Daryl rolled over in bed looking at the time it was nearly lunch time he had his arse half hanging out of the bed, he looked up and could see Sophia asleep in her wee bed, Carol was gone, but he knew she was still there because Sophia was there. He groaned rolling out standing and stretching, looking around for some clothes to pull on. He looked in her little bed and could see she was in a different outfit sucking on her fingers while she was sleeping.

The room was hot he cracked open some windows then staggered out to the lounge where he nearly tripped over Rick who was still sleeping on the mattress on the floor. Three sets of women's eyes were on him as he gave a little wave and went into the bathroom. He used the toilet, washed his hands and tried to brush the fuzzy feeling from his mouth. His head was a little foggy, he went to dry his hands and there were no towels anywhere in the bathroom so he wiped his hands on his pants.

He wandered out to the kitchen table where the women were sitting and put his hand on Carol's shoulder saying good morning to everyone, Andrea looked at him and sniffed.

'You need a shower you stink, of stale beer,' She told him, Carol looked at Andrea who was bold enough to say what she was thinking.

'There's no towel,' Daryl said.

'Fancy that, someone pulled every towel out last night and threw them on the bathroom floor!' Andrea looked at him, Carol blushed and Daryl scratched his neck looking at her. He looked around the room then back at Andrea and winked at her, Carol put her hands over her face.

'There's ummm towels in the dryer,' Carol said quietly, 'I washed some.'

'Where's Merle?' Daryl started heading towards the kitchen.

'Merle nursing a headache which is not related to you and him and Rick drinking too much last night,' Andrea told him.

Daryl grunted at them walking into the kitchen to pour himself a coffee and leaned back on the counter watching the women, who were all watching him.

'What?' He asked them.

'Daryl your making me gag,' Lori finally said after they all watched him.

'Fine, I'ma gona shower then,' Daryl went into the laundry to get a towel.

'Ummmmm Daryl can we keep it to a two towel minimum for each shower then?' Andrea teased him.

'I didn't do anything to the towels,' He told them.

'Why did Carol feel the need to wash them all at 7 this morning then?' Lori asked him.

'Maybe she has towel issues, keep an eye on her,' He told them as he headed into the bathroom shutting the door behind him, all eyes went to Carol. 'Maybe she has a towel washing fetish?' He called from behind the bathroom door.

'Soooooooo why did you wash all the towels Carol?' Andrea asked all eyes were on her, her face was flaming, she wasn't used to this sort of teasing especially when they were talking about sexual things. She put her face in her hands.

'I think someone got busy on the towels, and they had to be washed?' Lori chimed in.

'I can't, stop asking me,' Carol put her hands over her face.

'Sounds like someone got busy in the bathroom on the towels then they had to wash them all, that's what I think Lori,' Andrea said.

'Well I did see them go into the bathroom last night but didn't leave last night,' Lori teased Carol.

'Ok stop, yes something happened, but thats all I'm saying,' Carol got up moving to the bathroom slipping inside the bathroom to confront Daryl's blabby mouth.

'They all know!' She told him opening up the shower door, seeing him standing there just about asleep with his hands braced on the wall with his eyes shut, he opened his eyes and turned his head looking at her. 'They all know we did something,'

'So, so you come in here while I'm naked in the shower to throw them off the sent them?' Daryl asked shutting his eyes again.

'Oh great now they are going to think I'm doing something else in here again,' Carol told him, she looked him up and down starring at him, she looked at his body, he watched her looking and raised her eyebrows.

'You see something you like babe,' He asked her.

She shook her head, he nodded and reached out to take her hand pulling her too him a little, she giggled. 'No, finish up and we can go for a walk or something, talk without you trying to get me wet and naked,' She told him slipping out of his grip.

He found her sitting on the edge of the bed waiting for him, he come in wrapped in a towel, glanced in the baby bed Sophia was still sleeping. He started drying himself watching her watching him, he pulled on underwear and jeans and a tee shirt.

'How long's she going to sleep for?' He asked Carol.

'She will wake soon,'

'K, going to eat something, when she wakes we go for a walk around ok?' Daryl asked dragging her to her feet. 'Did you have breakfast?'

'Daryl i've been up about 5hours. I've had breakfast,' She told him.

'Well let me make you lunch,' Daryl told her taking her hand walking past Rick who was still snoring giving him a genital poke to wake him. Lori and Andrea were sitting outside on the deck drinking coffee. Carol wandered out to sit with them to look around the wooded area out the back of Daryl's place, it looked like a nice back yard, she hadn't seen it really in day light or been out there yet.