AN: so i typed this really long explination as to why i was so late at updating but fanfiction went all awal and decided to not save it, so this is what you get. i'm sorry i took so long...been very busy...and tired.

Disclaimer: i own squat but the story line


Chapter Nine

Well, the trip to the Farmer's Market was about as boring as boring could be. Mostly because it ended up being closed…what is up with that? It's never been closed, in the whole like seven years I've been going there, it has never ever been closed. I was not too happy about that and I'm sure Danny had fun laughing at my outbursts. I had begun pacing around the little booths thinking I was just for some reason early; mumblings about 'why was it closed' getting ever louder, until I noticed Danny getting a little green around the gills as you could say.

I rushed to his side and tried to convince him that I'd just have to buy my veggies at Wal-Mart, and that he had to sit down before his knee gave out. He tried to put on the tough guy attitude but it didn't work well with me. I ended up shoving him to my car, hands low enough on his back not to put his ribs in pain and forced him into the passenger seat.

Our trip to Wal-Mart is uneventful too. I make him stay in my car, running in and grabbing a few things that will last me to next Saturday and coming straight back. Danny just smiles and I can tell he's been thinking a lot, about what I'm not sure but I feel a blush creeping to my cheeks. I search for my keys that for some reason I put back in my purse to hide my blush before I get in and start the car.

Right now were on our slow way back to the apartment…we're going slow because rush hour in Amity Park always decides to hit at random times, like now, which I think its around 9:30 but I'm not sure; the clock in my car quit last week and I'm too busy trying to figure out a way out of rush hour traffic to fish my cell out of my pocket. Danny's just sitting in the passenger seat, staring out the window, obviously deep in thought, and the funny thing is I'm absolutely content in the silence. Normally when I'm in rush hour traffic I have to have some type of noise going whether it be the radio or my ipod or I go absolutely crazy, but sitting here with him seems so natural I'm actually relishing in the silence, its giving me time to think.

To think about what I've found out about Danny and what it means to me. I've already decided that I like both sides of Danny, the one sitting next to me in my small car and the one that saved me not so long ago. I want so bad for him to tell me all about his secret so I don't have to play innocent when he comes back to the apartment all bloodied up, but I know I have to give him time. And I've decided I'm not going to tell him I know, it might be too much for him to handle right now…why, I don't know but he seems to have a lot on his mind and him worrying about me knowing his secret and what it would do to our friendship probably wouldn't help much.

Will that change our friendship? Me knowing his secret? Me knowing his secret and not telling him I know his secret? Thinking about what Danny would do to cover up his secret not knowing I know, makes me smile. He'd probably go to lengths to act stupid in an attempt to hide his secret. What if I caught him in the act? To see him explain himself would be both absolutely hilarious and pitifully sad. I laugh at this and Danny shoots a confused look my way, I shrug and he goes back to looking out the window, going into silent Danny mode…the silent Danny mode I met him in. The observing Danny.

When we get back to the apartment I refused to let him help me take any bags up, his face was even paler than it was earlier and I rushed him up the stairs as fast as his wounded knee will allow and told him to go lie down for a bit. He was out like a light before I even left his doorway. I smiled a sad smile, knowing that he's this tired because he probably didn't sleep well last night, not being able to get into a comfortable position. I went and brushed a lock of hair from his face and tried not to stare at his serine look. He is such a gorgeous man…yeah I guess I can call him a man, he's proved it to me more than once.

I left quietly going into the kitchen to put away my limited groceries. All in all it took me about…ten minutes. After I put away the last head of cabbage, I set down at the kitchen counter…and sat. I had nothing to do, no school projects(for once in my life), work hadn't called me in in a week(a needed vacation), and now I had no one to talk too. I was so board right now I would voluntarily get into a meat vs. vegetarian fight with Tucker. Instead I just sat and waited for Danny to need me, to wake up and realize his heart could open up and let me in. The thoughts running through my mind were starting to alarm me, I had never felt this strongly for a guy and I was confused as to why the thoughts of him and what I wanted to do with him(nothing dirty…I swear) kept creeping up on me at the most inopportune times…like the shower this morning.

Still he was Danny, the Danny who's heart was brutally crushed at a significant time in his life, the Danny who was afraid to let his heart feel for another…the Danny who could get any girl on the face of the planet who wanted me. Wow, I can't believe I just thought that sentence, well the way I phrased it was really…broken record. Man I really need to find something to do…maybe watch TV…or clean the bathroom…or…or………………….


AN: Oh, another cliffy...how dare i since i spent so much time on not updating...shame on me well you know what to do, review and ye shall get homemade caramel brownies!!! good byeruns off in search of someone who can bake homemade brownies

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