A GREAT BEGINNING
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Desperate Housewives. I am just using them for entertainment purposes. I am making no money off of this, so please don't sue me because I am merely a poor teen. Again, I own NOTHING.
Characters: Mostly Mike and Susan. Julie will be mentioned alot too. Some others, but not much.
Summary: This is a very different beginning. No Mary Alice in this story. Mike and Susan meet in a grocery store. Enjoy!
A/N: Big Thanks to Ayeesha! And ForgottenIceTea.
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Susan sat at her table reading through the metro section of her newspaper, while Julie walked into the kitchen, her stomach growling loudly. She looked in the refridgerator and around the countertops.
"Mom, we don't have any milk for cereal, bread for toast, and any orange juice."
"I knew I was forgetting something while I was out running errands yesterday", smiled Susan, finding it somewhat funny.
"Great job mom. But I'm really hungry."
"Wanna run to the store with me and pick up some things?"
"Only if we stop to get some doughnuts first"
"Deal. Let me grab my purse."
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"Ok which cereal do you want?"
"I don't know. You pick, you're the only one that really eats cereal."
"Fine. Let's grab these" replied Julie, grabbing a box of Honey Nut Cheerios.
As Susan started to head down the aisle she noticed Edie coming her and Julie's way. Susan wasn't one of Edie's biggest fans considering the fact that her and Karl were dating only 8 months after he and Susan had gotten divorced. Edie knew Susan wasn't very fond of her, which made Edie even happier everytime she saw Susan. Edie loved to taunt her and Karl's relationship in front of Susan.Susan tried her best to ignore Edie every chance she could, but knew that was impossible.
"Susan!" yelled out a gleeful Edie.
"Oh God" Susan thought. "Edie, Hi." she said with a fake smile plastered on her face.
"Oh hi Julie."
"Hi Mrs. Britt."
"Nice to see you, well kinda, put together. Susan you look a mess. But that's normal I guess. Sorry I have to run, Karl's waiting for me in the car. I just ran in to get a few things for a nice breakfast I'm preparing, God only knows how long he had to deal with bad breakfasts in the past." smirked Edie knowing it would get Susan mad, "Bye".
"Finally" remarked Susan to herself, noticing Julie had already made her way down the aisle.
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Susan was too busy looking at her grocery list to even see the man in front of her. As she continued to walked, she accidently bumped into him.
"Oh I'm sorry" said Susan looking up to see him.
"It's ok, i wasn't injured or anything" he chuckled as Susan continued to stare.
Nervous and amazed Susan slightly laughed. She had bumped into a very handsome man. Her whole world stopped as she just stared at him. Forgetting what she was doing, Susan just stood there. And stood there. And stood there. He too looked at her beauty and smiled to himself. Until the staring was interuppted by Julie.
"Mom. Mom?"
"Huh? Oh yea sorry. Um...I'm Susan. Susan Mayer. This is my daughter Julie." she commented as Julie stood next to her.
"Julie this is...um...I dont know" Susan said feeling stupid because she didn't even know who he was.
"Mike. Mike Delfino." smiled Mike, throwing out his hand to shake both Julie and Susan's hands. They accepted it.
"Cool. How do you two know each other?" asked Julie, curious of why her mother was introducing her to someone that neither of them knew.
"Well i accidently bumped into him about 2 minutes ago."
"Yea, but no harm done."
"Well mom I'm going to go look at the magazines for a couple minutes, if that's ok with you?" asked Julie, knowing her mom was into this Mike guy and wanted to leave her alone for a minute with him.
"Yea, sure, go ahead,"
After Julie left, Mike and Susan just stood there looking at each other awkwardly in silence.
"So...um, it's nice to meet you Susan." commented Mike and grinning as he said a proper hello.
"Yea, nice to meet you too." smiled Susan back. Ring Ring Ring. Susan's phone went off and she excused herself, not really leaving, but only moving about 2 inches from where she was. "What Karl?...I don't know...Fine...I'll see you at the house in 3 hours." After she got off, Mike was still there looking at some of the items next to him.
"Sorry about that, it was Julie's dad."
"Oh so you're married?" asked Mike, suddenly saddened.
"Oh, No! Divorced. He's just going to take her for the weekend." replied Susan fast, hoping not to scare him away.
"Cool" replied a now upbeat Mike.
Mike and Susan stayed in the aisle and got to know each other a bit more. They talked about what they did for a living, about Julie, and just about the normal things in life. He told her he had just moved there from California about 2 weeks ago. He was staying about 5 minutes driving distance from her house, until the Simmons fixed up their place alittle before he moved it, which she knew was across the street from her and that got the both of them more excited. They talked about why he moved there and how long Susan had been living there. They both knew they were flirting and neither minded. He commented on her beauty and she couldn't help but smile. He immediately got hooked on to that smile and she found him really sweet and liked the way he paid attention to her. She ducked her head alot and he could tell she liked him, but he didn't care because he liked her as well.
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"So he asked you for your number?" ginned Julie, acting like she didn't think this would happen.
"Yea and i gave it to him. He said he would call so we could have lunch with him or something like that." remarked Susan, pretending not to take much interest in him. But she couldn't fool herself. She couldn't fool Julie. Julie saw how much her mom was into Mike without even knowing him, which in a way was a good sign. Susan went the rest of the day without even thinking about him. Karl had come by to pick Julie up and she was going to be gone for 4 days with him, since it was summer break at school.
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Since Julie was now home from being with Karl the past couple of days, Susan didn't feel quite lonely. She missed having a man around the house to cuddle with her, play with her, argue with her, wake up to in the mornings, eat breakfast with, and just make her happy annd protect her. Julie knew her mom wanted to be out in the dating scene again and Julie wanted her to get out there and meet someone. She thought Mike had called so Julie brought up the whole phone number thing again.
"So has he called yet?" asked a curious Julie.
"Who? Your dad?" wondered Susan, not knowing what Julie was talking about.
"No. Mike"
"Oh. No. I think he was just playing about the whole lunch thing." replied Susan, hoping that there was some good reason why he hadn't called.
"That Mike guy...he's cute, Mom." commented Julie, knowing it would make her mom smile inside.
"Yea, he's alright." remarked Susan, hoping not to give off the fact that she found him extremely handsome.
"Well, I think he's gonna call. Just give him a day or so. Or just forget about him. He's probably just like dad. You know, not that reliable, smart, or good in bed."
"Julie!" exclaimed Susan shocked at what her daughter had just said.
"What? I heard you talking to Mrs. Solis over the phone about Dad the other day"
"Yea, well, you missy are a nosey kid, but that's good half the time, just not when i'm on the phone." laughed Susan slightly hitting Julie on her forehead with her hand.
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Around six that night, Susan heard the phone ringing, but didn't recognize the number. She waited a minute before she picked up hoping she could figure out who it was. It rang for 5 times before she finally gave in.
"Hello?" asked Susan.
"Hi. Susan?"
Susan immediately recognized the voice as Mike's. She was suddenly filled with happiness, not really knowing why since she barely knew the guy. She was just really happy that he called, even if it was some 4 days later.
"Yea. Hi Mike. How are you?"
"Hey, I'm doing good. I was just really busy these past couple of days, which is why i hadn't called you. My dog got sick and then i had several big plumbing jobs to take care of. But now I'm free. So how have you been?"
"Good. Better now." Susan said smiling and blushing.
"That's nice to hear. Well hey you know how I promised you and Julie that lunch date?"
"Yea, I remember." Susan was now very excited that he was still thinking about her.
"Well I was thinking, how about me, you and Julie meet up at Andrew's Pizza Place tomorrow, than maybe we could go to the park for alittle while and get to know each other some more. So Andrew's at 1:30?" asked Mike hoping Susan didn't already have plans.
"Yea, sounds good." grinned a very happy Susan.
"Ok then, I'll see you two there."
After they were off the phone, Susan smiled to herself and immediately forgot about the lasagna she was making. She turned around to the smell of something somewhat burning. Julie came downstairs to see what was going on after smelling something not right. She saw that her mom still had a big smile on her face, minus the digusted look of covering her nose.
"You look happy. I'm guessing you didn't want lasagna for dinner?" laughed a curious Julie.
"No, I did. But Mike just called" grinned Susan.
"Really? What he say?"
"We're having lunch with him tomorrow and then we're going to the park."
And with that Julie smiled and ordered chinese for them. Susan was really too happy to eat, so she just ate an eggroll. When she opened her fortune cookie it read..."There will be a great beginning for you soon." Susan smiled and hoped it meant what was happening with Mike.
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Ok so what did you think? Please be completely honest. I am prepared for the worst. I dont find this chapter that interesting. I'll continue to write if I see that peeople are interested in this story. Please review and any ideas are appreciated.