Rosie and Max sat at the breakfast table sharing a conspiratorial smile. Wednesday had came quickly, the preceding days had been fun. Alice and Danny had became a couple on Sunday night so of course Rosie and Max found every possible excuse to be around them the following days. Danny and Alice had nearly zero time alone and the strain was beginning to show. Rosie had never seen her dad so twitchy. Time for more torture though. She nudged Max's foot and motioned to her dad with her head.
"You know dad I've been thinking I've changed my mind about going out today I think I'll stick close to home."
Danny almost chocked on his coffee. "What?"
"Well there is nothing decent on at the pictures and nothing else to do either may as well save some money. You do harp on about that a lot to me you know!"
Danny clenched his jaw. "A change of scenery will do you some good."
Alice looked at Danny smiling.
"I dunno." Rosie sighed. "Won't you be lonely here alone?"
"No, I have the animals to keep me company." Danny replied far too quickly.
God her dad was as transparent as glass! Rosie thought.
"Aren't you here too Alice?" Max asked.
"Pottering about." she nodded.
"See Rosie, he won't be totally alone. He and Alice will be alone, together."
"Hmmmm." Rosie said knowingly.
Rosie and Max looked at each other and "Hmmmmed" again.
"Whatever you two are thinking…." Danny began.
"Drop it!" Alice finished.
"Ok." Max said sticking his tongue out and making a face at Alice when she looked away.
Rosie meanwhile was making a show of considering. "Suppose I could go bowling or something. Em's been ringing me saying we need to hang out."
"Yeah you have neglected her recently Rosie!" her dad nodded seriously.
O her dad was pushing his luck! She eyed him dubiously lets see how liked this! "I could bring her here for a swim!" and she would too if her dad carried on!
"But Rosie dear you bring her here all the time!" Danny told her dryly his patience wearing thin.
Rosie frowned at him. "Dad are you trying to get rid of me?"
"Of course not!" he yelped guiltily.
She had him! "You know Max, last time dad tried to get rid of me it turned out he had bought me my very own giraffe as a 'daughters day' present."
"Daughters day?" Alice asked.
"I had a fathers day, Miranda had a mothers day so I gave Rosie a day, and we really needed a new giraffe!"
Alice chuckled.
Rosie grinned. "So dad, did you buy me a horse?"
Danny raised his eyebrows. "Are you for real? A horse on a game reserve?"
"Well dad you are trying to get rid of me!"
"No I'm not!"
"Yes you are." Rosie replied not missing a beat.
"I just think a change will be good for you."
"A horse is a change." she grinned.
"Rosemary Trevanion!" he warned.
He used the full name, best back off now before he did something really stupid! "Ok." she groaned. Smiled a wry grin at Max.
He winked and nodded.
"Since my dad has no surprises planned I'll go out." she exhaled looked at Max. "Your welcome to come too."
He grinned. "Thanks was just gonna be sat around here with these 2 anyway. That would totally ruin the image of me I've tirelessly built."
"Which is?" Rosie asked.
"Gorgeous superstud." he wiggled his eyebrows.
Rosie snorted.
Alice and Danny shared a smile then Alice stood up. "I'm going to ring Charlie, while I'm gone Max, get real yeah son?"
"Ha-ha!" Max drawled and spooned eggs into his mouth.
Danny meanwhile was ecstatic inside. Charlie was at Terry's this week since it was half term. Alice was picking her up later. Max and Rosie out, they were alone. No one was the wiser…..well except for Rosie and Max of course!
(X)
Rosie and Max sat at the Town Centre. "Ok so how long til we go back?"
Rosie shrugged. "I dunno, I'd hate to go back and for them to be…you know." Rosie shuddered.
"Aren't they a little old to be even thinking of that?" Max wondered.
"They're in their 30's Max! It's not that old."
"Yeah but they aren't in that hormonal stage anymore." then he remembered how they acted on Sunday night…..maybe he was wrong.
"The trick is to make enough noise to let them know we're home. See how they react!" she grinned. "This is fun!"
"Dunno how they haven't twigged we know yet!" he chuckled.
"Coz they are too distracted by each other…ewwww! Don't know why they haven't told us. Ok Charlie it might be complicated to tell her but us? We're nearly 16 we'd understand!"
"Adults are stupid!" he twined his fingers with hers. "So when are we going out on our first date?"
"I don't believed you asked me to go out on a date with you yet." she retorted.
"I just did."
She smiled. "That would meaning telling dad and Alice we're together."
He exhaled. "And now that we're living together they'd act like all we're gonna do is rip each others clothes off!"
Rosie looked at him sideways eyes twinkling.
"Hey I'm not saying that's a bad thing!" he shrugged. "I dunno, it's still too early to be thinking like that."
"I agree." Rosie nodded once.
"But that doesn't stop me thinking about how good you feel when I kiss you." then he leaned in and captured her lips with his own. Her arms wound around him pulling her closer. This kiss was slow, nearly all of their kisses were like this. They both knew speed would have them rushing towards a destination that neither of them were ready for. He put his hand on her cheek and pulled back. Smiled at her.
She smiled in reply. Her chest felt different when she saw a light in his eyes.
"C'mon we'll hang around here for about 45 minutes then go home." he suggested.
"Sounds like a plan." he stood up.
They walked hand in hand around the township, just happy to be together.
(X)
Danny and Alice stood in the surgery after operating. Alice was stitching up.
"When do you think they'll be home to gatecrash our date?" Alice murmured.
"Soon." Danny replied smiling. "They must think we're stupid! It was obvious they knew we're together!"
"Totally!"
They both laughed.
"There." the last stitch was in. She pulled her gloves off and dumped them, stretched her back muscles. "Good thing you noticed Max's face twitching when he was lain on the sofa pretending to be asleep."
"Hey I nearly didn't, I was very distracted…" he wiggled his eyebrows. "Your lips just command my attention."
She rolled her eyes.
"His face was a total give away!" they moved the lion into the pens. He pulled it shut they approached the sink and stood scrubbing their hands side by side. "I swear when I asked you to move in he almost fell off that chair!" he chuckled drying his hands.
"And these last 2 days." she groaned drying her own. "We had to be very inventive finding time alone, I must say Mr Trevanion you are very devious."
"I live to serve Miz Collins. I only did it coz I knew if I had to go two days without touching you I'd go crazy!" pulled her close and kissed her softly, his hand at the base of her spine. He ticked her and she squirmed laughing, pulled free. "Not fair Danny I am very ticklish."
He wiggled his eyebrows. "I know."
"Just for that I'm not kissing you anymore." She spun and went to walk away.
He ran up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Danny!" she shrieked laughing.
"Tell me you didn't mean it!" he told her.
"No."
"Don't make me pin you to this floor and break out the feathers I'll do it!"
"No."
"Ok."
He was about to do as he said when she relented. "Ok I didn't mean it."
"Good!" he told her seriously. He was about to release her when he found his grip tightening, he closed his eyes for a second. God he was already crazy about her after 3 days! What about after 3 weeks? 3 months? More?
She leaned back into him and words weren't needed. "We can't hide it forever." she murmured her hand finding his.
"I thought this is what you wanted." he rubbed her stomach absently.
"I dunno. I think about you, about us and well I don't want to hurry but it wouldn't be such a bad thing telling the kids that things have escalated."
"Escalated? He spun her.
She smiled up at him, put her hands on his shoulders, "Ok, that out feelings have grown."
"Better!" he kissed her quickly. "I'm a little worried about how Rosie will react." he admitted. "See I haven't dated since her mum." pulled Alice closer. "I haven't wanted too, well me and Rosie are finally on good terms I have had a call from her Aunt Clare, she's planning on coming down. It might be best if we put off telling the kids til after she's been. Rosie listens to her and she hates me. She's determined to take Rosie back to Bristol away from me."
"That's no problem, well actually one problem, they know we're together."
"No, they suspect it. They are expecting to walk in that house and find us all cosy, which of course they won't."
She nodded. He kissed her one more time heatedly. "That is the last time I'll be able to kiss you in a while." he exhaled and they left the surgery.
(X)
Rosie and Max climbed from the taxi at home. Grinned at each other.
"Dad!" Rosie yelled. "Alice!"
Danny appeared at the door in painting overalls. "Yeah?"
Rosie's jaw dropped, she looked at Max then back at her father, Why was he dressed like that? For a date? Had it been that long that he forgot how to dress for one? "What you doing?"
"Painting the spare room."
She ran up the stairs, Ok there was another explanation, they heard the taxi ages away and her dad pulled the first thing on he had! "We got bored…." she was expecting her dad to keep her from the house. Imagine her surprise when he allowed her to walk straight passed him. No music, no fancy meal, just a strong smell of gloss paint.
Max walked in too and was also puzzled.
"Are you kids ok?" Danny asked. "You look weird." he had to bite back a smile.
"We're fine." Rosie assured. "We'll be in my room." she grabbed Max's wrist.
"Rosie about that….." Danny started and rubbed the side of his neck.
Rosie knew that rub, he was about to say something that was gonna embarrass her, in front of Max, no way! "Don't even start dad!" she told him seriously.
"But…."
"Max and I aren't going to be doing anything in there!"
"Look it's just…."
"Dad I am about 3 seconds from traumatising you." Rosie warned and gave him her 'Go on push me and I'll do it and enjoy it.' look!
Danny paled and cleared his throat.
"I'll leave my door open." she smiled at him sweetly. "C'mon Max."
"I wish when your mother insisted we try for a baby I suggested a puppy. Teenage girls!" he muttered under his breath.
"I heard that!" she declared loudly and grinned.
Max was trying not to laugh as they walked into her room, tears streamed from his eyes and his shoulders shook. The door was open, Rosie popped her head out. "Happy?"
"Very." Danny replied not happy at all but it would have to do.
Rosie's head disappeared. Music began to play and he heard urgent whispering. Danny grinned, it was Adults one. Teenagers Nil!
Meanwhile In The Bedroom.
"What happened?" Rosie whispered. They were facing each other cross legged on the bed.
Max shrugged.
"This was their time alone, a date you said, he's painting a bedroom! Some date! I don't even think she's here!"
Max tapped his chin in thought. "Look that is what he said on Sunday."
"Are you sure they're together?"
"Yeah!" he declared.
"Did you see them kiss or anything?"
"No, I was pretending to be asleep. You know, eyes closed."
"So how did you know?"
"The stuff they said, people don't say stuff like that unless they are either together or friends with benefits, and Alice isn't that type of woman! Your dad asked her to fool around!"
"Max that could mean anything."
"Your dad kissed her!" he protested.
"How do you know, your eyes were closed!"
He frowned. "They might know we know about them."
"Unlikely, how could they? They are kinda blind." Rosie chewed her lower lip shook her head. "They just aren't together yet."
"Rosie this is getting too confusing." he moaned.
"Tell me about it." she thought. "How about we lie low for a week or so. See what happens, if they are together they'll slip up. If not we implement our plan again."
Max nodded. "I like the sound of that, so we can just be us without worrying about getting them together."
"Yeah." she smiled squeezed his hand.
"I was just wondering Rosie, what were you gonna sat to your dad to traumatise him?"
Rosie wiggled her eyebrows. "A girl has to have a few secrets."
"Should I be worried?"
Rosie dived on him and pinned him to the bed. "Definitely not."
A/N i'm actually loving writing this, Rax think Danice r together and they are then Danice convince them their not, lots of fun...i'll leave it there and Rosie, i loved it wen she threatened to traumatise Danny lol :)
And of course the Rax are getting stronger, i have a little bit more written so stay tuned :) x