Daryl showed no emotion while he looked in my eyes. His stare never faltered and his lips were in a tight line while his brow creased as though he was concentrating very hard on something.

Feeling as though he needed to ask me something I raise one eyebrow and try to pull myself out of his grasp. I slowly started to back away but that cause him to pull me back and hold me tighter to his chest.

"Daryl, Is something wrong? Are you okay?" I ask looking up at him.

His arms tensed around my waist and he swallowed hard, I was beginning to really worry. Something must be really wrong for him to be acting like this. When I pulled my head back and look right in his eyes the trance he was under broke and he let go of me and stepped away. Before I could ask anything else he quickly walked out of the store without looking back.

We have been living at the mall for almost a week now and ever since that first night, Daryl had not acknowledged my existence. He was avoiding me and wasn't very subtle about it either. Whenever I walked into a room and he was there, he would stop what he was doing and leave. I didn't know what happened for this to happen. We were not very close in the beginning but it still hurt to know that he was doing everything to stay away from me. I decided that if he was going to act like this then I would save him the effort and stay away from him.

I kept myself as busy as possible and even ended up becoming good friends with Shane. I guess it just took him some time to warm up to me because after we finished making the mall secure and knew that no one could get in without us knowing, he turned to me with the biggest smile and said that I was a genius. We still had people on watch every night just to be positive and other then that, everything was going great.

"Yo Missy!"

"Yes Shane?"

"Come on. You and me are gonna go get supplies. Rick doesn't want us to get too comfortable right away and said he would feel better knowing that all the supplies were in one room so if we need to leave in a hurry we can grab them and go instead of having to run around everywhere." He said while walking over to the pharmacy.

Jumping up I run over to him and we go inside and start grabbing everything we need. We spend a few minutes gathering in a comfortable silence until he stops and turns to me.

"I know it's none of my business but I can't help but notice that you and Daryl have been acting strange since we got here. What's going on between y'all?" he asks.

"There's nothing between us Shane, to be honest I think he hates me." I tell him while still packing a bag full of kid's vitamins. "Look, Shane. I'd rather not talk about it. Let's just finish up here. And head over to the bass pro shop so we can get new weapons."

"You know I'm not the only one that sees how you act around him. It's pretty obvious. You can cut the sexual tension with a knife." he says with a smirk.

"Sexual tension?! Shane are you high?! I told you he hates me! He refuses to even be near me!" I yell in embarrassment.

"You two should just fuck and get over it." He smirks while leaning against the shelf.

"Shane!"i say disbelief. I can't believe this! Shane is telling me to...to have sex with Daryl! I don't think my face could have gotten anymore red. It feels as though all of my blood has went to my face.

"What? We are both grown ups here and its not like your a virgin,right?" he ask in a teasing voice.

I was wrong, I could feel my face burning as I grow even more red in embarrassment. The thing is, I was indeed a virgin. I know, how pathetic? I am a Twenty-two year old virgin.

"Your not a virgin are you?" he asks again in a more serious tone when I didn't reply.

"Would it be such a bad thing if I was?" I ask in a small whisper.

"Your a virgin? How? I mean you are very attractive so I just thought you would have had sex by now." He states.

"Its not like I didn't want to, i just never had the time to date. I was busy with everything else that I never had a chance and there was never a guy that wanted to stay around long." I say with a groan."Okay I'm done talking about it. I'm finished here so I'm going to go ahead and grab some things for everyone."

I ended up staying in the bass pro shop longer then I meant to. I decided to grab something for everyone for a present. I had picked out a few browning knifes for everyone and I even picked up a new gun for myself. I was about to walk out when I saw the sign that said "Archery" and curiosity got the best of me and so I went to look. I saw they had everything for bows and cross bows so I grabbed a quiver and filled it full of bolts for Daryl's cross bow and I picked out a small bow for myself. It was just big enough for me and I smiled, It would be smart to learn how to use it in-case I couldn't use a gun or a knife. When I was heading for the exit I saw a table covered with hunting magazines and books about plants, seeds, and survival for the outdoors. Flipping threw a survival book i saw it was about ways to get clean water, food and shelter so I grabbed a few of them for Daryl too. I couldn't help but hope he would like them so I hurried and put them on his air mattress.

A little while later I watched as he made his way to his bed after his shift on watch. When he saw the bolts and magazines there he looked around then sat down and pulled a bolt out and checked them out. I stayed hidden behind a wall for a bit until he put everything up and laid down began to read one the hunting magazines.

As I laid on my sleeping bag I slowly fell asleep and for once, I dreamed of crossbows and those amazing blue eyes instead of death and horror.