Something Missing [Daryl Dixon Love Story]

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Two

(AN: Aaron to the side)

“Okay, guys, the first rule to hunting is to be quiet. To do this try to avoid stones, sticks, and leaves. Animals typically have a lot better hearing than we do so they will most-likely hear us before we hear them.” I looked back at my two students and rose and eyebrow at them to see if they were paying attention.

            “Everybody knows that, Emma.” Aaron said wearing a bored expression.

            I rolled my eyes. “Fine, if you already know everything then go and find an ideal spot where we might find the most animals, I dare you.” I crossed my arms and nodded towards the woods in front of us. “Go on.”

            He looked at Dakota with a pleading expression he probably thought I couldn’t see.

            I wanted to say something but as it turned out I didn’t have to, Dakota did. “Don’t look at me like that. I don’t know how to do it.” She paused. “And besides, I know better than to act like a know-it-all in front of a professional know-it-all.” She said nodding in my direction, copying my pose with arms crossed.

            He looked like he was stuck in-between a rock and a hard place. He looked between Dakota and me until his eyes eventually rested on Beck. “Come on, you’re a boy, help me out here!” his voice came out in a panic whisper as he begged my dog for help.

            Beck turned his huge brown eyes up at me and I gave him the tiniest shakes of my head. It would go undetected by the other two but he got the message. He bowed his head and whined.

            “Come on…!” Aaron said, dejectedly.

            I just laughed. “We can go on if you say—“

            “Fine! Fine, I am sorry!” he said, quickly and a little too loud for my liking.

            My light laugher grew into uncontrollable laughter. I was on the verge of crying I was laughing so hard.

            Dakota gave a short giggle and looked at Aaron. “That wasn’t what she was going to ask you to say.”

            I looked up to find has dumbfounded expression and it only made it worse. The laughter went on and on until the voice of the last person in the world I wanted to meet out here spoke. “Will you shut the hell up? You’re scaring everything away.”

            My laugh immediately died and I awkwardly cleared my throat. “Why are you here?” I didn’t mean for it but all the venom seeped from my voice.

            He looked at me for longer than I was comfortable. It was like he was sizing me up.

            I shoved my hands in my pants pockets. “Do you have to pick a fight with me every time you get the chance?”

            He narrowed his eyes in my direction. “Are you fucking kidding me right now? I pick a fight with you? It’s you who is always starting this bullshit with me.”

            What do I say to that? I didn’t want to lose the argument but I had nothing. I didn’t want to act like a sixth grader. “Whatever, I don’t have time to deal with you right now. I’m trying to teach them how to survive if they even need to survive on their own.”

            I thought a lot of negative things about him but I never thought he would hit someone where it would affect them most. For me it was what I confided in him earlier. “So, you told them then?”