Sorry for splitting the date between my character Dani and Kendall. I've been running tight on time lately. I wanted to be able to post what I've already finished and thought splitting the chapter would work best. (If it matters at all, I tried to make it up by trying a different perspective, this time being Kendall). Also, my internet is glitchy so excuse how late the story will be/is posted at.
Main Characters:
Dani - Britt Robertson (not Crystal Reed in this story)
Gen- Nina Dobrev
Kendall Schmidt- Himself
James Maslow- Himself
Logan Henderson- Himself
Carlos Pena- Himself
Julie- Danielle Campbell
Kendra- Lilly Collins
Rick- David Henrie
Kendall
I pull into my driveway and park the car. This is it. Part 2 of our date. I was going to invite everyone over so it'd be more relaxed atmosphere but that wouldn't really be a date. Granted, we did already eat and talk together but I wanted the first date to be more personal. I could always invite everyone over some other time.
I walk to the other side of the car and open the door for Dani.
"Thank you, kind sir," she comments, making me inwardly smile from her sarcasm. Funny girls, gotta love them.
"If you would follow me, right this way," I begin, hooking my arm out for her and she gracefully loops her arm through.
"You have a nice house, by the way. I like the touch of the flower bed in the front," Dani points out, and I look to notice that the flower bed contains her favorite flower: tulips. I unhook my arm gently to jog over to the flower bed and pluck away a peach red tulip and make my way back to hand it to her.
"You didn't have to do that!" Dani exhales, sniffing the flower.
"For you, I would do anything right about now," I half laugh, half serious. I hold onto her free hand as we make our way inside.
"Holy petunia! This place looks HUGE!" Dani blurts out.
"I call it home," I stay proudly. "This is the main entrance. If you follow the path to the right, you'll see my mom's office for her business 'Choose 180' and then the living room after. To the left is the kitchen and towards the back is the dinning room overlooking the backyard. We'll be going into the basement. Don't freak out, it's not a storage area, just the recreational room. Upstairs are the bedrooms. I would have my own home but I had this brilliant idea of saving money so it's only me and the folks. My brothers live elsewhere."
"It's nice. Same thing with Genevieve and I. I wouldn't have come to california if it weren't for her needing someone else with her to be able to afford the apartment she found to be close enough to her job."
"I'll have to give my thanks to Gen for persuading you to come then," I say, gazing into Dani's eyes. Man, did I want to swoop in to kiss her at that very moment but I stop myself. I know girls in movies are always hesitant to kiss on the first date and I definitely didn't want to mess things up with her. I can't help but to like Dani and think about her all the time. She's the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning and the last person that comes to mind before I fall asleep, captivating my dreams. I didn't care how cheesy it sounded, I wanted to make this relationship work and if I had to take it nice and slow, so be it.
"Do I get to see your room today?"
"A man's room is very personal," I joke. "But honestly, I am a pretty messy person. Life is too short to be organized. I have tried to clean it, I just haven't been granted enough time for it to be deemed presentable yet."
"It's been about two days!"
"Yeah, not enough time," I continue joking. "This way to the basement."
I lead her downstairs, passing some embarrassing family photos on the way I heard Dani "cooing" and "awing" at. As we make our way down, Dani asks, "so what movie are we going to see?"
"We are to see" I answer, hesitant and unsure if she'll like the movie.
"Oh yeah! I've heard of that movie. I've always meant to see it with friends but our plans always managed to fall through and I haven't had the chance to see it yet although it's been on DVD for a while."
Relief floods through me once again this evening as I find out Dani actually is looking forward to seeing the movie I've chosen. I could have ruined the night if the right movie wasn't chosen. I've been freaking out too much, I just want to impress Dani.
It seems Dani has noticed as well by now, commenting, "I hope you know I would have been fine with anything you would have chosen to see. As I've previously mentioned, I love movies. Once the lights dim, I get so engrossed and captivated until the very end, I wouldn't care what I was watching."
"I just didn't want to mess anything up," I respond shyly, once again putting my hands in my pockets for comfort.
"For future knowledge, I would have been entertained if you had planned a bored game for us to play," she says, smiling assurance towards me.
"Hmm, maybe our next date. You like Sorry?" I joke, going with the feeling of relief given before.
"Sorry, I'm more of Monopoly gal," Dani laughs. "Just messing with you, that is one of my favorite games to play. There's something about having the power to screw somebody over that revitalizes me."
"Remind me to not cross your path when you get angry!"
"Good thing for you, I don't get angry too often. I'm more of a laid back person."
"I know what will keep you from ever being angry again. I promised to make the Schmidt's signature popcorn. Care to join me?" I ask, pointing to the top of the basement to head into the kitchen.
"I would be honored!" Dani sarcastically responds.
I direct Dani to go in front, and as she makes her way up the stairs, I follow. Once at the top of the stairs, I see a look of being lost played across her face. "This way," I say, guiding Dani by gently pressing her back in the direction of the kitchen as I walk by her side.
Once in the kitchen, I find a bowl to place under the popcorn maker I placed on the kitchen counter earlier in the day while I was planning this date. After filling the popcorn maker with kernels, I turn the machine on.
"So, what's the secret ingredient that makes your popcorn so good?" Dani asks.
"Allow me to show you," I say, searching through the spice cabinet for our homemade popcorn salt. It's not really homemade, my mom just puts spices together on the spot after buying them to be used at will whenever we've decided to make popcorn.
"Hey bro, how's it going?" I hear Kevin's voice ringing into the kitchen. I didn't know he was stopping by. "Who might this be? Hello, Kendall's older brother," I hear him say as I turn to see him shaking her hand. "The name's Kevin."
"Pleased to meet you. My name is Dani."
"Oh, this is the famous Dani! Kendall has spoken so highly of you, I thought you were a figment of his imagination for a little bit." I would face palm myself if it weren't for Dani being here. I gave Kevin a cut-the-act-I-know-you-purposely-stopped-by-to-meet-her look while Dani wasn't looking. "Well, I'll get out of here, I was in the area and thought to stop by but considering Kendall has a guest over, I'm just going to leave!" Kevin says, pointing his hands towards the front door. He quickly grabs a soda from the fridge and exits the room. "Have a good time!"
"See ya' around!" Dani calls after him, waving after him as he left.
"Excuse my brother. Just spying," I say.
"No need to be apologetic. I understand. I'm sure Gen wouldn't have believed my descriptions of your epic-ness if she hadn't already met you," Dani jokes.
"You'll see him again. As you can see, he stops by," I say, returning to the spice cabinet to continue looking for the popcorn spices.
I finally find the small container filled with the popcorn spices and place it on the table. "Now I've been sworn under secrecy, and I wouldn't want to disappoint my mom, but I'll eventually tell you. Maybe on our next date," I hint, looking to Dani to see if she'd argue. No dispute, just her smiling face I've been growing to love.
Once the popcorn buzzer goes off, I collect the bowl and place a good amount of spices to taste good but not overdue the popcorn flavor itself.
"Do you care for anything to drink? We have soda, Sprite of course, juice, milk and water. I don't know if you drink or not but we do have some alcohol my parents keep around the house."
"I actually don't drink alcohol. Very rarely." Now I notice a nervous look from her direction. To think that I would actually make judgements for something like that. What, does she think I'll judge how she parties? No, I actually respect her more, knowing she doesn't screw around thinking drinking will make her cooler.
"That's cool. That's what Sprite is for, to save the day!" I joke, relieving tension she's built up until my response.
A smile bursts from her face I couldn't help but mimic. I open the fridge to grab two sprites. I turn to grab the popcorn bowl and notice Dani has grabbed it for me, already tasting the popcorn.
"'Dis ish so gud," she mumbles with food in her mouth. She quickly swallows and corrects herself, "I mean, this is so good. I will beg you for the popcorn spice ingredients list!"
"I'll send the request to be approved by my mom," I say laughing.
We make our way back down into the basement and I place the sodas on the coffee table to be able to put the movie into the DVD player. Once the movie is in and everything is in order for it to properly play, I turn and see Dani placing the popcorn down on the coffee table to sit on the couch.
I grab the remote and sit next to Dani on the couch. I grab the popcorn bowl to hold in my lap and play the movie. Just as the movie begins to play, I causally hook my arm around Dani's shoulder. At first I feel her shoulder stiffed, but, to my surprise, she actually cuddles in closer and takes a handful of popcorn.
This is going to be a good movie