'You will need the pram, there is no way you can carry her and the stuff she needs all day,' Andrea told her as they pulled into the drive of Carol's flat.

They were parking there and walking to the parade. Daryl was long gone by the time Sophia and Carol rolled out of bed. She thought she could just put her in the front pack and walk with her all day but apparently there would be lots of walking and different things happening so the pram had a carrier underneath for all her stuff. The pram was like a carry cot type so Sophia would sleep well when she needed too. They would take the front pack also.

She quickly made the pram up with little sheets and grabbed the sun cover for it. Sophia was going to be out for a while, out and about in the sun if there wasn't trees or something to sit under.

Carol changed into a sun dress. Grabbed a top and jacket although the weather looked great. She found a little hat for Sophia and sun screen for them both. Andrea come into her room to watch while she put some makeup on.

'That dress is so hot, I love it with those sandles.' Andrea said. 'Are they easy to walk in?'

'Too much?' Carol asked, 'I had it from before I got with Ed, I never worn it much, it's not to you know?'

'Smoking hot?' Andrea giggled, 'It looks great, your boobs look great, are you Just going to pull them out and feed?'

'I might stick her in the front pack and feed her, I have to get my whole boob out to feed in this, might cause a crash or something.' Carol giggled turning and looking in the mirror. She hoped Daryl liked the dress. Ed never liked it and had tried to throw it away. Carol hid it in Sophia's drawers because she loved it so much, and it was expensive. She reached out and grabbed Andrea's hand.

'He won't be mad? If I wear this?' Carol asked.

Andrea looked at her and shook her head, realizing Carol wasn't as confident as she appeared on the outside. Ed had taken all that away and being in a sort of relationship with Daryl she was confused with everything.

'No he will love it, I promise,' She told Carol smiling at her, 'You need sun screen so does bubs.'

'I kinda feel like I'm going on a first date or something, last time I went on a first date I got pregnant, I don't know what happened, I ended up sleeping with him after a few drinks I didn't think I had that many, then Soph was on her way. I'm a bit lost on the dating thing,' Carol admitted.

'How many drinks did you have?' Andrea asked, things were getting confused and the more Carol had told her about things the weirder the relationship with Ed was.

'Wine with dinner, it was a nice dinner, but I certainly didn't mean to sleep with him, I never done that, then the next morning he told me I basically threw myself at him, I must have drunk more than I realized. He said I looked ready for it so he took what I was offering, I wasn't wearing this dress though.' Carol looked in the mirror putting on lipstick she looked up and caught Andrea's eye in the mirror. Her mouth went 'Oh!"

'I'm so stupid, stupid, stupid, Daryl's right I'm stupid.' Carol hissed into the mirror , tears started to well in her eyes as she put two and two together about how she come to sleep with Ed, she hadn't even liked him that way, not enough to sleep with him anyway.

'Ummm I don't think he called you stupid did he? Daryl wouldn't call anyone stupid.' Andrea reached up and guided her to sit on the side of the bath.

'No he didn't but he said Ed was saying and doing stuff telling them about his parents to get back in my good books. He probably date raped me or something slipped me something in my drink right, I can't remember having sex with him that first time then I just started sleeping with him because we already did it. Until he changed, and it was too late and Sophia was coming.' Carol looked like she wanted to vomit. 'I'm so so dumb!'

'He isolated me, and I let him, I'm so stupid Andrea, how could I have stayed when I knew Sophia was coming. Isolate both of us, he nearly killed her. Those girl were right, he deserves better, needs better than me,' Carol was struggling to catch her breath, all the words were tumbling out her mouth and she had snot coming out of her nose. Andrea passed her a tissue. Carol blew her nose and tried to calm herself down. It all made sense now. Being away from Ed had made it all click into place.

'Calm down, calm down, shhhhh its ok,' Andrea told her. 'Its fine, you made a mistake, Ed tricked you it wasn't all one sided Carol, calm down.'

Carol wasn't calming down, Merle come to the door with Sophia in his arms watch Carol totally melt down onto the floor of the bathroom, he looked at Andrea who was kinda stuck on what to do at this point and just shook her head. Merle left with Sophia. Andrea sat beside Carol rubbing her back. Carol slowly stopped crying long enough for Andrea to talk.

'Honey, you didn't do anything wrong. Look at how you protected Sophia, you tried to protect Daryl from the nasty comments by letting him go, your not stupid, sometimes we just make mistakes, Ed was a mistake. He took advantage of you,' Andrea told her. Carol was trying to calm herself down, she could hear Sophia starting to cry in the lounge, she suddenly stopped crying Carol wiped her eyes and there was a tap at the bathroom door.

Carol looked up and saw Daryl standing there in total dress uniform right down to the white gloves holding onto Sophia.

'Pass me a towel in case she pukes up on me ok,' He instructed Andrea. He moved to get the towel putting it between him and the baby, he was the reason Sophia stopped crying, he stopped her crying any time he picked her up. He was like the Sophia whisper, any time he picked her up she was quiet in his arms. Like she was now snuggling into him well into the towel he had between him and her.

He was looking great, fantastic in fact. She knew he was looking great in his dress uniform. Too good in fact, even better with the baby over his shoulder rocking her to keep her calm. He looked at his watch then at the women.

'Whats going on?' He asked looking from Andrea and Carol, 'Tell me quick because I am not meant to be here.'

'Nothing, nothings wrong.' Carol told him.

'Then why the fuck are you on the floor crying?' Daryl growled looking hard at Andrea until she caved.

'Carol's upset because Ed may or may not have slipped her something the first night she went on a date with him. It started with the sundress, and snowballed from there.' Andrea blurted out Daryl looked from her to Carol shaking his head.

'It started with the sun dress,' Daryl asked. 'That sun dress?' Daryl pointed at at her dress.

'Yes,' Andrea said, Carol blew her nose again. Coughed and cleared her throat glanced at Daryl.

'Why are you here?'

'Ummmmm I rung Merle to see where you were and he said you were crying in the bathroom, so I came to see if your alright,' Daryl stated. He was rocking on the balls of his feet with Sophia, Andrea moved out of the room. Daryl stayed looking at him. 'You want to tell me quick? or we wana play 20 questions?'

'I was just telling Andrea about this dress and put two and two together he might have slipped me something to get me into bed quickly, and the rest you know.' Carol muttered. Daryl stood there and nodded his head not saying anything.

'I'm being stupid,' Carol muttered, Daryl stepped forward with Sophia holding his gloved hand out to pull her up, she took it and he pulled her to him in a hug.

'Don't get snot on me,' He muttered hugging her to him, 'Nothing surprises me about Ed, nothing, don't be so worried about things. Sweetheart I really have to go, my captain's going to bust my balls if he knows I'm gone, Baby lets not worry about what happened with Ed. Can we talk about Ed tonight, please? Just come today, I'll talk all night I promise.'

'Yeah I'll come, you walking around looking like that in public, I'm going to watch.' Carol told him stepping back looking at him. He smirked.

'You like the uniform then?' He asked her.

'Really nice, I really really like it.'

"You really really really do,' He teased. 'Seriously babe I have to go, Abe will bust them hard and I will never walk again.'

'Yeah, give me Sophia and we will follow you down,' Carol told him. He handed Sophia back and gave her a kiss.

'I mean it, Ed's something we need to talk about but not right now.' Daryl told her kissing her again, 'My uniform ok?'

'You look good, clean,' Carol told him, wondering how he could be so nice with her crying about what had happened. He left moving out of the flat and they watched as he jumped in a squad car heading back towards the main street again. They moved quickly to get moving to the parade again. Carol re did her make up again. Then they walked to the main street again.