Don waited in the car while she went into the emergency room. His phone buzzed in his pocket. "Flack," he responded.

"Don!" she said coldly

"What do you want jess?" his tone was cold, almost as cold as hers.

"I just called to tell you, em I don't know how to say it…" she took a deep breath. "Patrol called me a half hour ago, its Sam… she died of a drug overdose this morning!"

"Oh god…" don spotted Emily waving at him form the hospital entrance. He hung up and set the car into gear.

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The car journey was quiet, this made her more nervous, don was almost never quiet, something was wrong with him. She stroked his thigh with her middle finger. "Hey baby… what's up?" she asked, don stayed quiet not taking his eyes off the road; "Don baby what's wrong?" he let out a loud sigh. He pulled off the busy road into the car park of the mall; he brought the SUV to a halt.

"It's Sam…" he paused.

"What's Sam?" she asked tilting his chin up so he would look at her in the eye.

"While you were in the emergency room, angel called me, she's dead! A drug overdose… how the hell am I meant to tell my father?" Flack turned and looked out the window.

"If you want I'll just skip tonight and head home, you can tell your mother and father then it might be easier—" he cut her off;

"No, jess and matt and the kids are coming are coming as well, to tell you the truth I'd prefer it if you were there," he turned around and cupped her face in his hands, "I love you!" he kissed her passionately.

"Love you too ducky!" she smiled as he started up the car.

"just to let you know, my mom probably wont shut up about you being back so what ever she say's about me isn't true!" she started laughing.

"So if she starts talking about how you used to spend hours preparing for dates and how you had a picture of me on your wall which you used to stare at every night until the day you finally got the courage to ask me out!" she looked at him with a smug grin.

"How the hell did you know that?" he asked astonished.

"Do you remember our first date...?"

"Oh god…." Don laughed

First date 1996 1st July.

They walked through central park, hand in hand. They had been talking for hours and had made there way from the restaurant he had taken her to and now they had arrived at central park.

"You're so sweet!" Emily exclaimed breaking the comfortable silence that had been hung over them for the past 5 minutes.

"How'd you work that out?"

"Well every one say's your 'the bad boy' 'the troublemaker' no one knows this side of you!" don laughed,

"Me a troublemaker? No chance!" she smiled as he took her hand and led her towards the apartment building.

"Are you sure your mom and dad wont mind?" Emily whispered as don brought her into his parent's living room.

"They'll be gone for a couple of hours at least, so what do you want to do, watch a movie?" don said running over to their DVD shelve. "How about that horror movie 'prom night'?"

"Sounds good, I love that film!" she exclaimed smiling, don couldn't actually believe he had this beautiful girl in his living room smiling at him.

"I love it too apart from the fact the boyfriend dies! That part kinda sucks!" they both laughed.

"You know, I've been waiting for months for you to ask me out!" she exclaimed while he put in the DVD.

"Really ive been trying to ask you out for months," he said sitting down next to her on the couch, "Jai told me it would be kinda perverted because your 2 years younger than me!" he said slightly embarrassed.

"No it's really cute, and since when do you listen to jai, yesterday he asked Mr. Salmons in geography if cotton came from a sheep!" they both laughed at the stupidity of don's best mate.

"Idiot, you know im still wondering why his parents pay 20 thousand dollars a year to send him to private school when he spends most of the day in the corridors throwing elastic bands at passing teachers heads!"

"Come on you have to admit when he hit Miss Philips it was hilarious!"

"Yeah it was, the movies starting!" they sat for about 15 minutes and in the time she had moves from the other side of the couch to lying in between his legs, her head buried in his chest. "This is a lot more scary than I remember it!" don laughed.

She looked up into his eyes, his dreamy blue eyes, they were so beautiful. She leaned over and kissed him his lips soft and gently. He leaned forward and met her in the kiss; as soon as she pulled away he leaned further, wrapping his arms around her thin body. He kissed her again letting his tongue caress her bottom lip begging for entrance. This she gave as he wrapped his tongue around hers. He placed her hands in her back and ran his finger up her spine. She smiled into his mouth at the butterflies in her stomach.

"Do you know that was my first kiss!" she exclaimed smiling into his shoulder.

"Really?" he asked surprised.

"Yeah, I know everyone at school say's im a real player and such a slut, but im not like that at all!" she yawned and checked her watch, "I better be going!"

"Right I'll go get your jacket," he said but instead of getting up he pulled her down into a much more passionate kiss.

"Don are you here?" his mothers voice ruined the moment as he shot round scrambling trying to stand up. "Oh here you are dear, aaaa is that Emily?!" she smiled widely. Don closed his eyes tight hoping his embarrassing mother would just disappear.

"I'll just go get that…jacket." Emily laughed as don slurred each word.

"I'm so glad don eventually worked up the courage to ask you out, he's been staring at a picture of you every night for at least a month!" dons mother exclaimed and Emily dropped her head in embarrassment,

"Here's your jacket…" don led her into the porch, "I'm so sorry about my mom, you're the first girl ive brought home so you can understand why she's like this!" Emily said nothing just kissed him again.

"See you tomorrow don," she smiled and then she was gone. He had blown it he was sure of it, no his mom had blown it for him. Little did he know just how wrong he was!

"So that's why you were staring at me weirdly in school, you thought I was some kinda pervert,"

"No, don, I was staring at you because you we so hot and yeah, it was kinda perverted," don shot her a deadly serious look. "JOKING!" he looked relived as he parked the car in front of his parents house.

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