A/N: Merry Christmas! (to all those who celebrate it) As a present I am going to try to post another chapter today, but no promises so don't get too excited.

That night I sat in my tent and went through the clothes that I had brought. I had never gotten ready for a date before and I was really excited. I don't care if Daryl thought it was a date or not and I don't care if learning to hunt was a terrible date. To me it counts and I wasn't going to let anything ruin my mood. Unless I couldn't find something to wear. I didn't have all my clothes with me, not that I had that many to begin with, but it made it harder to chose remembering what I had left behind. Most girls want to look cute for a first date, but I wanted to look as rugged as possible. I was pretty sure that is the best way to appeal to a man like Daryl Dixon.

I sat back on my heels when I thought that this was how every girl felt before her first date. Thinking about clothes and what the guy would like. I even started to tear up because it felt so good to go through something so normal when the world was so different.

I turned towards the tent door when Sophia came in with our mom. I smiled at them both and Mom smiled back before hugging Sophia and zipping up the tent. I quickly went back to sorting through clothes. I could feel Sophia crawling up behind me.

"What are you doing?" I turned and looked at her before going back to my bag.

"Picking out what I want to wear tomorrow."

"Why are you doing it tonight? Why not just wait 'til tomorrow?"

"Because I might be leaving pretty earlier and I don't want to waste time in the morning."

"Where are you going?" I turned and looked at her again. I really love my sister, but she was just too young to talk too about some things, things like boys. On the other hand I really wanted to talk to someone.

"Alright can you keep a secret?" She nodded enthusiastically and scooted closer to me.

"OK, Daryl is taking me out to go hunting with him tomorrow." I could tell that I had a huge smile on my face, but Sophia just looked at me with her face all scrunched up.

"Why do you want to go hunting in the woods. And why are you so happy about going with Daryl."

"Well what's wrong with him?" I felt slightly insulted that my sister didn't see the same appeal in Daryl that I did. Then again she is only 12 and may not have started liking boys yet. And she's 12 there's no way there would be anything there anyway. I sat back on my heels. Sophia's 12. I am only six years older than her. I wasn't sure how old Daryl was exactly, but he was somewhere in his thirties. if it was so far fetched for Sophia to like Daryl then what was the point my crush. Daryl probably had no interest in me romantically and probably never would. I rolled over onto my back.

"Oh Sophia." I saw her look over me before lifting my head and placing it on her legs.

"What's the matter. There isn't anything too bad about Daryl he just doesn't act real friendly, like Dale's nice. Why don't you go out hunting with Dale."

"Sophia, sometimes things aren't about nice, they're about appeal of one person to another." Daryl may be almost twice my age, but I definitely didn't have any interest in going out into the woods with Dale.

"So Daryl appeals to you. Like you like him like him? That's so cool you never had a crush on anyone before! At least you never talked to me about a crush before."

"Well I've never had one before. You know I would have told you if I did. Besides Daryl isn't interested in me."

"I bet he does! You're pretty and nice. And with everything that's gone on lately he does have that many options anymore. The only available girls in the camp are you, Amy, Andrea, and Jackie. I can't imagine him liking any of the other girls, so your the only option he really has." I looked up at her and glared.

"Thanks Sophia. That makes me feel so much better."

"I didn't mean it that way! I was trying to make you feel better about what you have to offer." The idea of talking with my sister about what made me appealing to a man made me laugh and I sat up.

"I know Soph. So what do you think about this." I held up a flannel shirt that I had brought. Sophia shook her head and started going through my suitcase. She pulled out a white tank top and a thin jean button down.

"This is better, it gets hot during the day and the long jeans will already be making you hot. But it might be cool in the morning so then you can have the over shirt on."

"Sophia have I ever told you how smart you are?"

"Well you could bring it up a bit more often." Sophia said with a smug smile.

I laughed and started to tickle her stomach. She started to laugh and squeal while wiggling away from me. We kept wrestling for awhile until we were both out of breath and we quickly snuggled down in our beds still giggling. After the tent had calmed down I realized that tonight was the most fun I had had in a very long time, even before the world went terrible. I turned over and looked at Sophia as she slept, I would have to try to make sure that she would still have a happy life despite how the world was now.