Lulu Spencer made her way to Crimson her arms laden with packages as she heard her cell phone ring in her purse, with a frustrated sigh she made her way over to a nearby bench. Putting down the packages she hurried to answer the call, "Hello," she answered.

"Hey are you almost here because Kate is getting impatient." She heard her friend Maxie exclaim.

"When is she not impatient," Lulu replied with a laugh. "Yes I'm almost there and I have everything she asked for."

Picking up her bags again she heard someone step up behind her, "Hey can I help you with those?" a man asked as she turned around.

"Oh uh thanks," she replied with a smile.

"I'm Brent by the way." he said extending his hand to her.

"Lulu, nice to meet you."

****

Dante was making his way to the police station he decided to take the route near the water, when he spotted Lulu talking to some guy. He knew it shouldn't effect him so much, Lulu wasn't his girlfriend she was just his friend but for some reason his wished that guy would just get lost. Lately he had felt that perhaps his feelings for his best friend had changed but this, seeing her here tonight with this guy just cemented that fact. Waiting to see what would happen he watched her walk away with him which only made his feel worse, but how could he tell her the truth. She probably wouldn't feel the same way.

****

"You can just put those right here on the desk," Lulu said as she pointed to her desk. She then introduced him to Maxie who she knew was dying to know who this new guy was. "Well I better let you get back to work," he said. "But before I go can I ask for your number, maybe we could get together sometime for dinner or something."

"Sure, I'd like that."

"Oh my god, he was cute." Maxie said as she she peeked into one of the bags.

"I know, right." She replied as she plopped into her chair.

That night she had promised Dante that they would go see a movie and then have dinner at Kelly's so she headed home to change before he showed up at her door.

As she was brushing her hair she heard a knock at the door and went to grab her coat off the hook near the door, "Hey, so what movie are we seeing tonight?" She said slipping into her jacket.

Dante knew seeing her tonight would be hard but he couldn't bring himself to cancel their movie night either, "Well there's that new action flick."

"An action movie? Umm I think we've seen enough guns and chases to last a lifetime in out little town." Lulu replied with a laugh.

"But there is that new horror movie that just opened yesterday."

"And we both know you love horror movies. Alright we'll go see that then."

At the theater they bought their tickets and stopped for some snacks before heading in to their seats, Dante noticed when they first started hanging out that she always liked to sit in the very middle of the theater. When he had asked her why she liked that spot so much she said that she liked being able to hear the sound all around her. So he followed her up the steps as they stepped around others already in their seats to get to the middle.

Since they had been friends for so long he knew a lot of things about her that no one else knew, like the fact that she liked chocolate candies mixed in with her popcorn for the salty/sweet flavor. That she hated tomato juice but loved ketchup and tomatoes (which he always thought was odd). But those were the things that made her the girl that he always wanted to spend time with.

Another thing she loved were horror movies and with her the gorier the better and he would never admit it to her but he secretly hated it. Some of the movies that she had dragged him to had been really freaky they had even given him nightmares but somehow she was just fine. She would laugh at the cheesiness of them which surprised him usually girls were the ones clinging to their boyfriends during these movies. But this was Lulu Spencer and she was not your usual girl.

Halfway through the movie Dante was tempted to cover his eyes but he didn't want to look like a baby so he sat through it, if she could do it he could do it too. That was until he was caught off guard when something on the screen jumped out at them and he jumped out of his seat. Relaxing back into his seat he looked over at Lulu hoping and praying that she hadn't noticed, just then she glanced at him and laughed.

"Yeah I saw it," she said trying not to laugh out loud.