A/N: This chapter is for megashrimp who reminded me that it's been a while since I posted a chapter. Thanks friend! Things also get a little racy in this one...you're welcome.
When I woke up it was hard to breathe. Literally it felt like my chest was being crushed. I propped myself up on my elbows and opened my eyes. Everything was blurry since I just woke up, but I could make out a person lying on my chest. I smiled and remembered falling asleep on top of Daryl last night. I moved myself to learn against the walk and let him sleep.
There had never been a time in the few months that I had know him that I had ever woken up before Daryl. He must have been really tired from yesterday. Even back at the quarry he was always either out in the woods or working one of his weapons long before I was up. As I thought I ran my hands through Daryl's hair. I looked down at his face and brushed hair off his forehead.
All of a sudden Daryl's face scrunched up and he stretched his body out. He then turned his face and rubbed it into my chest. I blushed as he kept his face buried between my breasts. I continued to rub the hair on the back of his neck as he stretched again. This time he pulled his face up and looked up at me. He supported his weight on his right elbow as he rubbed his eyes Finally he put his arm down again and smiled at up me.
"Mornin'." He rolled off me and onto the floor beside me. I rolled onto my side next to him.
"Morning. What got you so tired yesterday? I've never seen you sleep so late." Daryl stretched his arm out and wrapped it around my waist pulling me closer.
"Got up early yesterday and searched the woods before goin' out with the group later. Went out the night before too." He put his head into my neck and I could feel him yawn.
"You went out the night before?" I didn't know he had gone out so many times. Daryl looked at me with sad eyes.
"I couldn' stand listenin' to ya. Ya cried for hours, so I just went to look along the road see if Sophia had made her way back."
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to keep you up. I didn't know I was being that loud." Daryl brushed hair away from my face.
"I didn't do it 'cause ya were loud. I just wanted to find her for ya." I leaned my forehead's against Daryl's.
"Thank you." Daryl kissed me before pulling back slightly.
"Ya don' have to thank me. She's a good kid." Daryl laid down on his back and rolled me over on top of him.
"You're very cuddly this morning." He frowned up at me.
"Don' get used to it. When we get up I don't want ya all over me. This is only 'cause I'm tired." I smiled snuggling down into his chest, then sitting up again.
"Hey, Daryl." He grunted, but didn't open his eyes. "When did you tell Andrea about getting lost in the woods?" He opened one eye and looked at me.
"When I searched the road other night. She said she didn' want to just wash clothes anymore." He shut his eye again. "Ask me she should stick to washin' clothes. She's no good in the woods. Ya know where ya belong." I sat up a little bit more and glared at him. As I got off his chest Daryl opened his eyes.
"I belong washing clothes. Is that what you see me as. I can do more than that or cooking."
"Like what? Skinin' squirrels?" I looked down and Daryl had a big smile on his face. I glared at him before standing and heading to the door. Daryl was quick and grabbed me before I could leave.
"Not everyone can hunt or fight or get covered in guts. Nothing' wrong with cookin' and cleanin'. Yer perfect." He kissed my temple before releasing me. "Come on, breakfast."
I smiled as I opened the door and started down the stairs. As I was about to step off the final step a sharp hand to my butt caused me to stumble out of the Rv. This made quite a bit of noise and got the attention of everyone outside. I turned back and glared at Daryl as he walked up behind me. Once I regained my balance I saw Dale walking over with two cans. He handed them both to me with a good morning. As I looked at the labels I saw one was peaches and the other pears.
I could feel Daryl hovering over me before he reached around to grab the pears from my hand. He then moved to the trunk of one of the cars. I followed him and hopped up onto the trunk and watched as he pulled out his hunting knife. He jammed it into the top before quickly cutting it open. He abandoned the metal circle on the ground before trading cans with me. Once the peaches were opened he pulled a small pocketknife and opened it before handing it to me.
He then hopped up next to me before stabbing one of the peach halves and putting it in his mouth. He turned and looked at me before stabbing one of my pears and eating that too. I got one of the pears onto my knife, but had a lot more trouble actually eating it than Daryl did. On the second pear I had worked out a system of the best way to eat with a knife.
"Sorry after we packed the can opener I had a lot of trouble finding it." We both looked up and saw Dale walking up with the can opener in hand. He stopped when he saw Daryl put another peach in his mouth. "I can see you don't need it anymore." He smiled as he walked back to where the others were putting supplies out onto the hood of one of the cars.
I leaned against Daryl and sighed. It didn't feel right to leave when Sophia was still lost out in the woods. It wasn't safe to wait on the highway when another herd could come through, either. I reached out to get one of Daryl's peaches, but he suddenly turned moved the peaches out of my reach. I looked up at him shocked as he looked down at me with a slight smirk.
"Go find yer own." My mouth dropped open.
"You got to have one of my pears." He signed loudly before holding the can out in front of me. I stabbed into the can and got as many peaches as I could. When I pulled out three, Daryl immediately started reaching towards my pears.
"What ya takin' three for?" I moved so he couldn't reach my can, but he still tried reaching around me.
"Interest." I laughed as he continued grabbing at the can and I started to try and grab the peaches. In our effort to try to get the other's can we somehow managed to trade. We both settled back onto the trunk and started eating again.
"Like pears better anyway." Daryl said as he stared into his can. We both finished quickly and Daryl drank the juice that was left in his can. I took a sip and cringed at how sweet it was. Daryl took the can from me and quickly downed what was left. He lifted me off the trunk before leaving the cans on the trunk. I glared at him as he looked at me.
"What am I supposed to do? Recycle them?" I shook my head before following him. As we walked I grabbed his hand. He turned and looked at me with narrowed eyes, but I just smiled. He'd get used to it eventually. I slipped his pocketknife back into his pocket as we walked.
When we got to the car where everyone was gathered I saw Mom if finishing a note to Sophia on the windshield. I took the paint in my hand and began to write as well. I simply wrote 'we love you' below Mom's note, but I focused on drawing a picture next to it. I finished the bunny quickly and looked at it. It was pretty bad, but they were her favorite animal. I then took the blanket from the supplies and went to the back door. I tried to open it, but it was locked. I quickly turned around to find Daryl. He was leaning up against the next car.
"Daryl." He looked up at me. "Come help." He walked over and looked down at me. "Can you pick the lock or something? Sophia needs to be able to hide in a car at night."
Daryl got down next to the door. He looked in the window and lifted the handle watching before he pulled out his pocketknife. He put the blade into the key hole and slowly moved it around as he watched intently. He stood and looked around at the ground before he picked up a thin piece of metal. He wedged it under the door and went back to the keyhole and started again. He slowly wedged the metal further under the door as he went until the door finally popped open.
I quickly kissed his cheek as he stood up. Daryl didn't look at me, but rolled his shoulder as I moved away. I spread the blanket out on the back seat before going back and grabbing the pillow and putting it near the other door. I then made sure that the back door would be unlocked before shutting it.
I walked over to Mom as she stood staring at the car. I walked over to her and hugged her. She wrapped her arms around me and held onto me. When I pulled back and looked at her she wasn't crying, but her eyes were red. She took my face in her hands and moved some hair away from my eyes. She smiled at me.
"You're stronger than me, you always have been. Even when you were little. You would fall and scrape your knee and be back up, walking before I could even get there." A few tears leaked from her eyes. "I always thought you would be alone your whole life and I blamed myself. I'm happy that you found someone who makes you happy."
She pulled me in again and held me as I started to cry. We stood there for a few moments before she pulled away again. I wiped my face and tried to calm down. Mom stood in front of me as she ran her hands down my arms. She smiled at me before she dropped her arms.
"We'll find Sophia and then we'll be a family again." She then walked over to the Rv and got in.
That was when I noticed that everyone had moved into vehicles to drive to the farm. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Daryl walking towards me. When I turned towards him I saw that he had a smirk on his face. I stared as he walked up and put his arm around me and started leading me to the line of vehicles.
"Yer ridin' with me." I smiled before remembering that he had been driving the motorcycle. I quickly tried to move away to get in one of the other vehicles. Daryl grabbed me and carried me over to the bike before setting me down again. "Come on, you'll like it."
"No! What if we run into walkers or something? It's bad enough having you ride it let alone me." I was still trying to wiggle away.
"It's just a few miles down the road. No walkers could catch us and ya know I wouldn' let anything happen to ya." He put his face up against mine and I sighed. I couldn't say no when he was being so sweet.
"Alright, but just this one time." Daryl grabbed my sides before pulling away and climbing on the bike. He turned back and looked at me before patting the backseat. I climbed on and wrapped my arms around Daryl's middle. I was already terrified.
"Just this one time, unless ya love it." He then revved the bike and headed off.
I gripped him tightly as we went even though we were moving slowly through the cars. I shifted nervously on the bike and found that sitting a certain way pressed the bike right against my core. I blushed and gasped at the constant vibrations between my legs. When we had cleared the cars and could speed up it only got worse. Or maybe better.
I pressed my face into Daryl's back as I tried to co tell my breathing. I didn't have a lot of experience with sex, well I had no experience with sex, but I had a little with masturbation and this was better than anything I had done. I think it was because it wasn't really me doing it or the fact that it was naughty to getting pleasure from this.
I was so lost in the feelings the bike was giving me that I didn't really notice that we were slowing down. When it finally occurred to me I opened my eyes and looked out to the side. There was a white house with large fields surrounding it and a barn out back. It was a beautiful farm and I was glad that this is where we would be staying. Daryl pulled the bike up under some trees near where my Mom's car was parked before shutting it off.
I was a little disappointed at the loss of movement, but quickly got off and tried to calm down my blush and the tingling from between my legs. Daryl stood in front of me before grabbing my chin and raising my face to look at him. He studied my face before smiling big at me. It was almost as if he knew. I blushed harder and his smile grew even more. He kissed me hard before putting his mouth against my ear.
"I knew ya'd like ridin' bitch."