The Friend Zone

The Surprise

Daryl's POV

"Wake Up!" I hear when I open my eyes and see Carol standing there. "Go away!" I say as I rest my head back on my dirty bag. "Ok, but you pushed me to it."

Just as I think she's gone, I feel a cold feeling go through my body and a rush of water.

I spring my eyes open as I realize what's just happened. "What the hell was that for Carol!?" I say as I try to ring some water out of my shirt. "I told you to get up and gave you a warning!" She walks out of the room and brings back a granola bar.

"Something to eat?" She asks as she takes a bite of her own granola bar. "No, I'm fine." I mumble as I drag myself out of bed.

"Well it sure would help us with what your about to go threw." She picks the blankets up of the couch and starts to walk towards the door to outside.

Smiling, she opens the door and motions for me to come outside with her. Why is she so happy? I mean we will probably just be killing more Walkers today and doing nothing. But I decide to follow her outside where I find her hanging the blankets on a clothes line.

"Guess what I found?" She asks me as she pulls out a bottle of shampoo and some soap. "It was in one of the houses we don't use. I thought that we all could use a good long shower. But since I found it, it's only fair that we would get first dibs." she lifts the bottle and soap up to me. "Oh no, I told you. I don't trust em." I hold my hands up in defense. "Well if you don't go inside and take a shower, then I will drag you to the lake and make you!" She puts her hands on her hips and stares at me.

We stand there for a few minutes silently scowling at each other. Finally I break the silence. "I'm not taking a shower!" I start to head back inside when she grabs my arm. "Yes you are!" She pulls me away from the house and towards the one next to it. "You leave me no choice, get your things. We are going to find a swimsuit for you to wear so I can give you a bath."

I stand there stunned, looking into her eyes and trying to see some joke to what she just said. But she is dead serious. I can't do this. I'm not exactly comfortable with people seeing me. And not to mention what happened last week. Rick is still trying to make up for shooting that guy.

"I don't have any time. We are running out of meat and I need to go squirrel hunting."

"You can go tomorrow. But today, your getting clean." She is really starting to get on my nerves. I don't care about getting clean! I just want to be left alone and hunt! Why is everyone trying to get into my damn business! This is bullshit!

I look around to see where everyone is. Rick is showing Morgan around Alexandria. He seems happy considering everything. I'm glad they finally caught up with each other. This is the first time I've seen him truly happy. Besides with his kids of course. Everyone else is just sitting around talking to each other. But mostly quite.

"Come on, Daryl!" Carol shouts from up ahead. She must have been walking while I was thinking. I start to calm down and decide to go with her. I run towards her and we start our search for some swim suit pants.