Through the woods (a Daryl Dixon x oc story )

I guess its called love?

Meghan's p.o.v.

I'd left Alex with Carol this morning and decided to take a walk around the surrounding woods before we'd left to the CDC. I walked for a while before I heard leaves crunch, and instantly stopped, preparing myself for the worst.
"Who's there?" I asked with less confidence than I hoped. I heard nothing. silence.
"Ya know you shouldn't walk out here by yerself" a deep southern voice said from behind me.
"Holy shit, you scared the crap out of me Daryl." I said turning around and facing him.
"Let's go back, come on, it's not safe out here."
"Well your here, how could it not be safe?" I said starting to walk back, him besides me.
"You feel safe with me?" He asks with a surprised tone, taking a step in front of me stopping us in our tracks.
"Why wouldn't I?....you've helped me a lot already and it's barely my second day" I say surprised that he doesn't realizes how much he helps everyone, even me.
"Huh...well thanks but we should get going now, come on" he says moving out of the way allowing me to go. I walked ahead of him and on our way back to camp I could feel his eyes on me the entire time. I really did feel safe with him and I hope he realized that.
"Alright let's get going everyone, we leave in 10" Rick said as we entered camp.
"Meghan do you mind riding with Daryl? Most of the other cars are full and I'm guessing you'd also want to take Alex with you too huh?" Rick asked me when I'd walked towards Daryl's tent.
"Yea no problem, and yup Alex rides with me." I say.
"Great, thanks." he says.
"No problem"

"Looks like I'm riding with you." I say as I step into the tent. Daryl's back facing me as he packs up the rest of his things.
"Sure I'll have the truck packed In a few." he says as he grabs some bags and carries them out towards his old truck. His arms flexed as he carried all the bags over and I couldn't help but notice, who could ignore that? Who would want to ignore that? Uhhhh my dang thoughts always causing trouble for me, but Daryl is so sweet and strong how was I not gonna care for him? I guess it's called love, and I guess that's what Im starting to feel towards Daryl.