I kept stealing glances at Danny and looking away quickly before he could catch me staring. Tucker had been telling me to be honest with him about my feelings for months, and now I finally felt like I was ready to take his advice. I was ready to tell him... I just needed to find a chance to do it.

Time seemed to have a funny way of moving both impossibly slow and unbelievably fast all at the same time that day, and before I really knew it there was only about an hour before Danny would be expected to take me home. When we got bored of Danny's house, we decided to walk down to the park that seemed to house so many of the memories that our friendship was built on. I knew I was running out of time as we stepped out the door, and started the process of talking myself into actually telling him how I felt.

I honestly didn't expect him to beat me to it.

I heard him take a deep breath and looked at him out of the corner of my eye, wondering if he was about to say something. He stayed quiet, so at first I thought nothing of it and went back to my thoughts. Then, he took another deep breath, but this time he didn't stay quiet.

"Hey, Sam?" I looked at him, letting him know he had my full attention. "Have you ever thought of me as maybe a possible boyfriend?"

For a split second I froze, and two different thought flirted across my mind. Did he ask that? Was this really what I wanted?

My mouth seemed to open without my conscious consent. "Yes," I said, feeling my cheeks heat up a little.

"Has that ship sailed?"

"No." I felt my heartbeat pounding as I said the word. I hadn't flat out said how I felt, but I had given him more than enough to figure fit out himself. I didn't know what to think as it finally really hit me that Danny knew at least part of how I felt about him. He wouldn't realize I loved him and that it wasn't just a crush, but he silliness I had feelings for him.

Danny took another deep breath and I could have sworn I heard him swallow. "Would you be dating me now?"

"Yes," I said, feeling a full blown smile start to break out on my face. This was really happening, and even now it's still a little hard to believe.

Danny laughed. "That was a lot harder than I thought it'd be."


So... I meant to get this up last week, but... well... Life.

Honestly, I was trying not to make my poor readers suffocate in fluffy, squishiness leaking into my writing from my own life...well, not more that I intended anyway.

Anyway, comments and feedback are as welcome as always! :D


Invisible One