ONE YEAR LATER
I move quickly around the small kitchen, stirring food, turning up the oven, turning the meat over, wiping up any mess. I hum and reach over to turn the radio up; I use the wooden spoon as my microphone, the pots and pans are my audience. I jump up and down, spinning round and round to the music, as the song builds. When it reaches the end, I take a bow and get back to cooking. Giggling at myself, I brush my hair back behind my ear and check the recipe book; I wanted this meal to be perfect. I breathed in the smells from the sizzling pans, "Mmmm." I said aloud.
It had been exactly a year since I found Dan in my bedroom, we had started again on our relationship, we even had a second first date, I remember it fondly every day, it always put a smile on my face.
It was 11 o'clock in the morning and I was waiting outside my mum and dad's house. We agreed that it would be best to have the first date back in my home town, away from any prying fans. I checked my watch and bit my lip; I was a few minutes early. I decided to keep my outfit simple, just a pair of jeans with a vintage styled t-shirt; I kept my long blonde hair down. Then I saw him. He turned round the corner and looked up to see me. I waved and my heart started to flutter. A smile burst out across my face, he had his hair natural, something he knew that I loved. "Hey." I greeted him, he grinned and handed me a small bouquet of daisies. "For you." I took them and brought them close to my nose so that I could smell them. I quickly put them back in the house and we walked in to town. "I'm Dan by the way; it's nice to be meeting you for the first time." He joked. "Lovely to meet Dan, I'm Amy." I joined in. "I thought that we could go to a cafe." I say as we cross the road. "Actually, I kind of have something planned." He grinned, I looked at him and I knew that I had made the right decision to give us another go, he made me so happy. As we reached the town centre Dan took the lead, he headed towards the cinema. I followed intrigued at what he had planned. We walked inside the cinema and I noticed that it was empty. "Where is everyone?" I said as we walked through the double doors, leading off to the screens. Dan turned round and held my hand, he took me in to the biggest room and led me to a pair of seats in the middle. There was a set of drinks and popcorn on the seats, "Are these ours?" I asked as he picked them up. "Yep." He said, popping some popcorn in to his mouth. "What are we watching?" At that moment the lights went down in the empty room and the screen turned on. I recognised the start of the film straight away; I had watched it enough times to know that it is my favourite film, Silver Linings Playbook. "Dan! Did you do this?" He just grins and puts his arm round my shoulders; I nestled in to him, having missed having someone to cuddle. After the film had finished Dan took me to my favourite restaurant and they served us my favourite dish without giving us a menu. I laughed as we dug in. Then he walked me home, I rested on his shoulders. When we got back to my parent's house he kissed my very lightly on the lips before leaving. I was left wanting more, but I knew that we were doing the right thing in taking this slowly.