David walked down the sidewalk of the park when he spotted Rose sitting on the bench waiting for him. She looked really pretty in her black jeans and dark purple graphic t-shirt and her blond hair naturally blowing in the breeze. David suddenly felt nervous almost like he did on his first date with her, he took a deep breath before walking over; silently praying he wouldn't mess this up or at least say something stupid.
"Hi." He smiled. She glanced up at him feeling tongue-tied. God, he was handsome standing there in blue jeans and a black t-shirt.
"Hi!" She replied feeling the butterflies. David sat down beside her. "You look lovely." David said. "Thanks," She blushed. Rose handed him a carton and a soda. "Here, I got us some fish and chips. I hope that's okay." He smiled taking them. "Yeah, thanks."
He opened the container and tore a piece of fish before eating it. Rose stared at him curious for a minute before asking. "Why do you eat your fish like that, now?"
David shrugged. "Just do, it's neater especially when you wear a suit all the time." "But you're not wearing a suit." She pointed out.
"Well, it became a habit." He replied simply taking another bite. Rose nodded now understanding and ate a couple of chips.
There was a moment of awkward silence before he spoke again. "Pretty good fish and chips." David commented taking a sip of soda. Rose nodded. "Yeah."
"Not as good as Magpie's Diner but still good." He added shrugging. Rose smiled taking a sip of her drink. "You remember that place." He ate a chip and smirked. "How could I forget? We always had to stop there because somehow I kept running out of gas." David arched his eyebrow at her.
She scoffed shaking her head. "Don't give me that look it was an old car and the gauge was broken." David nodded. "Yes, but it was up to you to tell me if I filled it enough." He smirked.
She innocently shrugged her shoulder. "Okay, I might've exaggerated the gasoline amount a little but there was a gas station nearby," Her eyes danced. "Besides it gave us an excuse to prolong our dates."
He nodded. "Yeah." David smiled. "You know I paid five hundred dollars for that daft car." She tilted her head thoughtfully. "I don't know it wasn't a bad little car."
He scoffed. "Yeah considering it broke down a lot." Rose shrugged licking the salt from her thumb. "Yeah but we still had fun."
"Yeah, we did." He replied drinking his soda. He heard Rose giggling.
"What?" David said curious.
Rose shook her head smiling. "I was just remembering the skate park we used to go to." "Yeah, nice place," David smiled. "We used to race each other." "And as I recall I beat you every time." She sang poking her tongue between her teeth.
"No, no" David scoffed playfully wagging his finger. "I let you win." Rose nodded patting his arm. "Yeah, sure." She teased. He stuck his tongue out at her making her snicker. "It was fun, though." Rose sighed drinking her soda.
A faint smile formed across his face. "It was where I first I kissed your palm." He said softly. Rose smiled shyly. "Yeah, it was." David almost got lost in the memory and cleared his throat embarrassed lowering his eyes sheepishly. There was another pregnant pause.
Rose lowered her eyes feeling frustrated with him. "Why do regret everything we did?" She said softly. David looked at her shaking his head. "I don't." She looked at him unconvinced. "It's not the impression I keeping getting from you."
"Okay, I'm embarrassed about some of it." He sighed. "But Rose I'm embarrassed about anything I did when I was younger," He scoffed. "I still cringe when I think about playing an elf when I was six for the Kindergarten play."
She muffled a snicker. "I would've liked to have seen that." He rolled his eyes and groaned shaking his head. "No, you wouldn't."
She giggled making him smile. He liked hearing her laugh.
Rose looked at him questionably. "You could've said no." David looked at her and took her hand. "Rose, anything I did with you was my choice; I liked being with you and...I liked the things we did, all of it." He admitted.
"Yeah?" She smiled. David smirked shaking his head. "Rose Tyler, I swear because of you I did things I never thought I'd would but I don't regret any of it."
Rose smiled and tilted her head and sighed. "Well, we probably did do a lot of things we shouldn't have." He nodded. "Yeah but I still wouldn't change anything."
Rose grinned. "I wouldn't either." David smiled and felt her head resting on his shoulder. He glanced down and wrapped his arm around her pulling her close and holding her.
It was the best feeling in the world.