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When Friday evening came round Lilly went to home pack for the weekend away with Scotty. She made sure everything was organised so that the following morning things would go smoothly and she wouldn't need to rush. She arranged for a neighbour to look after her cats while she was away. Everything was going fine – until that night. Lilly lay awake in bed staring up at the ceiling thinking about what the weekend would be like and fear and panic started to flood her mind as she realised she would have to finally face up to her feelings for her partner. She began to imagine every worst case scenario and this kept her awake until 2am. She had had set her alarm to go off at 5am the next morning but when it did, in her sleepy state she switched it off and went back to sleep. When she finally did wake up it was 7.45. "Crap!" she cursed as she realised what had happened and jumped out of bed and headed for the shower. Scotty would be there in fifteen minutes! She hurried to get ready and she was in the middle of doing her hair when she heard a knock at the door. "Damn!" she looked at the clock, Scotty was five minutes early.

Scotty stood outside Lilly's house filled with anticipation for this weekend. He would finally get to spend a good amount of quality time with her without work or life getting in the way. He too had been up all night thinking about it, but unlike Lilly, he imagined everything going well. He still wasn't sure about how he felt about her but he knew he enjoyed being around her. He was looking forward to seeing if this would blossom into a relationship. He knew Lilly had doubts and fears but he had the whole weekend to make her see that they had something together and it would be worth the risk. His heart sped up at the sound of her approaching footsteps.

"Hi Scotty," she greeted; her hair was loose around her shoulders.

"Hey,"

She let him into the house. "Sorry I'm running a little late, give me ten minutes?"

"Sure," he said as he sat on the sofa while Lilly went to her room to finish doing her hair.

A little while later Lilly came back down the stairs. Scotty helped her with her bags and they got into the car and were off.

When they finally pulled up at the cabin, Scotty got out and opened the door for Lilly to get out too. "come on let's go get settled in." He said enthusiastically.

Scotty grabbed their bags from the car and he and Lilly made their way into the cabin. He opened the door and left the bags on the floor. "Why don't you go sit on the couch and rest a bit while I put the bags in our rooms?"

"Scotty I've been sitting the whole drive here. I'm not completely helpless you know?" she smiled at him, "tell you what, why don't you put those away and I'll get us something to drink?"

Scotty nodded and walked off with the bags in hand. Lilly went over to the fridge in the kitchen and got 2 cans of coke. She went out into the living room and sat down on the sofa. She took a sip of her coke and leant back into the cushions. Just then Scotty came back, Lilly handed him his drink and they both sat down. Lilly glanced out of the window at the beautiful morning sunshine and smiled. "It's a beautiful day isn't it?" He asked. Lilly nodded. "I was thinking maybe we could go have lunch in town? There's a nice little bistro around here. What do you think?"

"Sounds good," she said. Scotty smiled and Lilly felt the butterflies stir in her stomach once again.

"How's the ankle feeling?"

"It's fine, Scotty, really." She reassured.

He moved to sit next to her. "I'm glad you decided to come here with me Lil." He told her as he held her hand in his. She smiled and squeezed his hand back.

"I'm sorry about running out on you that night," she said softly. "I guess I just panicked."

He looked at her, brushing a lock of hair away from her face. "I know. Like I said, there's no rush."

They were silent for a few seconds, each lost in their own thoughts and then Scotty said, "at least you didn't go totally Ice Queen on me."

"Hey!" Lilly said in mock offence and punched him playfully in the arm.

"Ow!" he rubbed his arm, Lilly giggled and didn't see him reach for a cushion and mischievously hit her shoulder with it, causing her to spill a bit of her drink on her shirt. "Lil, I'm sorry I…"

"Oh you asked for it now Valens!" She too reached for a cushion and hit him across the head. Scotty laughed as he returned fire. Lilly was in a fit of giggles by then thumped him repeatedly with the cushion. They stayed like that, play fighting for a while. Scotty had never seen this side of her before but he really liked it. He felt a warm feeling inside and knew that this weekend promised to be interesting.

By the time they reached the bistro it was 5pm. Their little fight with the cushions had resulted in them spilling coke over their clothes so they both had to get changed. Then Scotty decided to take what he thought was a short cut which ended up in them getting lost. Fortunately by the time they got there the bistro was relatively empty meaning they got very swift service. They stayed and talked for an hour and then Scotty drove them to the lake. He got out of the car and opened the door for Lilly, taking her hand and helping her to get out. He was being very chivalrous all day which did not go unnoticed to Lilly. They sat down in a beautiful quiet spot and listened to the water and took in the beautiful surroundings. Lilly sighed contentedly and rested her head on his shoulder. Scotty grinned and put his arm around her. "This is perfect, "she said, finally breaking the silence, "no distractions, no stress…just nature."

"Company ain't that bad either," he added, she smiled broadly and snuggled closer to him.

"Not too bad yourself Valens. Lousy navigator though,"

"Hey, I wasn't the one holding the map!" he replied.

"We wouldn't have got lost if you brought your satnav," she retaliated.

"Wouldn't have been a problem if you knew your lefts from your rights." He added, grinning cheekily.

She punched his arm. "That was a left," she punched him again, "and that was a right!"

"Oh we gonna do this again Rush?"

"Why, you afraid you'll lose again?"

"Hey, I did not lose! Didn't want to ruin my favourite shirt is all. "He grinned. There was once again a comfortable silence between them once more. The sun was beginning to set on the horizon. "You know if you told me two months ago I'd be watching the sunset by a lake with you I wouldn't have believed it." She looked up at him, meeting the affection and intensity in his eyes and couldn't help but feel warmth radiate inside her.

"Scotty," her voice came out as a whisper, "thanks."

"For what?"

"For convincing me to come here this weekend."

He smiled, "Lil, I meant what I said the other day. I ain't gonna leave you."

Lilly face took on a more serious expression."Don't," she told him.

"Don't what?"

"Don't make promises you can't keep."

Scotty felt a mix of frustration and anger swell up in his chest which he fought hard to keep down, not wanting to spoil the moment." "I know," he began, "that you've had a lot of guys hurt you. But Lil," he squeezed her hand, "I would die before I ever did that. I know you probably won't believe me, but let me prove it to you. If you just give me a chance, if you just put away your fears long enough to trust me on this, I'll show you I ain't like those other guys." He gently let go of her hand and softly caressed her face. She looked at him, wordless, full of emotion, her blue eyes filling with tears. Scotty pulled her close to him, "I'll prove it." He whispered.

There were so many things running through her mind, so many unspoken emotions. Fear, panic, anger but this time, somehow the urge to run away was absent. Being in his arms and just hearing him reassure her like that, touched her deep inside.

Just then it began to rain. Lilly and Scotty both got up and hurried over to the car. By the time they got to the cabin it had gotten dark. "I am soaked!" Lilly said, laughing.

"Come on, let's go inside and get changed." He searched for the key in his pocket, all the while they were getting more and more drenched.

"Scotty! Come on, where's the key?"

"Got it!" he said, then looked at her and laughed.

"What?"

"Do you know how cute you look right now?"

"Scotty!"

"Okay, okay, I'm opening the door!" He grinned opened and reached inside for the light switch. "Hmmm" he said.

"What? What's wrong?" she asked.

"Think the power's out, there's no light." He walked inside and turned to face her, Lilly followed.

"That's just great, what are we gonna do noooow!" Lilly didn't see the step at the front door and tripped and fell on top of Scotty. They both crashed to the floor.

"Lil, you okay?" He asked, stunned

"Didn't see that damn step!" she cursed.

"You didn't hurt your ankle again did you?"

She sighed in frustration, "No," she paused, realising she was still lying on top of him. "Luckily I had someone to break my fall."

Scotty grinned, "told you I'd be there for you."

"Seems you were right," she said softly. Their eyes locked and time seemed to slow down.

"You know Rush, you keep falling over steps you're gonna get yourself really hurt one day." He felt his breathing quicken as his heart began to race.

Lilly moved her face closer to his, her heart racing too, "Won't be so bad if you're here to catch me."

Scotty moved his face closer to hers, their lips almost touching " I got ya back Rush," he breathed.

A gust of wind blew in through the open door and hit them, causing an icy chill on their wet clothes. Scotty laughed and Lilly rolled off him. "I'd better get that door."

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