The next few days went by rather quickly and before I knew it it was Friday night. I was in my room finishing my makeup when I heard excited squeals coming from the front room, soon after Betty came bursting through my door.
"He's here!" she shouted at me, I just smiled at her.
Betty was the youngest of us all and sometimes she would get a little over excited, but that's what I loved about her. A few seconds later I heard Danny knock on the front door.
"Lindsay, Danny's here." Evelyn called from the front room. I stood and took one last look in the mirror.
"You look amazing as usual." Betty said. I had decided on a white dress that was covered in little red polka-dots, a pair of red heels, and I had pulled some of my hair back to keep it out of my face. I smiled at Betty as I turned and headed out of the room. When I reached the door Evelyn smiled at me.
"You two have fun tonight." She said, smiling softly. I walked out the door and down the small set of steps that led up to it. When I reached the bottom I saw that Danny was just watching me.
"What?" I asked him, not sure what he was looking at.
"Nothing, it's just, you look beautiful." He told me as he took my hand in his. He walked me to the passenger side again and when he opened the door for me I climbed into the car, but smiling at him I slid over into the driver's seat. He laughed as he climbed into the passenger seat.
"So where are we going?" I asked him as I started the car and pulled away from the curb.
"Do you know where the Diner is in town?" he asked me. I nodded my head and turned down the road that would take us strait into town.
We chatted as we made the short drive into town. When we reached the diner I parked the car, Danny went to get out but I stopped him. I climbed out of the car and walked around to his side of the car to open his door. He laughed again when I held my hand out to help him out of the car, but he took it anyway. Not letting it go until we were inside the diner.
We were seated at a small table next to the window so we could see all the people as they passed by. When the waitress came over to take our order Danny let me order first.
"I'll have a burger fries and a vanilla shake please." I told the elderly woman, smiling at her.
"I'll have the same as her." Danny told the waitress. She took our menus from us and walked away to place our orders. She returned soon after with our shakes. I took a long sip from my straw before I spoke again.
"I didn't peg you as a vanilla person." I told Danny as he took a sip of his shake as well.
"Yeah Rafe used to pick on me for it. He would say 'It's just like frozen milk why do you like it?' He was always more of a chocolate person." I laughed softly.
"He sounds like my little brother."
"I didn't know you have a little brother." He said seeming surprised by this new information.
"I used to." I said looking down at my hands.
"Oh, I'm sorry it just the way you talked about him. What happened? You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." he said after seeing my expression.
"No its okay, It's just that it only happened a few months ago so it's still weird to talk about him in the past tense. He had just turned eighteen and was driving into town to enlist when another car ran a red light and hit him, he was killed instantly." I told him as I tried to hold back the tears that were starting to form in my eyes.
"I'm sorry Lindsay." He said reaching across the table to take my hand. I smiled at him.
"Let's not talk about depressing things tonight. I just want to spend some time with you." I told him squeezing his hand slightly.
The waitress came over with our food soon after that ending our conversation, for a while at least. When we were done we left the diner and walked back over to Danny's car. This time I let him drive. When we reached the house I noticed that all the lights were off, the girls must all be out tonight.
"Would you like to come in for a drink?" I asked him, smiling softly.
"I would love to." He told me as he climbed out of the car, he came around to my side and opened my door for me and then we walked hand in hand up to the house. When we reached the door I found the hidden key, I hadn't remembered to grab mine before I left, and unlocked the door.
"Hello?" I called as I entered the house, just to make sure that no one else was there. The house was silent, nobody was home. I led Danny inside and headed in the direction of the kitchen.
"What do you want to drink?" I asked as I peered into the fridge.
"A coke is fine." He said. I grabbed two bottles and walked over to find the bottle opener. Once I had found it I popped the tops off the two bottles and handed one of them to Danny. He took a drink of his, sitting it back down on the counter before moving to stand in front of me. I sat mine down as well and then just looked into his eyes.
His hands moved up to cup my face before moving up into my hair. I reached up and pulled the clip out of my hair, letting the rest of my curls fall down around my face. He ran his hands through my hair before leaning down and pressing his lips to mine.
This time I was the one who deepened the kiss. His mouth was warm against mine as we kissed. His hands didn't stay in my hair long, instead they slowly moved down my back until they reached my waist.
His grip tightened slightly before he lifted me up off the floor and sat me down on the counter behind me. His body moved closer to mine then and I couldn't help but wrap my legs around his waist. My hands were all over him. One was buried in his soft brown locks while the other was resting on his muscular chest. I could feel his fast heartbeat match mine as we kissed, both of us lost in each other.
In situations like this I have heard that the woman's senses are not always as clouded as the man's, which would explain why I heard the door to the house open and Danny didn't. I froze instantly which caused Danny to pull back slightly to look at me.
"What is it..?" he started to ask but I quickly covered his mouth. I could hear voices getting closer and this time Danny heard them too. He quickly moved back allowing me to hop down off the counter. I fixed my dress and tried to fix my hair the best I could, but it was useless at this point.
Danny stood next to me facing the counter, the reason for which had been very obvious a moment ago. We both took another sip of our drinks before the girls rounded the corner. Martha was the first to see us soon followed by the rest of the girls.
"Were just going to go to bed." She said winking at me before they all turned around and headed back towards our rooms.
"It was nice to see you again Danny!" Betty called as they all walked away. We just stood there a moment longer before either of us spoke.
"I should go." Danny said as he finally moved away from the counter. I could tell from the look on his face that he was embarrassed and I felt bad for him.
I walked him back out to the front door and kissed him goodbye before shutting and locking the door. I leaned against it for a second before taking a deep breath and heading towards my room. I really didn't want to face the girls but I knew it was going to happen whether I wanted it to or not. So I just gritted my teeth and walked into my room, where they were all waiting for me.
