Yo. :P I've just decided that this shall be the second to last chapter of this current book. :D Hope (haha. It's the title of this book... Ha... Ha... No. .-.) you all like it!

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"Ty? Love? Are you awake?"

I groaned as Danny's voice penetrated my sleep, adjusting myself in his arms. "I am now..." I murmured sleepily, blinking open my eyes to see Danny, propping himself up on an elbow, digging it into the bed as his other arm was wrapped securely around my waist to hold me close as we slept.

The half- hippocampus' semi- pale complexion took on a red hue to it. "Sorry, love... I didn't mean to wake you... You can go back to sleep..."

I chuckled and brought up a hand from where it was, resting beneath my head, and cupped his cheek. "It's okay, sweetie," I told him with a yawn. "I'm awake, now."

He chuckled slightly at my yawn. "Are you sure, love? You still sound asleep to me."

I rolled my eyes playfully at that. "Trust me. If I was still asleep, you'd know."

"Oh would I?" Danny asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Mmhm," I hummed, tracing his jaw lightly with my index finger, entertaining my morning ADHD. He smiled as I did, and I smiled as well, unable to help it. "Because if I was still asleep, I couldn't give you this." I lifted my head a little and pressed my lips to his gently.

Danny seemed to have been expecting that, and he immediately kissed me back, shifting himself so that he was hovering over me, wrapping the arm that was around my waist tighter around it. He brought up the hand that had been propping his head up to cup my lower jaw as we kissed, his thumb rubbing my cheek gently. He didn't break off the kiss till he knew I would be out of breath, on the verge of making me light-headed from the lack of air I had been able to take in between the kiss. When I almost reached te point of light-headed- ness, Danny pulled away, grinning as I tried to catch my breath, him still hovering over me, not quite out of breath as I was.

"I guess I really would know whether or not you were awake, then." He chuckled. The half- monster gave my lips a final, lingering kiss before he moved himself to not be hovering above me. He sat up in my bed, which, since I was released from the Medical Building, had become our bed. Since I had been released from the Medical Building four or so months ago, Danny had made it ritual for us to sleep in the same bed every night. I didn't mind it, as long as Zavid didn't mind, and as long as I continued to have no siblings on my godly side. Especially since Danny made me feel safe, knowing he had risked his life for me and much more. If the furthest he would ever be away from me every night was just a foot away, I wouldn't need to go searching for him when I woke up from a hellish nightmare, or when I was having a hard time falling asleep. If Danny and I always slept together, it would always help ease our minds when it came to the safety of the other, and kept us in each others arms.

Anyways. So Danny sat up in our bed, leaving me still semi- breathless from the kiss. I propped myself up on my elbow, much like the same position he had been in when I had woken up, save for I had a pillow beneath my arm as well, and watched as he grabbed the clean shirt he had set aside last night before going to bed, unfolded it, and slipped it on over his head.

"Where are you going?" I asked him as he stood from our bed, stretching his arms above his head like he always did every morning.

"Not me, love," he responded. "We."

I blinked in confusion, sitting up and allowing the blanket to fall off of me so that I could stretch my arms out to the side and above my head as well. "What do you mean?"

He turned around and grinned at me. "What I mean, love, is that we're going to go on a date. You and me, outside of this camp. No Zavid, no other demigods to tell us what to do." He plopped back down onto the edge of the bed, making me and it bounce from his weight. "And since all the campers have been back for two months now and making a lot of noise still, I figured you might want to keep that peace and quiet that had been left in their absence and go to Salem with me on our first official date."

I smiled warmly at that. "I would love to go on a date with you, Danny. Though, in all honesty, every day I spend with you is a date all on its own." I smiled outwardly as I said my last sentence, though inwardly I was frowning, a bit annoyed at the romantic flare my personality had. My romantic lines were always so corny, so over- used and unoriginal. Sometimes, I wished that they would just go away.

Danny's grin widened at my words, and he leaned over, giving my lips a quick kiss. "How sweet, love." He chuckled before standing from the bed once more. "You should get ready, then. Wear something nice, but not too nice, okay? We're also going to the park there, since you've said you had always loved those as a kid."

My warm smile widened more at what he said, touched that he had remembered that. I had told him that a year ago, on the fourth day we had known each other.

Gods. A year ago. I had told that to Danny a year ago, and that was just rounding it down. More like a year and a month, and I'm still missing some numbers in that for the weeks and days. Wow.

Grinning madly at the thought that had gone through my head, I hopped out of bed and hurried off to my dresser to pick out clothes for the day. Danny noticed my grin, and he tilted his head.

"Love, what is it?" He asked curiously, making his way over to me to see if it was something that was near my dresser that had made me grin. I turned around and threw my arms around him.

"It's been over a year." I responded, still grinning.

Danny hesitantly wrapped his arms around me, probably thinking I had just gone mad. "A year? A year for what, love?"

"A year for us, Danny. We've known each other for a year and a month, and been together for practically just as long. I don't think we had been broken up long enough during the times that we had been to even equal that odd month hanging alone. Probably only three weeks of it, if that."

Now Danny was grinning like a madman, too. His loose grip around me tightened, squeezing my small frame to his larger one and just about squeezing the air out of my lungs as well. "Then that just makes this day even more important. We are really late on our first date, love."

I laughed at that. "We are! And we're just going to be later to it the longer we stand here chit-chatting about how long we've been together! I gotta get ready!"

Danny chuckled lightly, and he gradually released his hold on me, still grinning. He gave the top of my head a kiss before removing his hold entirely. "Then get ready, love. We have a big day ahead of us."

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ONE MORE CHAPTER! *flails* :DDDDD