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Chapter 8
January 21st
Daryl's POV
Daryl had just finished the car he was working on for his granddad max. Max was his mother's dad, but he had been more of dad to Daryl and Merle since their own dad will had gone to prison for murdering their mother. Daryl hated will, the man never acted like a father from the start, he was a violent man who could beat his sons and wife all the time. Daryl stilled had the scars on his back from where will would whip him with his belt. Merle had them too. he couldn't remember one single good memory about will, it was all blood,screams and carnage.
The night will had killed his mother it had just been the three of them as Merle was in jail at the time. Daryl was just ten at time, when will come home drunk like he normally did and started beating Daryl, but his mother had step in and that's when the worst thing you could manage happen, happened and Daryl had been forced to watch it all until he had pasted out from the beating will had gave him after he finished with his mother. The next thing Daryl can remember is waking up in hospital. After that night max stood in and took Daryl home with him and cared for like he was his own, when Merle come home from jail he came to live with them too. They both still lived with max now. They even decided to take max's last name Dixon, their mother's maiden name because they didn't want to have any part of will in their lives.
Daryl hadn't been the same since his mother died, Daryl loved his mother, rose was a kind, caring woman who had unfortunately met will, which leaned to her death in the end. Daryl knew that Merle and max both worried about him because he had closed himself off from other people, after seeing what happened to his mother he couldn't let anyone get close to him, he didn't go out of his to talk to people, but that seemed to change when he met carol on Friday.
Daryl shook his head he really need to stop thinking about woman, he couldn't allow her to get close to him. Closing the bonnet on the car, Daryl reached into his back pocket to grabbed his rag and started to clean the oil off his hands, when he heard a car pull up outside the garage. Daryl made his way to front of the garage and stop in his tracks when he saw who was getting out of the car.
"carol" Daryl called, still not quite believing she was here of all places.
"hey Daryl." Carol said making her way over to him, her eyes doing a sweep of his body before landing on his eyes. "it's nice seeing you."
Trying to keep his breathing under control as he watched carol look him over, but when her eyes met his, he nearly forgets how to breath, her eyes where was bright as they had been on Friday night and it seemed as if she could see right into soul. Taking a deep breath as he tried to find his voice. "ya too." He mumbled while draping his eyes away from hers.
"I need my breaks done." carol said biting her bottom lip, looking nervous.
"sure, no problem, I can do that for you."
"thank you, will it take long?" Carol asked.
"nah, just drive your car in here." Daryl answered putting his rag back into his back pocket and moving over to side, while he waited for carol to pull her car into garage. While he was waiting, he thought back to Friday night, they seemed to get well than. Well he didn't have any problems talking to her, but that was probably because he was drinking. But now he didn't know what to say to her and it seemed the same for her. Daryl decided he wasn't going to think about it too much, maybe it was for the best as just earlier he had decided he needed to make sure she didn't get to close to him. He would do her breaks and then they could both go on with their lives.