The alarm clock started going berserk right around the time his hand, in her dream, wandered down her swimsuit top. She sat up begrudgingly and groaned when she realized that the alarm had been going off for almost ten minutes now, and she'd slept through almost all of it.

The giggle from the door had her looking at her daughter, smiling and asking, "What's so funny?"

"You even argues with him in your sleep, mommy.. If you don't tell him you like him, you gonna go crazy." Dahlia stated as she plopped down on the bed munching on a piece of toast.

"Hey.. I thought I told you if you wanted toast, wake mommy up." Angel scolded as she stood, popping her back. Dahlia shook her head, giggling said "Mr. Ambrose make us toast. Since he forgots milk when he go to Walmart for food Monday."

"Oh really.. Let me try that." Angel said as Dahlia shook her head, held out her hand and said " He told me to tell ya if ya want toast, ya gotta wake up and come outside.. We eatin outside."

"Oh really."

"Yeah." Dahlia said as Angel went to get dressed, Dahlia shaking her head as she said "Just go like that, mommy. If you try to stop get ready, it take you foreverrrrr."

"Oh haha. I will remind you that when you're older, and you're trying to get ready to go out with a boy or something."

"Eww, that's just.. It's gross, mommy." Dahlia said as she wrinkled her nose and tugged her mom's hand impatiently. "Okay, alright, sheesh. I'm coming, baby girl." Angel said as she grabbed a black t shirt, slid it down over her head, not realizing it was actually one of HIS shirts, because he'd used her washer earlier this week..

Dahlia however, was wide awake, and she could have told her mommy, but instead, she giggled and let her mommy walk down the stairs, carrying her.

Dean looked up as the door to the patio slid open and she stepped out wearing one of his t shirts, a pair of ancient plaid boxers and barefoot. He nearly choked on the toast he was eating as he played it off quickly, high fived Dahlia and said to Angel with a smirk, "Told shorty if she didn't wake ya up I was comin up there with a boombox and all my Megadeth cds."

Angel gave him a pout and poured herself a cup of coffee then tried to get the racy dream she'd been having about the man sitting across the table from her this very second, out of her mind. But it was one of those lucid dreams, the kind that stayed with you all day, and made you blush if god forbid, you happened to encounter the person in the dream with you.

"Stealin my clothes now, Angel?" Dean asked as he winked a little. And damn it if her heart didn't speed up just a little bit, and she almost choked on her own toast. She took a sip of her coffee and looking at him, licked her lips as she answered, "It's comfy, I might just keep it."

Dahlia looked from Dean to Angel then back again, started laughing a little as she looked at them, while quietly eating her toast. She'd been planning to play matchmaker, but if right now was anything to go by, there wasn't actually going to be a need for her to do that.

She spoke up and said "Mommy, I gonna go play in my treehouse while I waits on Jackson to come over and play."

"Okay, baby girl." Angel said as Dean blurted out, "Watch the third step, shorty.. One of the nails is comin out."

Angel's eyes riveted to his and he shrugged and said "Noticed it the other day when we were all back there, walkin to the beach front."

Suddenly, the two adults were very much aware that it was just the two of them for now. Dean coughed and Angel sipped her coffee, then licked her lips a moment as she looked at him. Well, this was a little awkward. You could clearly tell they both wanted to do or say something, but..

Finally, Dean spoke up and said quietly, " So.. I was wondering.. Since Dahlia's going to that kid's house for a little while.. And you don't have to go in to work today.."

"Yeah?"

Dean smirked as he licked his lips and asked boldly, " How about that swim later?"

Angel's heart did the speed up trick again and she bit her lower lip as she smiled and shrugged casually, winked and pretended to think it over. "Yeah.. I mean I did promise you a rain check in my text last night."

"Yeah, ya kinda did, Ang."

The honking of Irene's car horn and Irene's getting out, walking over had Angel groaning a little. She loved her friend, yeah, but Irene, well, she could be really, really nosy when she wanted.. And she got the sneaking suspicion that Irene's 'spontaneous' call this morning, to ask if Dahlia wanted to go to a movie with Jackson later, well.. She got the feeling that again, Irene was silently butting in.

"So, what movie are you takin 'em to see?"

"Thought about taking them to Monsters University since they're reshowing it at the mall." Irene said as she winked at Angel and asked casually, " What about you? You're not going to sit around here trying yet again to play carpenter or plumber or mechanic on this house are you?"

"Actually, I'm gonna go down to the beach front with Jon." Angel admitted as Irene winked at her and Dean smirked to himself watching how red her face turned because of Irene's picking on her.

He forgot how easy it was to make her blush, actually.

Angel went in to get Dahlia ready to go, find her money, hugging her, and Dahlia smiled and said quietly, "You better kisses him today, mommy."

Angel groaned and gave her daughter a look before hugging her and letting her get into Irene's car. And as she turned to walk back inside, grab her swimsuit, Dean had already went in a few moments before probably to find his trunks or something, she realized that for the first time in a really, really long time, she had the fluttery stomach and the racing pulse, the shaky legs.

Maybe this meant something.. Maybe fixing things with herself and Jon was a good idea.. After all, she'd never stopped having a crush on, thinking about the guy, no matter how badly they had treated one another as kids. She smirked in the mirror as she grabbed a beach towel and said to herself, "Fuck it.. Gonna go for it. If I keep trying to keep him at arms length because I'm worried that he'll hurt me or get hurt, I'm gonna wind up miserable.. "

She locked her house and walked down the pathway to the beach area behind their houses, saw him sitting there already, staring out at the water, a Corona in his hands.

"You finally come down?" he asked as he looked at her, smiled.

"Hey.. It didn't take that long."

"Yes hell it did." Dean said calmly as he slid his arm around her, let his eyes travel over her slowly and smirked. "Like the black and pink one better."

Angel snorted in laughter and then said "It's too small."

"And the side tie's always broken." Dean added as he ducked the light punch to the arm, sipped his Corona, averted his gaze to the water for a moment, trying to pretend complete innocence.

She stood and he pulled her back down, muttering quietly, "Where do ya think ya going?"

"Umm, it's hot.. I'm gettin in the water."

"Just a minute." he muttered as he leaned in and started to kiss her while standing, moving her to his arms, smirking as he jogged towards the icy cold water and submerged both of them.

"You ass."

"Ya liked it." he said with a wink as Angel shook her head no but said "Yeah, I did actually."