

Everyone froze as dale shouted and they saw it in the distance, a whole herd of walkers heading straight for them. Abby couldn't move as she saw the size of it, they had never seen so many walkers all assembled together, the sight gripped her heart and squeezed. The others began throwing themselves under cars to hide, she felt a strong grip on her arm as Daryl pulled her down and threw her under the car next to her. She watched him help t-dog before covering himself with a corpse and then she felt the footsteps thundering along the concrete. Abby didn't take her eyes off Daryl the whole time, her hands were clutched over her mouth.

When the last footsteps shuffled past she lowered her hands, she hadn't even realised she'd been holding her breath but she still didn't dare move.

Daryl had watched Abby out of the corner of his eye as they heard ploughed through. He thought about that day in the woods, kissing her, touching her. He'd wanted her so badly and regretted pulling away, if none of this had ever happened a girl like Abby wouldn't have looked twice at him and he knew it. He wanted to tell her why he'd pulled away but it meant admitting something that no one knew about and he wanted to keep it that way.

He pushed the body off of him and helped t-dog up before kneeling down to look under the car at Abby,

'It's safe…you can come out now' he murmured, she nodded and slid herself out from under the car. He pulled her up and she realised this was the closest the two of them had been in weeks. He squeezed her hand and they only stopped looking at each other when they heard carol wail loudly,

'Where's Sophia!'

Sorry its short guys but it is a start, review xxx