Silly Love Songs
Part 2
By: ioanhoratio
I look around me and I see it isn't so
It had been years since Lindsay Messer cared about Valentine's Day. It was usually just a day to get some extra overtime at work so others could go out and celebrate. She had spent years avoiding the holiday, but truthfully she was avoiding the fact that she had no one to celebrate with. Her early college years had been plagued with fording through emotion turmoil, and an eye single to gaining the tools to catch the bad guy. Then she had become focused on becoming one of the best CSIs in Montana and after that it was ensuring her place in the New York Crime Lab. Her busy schedule had precluded dating. She'd had a few boyfriends here or there but nothing serious; nothing to warrant much expectation from February the 14th. Even when she was dating Danny and the ups and downs of their relationship, Valentine's Day hadn't been too predominate. This year was different. This year she was one half of a couple; not just a couple, but half of a marriage.
It wasn't that Lindsay was consumed with any type of uncontainable excitement regarding the approaching day of love. In fact, she was not into the whole flowers, candy, jewelry, dinner reservation extravaganza. She was a practical girl with practical tastes; she would kill Danny if he ever spent some of the money she had heard other men spending. It was just that Danny was always showing her his love in with these little gestures that warmed her heart. She couldn't imagine what he would come up with for a day devoted to romantic gestures.
He knew she wasn't a huge fan of the holiday and she knew he had spent years dodging the arrow of Cupid, so she was looking forward to seeing how he would cater the celebration to their taste. She didn't care for fancy, maudlin declarations and Danny didn't care to give them. They were a perfect match. She was blessed with one amazing husband who knew how to make her feel special. She was still trying to figure out what she was going to surprise him with. She had been thinking a lot about it. She still had a few days left, and with Danny being so tight lipped about what he had planned, it was going to take all her energy to come up with something fantastic for their first Valentine's Day and man and wife.
Next up: Danny gets some good advice and a great offer…I hope he listens!