The Cheerleader •Daryl Dixon AU•

Twenty

Olivia fell asleep fast after speaking with her mother, she didnt hear her father come home and woke up the following day eager to see Daryl. It sucked him not having a phone she had no idea if he got home okay from walking from hers.

Once it hit 10am at school and with no sign of Daryl she knew he wasnt coming in, he once told her some mornings he wakes up and thinks "meh" and considering they were to share double science and then a long ass History paper she knew him well enough to know he chose cleaning his bike rather than coming in and rescuing her from the bores in their class.

Picking up a salad for lunch she saw her group chatting away at lunch. She hadnt seen them this morning seeing as she ended up running late having another deep conversation with her mother.

They all looked pleased to see her and Rick hoisted Lori on his lap so that Olivia can sit down. "No Andrea?" She asked the group, they all shook their heads "she had morning sickness and couldnt make it" Lori replied "we were thinking of seeing her later on to try and cheer her up" she added looking to the rather unenthused guys "she'll come to the party, she could do with a drink" Shane piggishly commented without thinking "She cant drink dude not in her condition" T sarcastically scolded him, Olivia took a mouthful of salad "and besides the point, what party?" She asked swallowing her food. Everyone looked awkward "oh it was one I wasnt invited to!" She stated the obvious rolling her eyes, they could have plans without her but they didnt have to be so cagey about it all, taking multiple mouthfuls she left a few leaves from her salad and gathered her things to have a sneaky smoke before her History paper. "I'll see you around then" she sighed.

As she walked down the hallway fellow students did what they always did, gave her a wide birth, some whispered on her outfit choice and how they envied her and others whispered about 'the pregnant cheerleader' the rumours were already flying and little did they know it wasnt her. As she got behind a tree near the parking lot she sparked her cigarette when a familiar voice called her.

It was Shane.

"Princess" he began but he corrected himself "sorry, Liv" Olivia raised an eyebrow for him to continue as she took a drag before he took one "the party is at my house, I didnt think you would wanna come seeing as what happened last time we spoke" Shane explained, he had a point really. "I feel like Ive missed out on so much in the space of 24 hours" she sighed "your best friend goes out with my best friend we have to be able to hang out with eachother still" she added. Shane nervously rubbed his head and thought for a moment "you can come Liv, you know you can. I just assumed" he replied before Olivia stepped in "you assumed wrong" he seemed taken aback by her comment, tossing her cigarette to the ground she went to leave but Shane stopped her "dont you wanna be with your new boyfriend?" He bought up the question that he clearly wanted to ask all along. Olivia rolled her eyes and shook herself from his grip "Daryl is not my boyfriend, he is a friend and besides you dont exactly make him feel welcome do you?" She responded shaking her head "stop being jealous Shane it never suited you" she added before Shane snapped "so this guy joins the school, takes you from me and then you dump me?" Olivia was shocked, not only had Shane finally admitted the real reason he never liked Daryl no matter how wrong he was he also tried to shift responsibility of their break up. Olivia scoffed "you are unbelievable" and with that she walked away and off to her History paper.

The paper dragged and Olivia found herself looking at the clock rather than write the paper, the thing was, she knew what to write, she knew she had the potential of getting an A on this but she couldnt stop thinking of Daryl and how much she wanted to sit on his dusty sofa eating instant noodles and maybe cuddle him.

When she finally finished she hurried to her car and headed to the one place she had wanted to be since Lunch today.

Olivia was saddened to say the least when she saw his bike not there. After waiting in her car for ten minutes it dawned on her where Daryl would likely be.

Eventhough she couldnt really remember the way to the beach Daryl took her that time she tried to find it anyway, she knew she was gettig closer when she remembered the small unused roads they had taken, the ones she was now on. After arguing with herself to take that left or a possible right she eventually found it and she smiled proudly when she found his bike parked up.

Pulling her car up to it she stepped out and locked it before taking her sneakers off to walk on the sand to find him.

The beach was deserted minus a few dog walkers but she couldnt see Daryl anywhere until she heard him call her name. It gave her intense butterflies and more so when she turned to see him sitting casually on the sand looking out to the lapping waves.

"I couldnt find you at yours" Olivia grinned as she approached him, he patted the sand for her to join and she willingly did. "Daryl im so sorry about yesterday, my mother was unforgivably rude and I missed you all day and" she rambled but Daryl cut her off "its fine Liv" his nickname for her gave her more butterflies than whoever called her it in the past, even if it was her common nickname for her friends when Daryl said it it did things to her. "I'll never be good enough for you, you are the girl that marries the Football star, or the model or a Doctor" he sighed not taking his eyes from the waves. Olivia scooted closer to him. "What if this girl didnt want to be with the Football star, model or Doctor?" She spoke causing him to look at her "Daryl this girl likes you and likes you for who are not what you have" in her head she sounded like she jabbered that out but judging by Daryl's face he had heard her loud and clear.

He gulped nervously. No one had ever said these things to him.

Olivia leaned closer to him, closed her eyes and placed her lips on his, she smiled during it when she realised he was kissing back "whats funny? Am i doing it wrong?" Daryl nervously asked, Olivia didnt give him a chance to answer and she got off her bum to her knees so she was higher than Daryl and lent back down to kiss him again, he placed his hand at the back of her neck to intensify the kiss, he too got on his knees to hold Olivia better and she slipped her tongue gently into his mouth.

They eventually broke for air even though they didnt want to. Daryl cleared his throat when a old man walked past with disgust at the pair as he walked his dog "like he never made out on the beach" Olivia whispered as she pulled Daryl up to his feet. "Come on lets head back" she suggested "I'm stuck in that trailer all time I dont want to go back there" Daryl sulked "fine, lets go over there and watch the sunset" Olivia suggested pointing to the shaded sand under the trees.

They instinctively held hands as they walked over to the shade "school sucked without you" Olivia admitted making Daryl smirked, "yea sitting here without you sucked too" he admitted. He took off his sweater for her to sit down to avoid sand going up her dress.

It didnt take them long to get back into eachothers arms and Daryl cradled the back of her head some more whilst she ran her fingers over the back of his neck pulling him closer to her. Olivia couldnt resist running her hand up his shirt, gently caressing his stomach making him buck as she found his sensitive spot. Daryl broke the kiss to look at her as she gave a "sorry" face.

Olivia lay down on the sand and pulled Daryl to lay down too. Looking at eachother, her heart was pounding and she swore she could feel his pound too.

"Im finding it really hard to stop myself but I dont have anything" Daryl nervously whispered.