Worlds of Thought

chapter 6

Paul was sure the entire community was woken up by their yelling. The whole night had just been too much too fast for daryl.

"What the hell paul? The fuck you thinkin? That this is a joke, you trying to make fun of me?" Daryl paced around the kitchen of their trailer.

"Daryl.. n-no of course not"

~~~~~~~ earlier that evening at maggie's~~~~

"Daryl im so glad you brought this rabbit for us thank you!" maggie smiled as they sat around the trailer eating dinner. He just grunted in return, mouth too full to talk.

He and paul sat at the Kitchen table with Enid while maggie and Sasha sat on the couch. the four made conversation and laughed every so often, daryl just sitting and once again keeping to himself, not listening in. Daryl was sure his face was still red from when Paul kissed his cheek and didn't want maggie or Sasha to notice.

He looked up to see Enid staring at him and he cocked his eyebrow. Enid winked and went back to eating and conversing. The hell was that all about?

After they ate and cleaned up they stayed and chatted for a bit.
"So daryl, Paul told me you were going to help out with training some of the people here." Maggie said.
"oh uh yeh. figured i might as well, ain't got any better shit t-" Daryl stuttered when he felt a hand placed on his knee. "to uh to do" His eyes widened.
"you okay?" maggie furrowed her brow.

"uh. yeah m fine." He looked down to see paul's hand on his knee, now he knew for sure his face was red. he looked up at paul who was just staring straight ahead, smile on his face.

"Daryl will be a good teacher, he's a great fighter, he had me on my ass today when we did a little sparring. Of course i ran my mouth before hand saying how i could definitely beat him but. i was wrong." Everybody laughed.
"and plus daryl winning was kind of hot.." paul added quietly but loud enough for everyone to hear.

Daryl was taken back, surprised and enraged. He slapped paul's hand off his knee and stood up, knocking his chair over. He quickly turned to leave and burst out the door.

Paul looked at the girls with wide eyes.
"Fuck." He got up," thank you for dinner but i have to go." He raced out after daryl, who had already disappeared inside him and pauls trailer.

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"They why the hell you touching my knee and Kissin my cheek and, and all that shit? you trying to embarrass me? Becuase you know i like you and you think it's funny?" It all started to come out at once, and daryl snapped his mouth shut, staring at paul.

"Daryl, no! i did it because i like you too stupid. i'm sorry that tonight was, too much too fast i. i'm not trying to make fun of you, i feel the same way." He put his hand over his face. "But i realize now what maggie said about going slow."

"you like me too?" daryl looked at his feet.

" of course i do. this isn't a prank." paul moved closer to daryl.

"I ain't ever.. done this whole" he waved his hands around,
"relationship thing before." daryl looked at paul, bangs covering his eyes.

"that's okay i'll help you and if you want to try this, we can, but only if you want to. And we can go slow." Paul slowly place a hand on Daryls shoulder.

Daryl hummed in agreement and nodded his head. It was a lot for him to take in but, he liked paul so much.

"Ain't no one ever liked me. I ain't all that, good lookin or interesting or nothin'" Daryl scratched the back of his neck.
"so why you wanna be with a dirtbag like me."

" oh shut up Daryl you're the most handsome man ive met. And plus the reason i like hanging out with you so much is because you're interesting. you're smart and good at tracking and hunting, you laugh at all my bad jokes and you're fun to be around. you make me feel safe." now paul was blushing.

"thanks" Daryl mumbled quietly. They stood there in comfortable silence for a while when paul slid his hand off Daryl's shoulder to his hand and gave it a squeeze.

"i'm going to bed. i'll see you in the morning, okay?"Paul smiled and headed for his room.

"goodnight Daryl."

"goodnight"