Chapter 3 Love is the word

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"So I was wondering," Flack started as he walked Alexa up to her apartment door. She turned around to face him. "If you'd like to go to central park and then go watch a football game tomorrow?" he asked.

Her face lit up. "I'd love that." She said smiling and pushing a strand of hair behind her ear.

"Great. Well I bid thee good night and will see you tomorrow." Flack said and with that he tenderly kissed her on the cheek and left.

Once she got inside her apartment she started giggling like a school girl. She pressed the play button on her answering machine and walked into the kitchen. 'It's 1:01 am' she thought reading the clock on her stove. "Message 1 10:33 pm…Alexa it's your mother, call me. Love you." The answering machine said as Alexa groaned. "Message 2 11:01 pm…Lexie its Stasia call me to tell me about New York. Love ya girl. End of messages." Well its 1 am her mother wouldn't be up and Stasia was probably out, only person who would be up would be her father because he was working tonight. She grabbed her phone, dialed his cell and let it ring.

"Well hello dear." Max Kyler answered after the fourth ring.

"Hi Dad. Mom called and I just got the message. I knew she wouldn't be up so I called you." Alexa said plopping down on her couch.

"She said she called about 10:30. What have you been up to?" He asked laughing.

"Dad," she groaned. "I was out with some co-workers." She explained.

"Oh that's good. You don't have work tomorrow?" he asked.

"No, but I should go to sleep soon."

"Oh really, why?"

"I'm going out with my partner. He's taking me to Central Park then we're going to watch a football game." She said happily.

"That's great he sounds like he makes you happy." Her dad said.

"He's a great guy." Alexa replied.

He didn't reply. "S27…..26..51" (a/n: 26 means message received 51 means enroute) He said. "Hey Alexa I got to go. Talk to you later, love you."

"Ok, love ya too bye." She said and hung up. She placed the phone back onto its cradle and went to her bedroom. She put on a pair of shorts and a tank top and got into bed falling into a slumber sleep.

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Danny and Lindsay hadn't even gotten out of the elevator and they were all over each other. As they reached Lindsay's apartment Lindsay tried furiously to find her keys as Danny nibbled on her ears and ran his hands up her thighs. She finally got the door opened and ran into the apartment throwing her keys, purse and coat on the secretary and turned around. She jumped into Dannys arms wrapping her legs around his waist. She moaned as he kissed her neck. She pulled off her shirt and captured his lips. The kisses got deeper and more passionately, and the head was rising. "Take me as I am." She whispered into his ears.

"Gladly." He replied kissing her and carrying her to her bedroom. Lindsay collapsed in a fit of giggles when she fell onto the bed. Both her and Danny took of the rest of their clothes. It took Danny a minute and a half to get his clothes off and get on top of Lindsay making a trail of kisses from her belly button to her lips. 'A new record,' Lindsay thought.

They ended up not going to bed until early morning. Lindsay was blinded by the light in the morning as it shined through her eyelids. She rolled over and started to kiss Dannys neck. "Morning" she said.

"Mornin' beautiful, how are you?" He asked rolling over to face her.

"Good." She replied smiling.

"You ready for round two then for breakfast?" He asked tickling her.

"Yes!" She said laughing. The tickles turned into kisses and once again they were under the covers lost in each other.

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Alexa had woken up early to her mother calling her. She managed to tell her she'd call her back after she had taken a shower, which her mother let her do. So now she stood in her kitchen drinking her coffee and on the phone with her mother. She decided to wear jean shorts with a white tank top and tennis shoes. "I'm fine mom." She said

"Well that's good, you know your little brother is dumb sometimes?" she said.

"Oh yeah mom I've been telling that to you for years. What did he do know?"

"Well you know how he has that motorcycle? Well he had an accident. It was minor for the motorcycle, but your brother got stitches on his head because he fell off his bike." Her mother explained.

"Tell him to get better and tell him I said I'll laugh at him later." She said as she heard a knock at her door. "Look mom I got to go I'll talk to you later."

"Have fun and I want to hear more about this guy."

"Mom." She whined.

"Love you, bye." Was all Alexa heard and then the line went dead. She hung up the phone and walked to her door. She double checked her hair before she opened the door. Infront of her was her partner wearing Boarder shorts and t-shirt.

"Hey." Flack said.

"Hey, come on in. Just got to turn off my coffee machine and rinse out my cups. You want some coffee?" She asked as he walked in and she went to her kitchen.

"No, thanks I'm good." Flack said as he looked around. He noticed that she was still unpacking and she had pictures all over her apartment. There was a picture of her and an older man in uniform. The older man had Sergeant chevrons on his sleeves, 'her and her dad,' he noted. There was another picture but Alexa was younger, she was wearing a uniform and on each side of her were two other guys in uniform. There were other pictures of her and her family, her with another woman. There was another one that caught Flacks attention it was taken several years ago there was about 8 or 9 people in the picture including Alexa. All were in caps and gowns, laughing/crying and in a group hug.

"I hated that day." Alexa said from behind him. "All my best friends and I were all going to different schools. We had a tight nit group, I still talk to all them but I miss."

"You were quite popular." Flack stated.

"I wouldn't say that, I just had a lot of friends. I wasn't the 'it' girl of my high school." She said.

"I highly doubt that." Flack said. "You ready?" He asked.

"Yeah." Alexa said grabbing her keys and camera. Flack nodded and they headed out. They took the subway to the stop nearest to the park and walked the rest of the way. When they entered the park they encountered a fountain. Alexa took a picture of it and then turned Flack. "Can you take a picture of me? One thing I learned in high school was that pictures last forever." She said with a smile.

"Sure." Flack said taking her camera and walking over with her the fountain. She sat on the ledge posing and Flack took the picture.

She walked back over to him. "Thanks." She said. "Come let's get a picture of you and me."

Flack laughed. "How are we going to do that?" he asked.

"My best friend and I were very good at taking our own pictures of ourselves." She said waving her arm to get him to come over. He did and stood beside her. "You see you get the camera situated in your hand so that faces you and you can press the button. Then you get everyone beside you and hold the camera out like this." She said and extended her arm forward. "Now smile." She said and he did. She pressed the button and they head a clicking noise. She brings the camera back towards her and turns it around. "See." She said as she showed the picture to him of them.

"That came out great." He said.

"Yep." She said. They spent the rest of the morning walking around the park taking pictures and enjoying the scenery.