AN: took me a bit longer than anticipated, but here is chapter three. Hopefully I can get the next chapters out more quickly. I've got a good idea where I'm going with this story, it is harder to get that to paper than I thought.

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Chapter 3

When Dana returned from the bathroom, Ellen leaned over to her.

'That guy over there, the tall, lanky, brooding one, was definitely checking out your ass when you walked away,' she said with a smile.

Dana had noticed the guy sitting at the opposite booth. He was really handsome, almost pretty. Brooding was definitely a fitting term to describe him. His dark hair was a bit on the long side, but it made him look like a rebel. His nose seemed on the big side, but somehow that didn't bother her at all, it seemed to fit him perfectly. She wished she could see him up close and look into his eyes. From the distance she couldn't make out their color, but they looked dark.

'I'm sure he wasn't looking at me, Ellen. Why would he, he probably has a girlfriend and was thinking about her,' Dana said with a hint of regret in her voice.

'How do you know? And what if he has a girlfriend? How is that your problem?'

'Ellen!' was the only response Dana could utter. She still believed in fidelity and men of honor. She still hoped that men could be faithful and only have eyes for the woman they were with. Men like her father. He still only had eyes for her mother.

The waitress came to their table with their desserts. Dana and Ellen had the fudge cake, Ilse and Margrit both had trifle. While she was enjoying her cake, Dana couldn't help looking over to the other booth. The dark haired boy, well could you really call him a boy, he looked a couple of years older than her, but only by a year or two-three, looked over to her. Their eyes met and Dana couldn't help but blush at the intense look in his eyes. She looked away quickly taking another bit of her cake.

She saw the waitress walk over to the guys and heard her ask them if they wanted to order dessert. The smaller of the two, the one she really hadn't noticed until now, answered that all he wanted was another beer. The dark haired beauty agreed with him and the waitress left. She heard the smaller one say 'I don't know about you, but I plan to have slightly unorthodox dessert tonight, you should too. I bet the redhead will taste real nice'. He said it with arrogance and a leer in his voice. He must have thought that the words wouldn't have carried to the booth they were sitting in. 'Oscar, please quit making comments like that.' was all she heard before Margrit made a comment about the trifle and asked what their plans were for the next day.

'We don't know yet,' Ellen answered, 'we did a lot of things we wanted to do today already. What are your plans?'

Ilse answered 'we are going to Bath on a day tour, you're welcome to join us.'

'I think we like to stay in the city,' Dana answered looking at Ellen for confirmation. Ellen nodded at that answer. 'Yeah, we really didn't plan on going outside of the city. I think there is enough to see in London for another day.'

The girls had finished their desserts and were trying to decide whether or not they should order another drink or go back to the hostel. It was around 11 o'clock by now. Ilse and Margrit wanted to go back to the hostel. Their day trip to Bath would mean that they would have to leave really early in the morning. Dana didn't want to go back just yet, so she was glad when Ellen said they she really liked to stay and have another drink and maybe go dancing.

When the waitress passed them they asked for their check and divided the charges among the for of them. They said goodbye to each other and said they would probably see each other Saturday night or Sunday morning.

Ellen and Dana ordered another wine from the waitress and started to talk about what they wanted to do for the night and the sights they wanted to see on Saturday when the two guys from the other booth stood up and made their way over to their booth.

'Would you two lovely ladies mind if we joined you for a drink?' It was the shorter of the two who asked the question. Ellen immediately responded, 'Off course not'.

'Let me introduce ourselves first. My name is Oscar and this is William. And with whom do we have the pleasure?' Oscar had said the name William with a strange intonation. As if he wasn't used to the name Dana noticed.

'I'm Ellen and this is Dana,' Ellen said with a big smile on her face. 'Please join us for a drink.'

Oscar slid in the booth next to Ellen and William took the remaining place next to Dana.

'So going by your accents you're not British but American. What are you two doing in London?' Ellen asked looking at Oscar.

'We go to Oxford, we start our fourth year there after the summer and decided we needed to at least see London before going home,' William answered. He had slid next to Dana a little closer than was strictly necessary. 'And what are you two doing here, you're American as well right?'.

'Yes, we are on a tour of Europe to celebrate our graduation. We're off to college after the summer, we're both going to the University of Maryland.' Dana spoke for the first time since the men had joined them.

After that conversation flowed easily. Oscar and William spoke about their time at Oxford, about the subjects they had studied. They both were getting a degree in Psychology and didn't know what they were going to do after their time in England.

Dana and Ellen talked about not knowing where they were going to graduate in, but Dana hinted that she wanted to graduate in Physics and afterwards go to Med School and become a doctor.