It's Not Living Without You (Desus)

Chapter Fifteen

Note: The song for this chapter is "Unsteady" by X ambassadors

Aaron and Eric sat on their front porch, holding hands.

Their house was across the street from Daryl's, and Aaron could see Jesus and Daryl sitting at their kitchen table together through the window.

He watched them closely, and Eric nudged him.

"Stop being noisy!" Eric reprimanded, laughing.

Aaron gave him a look.

"Have you seen the way Jesus has been staring at him? I am 100% sure that there is something going on there."

"Oh please. Maybe Jesus is interested, but I can hardly see Daryl being into him." Eric replied.

"I'll bet you $50 that they'll get together."

Eric simply shook his head.

"Money's worthless now, but you're on."

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Jesus glanced out the kitchen window to see Aaron and Eric, sitting close together, holding hands, and smiling.

He sighed, feeling a kind of longing. If only.

He looked at Daryl, who was mindlessly spinning a cigarette around his fingers.

"What do we do now that we aren't worried about Negan all the time?" Jesus asked.

Daryl bit his lip.

"Dunno."

They sat there in silence for awhile.

"Does life ever feel...empty to you?" Jesus finally asked him.

Daryl rolled his eyes.

"What's with all the questions?"

Yes, Daryl never was much of a talker.

"I'm just curious..." Jesus murmured.

There was another beat of silence.

"Yeah. It does." Daryl replied quietly.

"What?"

"Life feels empty sometimes."

"Oh."

Jesus glanced up and met his eyes. Daryl held eye contact for a minute, then glanced way.

"Daryl, I-" Jesus started, but a yell outside interrupted.

"WALKERS!" Someone yelled.

Daryl bolted up, grabbed his crossbow, then ran out the door.

Jesus sighed, frustrated.

He followed Daryl slowly.

There were about a dozen walkers that had gotten in through the front gates, and people were running around screaming.

Rick ran next to Daryl.