Kiss Me, Too!
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Chapter 10 - Is This Love?
When they were walking the street they came across a street performance with dancers and musicians, some drummers and a guitarist. Daniel looked at Betty watch the dancers and imagined her dancing to the music following the steps, more people joining in; he smiled and took her hand and pulled her to him so they danced together. "Daniel!" Betty said snapping him out of his dream "oh, uh..." he looked at her and saw the look on her face. "What happened?" she said looking at him confused. "Nothing sorry, I just got lost in their performance for a minute."
"Oh...ya. It was great." She smiled brightly. Daniel looked at her and smiled. "Ya, it was."
On the way to the carnival there was a flower stand, and Betty saw a really pretty flower and smelled it as they walked by. They continue to walk, a few moments later Daniel walks in front of her and spins around pulling the same flower from the back of his shirt. Betty's eyes got big in surprise, with a smile on her face "How did you..."
Daniel just smiled, turned and started walking ahead of her. Betty smiled shaking her head and followed behind. She put it in her hair and caught up to him pushing him playfully from behind. He looked back and laughed. She pushed him again. "Hey" he smiled and playfully shoved her this time.
When they got to the carnival, they played a lot of games, Daniel losing badly at each game. "Oo, I want that cool blue dog" Daniel said as they reached the ring toss game. Betty laughed. Daniel started to play, but was really bad on his aim, the rings flying feet away from where he was aiming. Betty giggled. "It's the wind, Betty." Daniel said defensively. "Uh-huh sure, I don't feel any wind." She laughed. "Here, let me try." Betty reached for the ring in his hand but he pulled it away trying to tease her "Daniel" she reached for the ring again when he caught her by her wrist, holding her hand he placed the ring in her palm, his hand holding hers for a moment. His touch gave her butterflies; she looked at his eyes, then he winked, she rolled her eyes and took the ring. She targeted the bottle and threw the ring. "Ahh, I got it!" Betty said excitedly. "Wow" Daniel said surprised. "Hah" Betty said teasingly. "You still have to get one more"
"Ok, how many more rings are there?"
"Two."
"Okay, let me see." She took another ring from his hand and missed this time. "Okay, don't worry, we still have one more." Betty said optimistically. "Maybe I should try this time." Daniel said thinking she won't get it. "Ya right, you missed the last 15." Daniel pushed her shoulder lightly. She laughed and targeted the bottle and threw the ring. "Yayy!" Betty cheered. "Awesome!" Daniel said excitedly. He held up his hands and Betty laughed slapping them. The man at the booth laughed and gave Betty the dog. Betty looked at Daniel and held out the dog to him. "Here!" Betty said smiling brightly. "You won it Betty."
"Daniel, I won it for you." Betty said sweetly, she held it out to him again, this time he smiled and took it. "Thanks"
"It really is a cute dog." Betty said, looking at the 20" blue and black German shepherd. "What are you going to name it?" Betty asked as they walked away from the booth. "Name it?" he looked at her.
"Ya, you have to name him. I named the lion you gave me."
"Really?" he asked surprised. "Ya."
"What did you name it?" he asked curiously. "Tiger." She said simply. Daniel just stopped walking and looked at her amused. "You named your lion Tiger?" he laughed.
"I thought it was cool." She said defensively. "I'm not going to name my dog cat." He teased. "Ha-ha, very funny Daniel." She rolled her eyes and looked at him. "Oo, what about Cobalt?"
"Hmm...I like it. That's really cool." "Ya, he's blue and has black ears and a black tummy. It seems like it fits."
"Cool, so Cobalt it is."
Daniel and Betty got some lunch, chili cheese fries. Betty laughed when he walked to the table with a plate of them, remembering how she drowned her sorrows in fries over Henry. Daniel grabbed another chair from a nearby table and placed Cobalt on the chair. Betty laughed.
"He needs a chair too." Daniel said with a grin. Betty smiled.
They ate their fries. About half way through, Betty noticed some ketchup on the edge of his mouth. She couldn't stop staring at his mouth. She imagined herself leaning over the table and lightly wiping it off, touching his lips softly. His skilled lips. "Betty?" Daniel said snapping her out of her daze. "Oh sorry, uh, you have some...uh... ketchup on your face." Betty said giving him a napkin. Daniel laughed, rubbing the ketchup off.
When they finished eating they decided to leave the carnival tired of all the noise. They walked to the other side of the park. They ended up running into a bunch of kids playing baseball. Daniel remembered DJ and ended up playing with the kids for some time. Betty thought it was so cute. She knew how much DJ meant to him. He tried to get her to play, but she refused remembering how bad she was when Gio tried to teach her. Betty stood up on the imaginary sideline when the ball ended up flying in her direction. Right when she was about to catch it Daniel ran into her knocking her down to the ground trying to catch the ball. "Sorry" Daniel said looking at her beneath him. Betty felt her heart race, she saw how his chest was rising and falling trying to catch his breath. She looked at his eyes "it's ok." Daniel smiled looking at her eyes. "Daniel, I um...can't breathe." Betty said now feeling the pressure of him on her and the sudden pain she felt in her lower back.
"Oh, uh, sorry." He quickly got up and helped her up. "Are you ok?" he asked worried. "I'm ok." Daniel went to the kids and thanked them for letting him play with them. He hugged the youngest kid who was wearing a red cap. "Did you have fun?" Betty said as they continued walking the park the sun now setting. "Ya, they were cool kids. The kid with the red hat reminded me of myself when I was a kid."
"Aw." Betty smiled looking at him. "Alex and I would play baseball; we were always on different teams, so we were really competitive."
"Do you miss Alexis?" Betty asked curiously. Daniel looked at her not expecting her to ask that. He smirked "Ya, I guess I do. It's kind of different having a sister I guess."
Betty nodded in understanding. Suddenly they heard beautiful saxophone music and noticed a small group of people.
"There's a lot going on today." Daniel said looking at Betty thinking of all the events in the park today. Betty smiled in acknowledgement. "Wanna go see?" Daniel asked with a shine in his eyes. Betty just nodded smiling. He took her hand and pulled her along excitedly. Betty laughed. They stood in the circle that formed around the musician and singer. They looked at each other and smiled at the sound of the saxophone. The music was so beautiful and then turned more jazzy and energetic. The singer took the dog that Betty was holding smiling at it and then took her hand and started dancing with her. She was surprised at first but just enjoyed it. A few moments later he took Daniel's hand and pulled him to Betty. They stood there for a moment feeling embarrassed, but Daniel just took her hand and pulled her to him, making Betty's eyes get big in surprise. The singer pulled more people together and made them dance. The music was getting livelier and louder enchanting the park as it turned dark. Daniel spun Betty away and then to him taking both of her hands in his. They both smiled enjoying the music. When the music stopped everyone applauded the musician and singer, the singer giving Betty the dog back. "Thank you for participating" he said sweetly "Enjoy your night." He smiled and went back to the sax player. Betty looked to Daniel and smiled. Daniel smiled and grabbed her arm lightly pulling her along. "Did you have fun, Betty?" Daniel asked curiously. "Ya, that was wonderful. I was pretty shocked when he started dancing with me, but it was fun. And the music was so amazing. And you weren't too bad either." She said teasingly looking at him as they walked along. "Well, thank you." He smiled looking back at her. They just enjoyed walking through the park as it turned dark.
Betty thought it was strange that there was something that reminded her of her past boyfriends, the fries with Henry, the baseball with Gio, and the man she saw who had an African cane that reminded her of Matt. But the thing was none of them were here. It was Daniel. He was always here. Now that she thought about it she sort of always chose Daniel. Even when she had to choose between Henry and Gio... Even when Daniel told her to go to Rome with Gio simply because he couldn't imagine being at MODE without her. Not to mention when she stayed with Daniel even when she had work to do and Matt getting upset with her. Now, she was here with Daniel.
"Betty?" Betty looked at him "You've been really quiet. Are you ok?" he asked bothered by her sudden silence. She smiled lightly "Ya, do you want to just sit for a little bit?"
"Okay, sure." They ended up sitting at a bench nearby, Betty sitting close enough to him so that their arms were touching. Daniel placing the dog next to him.
"Daniel, can I ask you something?" she moved back slightly to look at his face. Why are you so gorgeous? She noticed how blue his eyes looked. "Anything, Betty." he said looking at her intently. Please, don't look at me like that. Betty involuntarily found herself inching closer to him. "Ok, so uh...you know the piece you wrote?"
Daniel looked at her interested "Ya?"
"Umm...what you wrote..." Daniel watched her eyes. "Ya, Betty?"
"I've been thinking about it a lot...and um...well, let's say you did feel that way about someone that was a really close...well someone that you couldn't live without..." She was scared to say friend because she knew he would for sure realize she was talking about herself.
Daniel became really interested in what she was saying. Is she trying to say what I think she's saying?
"Ya?" he said inching closer to her, their knees touching, making Betty's heart beat faster and butterflies all through her. "Umm...uh...wow..."
"Wow what?" Daniel said confused. I can't think straight when I look at you. "Umm...nothing...uh...so, well, what would you do?"
"Well, umm...if I felt that way about someone..." he said looking away for a second "...and I knew they felt that way about me...I would go for it!" Daniel said meeting her eyes.
"Really?"
"Absolutely."
"Well, what if you weren't completely sure that the other person felt the same way?"
"Well, maybe we should take a chance together." Daniel said looking at her eyes and lips coming closer to her so that their lips were inches away. Betty's eyes got slightly big, when her phone rang; she looked down at her phone, her heart racing. "Crap, I have to take this call, it's from the fire department" Betty said and quickly answered the phone. Was Daniel about to kiss me? Maybe this phone call was a sign that we shouldn't do anything. Betty sighed "Sorry, huh? Oh...okay, ya, I can come in tomorrow. Okay. Thanks Bye." Betty ended the call and got up from the bench. Daniel watched her intensely wondering what was going through her mind. He got up and stood next to her not sure what just happened. "Umm...Betty..."
"Sorry Daniel. I have to go. Justin and Hilda have been texting me for the past hour asking why I was late and where I was and I've just been ignoring them. I should really go, so they don't worry." Betty said trying to make up some excuse. Daniel was way ahead of her. He knew she was trying to make up some excuse to leave. Why was she so eager to leave all the sudden? Especially after we almost...that's the thing...almost. Maybe that was it.
"I thought they knew we were going out, Betty?" Daniel asked. "What?" Betty responded her eyes getting big. Were they going out? I thought we were just hanging out...as friends. Betty realized what he meant. "Ya, but they didn't know I was going to be out this late, so I should probably go." She started to walk, when Daniel walked in front of her. "Betty, you know you're an adult, you can stay out a little late. And besides your family knows you're with me...so...we can maybe hang out a little later..." he said patiently. "Daniel, I really should get going...I need to tell my family that I'm going to speak with the Fire marshal tomorrow, so I should go."
"Betty?" he looked at her eyes trying to search for answers to questions he wanted to ask but was too nervous to ask about. She looked at him; he could tell she was nervous, so he just let it go. "Never mind." Maybe Betty doesn't want to be more than friends. Why else would she get so jumpy all the sudden? Betty looked at him for a minute. She knew they were both holding back on something, but she decided maybe it was for the best. They weren't meant to be more than friends. If they were maybe there wouldn't be so many signs telling them not to.
"I guess, I'll see you later then." Daniel said looking down at his feet. Betty looked at him. "Ok...I guess good night, Daniel." There was a tense moment of silence. "Good night, Betty."
He watched Betty walk away, thinking it wouldn't be a good idea to take her home or it would just make things more awkward and he didn't want to lose Betty. He promised himself he wouldn't push anything on to Betty or else he was sure he would lose her.
AN: I know you might be thinking Betty is crazy, but remember Betty can be really stubborn and thinks things through...sometimes too much. And I don't think she would take a relationship with Daniel lightly, so bare with me on this. Hope you continue to enjoy the story! :)