'Are you serious?' Carol looked across at Daryl as he pulled up outside the community swimming pool.
'Yes, you just said I could do swimming lessons with her,' Daryl reminded her.
'I thought you were joking,'
'No come on come in and check see when lessons are on for her age group,' Daryl moved around to move Sophia out of her car seat, holding the baby in his arms he indicated that she should follow him, 'Come on,'
Carol followed him towards the main entrance where there were boards up with prices and different swimming activities that were on offer from babies to tots, exercise swimming for everyone. Carol was surprised there was so many things on offer, her eyes went to the swimming lessons for babies. Monday mornings at 10am or Saturday morning at 10am for Daddy swim class.
Carol was surprised he really was looking into Daddy swim classes. Shocked in fact, he wanted to do something one on one with Sophia without her, or she began to worry if it was because she bombed at the mummy play group. She knew at some stage Sophia was going to have to start mixing with other babies. She began to worry that she might just be failing because she was hopeless at the mummy playgroup.
Daryl watched her as 100 emotions run across her face worry about why she was looking so worried, maybe she thought he would drown Sophia or something, let her go in the water. To be honest he didn't know why he wanted to do the classes after he suggested it, it was passing comment that he made snowball after they drove passed the swimming pool they he just drove in to check out if they even had baby classes.
He held his hand out to support Carol he didn't know why she was stressing out but he knew she was stressing out for some reason. She was probably still upset about the playgroup. He knew Lori went but it was right up her ally also she been with Rick a very long time well settled into the community. Carol was new, but also the fact he knew there were a few women in that group who in the past hit on him. His eyes went to the counter and he grinned seeing who was behind there.
'Hi Daryl, how are you, this must be Sophia?' A cute blonde girl waved from behind the counter, 'Come see me,' she held her hands out for the baby Daryl passed her through the opening to her to hold. She grinned a beaming smile looking at the baby giving her a kiss. Carol was looking at Daryl passing Sophia off to the girl behind the counter. A little panic as the girl seemed really familiar to Daryl and her to him.
'Carol, this is Amy, Andrea's sister,' Daryl called her over.
'Hi,' Carol looked at the girl probably in her very early 20's, she was kissing Sophia in the same fashion as her sister did. Daryl was watching her smiling at them, Carol felt a little ping of jealousy. She was perky and blonde and cute, everything Carol wasn't with no baggage either. Had they been together, slept together, Carol's mind was racing 100 miles an hour, putting Andrea's sister around the age of 25 years. Where had she been, Carol tried to calm all her irrational thoughts going through her mind.
'So I'm Aunty Amy, and I'm just back from collage I can spoil you rotten,' Amy snuggled into the baby, 'I can baby sit so you can go on a date or something?' She looked from Daryl to Carol. Daryl nodded, Carol just stared at them wondering what to say.
'Swimming lessons, for Soph?' Daryl asked. 'You need to check with Carol about baby sitting or being a Aunty.'
'What day suits?' Amy asked. 'Saturday or Mondays?'
'Saturday,' Daryl told her, 'Oh book Rick Grimes in for the Daddy swim classes too, he's my partner, we can both get it off shift if both of us are doing it,'
'Your booking Rick into swimming classes?' Carol looked at Daryl.
'Yeah why not? Its easier for both of us to get the shift off than me saying I can't,' Daryl couldn't help but laugh that he was signing Rick up for classes, he was going to freak about it probably.
'Sooooooo you and Rick Grimes want to do Daddy swim classes,' Amy asked
'Hmmmmm mmmmmh' Daryl said, as he started giving detail to Amy about Sophia's birth date and anything else they needed to do to enroll her. Amy passed the baby back to Carol while she filled in the forms.
'Carol, what the mums do is hang out and drink coffee while the swim class is on,' Amy told her.
'Yeah I don't do too well at mummy coffee groups,' Carol said glancing at Daryl.
'I imagine, your hot, and now you have Daryl bet there are some women with their noses out of joint.' Amy stated. 'Lots of women have tried to tap that,' Amy indicated to Daryl who was bending over filling out the forms.
'You can have coffee with me, I'll take my break then,' Amy gave her a smile, Carol nodded she suddenly liked Amy, her moments of jealousy gone. 'Daryl a nice guy, he loves that little girl by the looks of things, I'm going to love watching this swim class with both Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon playing in the water with babies, bring your camera'
Carol nodded she would find a camera or something to take photos.
