A/N: This one is going to be Mia and Tim's second date. Funny how their dates get full chapters to themselves. :p
Also, at the end of the chapter, there is some implied mature content. Nothing drastic, like you'd barely know it's there, but it's implied. Just a heads up.

Halo by Beyoncé

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Remember those walls I built?
Well, baby they're tumbling down
And they didn't even put up a fight
They didn't even make a sound
I found a way to let you in
But, I never really had a doubt
Standing in the light of your halo
I got my angel now

I walked out of the kitchen with an ice cold lemonade drink in my hand and sat down on the floor with my back to the chair, the fan I'd found in a closet blowing cool air into my face.
It was spring, yet felt like the middle of summer. The heat was crazy, not to mention the humidity that hung in the air. I was dying!
Just then the door opened and I looked up from my drink to see Tim walk through the door.
"Hey, Tim." I said as I tipped my glass back in an attempt to get one of the ice cubes out.
"Hey." He said as he came over to sit beside me, but I held up a hand and shoved him away.
"Don't come near me." I said. "It's far too hot to be close to other people." He raised an eyebrow at me and sat down on the floor with his back to the couch.
"Where are the guys now?" He asked pushing a button on the fan so that it spun around in a half circle.
"Down in the basement soaking up all the cold air available." I said as I all but sucked back the rest of the lemonade. "It's gonna be a boiler down there soon with all the heat they give off." Tim smirked and nudged me with his foot. I recoiled at the intense warmth that even that little bit of contact had.
"So when do you want to head out for our date?" He asked, and I shrugged.
"Whenever, it doesn't matter to me really." I looked at the clock over the bar. It was 2:45. "Sometime when the heat goes down a bit." He grinned and I narrowed my eyes at him. "What?" He stood up and held out his hand for me to take.
"Or we could go now and find a way to beat the heat." I raised an eyebrow at him but took his hand and stood up, but I retracted it when I felt the heat burn against my skin.
"So where are we going then?" I asked as I walked towards the basement door to yell down to the boys that I was going out. There was a collective groan from the dark and I smirked. They were probably all sitting around trying to be as far away from each other as possible so that they didn't feel the body heat rise as quickly.
"It'll be a surprise." Tim said as I grabbed my purse off the counter of the bar and followed him out into the heat. I nearly choked as I was hit with a blast of it when the door opened.
"This better be worth the suffering." I complained as I opened the car door and slide inside. I groaned as the heat intensified in the small space and my legs stuck to the seat.
"Stop complaining." Tim said as he turned the key and pulled out o the yard. I narrowed my eyes at him and leaned back against the seat. My skin that was exposed by my tank top stuck to the seat as well, and I huffed in annoyance. Wherever we were going better be worth all this heat.

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When we arrived at the same diner where we'd gone on our first date, I couldn't help but think that this hadn't been my idea of a way to cool off.
"What are you mopping for?" Tim asked as he opened his door.
"This wasn't my idea of a way to cool off." I said as I slumped in my seat for a moment before reaching for the door handle. But before I got it opened, Tim was around the car, opening it for me.
I looked up at him for a moment before I stepped out.
"What's with you?" I asked. "I normally have to open my own door." Tim smirked before taking my hand as we walked into the diner. Even with the heat I felt pulsing between us, I didn't remove my hand from his.
"I figure; since this will be our last date for awhile, why not make it special?" I thought I was hearing things.
"What do you mean?" I managed to ask. He looked at me as he opened the door and allowed me to step into the diner. I was greeted with a blast of cold air and I sighed in relief.
"I mean," Tim said as we walked to the same booth we were at last time. "That I want to spend the rest of the day together. Just the two of us." I was shocked at this statement. It's very rare to find a guy on this side of town who wants to spend time with his girlfriend beside at parties. I wasn't prepared for Tim to say he wanted to just spend a day with me. Dally did it once, and only after I'd bugged him into it for weeks beforehand.
"Sure." I heard the word come out of my mouth before my brain had fully registered what I was saying. I blinked to focus my attention on him and saw him smirking.
Just then, the same guy who'd brought us our food last time came over to take our orders and get us drinks. I ordered an ice cream sundae with an ice tea, and Tim ordered a chocolate milkshake.
We waited quietly for our drinks, in which time I decided to prop my feet up on the opposite booth seat. I hid the smile that tried to creep up my face when Tim pulled my feet up on his leg and lazily ran his hand from my knee to my foot and back up. It wasn't meant to be a pass; it was just him being sweet. This was really starting to creep me out a little; but in a nice, weird sort of way.
The boy came back with our food a moment later and I took a bite of the sundae before relaxing back against the seat, sipping at my ice tea.
"That's so nice and cold." I sighed and took another spoonful before turning it towards Tim. "Want a bite?" He leaned over the table a bit and took the spoon to eat off the ice cream.
"That's pretty good." He said as he handed back the spoon and tilted his milkshake cup towards me for me to take a drink from it. I smiled as the cool chocolate flavoured shake slid down my throat.
"That's a really good shake." I said. "Far better then the ones you get at the Dingo." Tim nodded and we both finished our treats quietly.
When we were done, Tim dropped the money on the table and we walked out the door. Tim walked around the car and opened up my door so I could slide into the heated interior.
I fanned myself with my hand as Tim slid into the driver's seat and closed the door.
"So much for being cooled down." I complained. The instant the doors closed on the car, the heat inside it nearly suffocated me.
"I've got a plan." Tim said as he pulled out of the parking lot and turned back towards Buck's. "You're probably going to want another set of clothes." I looked over at him.
"What?" I asked. Tim turned and smirked at me.
"You heard me; you need a change of clothes." I narrowed my eyes but didn't say anything as we turned onto the road leading to Buck's.
"I'll just be a minute." I said as I opened the door and ran up to the door. As I started across the floor to the stairs, Liam came up from the basement.
"You're back early." He said. I shook my head and stared up the stairs.
"I'm only here for a moment." I called down as I walked up. "Tim said I need a change of clothes, why I can only guess." I grabbed a new set of clothes out of my dresser and managed to stuff it all into my purse before moving back down the stairs.
"I can probably make a good guess." I narrowed my eyes at him.
"I think you should keep out of something that isn't any of your business." I snapped and Liam smirked.
"Someone's touchy." He said as he headed back to the basement. "You always did get snappy in the heat, and in the cold..." He turned with his on the doorknob. "Come to think of it, you're snappy no matter what the weather." I rolled my eyes and headed for the door.
"Cause you're any different." I called over my shoulder as I walked out the door and closed it before he could make another comment.
"Took you long enough." Tim said as I got back into the car and we took off down the road. "I was about to leave without you." I sighed and shook my head.
"You boys and your limited patients." I said. "Now where are we going?" Tim smirked as he took the road that lead to Billy's trailer.
"It's a surprise, but I think you'll like it." I gave a slight nod of my head as we passed by Billy's and continued down the road for a few minutes before Tim pulled off to the side of the road.
I opened my door and, once again, felt the blast of heat hit me in the face like a wave.
"This better be good." I grumbled as Tim came around the car and took my hand. "Why are we here?" He pointed at a path that looked like it lead down to the lake at the bottom. It was worn down by the traffic that probably came through here over the summer. "We're going for a walk down to a lake? Doesn't that entitle being in the sun?" Tim shook his head as we made our way down the path. It was sheltered in a few places by the trees that loomed over it, and I relished in the slightest coolness that came with the shade.
Once we reached the bottom, I looked out over the water.
"It looks nice and cold." I said and turned to Tim, only to find that he had disappeared. "Tim!?" I spun around quickly when I heard someone laughing. I hadn't noticed on the way down, but off to the side of the lake was a low cliff; Tim was standing on a rock that acted as a step to get up to the top of it.
"What are you doing?" I asked as I walked over to stand at the bottom and look up at him.
"I'm going up to the top so I can jump off. Coming?" I starred up at him.
"You've got to be joking." I said, even as I started up after him. "That water's probably ice cold! It hasn't been that warm long enough to heat it up yet!" I took hold of his hand and let him pull me up onto the top of the cliff. I walked to the edge and looked over at the water. It was dark, and though looked cooling from up here in the heat of the sun, I knew it was bitter cold.
"Don't be such a baby." Tim said as he came up beside me. "You've been complaining about the heat all day, this will cool you off nicely." I took a step back from the edge. "Oh come on. Don't be a chicken." I narrowed my eyes at him and crossed my arms over my chest.
"I'm not a chicken." I pouted. "I know that I'll jump and you'll just watch me go down, probably laughing your head off the whole time. You can jump first if you're so eager to freeze." Tim shrugged and back up a few steps before running off the edge.
My eyes widened and I scrambled to the edge to watch him hit the water below with a splash. I watched for him to come back up and shook my head with a smirk on my face when he came up cursing.
"You're insane!" I called down to him and he looked up at me with a smirked.
"The price to pay for putting up with you." He yelled back up at me. My smirk slid away as my jaw fell and I gaped at him for a second before backing up a few steps and taking a running jump off the cliff. I was halfway down before I realized that he'd said that knowing that I'd jump. Oh well, too late to turn back now.
I hit the water with a sharp slap and immediately felt it pricking at me skin. It felt like millions of tiny needles being driven into my arms and legs. The air felt like it had been compressed from my lungs and I scrambled to get back to the surface.
I gasped as my head reached above the water level and I took a few deep breaths. That was when I noticed Tim laughing his head off.
"Not f- funny." I stuttered. I could already feel myself starting to shiver. "This water is f- freezing!" Tim smirked as he swam closer and wrapped an arm around my waist. I wrapped my arms around his neck as he managed to keep us both above water.
"Are you cooled off now?" He asked with a smirk as he did a one handed dog paddle towards the shoreline. I rolled my eyes but smiled and nodded
"Yea, I'm all n-nice and c-cool. Cool as a P-Popsicle." He chuckled as he pulled my around to sit on the edge of the very steep drop off in the water before he pulled himself up beside me.
The top of the water was still chilly, but having the hot sun beating down on it all day had heated it up enough that I didn't mind sitting there for a few moments before I was shivering again.
"I think I'm all done now." I said as I rubbed at my arms a bit. Tim nodded and stood up before offering me his hand to pull me up. But as soon as I was standing, he let go and shoved me backwards into the deeper water. I screamed until I went under the water. I came up gasping for air and choking on the water I'd swallowed.
"You jerk!" I cried as I swam back over to the drop off where Tim was laughing his head off. He was bent over laughing so hard he was shaking. I pulled myself out of the water enough to grab his arm and pull him back down.
We ended up spending almost an hour in the water, splashing and dunking each other under until the chill that was crawling up our skin was too much to handle any longer.
"See why I told you to bring extra clothes?" Tim asked from outside the car while I changed in the backseat.
"Yea." I said as I pulled on my dry tank top and piled my hair up in a messy bun on the back of my head, to keep it away from my back.
I stepped out of the car to see that Tim had already changed into dry clothes as well.
"You had this planned didn't you?" I asked and he shrugged before tossing his wet clothes into the backseat. They landed on the floor with a splat.
"Maybe. Want to go get something to eat?" He asked and I nodded. He turned the car around and we made the short trip to Billy's.
"I hate to guess what you two have been doing." Billy said when we stepped up to the side of the trailer to order.
"We went swimming in the lake." Tim said as he pulled out his wallet. We didn't even need to tell him what we wanted, we'd come here enough over the past few months or so and ordered the same thing every time.
Billy laughed as he took the money.
"You kids are crazier then I thought!" He said as he turned to the grill behind him. "Swimming at this time of year! You're both gonna catch a cold!" I laughed a little, but was thinking he was probably right. I was still cold and I could feel it all through me.
"I'll go get my jacket." Tim said like he had read my thoughts. He jogged back to the car and came back with the jacket that he always kept in it. I slid it on and wrapped it tightly around myself as we waited for our food.

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Hours later, Tim and I were lying out on the hood of the car, watching the night sky as the stars slowly appeared. I sighed and snuggled closer to him and wrapped the blanket he'd found in the trunk tighter around me.
"What's with you?" Tim asked.
"I was just thinking about what's gonna happen tomorrow." I said. "Even if they can't pin me for the vandalisms, I'm gonna get sent back to New York to serve whatever time they give me for 'disturbing the peace'." Tim shifted beside me and I felt his arm wrap around my shoulders.
"I've been meaning to ask what that Brian guy meant when he said that you'd be in trouble if they found out the boys were staying at Buck's. What'd he mean by that?" I sighed.
"Those boys ain't allowed out of New York. It's against their probation and what not. Their probation time keeps piling up, and technically they can't leave New York for, I think, almost a 3 year time period. Because they illegally left the state, they're fugitives. So, I'm technically harbouring fugitives- which is against the law. Obviously.

When Dally and I left, we weren't allowed to be out of the state either. Though our time was going to be up in a month or so, so I highly doubt they'll nail me with that when they take me back." Tim was silent for a long time and I turned my head to look at him.
"It's gonna be a while before you're back here again." He said finally and I nodded slowly. It was going to be months before I came back to Tulsa. My tongue felt heavy with words I wanted to say, but didn't know how to put them together.
"I'm gonna miss you." I finally blurted out. I bit my tongue in an attempt to keep my mouth shut from saying anything else that would imply some sort of attachment. But when I looked up to see what Tim's reaction was, I found myself spewing out a jumbled mess of words. "You've been so helpful since Dally died, I mean, right after the funeral you were standing there waiting to take me back to Buck's. You've taken me out to lunch all the time, and though we've only had two dates, they've been some of the best dates of my life." I paused, looking up at the endless view of stars. "Dally rarely took me out for dates. Like formal dates, that were planned in advance and thought about. It was always kind of like 'Hey I've got a free night, let's go out' or 'I just heard that there's a rodeo show going on this afternoon, grab some money and let's go before there isn't a place in the bull riding competition left'." I stopped. "Dallas meant a lot to me, but I did enjoy being treated like his girlfriend sometimes, not just his girl." I took a deep breath not really knowing where I was trying to go with this conversation. "I almost wish I'd just left the Socs alone." I finally said after I'd half collected my thoughts. "More then likely this isn't going to end the fighting, it's just gonna keep it going. I'll move out of Tulsa before I deal with anymore of this. Not like I have a choice though with this, I started it, I can't back out of it now." I'd shifted around on the hood of the car and now my feet were dangling off the side, while my head rested on Tim's chest. His arm was draped across my waist, our hands linked together.
We sat quietly for a few moments, enjoying the silence besides the sound of the lake gently lapping at the shore below us.
"I'm gonna miss you too." I turned my head to look at him, and saw him smiling down at me. "It's gonna be pretty dull around here without you causing trouble." I smiled and let my eyes slide closed before I opened them again. When I did, Tim was watching me intently. It suddenly seemed like an invisible force was pushing me towards him, and I found my face inches away from his. We starred at each other for what seemed like forever before our lips met, and I closed my eyes.

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I made a circle in the steam on the window and looked out at the stars. I didn't have a watch, and neither did Tim. But I figured it had to be after midnight at this point.
Tim shifted beside me and I felt his arm drape over my waist as he rested his head on my shoulder. I turned a little to look at him, and smiled. I'd never seen him with his hair messed up, falling out of it's regularly well greased form, and I found I like it better this way; and his eyes. They were still as black as ever, but it seemed like the hardness that always filled them had melted away, and I was looking at him, not who he wanted everyone to see.
"We should really head back." I whispered. The silence that filled the car was wonderfully peaceful, and I didn't want it to ever end.
"Probably." Tim said as he kissed my shoulder, and then my cheek. He leaned back and used his jacket as a pillow before closing his eyes. "Night, Angel." I felt my smile start to widen across my face as I took in the new nickname, but I managed to keep most of it off my face.
I pulled the blanket closer around me and let my head relax on his arm that was resting across the seat.
"Night." I replied quietly, drifting off in the comforting silence that filled the air around us.

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby, I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace
You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby, I can feel your halo
I pray it won't fade away

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How was that? What did you think of the ending? I was having a really hard time trying to decide if I wanted it to end like that or not.
So the next chapter probably won't be up for a while, I'm thinking like a few weeks- maybe closer to a month. :( I've got exams coming up really soon, and I've already started to make an effort to start studying for them. I'd much rather be writing this story and finishing it up, but you know, school work and all that fun stuff that we spend so much time doing. :p So yea, it's gonna be a while.
Reviews are much appreciated! I haven't gotten any for the past couple chapters and would really like some feedback on what you guys think of it.

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