"So what are you doing for Thanksgiving? Going to see your family?" Daine asked Numair on the phone a few days before the holiday in question.
"No actually they're all busy with the situation with my mother so I'm going to go out to dinner with some friends."
"That sounds fun, how is your mom?"
"She's doing as well as is to be expected. Are you spending thanksgiving with Dan?"
"Yeah we're having dinner, oh I have to go talk to you later."
"Bye."
Daine had just heard Dan come in and in truth she didn't know if they were doing anything for thanksgiving.
"Hey Dan?"
"Yes"
"Are we doing anything for thanksgiving?"
"I figured we'd go out for dinner if that's okay with you. I don't usually go to my families anyway."
"Sounds great." Things had gotten better since she had old Numair she thought things were falling apart it had just taken some getting used to, at least she thought so. His workload had lightened and he was around a lot more, so she just shrugged off the events of earlier that year passing them off as nerves from the move.
Numair sat on the couch, so okay he had lied. He didn't have anything to do on Thanksgiving, his family was very busy with his mother and he and his father had decided that it was better if he just stay home. Of course he didn't want Daine to know he didn't have plans she would probably come make Dan come over and they would all end up having dinner together, which with Dan's current discomfort with Numair he thought this would be a very bad idea. Besides he didn't want Daine to think that he was incapable of having a social life without her anymore, he just thought it would be nice to have a peaceful holiday to himself for once. Well that's what he would tell himself anyway.
Thanksgiving
At about four Daine Sarrasri was feeling very pleased with herself, she was nearly done preparing dinner for her and Dan. At the moment he was at work, again, but he promised to be back early. The young woman was very exited for that night, she had bought a new dress prepared an entire meal, not made of take-out, and was currently searching for some candles to place on the table.
A few miles away Numair Salmalin was sitting on the couch in front of a stack of rented movies sitting on the coffee table, he had thought it might be a good idea for his holiday alone, somehow the whole process of renting and watching movies was much more fun with Daine around to do it with him. He sighed as his thoughts turned to her yet again and closed his eyes. They talked on the phone and she visited him occasionally but he missed her, he missed her presence in the house, it seemed so empty and cold without her and it scared him that how the fact that all she had done was move twenty minutes away could effect him so much. What really scared him was how much he had been thinking of her of late, how he felt about her, he was starting to realize that there might be more to his feelings than he could fathom at the moment. I n desperation to rid himself of the thoughts that plagued him he got up and began to search through his cabinets.
At seven Daine had changed into her dress, it was black and simple but accented her features nicely, set the plates on a table in front of the apartment windows that looked over the nighttime city, and shut off all sources of light except for a candle on the table. Dan was a bit late but that was okay seeing as she had underestimated the time it took to prepare the meal for that night. Just as she was heading to check on her dish the phone rang, she grabbed he cordless and opened the over door as she greeted the caller.
"Hello"
"Daine, good I'm glad I caught you, there was another shift tonight and I decided to take it, I wont be home until some time tomorrow morning."
Daine stopped what she was doing; this was just what she had been sure he had stopped doing.
"Dan, you said you would be home!" She couldn't believe this; he had looked her in the eye and promised he would be there.
"I know but there are some doctor's here that could give me some very good recommendations if I can get on their good side."
"Dan I-"
"Listen I have to go, I'll see you tomorrow. Love you, bye." The line went dead and Daine was left standing there alone and apparently she was going to be that way for a while. Suddenly she screamed throwing the phone at the wall, she then proceeded to grab the pan from the oven, without mitts, and shoving it all into the garbage, it burned her hands but it didn't matter to her. Still in hysterics she threw all the food away and chucked the flowers on the table at the wall near where the phone had hit. Grabbing the bottle of wine she had bought for the occasion she sat at the table.
Numair looked at the half empty bottle of vodka in his hand curiously. Hadn't he drunk more of it, or was it less? Shaking his head he took another swig. Instead of ridding his mind of thoughts about Daine, on the contrary, his mind now ran rampant with her. He remembered when she moved in, how thankful she had been to him, the picnic they went on, when she took him out the club after Rachel had left him. He thought of every emotion that raced through him when he was with her respect, concern, contentment, love. Friendly love of course, but as he sat there in his house in the dark, drinking alone he thought, could there be more to it?
The next morning Numair woke up on his couch, a nearly empty bottle on the floor below him. He moaned as light from the window hit his eyes and made his head ache even more. He could remember very little of the night before, briefly he remembered thinking something about Daine and love. He moaned again, he really had been drunk. Just then the phone rang, not a good sound to someone with a hangover. He let it go figuring they would hang up but when it kept going he forced himself to get up but he didn't reach it before the answering machine picked it up. After his message played he heard a very familiar voice on the other end.
"Hey Numair, you there?---" Numair went to reach for it but stopped as she continued. " ---Right, you're at your parents house, I forgot about that. So, um, I jut wanted to check in see hoe your day yesterday was. Call me when you get back, bye."
Of course, he had told her he was going out of town; he would have to refrain from calling her until at least that night. Then he frowned remembering how she had sounded in the message, weary and kind of sad. Shaking his head he figured she must have just been tired and headed into the kitchen to see what he could do about his hangover.
Daine hung up the phone sighing; she had forgotten that he wouldn't be home. Her head was pounding but she had managed to get up early enough to clean up from the night before, leaving no trace of her dismay. Walking to a window she looked out over the city as she heard the door open signaling Dan's return.
"Hello love, hope things were okay about last night, I'm wiped though, gonna go to bed. Love you, see you later."
Daine had spent a good part of last night and this morning figuring out what she would do when he got back. She had things planned to say, she would yell and scream and make her point, she would leave, but at this moment, when it finally came down to it she said the only thing she could think of to say.
"I love you too."
Will update as soon as possible...of course we've all seen how well that works out...I do have reasons...seriously
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