Evening, hope your all well. thank you guest viewer for the review. as always this will be a caryl story so i have no plans to put either one off them with someone else, but i do have few ideas of what i could do about Daryl and this woman just not quite sure about it yet. but i love reading your ideas, any ideas are very welcome. this since chapter is the same take on yesterdays chapters but from Daryl point of view i decided to just write it from Daryl's thoughts as i didn't think you would all want the read the same thing you read yesterday so this one is a little bit shorter. hope that is OK with you.

Happy reading :)

Chapter 21.

January 23rd

Daryl's POV

Daryl wasn't really sure what had possess him to ask Carol to go to lunch with him, but when that annoying woman mentioned going to lunch he realized just how hungry he was and it also him an excuse to spend some more time with Carol, he had come to realize that he actually like spending time with her it come natural to him, the same with teasing her, he found that he just couldn't resist it he also loved it when she teased him back. He also found himself laughing a lot with her which was something he didn't normally do, he also found that he didn't flinch when she nudged him and that caught him by surprise especially when he nudged her back. He found that he could easily relax around her it was as if he had always known her.

Daryl knew that he was beginning to let her get close to him, he just hope that he didn't end up regretting it, but for some reason he found that he might be able to trust her maybe it was because he had realized that she didn't have a lot of confidence in herself just like him, which both surprise him and also had him wondering what just what had happened to her, especially when she didn't really believe that he wanted to spend time with her, but he wasn't going to push her to talk about anything she didn't want to, after all he knew himself just how hard it was to let people get close to you.

Daryl was worried and both surprise at her reaction to the woman that came up to them when they were waiting for their meal. It worried him because for one he really couldn't remember who the woman was, but he knew that it must have been someone he had slept with in the past especially by how she was talking with him. He really didn't want carol to know about that side of this life because she different to any woman he had ever know and he really didn't want to mess up whatever it was that was happening between the two of them, plus he wasn't like that anymore especially since meeting carol she had turned his whole world upside down. It surprise him to see how she stood up for them both. But the one thing he didn't like was how that woman thought she could talk to carol like that, he felt protected of her which was new to him because the only people in his life that he ever felt protected to was Merle and max.

After they eat their meal in comfortable silence glad that the woman hadn't ruined their day, he still couldn't believe he had told carol that he thought it was hot to see her act like that. Half way thought their meal, Daryl noticed carol checking him out, he also noticed the blush that crept across her checks, Daryl knew enough to know he had an effect on her.

After their meal, they drove back to the garage only to find it was locked up with no sign off anyone around.

Fuck Merle

Daryl know all day that Merle was up to something and this was the proof, Merle thought he was being clever. He was definitely going to be having words with him when he got hold of him. He was thankful to carol for offering him a life home.

Pulling up outside of Daryl's house, he suddenly realized he didn't want their time together to end and was more surprise by how much carol seem to love his house. Daryl swallowed and decided to take a chance and hope it didn't back fire on him.

"would ya like to come in for in bit" Daryl asked without looking at her and with one hand on the door handle in case he needed to make a quick escape.

"sure, I'll love too" he heard her say.

Them few words gave Daryl hope for the first time in his life and had him thinking that maybe his dad had been wrong.

As Daryl walked up to his front door with carol following behind him he hopes he was doing the right and not reading too much into this.

She wouldn't been here if she didn't want to be, don't fuck this up.