The Cheerleader •Daryl Dixon AU•

Twenty-Seven

Daryl went home the next day, she was planning on staying there that night, she just had to wait for her parents to come home and with her father still in the dark on their relationship she thought it was best Daryl not meet him like this, especially after his famous 'no boys rule' and right now she did not need a repeat of that night.

Lori had messaged a few times pledging her allienence to Olivia, this wasnt exactly what she wanted, but Lori, Rick and even T were sticking by Olivia because of what her and Shane did, it was their decision if they didnt want to talk them and Olivia couldnt excactly stop them. She smiled when realised she had some very loyal friends. Even more so when she saw how close Daryl and Rick were getting. Who would of thought it?

Olivia went into each room to check they were to a high standard of tidiness, Joan had been round too to tidy but Olivia wanted to make sure there was absolutley no trace of a party anywhere to be seen.

When he parents and Penny came home she was surprised by a warm greeting from her father, he looked genuinly pleased to see her and he had two large Chanel carrier bags for her. Guilt presents of course but Olivia was not going to turn down Chanel any day of the week.

"Any problems?" her father asked as Olivia opened the carrier bags one being a new handbag she had eyed up in the mall once before and the other some beautiful clothes. "nope" she lied with her best believable fake smile. "anyway Dad, im going upstairs, got some homework, may as well do it now while I remember" she lied again but that was pretty much all the conversation she could handle with a man who quite frankly was only doing so because her mother had probably reminded him to do so.

Placing her new stuff on her armchair in her room, Olivia jumped onto her bed and opened up her laptop to check her social media. Her facebook had a lot of notifications, a few posts had been shared on her timeline and some photos she had been tagged in. One with her, Lori and Andrea from the party was there, taken by Kelly on the cheer team, it made her smile, and then feel sad at how Andrea had messed up with Shane like that. Another caught her eye with her and Daryl snuggled on the sofa, Olivia quickly hit print and listened to it fly out the printer, that was going on her wall of photos in her room. Scrolling down she looked at old photos of the group, she compared her smile with Daryl to her one with Shane and they were completley different. Olivia came across another photo of the guys at The Point, that time she bailed on them to take Daryl home. Doing her mental maths she worked out this was probably the night Andrea and Shane got together, Rick and Lori were all over eachother that day so they would not of questioned them disappearing of going home earlier. Sighing when she realised what was happening for Andrea now she shut her laptop down and put the photo of her and Daryl on her wall before freshening up.

There was a knock at her door, Olivia hoped it may of been her mother they had started a new relationship together and she liked it. She tried to not show too much distain when it turned out to be her father.

"Still not made up with Shane darling?" he asked faking concern, it was all for his business prospects. "not today, not tomorrow, not ever" Olivia smugly replied, even more so when she saw her father getting slightly cross. "Mr Walsh and I are very saddened you and Shane are not made up yet, it was such a beautiful union" her father spoke sitting himself on her bed. Olivia scrunched her face "union? jesus we were never married!" she snapped, not caring her father didn't like outbursts like that. "Well, Mr Walsh told me you have a new boyfriend? Or is that just a vicious lie?" He quizzed her, he gave her a smile to show he knew full well she did and his eyes darted to the photo of her and Daryl. "Ah, this must be the new one! my daughter doesn't gallivant around with boys, so this must be him" he announced. Olivia gulped, "Yea, yea it is Dad" she almost whispered in reply. Her father was hard to read when he spoke like that, it sounded happy and cheery but there was always an underling chill with him and Olivia was just waiting for it. "hmm" her father kept moaning as he observed the photo, was it Daryl's somewhat scruffiness that offended him? Olivia's shorts playsuit and the angle it was grazed up her thigh in the photo? or  Daryl's hands on her thigh? Or had he realised the photo was taken in this very house? Olivia gulped again.

"Lets have this Daryl for dinner" her father spoke after analysing the photo longer than expected. Olivia felt flustered "okay?" she replied, internally unsure how it would play out. Her father looked at his Rolex "its only 5pm. how about tonight?" he suggested, he sounded pretty keen but he hadn't discussed what he didn't like in the photo and she knew he did not  like that photo. Before Olivia could respond he spoke again "you call this boyfriend of yours and invite him over. Tell him I wont take no for an answer" he smiled falsely and he left her room. Olivia gulped again. "crap" she muttered to herself. This was going to be some night.