Chapter 28: An Interesting Day

Elena got out of the car as well, "Well there's no way you're gonna make it on crutches."

"Oh I know," Dave replied, walking away. Elena raised her brow in confusion, when he continued, "I know of a better and more fun way to get there."

Elena didn't know what he was talking about, but followed him down the sidewalk into a store. As soon as she saw what was inside she shook her head, "No. No way."

All around her, were mopeds, in every size and color. Elena saw Dave up at the counter asking to rent one for the day. "You're not renting a moped!" she told him.

"Oh yes I am," Dave chuckled, signing the forms and handing the man the money. "And it looks like I just did." Dave asked the owner to bring it outside for him to take.

"I can't believe this," Elena sighed to herself as she followed the two men.

"Thanks a lot," Dave told the owner and shook his hand, before strapping the crutches to the back and then sitting in the driver's seat.

"Well that's nice for you, but how am I getting around?" Elena asked crossing her arms over her chest. Dave simply held his arms open in front of him, "Oh no. I'm not riding on your lap."

"Why not?" he asked.

"Because I don't trust mopeds, okay? Especially when there are no seatbelts," Elena told him.

"Have you ever been on one?" Dave asked with a brow raised, seeing her blush and look away with a pout. "I'll take that as a no. Listen, I promise that you'll be fine. I won't let anything happen to you."

Elena saw how sincere he was, as he stretched his hand for her to take. She slowly slipped her hand into his as he gently pulled her to him. He placed his hands on her hips and guided her onto his lap, so that both her legs draped over the side. As soon as Dave started the moped, it shook and she almost fell off, causing her to hurriedly wrap her arms around his neck.

"You all right?" he asked her, keeping arm around her back to keep her secure. Elena nodded, not liking this idea at all, so she held on to dear life when Dave started driving the moped. Dave could feel her clutching to him as they rode, and couldn't help but enjoy it. When they came to a stop light, Dave had stopped a little too quickly and caused Elena to lose her balance a little. Dave dropped his hand from one of the handles and wrapped around her to keep her up. However, when he felt where his hand had landed, he started blushing. Elena looked down to see that his hand had actually landed on her butt. She raised a brow at him, trying not to laugh at the blush on his face. They ended up being honked at since they had yet to notice the light turning green.

It was another few minutes before they finally got to the aquarium, and Elena couldn't be happier. They parked their moped and ran to get tickets for the entrance and one for their dolphin show. Elena took Dave by the hand and dragged him to all of the different exhibits. She was a little nervous around the sharks, hugging Dave's arm to her when one of them came out of nowhere up to the glass.

Dave watched the childlike look in her eyes at every different exhibit, and it was probably the most adorable thing he had ever seen. "Dave! It's time for the dolphin show!" Elena exclaimed and dragged him to the show. When they sat down, one of the trainers started looking around for a volunteer to help with the show.

"Excuse me," one of them asked in Elena's direction. "Would you like to be part of the show?"

"Who, me?" Elena asked surprised. The trainer nodded, "Sure, I'd love to."

Dave chuckled as Elena gave him an excited smile as the trainer led her down to the pool. Everyone watched as Elena told the dolphin to roll over onto it's stomach and let her pet it. She was taught other hand signals too, and watched as the dolphin did them all perfectly. Dave could tell Elena was having the time of her life, and was glad to see it from what had happened on Friday. Speaking of which, he rubbed his leg a little, noticing that it was starting to hurt.

However he kept it to himself, knowing that Elena would simply worry about him instead of enjoy herself. Elena came back after she was done and sat with him for the rest of the show. In the corner of her eye she saw Dave rubbing his leg. "You okay?" she asked.

"Oh yeah," Dave replied, trying to convince her, and knew that if he looked her in the eye he wouldn't be able to lie to her.

"Are you sure? Because we can leave if you want," Elena said, pretty worried that she had made him push too hard on his bad leg.

"We're not leaving until you've seen all you need to see here," Dave told her, giving her a smile and then turning back to watch the rest of the show. Elena decided that she was worrying too much and watched the show as well. The dolphins definitely distracted her from the pained look on Dave's face.

Once the show was over, Elena decided they would stop at the gift shop and then go grab a bite to eat. As soon as they walked in, Elena was all over the place trying to figure out what to buy. Dave was just left there on his crutches to watch her run in circles, laughing at her the entire time. While she was busy he noticed something that she would probably enjoy having. Dave made his way over to the shelf and pulled it off and took it to the counter.

He kept an eye out knowing that if she saw him she wouldn't let him pay for it, and he barely made out of paying for the moped alive. The lady asked if he wanted a bag but he said no and simply got back to the store entrance and waited for Elena to come out. When she finally did, she seemed to have a disappointed look on her face.

"Couldn't find anything you wanted?" Dave asked her, the object waiting behind his back.

"That's just the problem, I wanted everything! So I just figured it'd be best not to get anything," Elena sighed and started walking.

"Now is that anyway to remember your first day at the aquarium?" he asked, a smirk on his face. Elena simply shrugged, wondering what he was smirking about. "Surprise." Dave said and pulled out the gift from behind him. Elena gasped at the adorable stuffed white baby seal he was holding in his hands.

"Did you really get this for me?" Elena asked as she took the cute animal in her hands.

"Well at first I got it for me, but then I thought the guys might think it odd for me to have a baby white seal. Then I figured you were right here so..." Dave said, earning a hit in the chest, but a laugh as well.

"Thank you Dave," Elena smiled, giving him a hug. Dave would've enjoyed the closeness more if his leg didn't start acting up.

"You gonna name it?" he asked her as they pulled away.

"Yep. Her name is now Nadia." Elena announced proudly. Dave just nodded, liking the name. "Come on let's get out of here. I'm hungry and we're burning daylight." Elena said, unconsciously taking his hand in hers and walking with him outside. She didn't realize Dave was very aware of their hands together, and was able to ignore the pain for a few minutes.

A/N: Okay, just a few things: 1) I have no idea if you can actually ride mopeds around in Houston, lol, but let's pretend you can. 2) Elena and Dave probably broke a bunch of laws with how they were riding on the moped, lol but I thought it was cute. As for the aquarium, that was pretty much what happened when I went there, minus Batista. Hope you enjoyed it :)