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Lindsay was getting ready to leave the office. Danny was in the break room when she walked in. He was getting bundled up, ready to face the below freezing temperatures. Lindsay smiled to herself as she walked passed him to get to her locker. He turned around after she passed. Danny was about to leave when he heard her voice.
"Where are you heading?"
He stopped and turned around. She was starring at him.
"Skating. Um, ice skating."
"I never went ice skating."
"Want to?"
"Danny," she started to protest. Lindsay thought for a minute.
"Okay."
"I'll met you outside."
After Danny left, Lindsay jumped with joy. She quickly got ready and ran down stairs. Danny was waiting in at the curb for Lindsay. His car was in the shop for repairs. Lindsay came running down the stairs as Danny searched for a cab. The drive was silent. Lindsay almost fell asleep. Later they arrived outside the Skating Rink. That's when Lindsay started to worry. She was going to make a fool of herself in front of him.
"Come on," Danny said breaking her out of the trace. They went into the lobby. Lindsay was about to take her coat off when she felt the rush of cold air. Sure it wasn't are cold as outside, but it was pretty cold inside. Lindsay looked at the rink and was surprised at how many people were on the ice. There weren't that many. She was so busy looking around, that she didn't notice Danny walking away. Then she heard his voice, yelling.
"What size do you wear, Montana?"
"Eight and a half."
Danny turned to the guy behind the desk.
"….and a size 9, please."
He gave Danny the shoes and grumbled for the next person. Danny went back to the bench, where Lindsay was waiting.
"Thank you," she said as he handed her the skates. As they were putting on their shoes, the temperature either went up or Lindsay was getting used to the cold and took her coat off. Danny quickly stood up on his skates. He got his balance early, no trouble, but Lindsay was leaning a little trying to gain her balance. Danny took a hold of her hands and helped her onto the ice. He could tell she was scared but he was smiling.
"Montana, open your eyes. I've got ya."
Lindsay opened her eyes and saw that they were already in the middle of the ice. She looked up at him. He put his arm around her waist and guided her around the ice rink. Danny could see her smiling. He started to go faster. Lindsay lost her balance and tipped backwards. Danny lost his balance, also. They fell backward and landed on their backs, with Lindsay on top Danny.
"Sorry, Danny."
Danny put his hand up to stop her.
"I'm sorry for going faster."
Danny got up and regained his balance and helped Lindsay onto her skates. She was blushing. After she regained her balance the best she could, Danny took off. He was racing around the rink. Luckily a few people had left. Lindsay watched him show off. She started laughing. He enjoyed showing off, especially in front of her. Danny continued to go fast. Lindsay turned around and saw Mac entering the rink with Peyton. Danny was getting closer.
"Danny!"
Too late, he had already rammed into his boss. Peyton looked up from the two men to Lindsay, they started laughing. Mac looked up and gave Messer a stern look. Danny got up and helped his boss.
"You know, if you quit showing off for Lindsay, you wouldn't run people over," Danny gave Mac an angry look, Mac laughed at this.
"Come on, Mac," yelled Peyton, who was already half around the rink. Mac nodded and skated down the rink. It was just Danny and Lindsay again.
"Come on, Montana. You can't hold onto the wall forever," he said with a thick accent. Lindsay nodded and followed close behind him. She watched how he skated on the ice, not exactly learning anything. Lindsay was too busy daydreaming, that Danny was able to come up behind her and pick her up. Lindsay, surprisingly didn't notice until he put her back down. Lindsay turned as Danny started laughing.
"What?"
"Too busy starring at me?"
He said cocky. Lindsay didn't know what to say, but she was blushing. He gave her a cocky smile.
"I thought so."
With that he took off again.
'Nice job, Monroe. Why does he have to be so nice, sweet……………….hot.' She shook her head rapidly. 'I don't know why I haven't told him I like him. Sure at the begin I had problems trusting him, but now I'd let him hold my life in his hands.'
Lindsay got off the ice and sat in the stands. She watched Danny until she lost tract of him, when he went behind her blind spot. She quickly looked around, but couldn't find him.
"Looking for me, Montana."
She turned around and smiled
"I was wondering where you ran off to," she said as she got up out of her seat.
"I noticed you weren't on the ice anymore and came looking for you."
He looked around. He saw that no one was anywhere around. He started to worry about her, since she was sitting alone.
"What's wrong?"
"Just came here to think. I'm fine."
"Ya sure," his accent disappeared for a second.
"I'm sure. Are we going to finish skating?"
"I have an idea. Come on."
Danny took Lindsay outside. It had gotten darker since they arrived almost a hour ago. Danny took Lindsay to the side of the building.
"They finally opened it a few minutes ago."
It was an outdoor skating rink. Beautiful was the only word Lindsay would think of to describe the breathtaking view. There was a little dusting of snow on the ice as more flurries fell upon the people on the ice. Danny helped Lindsay on the ice. They skated around for a hour. At 12:00 a.m., they started closing. Danny and Lindsay left soon after. They walked to the road and stood at the curb, freezing.
"I'll take you home."
Lindsay was about to disagree and say she would have been fine by herself, but she decided not the. Danny helped her into the cab and told him to drive to Lindsay's address. Lindsay was quite. After about ten minutes, Danny felt pressure on his left shoulder. He looked down and saw a sleeping Montana girl. Another 20 minutes, they arrived at Lindsay's apartment. He paid the cabbie and tried to wake Lindsay. She stirred a little and woke up just enough to walk to the front door of her apartment.
"Linds, where are your keys?"
Lindsay reached into her pocket and pulled her keys out. She handed them to Danny without opening her eyes. Lindsay's head kept falling forward, then pulled her head up and it fell again. Danny opened her door and turned to her. He watched as she kept nodding off. He took her into his arms and carried her into her apartment. He searched her apartment looking for her bedroom. When he found it, he placed her on her bed, pulled the covers over top of her and left. His place was about 40 minutes from her house. So Danny slept on the couch for the remainder of the night. Danny took a blanket that was on the couch and covered himself. The next morning, he was awoken to the smell of bacon and eggs. Danny quickly got up off the couch and walked into the kitchen, but not without running into a wall because he forgot his glasses on the coffee stand. Lindsay was in the kitchen cooking breakfast.
"Morning, Messer."
"Morning, Montana."
"Maybe you should put your glasses on before you hurt yourself."
Danny walked back into the living room, grabbed his glasses and went back into the kitchen. Lindsay smiled when he entered the room Danny came up behind her. Without her noticing, Danny took a sniff of her perfume. It was breathtaking and heavenly. Lindsay turned around and Danny backed away. Lindsay gave him a quick smile before she went to finish preparing breakfast.
"Do you have to work today," Lindsay said to back the awkward silence.
"No, I have today and tomorrow off. You?"
"I have today off."
"Want to go skating again, today?"
Lindsay turned around and saw Danny standing behind her, again.
"Are you following me?"
"No, it's just a small kitchen."
"Sure, it is," she said and went back to cooking.
'Is he following me or maybe not and I just think he is. I feel a little hot. As long as he doesn't say anything in Italian, I'll be fine.'
Danny walked out of the room and went to find her bathroom. Lindsay turned around once again and there was no Danny.
"Danny?"
She turned off the food and walked around her apartment. Looking for him. She was about to pass the bathroom when the door opened and someone walked out. Lindsay screamed and jumped back. Danny gave her a hug to calm her down. Lindsay wanted him to keep his arms around her forever.
"Sorry, Linds."
"It's all right."
Danny started to let go of her, but Lindsay kept her arms around him. Danny have her a confused look, but brought his head down to hers. As soon as their lips almost touched, she pulled away and ran to her bedroom. Danny slowly followed her, making sure she even wanted to be followed. When he entered her room, she was on her bed, crying. It broke Danny's heart to see her like this. Danny carefully walked up to her bed and sat down next to her. When he finally spoke to her, he was quite.
"I'm sorry I pushed you."
When Lindsay didn't response, Danny got up and left her room. As he was getting ready to leave, Lindsay finally came out of her room.
"You don't have to leave, Danny."
"I pushed you too far. I really should go."
"No."
Lindsay walked to him. He put his coat on and started to leave.
"I love you, Danny."
Danny stopped in his tracks. He was so surprised that he couldn't even move. Lindsay just stood behind him. She starred at him, waiting to see if he would speak. Without turning around, he finally spoke.
"Why were you crying?"
"I don't deserve you."
Danny abruptly turned around and gave Lindsay a confused look.
"What? Lindsay if anyone doesn't deserve someone, it's me."
"What? Why?"
Danny walked closer to her. They looked into each other's eyes.
"Look at me, Montana. My brother was part of Tanglewood. New York's back streets and alleys are cleaner than my past. I've never been with a woman longer than a month. I was almost arrest for a murder that someone I knew committed."
"But you weren't part of Tanglewood. I don't care about your past. You're sweet and kind now. The evidence was misleading us. I guess you're right. My past is all right. I just thought we were two completely different people."
"We're not that different."
Danny smiled. He brought his lips closer again. He waited to see if she was going to pull away from him again, but she didn't. Danny brought his lips closer to hers and let them gently touch. The gentle brush was enough to make Lindsay impatient for the kiss. She groaned in the back of her throat. Danny gave a quick smirk and finally kissed her. He put his arms around her. He pulled her closer to him. She wrapped her arms around his neck. They kissed passionately and dreamed that they would never let go. Before anything could happen, there was a loud knock on Lindsay's apartment door. They quickly let go of each other. They fixed up themselves.
"Hello," Lindsay yelled as she made her way to the door. "Who's there?"
"Mom and Dad."
Lindsay's head spun around to face Danny, who, as soon as he heard the person at the door were her parents, went pale. Lindsay motioned for him to go to the kitchen to hide, for now. Lindsay opened the door and quickly put on a smile for her parents.
"Linds!"
Lindsay hugged her mother and father as they entered the apartment. They looked around, while Lindsay prayed that they wouldn't go into the kitchen. Lindsay started talking to her father, so she never noticed that her mother went into the kitchen.
"Lindsay, who is in the kitchen," he mother asked coming out of the kitchen. Lindsay sucked in air and starred at her parents. She didn't want to answer them, but she doubted that she could get away from this.
"Um..Um…Um.."
"It's all right, Lindsay."
Danny came out of the kitchen. Lindsay's face turned beat red.
"Who are you," asked her mother, gently.
"Danny Messer. I'm a friend of Lindsay. We were out late at the ice skating. I walked her back here and she allowed me to stay on the couch last night because my apartment is too far from here. I should probably get go. Let you catch up."
With that Danny left. Lindsay shut the door behind him and was afraid to turn around to face her parents.
"He seems like a very nice man. Eh, Lindsay."
Lindsay turned around and saw the wink her mother gave to her. She started blushing harder. She turned to her father. He had a smile on his face.
"Do you like him?"
Lindsay nodded.
"Then I hope we weren't interrupting anything."
Lindsay's face got redder and redder.
"Mom."
Her mother and father laughed.
"So this is the man you have been talking about?"
"Yes. I love him."
"I want to met him for longer than a couple of minutes."
Lindsay nodded and hurried over to the end table where she kept her cell. She hit 1 on speed dial. The ringing went on forever.
"Messer."
"Hi, Danny. Listen my parents want you to come back. They would like to met you. They seem to like you already."
"All right. I haven't left the building, yet. I'll be up there in a couple of minutes."
"Okay. Bye."
Lindsay hung up. She turned to her parents.
"Danny said he hasn't left the building, so he's going to come back. I think he's nervous to met you more formally.
Lindsay motioned for her parents to sit down and as they waited for Danny, they caught up on old times. Her father left to use the bathroom. Within ten minutes, they heard a knock on the door. Lindsay quickly got up and raced to the door.
"Danny, what took you so long?"
"I was trying to come up with a way of getting out of it."
"Oh, you're cute when you're nervous."
"Montana."
"Come on, Danny. They want to met you."
Lindsay had to actually pull Danny in just to get him passed the threshold. Lindsay helped Danny take his coat off and took him into the living room.
"Mom, Danny finally showed up."
Lindsay's mother got up and shook Danny's hand. She could tell by his sweaty palms that he was nervous.
"It's nice to met you again, Danny. You don't have to nervous, Mr. Monroe is nice and he wouldn't hurt you."
Lindsay laughed but Danny went pale. She rubbed his back to calm him down.
"So are you two going to date?"
"Mom!"
"What? Can't I ask a simple question?"
Danny looked at Lindsay.
"I'd like to."
Lindsay blushed and gave her mother a quick smile. Her father came out of the bathroom and as soon as Danny saw him, he became more straight then pants with starch in them. Lindsay and her mother let out small giggles but her mother's was not heard by anyone. Mr. Monroe walked up to Danny. Danny looked like a solider ready for roll call. Danny pulled his arm from his side and held it out for her father to shake. Lindsay's father shook his hand which was firm. Lindsay parents sat on either side of Danny. His ears and face as red.
"Danny, you work with Lindsay in the lab?"
"Yes, sir."
"Danny, don't call me 'sir'. I'm not giving you the third degree or an interrogation. Calm down, we just wanted to met you now because we are only stay for a couple of days. Sorry, Linds, but the farm wouldn't take care of itself."
Before Danny could open his mouth so say something, his phone went off. He quickly looked at the caller ID.
"Sorry, it's our boss."
Lindsay's father nodded his head.
"He's nice, Linds," said her mother and her father nodded his head.
"I know."
"But, Mac. All right. I'll be there soon."
Danny slammed his phone shut, and muttered: "I hate that guy sometimes." So Lindsay's parents didn't hear him. He walked back to the couch, where Lindsay and her parents were talking. Well at least they could catch up.
"Sorry, Montana, but Mac called me in. Sorry Mr. and Mrs. Monroe. It was nice to meet you."
"It was nice to meet you too, Danny," said Lindsay's father.
Danny headed to the front door with Lindsay following. Her parents stay on the couch, eavesdropping.
"I'm sorry, Montana. I tried to beg Mac, but he needs the extra help. Don't answer your phone."
"Danny," she warned. "I love you."
"I love you, too."
He bent his head down and gave her a passionate kiss. He pulled apart and realized that might have been a bad idea.
"I hope your parents don't get mad at you."
"I don't think so."
"See you later."
Danny walked out of the door.
The end or maybe TBC…………… if you want more I will gladly write more. I have the next part ready in my head. But tell me if you want it to stop with that or not. Please review.