1 A Pleasure

I'm a sunflower, a little funny

If I were a rose, maybe you'd want me

If I could, I'd change overnight

I'd turn into something you'd like.

The only noises that could be heard in the small wooden log cabin were the crackling from the fireplace, the rain as it hit the windows, the small tap of a foot against the wood flooring, the strings of a guitar and the voice of an angel.

But I'm a sunflower, a little funny

If I were a rose, maybe you'd pick me

But I know you don't have a clue.

The woman who sang allowed her eyes to fall on the face of her lover who sat near her feet, listening to her play, legs crossed over on the floor as her honey brown eyes sketched out the side of the singers face.

This sunflower's waiting for you

Waiting for you.

Strumming the last note the musician placed the old triangle wood down before uncrossing her legs and shuffling to join the woman on the floor. They both sat in nothing but there sports bras and underwear, they didn't need to wear anything else in each other's company after all.

The first women, the one who had sung just moments ago, had her dirty blonde hair stuffed inside a high ponytail with long loose strands floating behind her cut bangs. The second woman also had her hair tied up, but it was a darker colour, a light brown and instead of bangs framing her face she had a set of wire-framed glasses hanging off of her nose.

"Well, that was certainly very beautiful," The brunette said with smile hiding behind rosy blushed cheeks.

"A beautiful song for a beautiful woman."

"If I knew you were such a songstress I would have forced you to play me something a week ago." They chuckled together, the blonde biting down on her lip afterwards.

"Well, I didn't wanna scare you off when we were having so much fun."

Watching the blonde's actions the brunette looked to the floor before replying, the reply coming out in a small whisper as she remembered there time together. The two had been none stop holding one another in their arms, cuddling, kissing, having sex, they were all over each other.

They had met just seven days ago. The brunette, Sadie. Had been out doing her patrols when it started to rain heavily, hearing the noise of the water hitting the floor a swam of infected had Sadie trapped inside of a building, an old market place. That's when she met Addy, the blonde.

Addy had helped her find her way out and together they barricaded themselves inside one of the old Jackson lookout spots. Here they planned on waiting until the storm passed to both returns to Jackson and after two days it still hadn't, in fact, most of the streets had begun to flood.

The two bonded and became close rather quickly, some would say two close. Sadie needed comfort after the third day of realising that nobody from her community was coming for her. They'd probably assumed she'd been eaten alive by infected or had died from exposure to the cold. It was clear they weren't coming for her, not anytime soon.

"I don't think you could ever scare me off, even if you wanted too."

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"But Joel! Sadies still out there and if you think I'm not going to go looking for her then you're wrong!" Ellie yelled over the rain has it hit harder and harder onto the floor below. Even though the sixteen-year-old stood inside the stables the foster father and daughter could barely hear one another over the thumps around them. Over the past week, since the rain began, she's none stop begged both Joel and his brother Tommy -the owner of the community- to allow her to take a horse and go out to look for the girl, each time she asked, they both downright refused. "She's one of my best friends!"

"Which is why I know she'll be perfectly safe wherever she is" Joel barked back, the noise overflowing his senses, he had begun to get fed up of the girls constant asking but he fully understood how much Ellie cared for her very small group of friends "She's a smart girl, plus she's older, she knows what she's doing!"

The man in his late forties had just finished reigning in the last of the horses, locking the gates so the small amount that they had couldn't escape "Once all this dies down she'll come back!"

"But what if she's lost?!" Ellie stressed throwing out her arms in pure worry "It was her first time scouting the creek trails even you struggle with that area." She groaned rolling her eyes, she didn't quite understand why she wasn't being allowed to be the hero for a friend in need.

If it were the other way around Sadie would have stopped at nothing to find her, so would Dina or Kat or maybe even Jesse.

"Kid!" He loudly sighed running a hand over his wet face so rid his eyelashes of the water droplets dripping down on him now that he had fully stepped outside to close up the barn doors "Stop worryin' she'll be fine. I know it."

"How do you know?"

"I just do!" The man pushed up the lock, sealing it tight "Call it a gift of gettin' old" He turned to look at Ellie as they two stomped through the mud to return to there home "I can guarantee that once the rain lightens up a little bit she'll come back, right now it's way too dangerous the horse wouldn't be able to handle the noise. She's probably held up in a house somewhere." He was now side by side with the smaller, soon to be woman who had worry written all over her face.

He nudged her arm playfully "She's safe sweetheart!" He sent a smile her way to try brighter hers up a little "If she's not back by the weekend, I'll go lookin' for her." The larger strides now meant that Joel had overtaken his foster daughter, leaving Ellie lagging behind.

"You promise?"

"I promise."