Chapter 7

When I woke up from sleeping I looked over to find Evan still sitting there. I remembered him saying he was going to watch over me while I slept. Though it turns out he ended up sleeping on the job. I then rolled my head the other way and then I saw that it was morning. I try to move to see if the doctors have me still strapped onto the bed, turns out I'm stilled strapped to the bed. I then hopped a doctor would come in saying I could leave now, because right then all I wanted was to be able to hang out with my friends like a normal person right now. My wish came true five minutes later. The nurse said I could leave and also said that I should take my 'boyfriend' with me. I blushed at that knowing that right then I didn't have a boyfriend. Well at least to my knowledge of what happened to me in the last couple of hours.
I nudged Evan a few times so to wake him up and then I said teasingly to him, "Come on boyfriend, time to get out of this stuffy place." With that he jumped up and then looked at me in a weird way that I couldn't decipher.
"What? Since, since when were we boyfriend-girlfriend? Are you serious, because right now, right now I want to take you on a date."

Speechlessly I shookmy head and I took his hand and lead him out the door with his mouth still opened with a amazed look on his face. I was still speechless of what he just said back there that when I tried to tell my mom that she can pick me up from the hospital that I had to have Evan do it, even though he didn't get much further than I did. Fortunatly my mother understood everything and came by to pick us up in 10 long minutes. The minutes were so long it felt like an hour, only because Evan and I were still stuck on the foolishness of being speechless and awestruck.

When I asked if my mom could drop me off at the park I was then feeling kind of stressed about what all happened at the hospital. If you're thinking of it being what Evan said, that wasn't it. I was so over that. But, what I was kind of stressed about was because a memory flashed back into place when Evan said date. I remembered that Brandon, my best friend, was actually my 'boyfriend' so to speak. As saying he only asked me out on a date, not asking if I wanted to be his girlfriend.

It seemed to take forever getting to the park, so when I got there I bolted right out of the car unexpectedly, though Evan was a quick one and raced out after me. Though, the direction I was going wasn't to the park. It was straight to Brandon's house. Evan mustn't have realised I was going to the person who hatted him like the devil though because he was still sprinting after me. Even though I had a good head start, Evan's legs were longer than mine and he didn't have to even run three blocks to catch up with me. Lucky me, I was pulled to a stop and was forced to walk the way I was going instead.

"Hey Dove, no rush. You still have to be careful. Remember what the nurse said, to take it easy," he finished the sentence with a yank of my hand bringing me face to face with him. I got caught off guard and had to stumble forward into Evan and he was ready for it. He then held onto me as if I were his life. I turned his embrace into a hug and caught him off guard by purposely kissing him on the cheek so he'd let his grip on me slacken. Instead, he just held onto me even firmer and put the kiss onto his lips. Trying to push away I had to put my hands on his chest.

"Let me go," I managed to say with my lips still locked on his. I was still trying to push away when he did let go. Although instead of completely letting go he shifted his hand onto mine before letting go. I was relived that I wasn't caught by anyone and kind of happy that he didn't completely let go because if he had, I would have fallen onto my butt. Not fun.

"Why?" he asked leaving it as that.

"Why what?"

"Why did you kiss me on the cheek and then demand me to let go?" he finished with a look of hurt in his eyes.

"I did the kiss thing so as to catch you off guard, but it seems as if you were waiting for it, expecting it almost. I really didn't want to kiss you so I demanded you to let go. And..." I left the sentence cut short thinking of how I should phrase this without hurting him even more than he was. "And at the hospital. When you said the word date that struck a memory in me. And, well. The fact is that Brandon already asked me on a date and he kind of thinks that he asked if I wanted to be his girlfriend. I was and am afraid that if he sees you with me that, that he won't be my friend any more. And, I wouldn't be able to live without him being at least a friend to me." with that last statement I took a few steps away from him towards the park. What I was trying to say was that if he wanted to go on a date with me that it was fine. Just that he didn't think anything of that.

I guess he understood what I was commending because he just followed me still holding onto my hand.

When we got there no one was at the park. So I rushed to the monkey bars and dragged Evan behind me. He stumbled which pulled me down with him. And I ended up laying on top of him. We didn't even have to say anything before he pushed me off of him and I rolled just to lay right beside him.

An hour later we were laughing together at one of the scary stories that we were telling each other. And I often found myself at times just looking into is eyes and understood what he was telling me without us saying anything. I also didn't have any complaints about this little date that he and I just had, are still having. Through out the date though, we said things that involved us going on another date and after things like that we'd be silent for a few minutes. But he never allowed it to be a long time because he would soon have us laughing again.

I was lying next to him on the grass and just staring up at the sky like I did with so many of my friends at school at recess time. I was breathing heavily because we just played a game of shark and minnow. I was the minnow as you guessed and he was the shark. It didn't last long because he could catch up to me easily.

"You know, of all the games of sharks and minnows at school. I think I'm gonna have to do that again with you sometime," then my eyes widened at the comment because there it was again. The 'we should go on another date' comment.