Chapter forty three
After quite a long silence Dan started talking again "I was furious for a long time, with Benjamin for confusing and steeling you from me, and with you for not seeing that I was better for you than him. The moment you walked into this room though I knew that that fury was mostly with myself for not fighting for you. And then you went ahead without any persuading and pored your heart and soul out to me. That was the most honest thing a girl has ever said to me. And all of a sudden I wasn't angry with you anymore. Just like you've learned who to forgive, so have I. Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone has enough insight and intelligence to see it on their own" he had scooted closer and closer to me as the words escaped his mouth.
"Well, I did have some help" I pointed out kind of playfully.
"Oh, shut up. Do you want the happy ending or not?" he bit back teasingly.
"You know I'm a sucker for a happy ending" I confessed.
"I know I'm not a prince or knight in shining armor"
"No, you're better" I smiled, so did he, his brilliant, broad smile shining brighter than ever. Dan's gaze traveled down to my lips for a second, and then shot up to find mine again. Then he kissed me and I hadn't been happier about anything since the last time he did. It was a soft and sweet kiss, but it still left me breathless, so even if we only kissed for a few moments it left me panting for air. Dan had placed his hand on my shoulder during the kiss and now we were sitting there resting our foreheads against each other and staring into each other's eyes.
At that moment I heard the door open and Dan and I both looked up to see who it was. Of course it was Phil.
"I see you two love birds have made up. Thank god you came to your senses Sarah, I was almost afraid I was losing Dan completely for a while there" he mocked Dan.
"Hey, shut up man" Dan shot in Phil's direction.
"No, don't it's cute when guys are shattered over you. What do you mean you thought you had lost him?" I intervened.
"Well, he came home slamming doors; I had to come in to comfort him. He was crying so much. All he's done for the last few days is sit and sulk in his room and eat all of his meals in bed, and stuff his face with chocolate" Phil explained.
"She doesn't need the details Phil" Dan shot him a death glare.
"No, really I do, Phil go on" I started, but the last word was partly mangled because Dan grabbed my chin, guided it toward him and covered my mouth with his lips in order to stop me from speaking. I was about to push him away, but his hand was on my waist as he bit softly at my bottom lip. A satisfied moan escaped my throat. I curled my fingers into the hair at the back of Dan's head as our tongues intertwined and he dragged me down onto the bed with his body slightly on top of mine.
"Okay" Phil exclaimed "I'll be in the lounge when you've finished in here"
I felt Dan's hand leave my waist and waive frantically at Phil, signaling him to leave the room. Phil hurriedly scurried out of the room and shut the door behind him probably not wanting to witness any more than he already had.
Dan was going a little too fast for my liking, not that I didn't like what he was doing, don't get me wrong, but we needed to slow it down a little. I mean we had only just made up. Plus we couldn't just ignore Phil. So, I pulled away slightly from Dan's lips and he immediately started kissing down my neck. When he reached my collarbone I unintentionally let out another moan of pleasure.
'No, Sarah focus!' I managed to summon the mental and physical strength, and pushed Dan off of me.
"Slow down there cowboy" I was happily able to use that catch phrase for once "we've got to be a little social, we can't ignore Phil. We can pick this up later"
"Is that a promise?" Dan asked. We were both now lying side by side staring up at the sealing.
I turned my head to face him and grinned goofily "It's a promise" and with that I grabbed his hand in mine and hauled him off the bed. I lead him down the hall to the lounge where we found Phil engrossed in his computer screen. Dan barged over to where Phil was sitting, still holding my hand, so I was dragged along, and waved his hand in front of Phil's face to get his attention.
"Hey, Phil. She just broke up our perfectly good make out session so we could socialize with you" Dan said gesturing to me "so you better pay attention to us" he added before slumping down onto the couch next to Phil.
Phil closed his computer and put it aside "Ok, yeah, I was thinking maybe we could have some food, watch a movie or something?" he asked, now providing us with his undivided attention.
"Well, it's a while until dinner time, so let's watch a movie first and then we can have some food afterwards" I suggested.
"Sounds good to me" Dan agreed "So what movie?"
"I don't know, but let's not watch a scary one this time" I pleaded.
"I don't know, I kind of liked the outcome of that the last time" Dan not so subtly hinted to the fact that the last time we watched a scary movie I ended up in his bed half naked.
"No, please don't make me" I pleaded, then I tuned toward Dan, leant in close to his ear and whispered "anyway, you might get that outcome without a scary movie, if you play your cards right" when I moved away again I could see Dan's eyes had widened a little at what I'd just told him. That brought a smile to my lips and a slight blush to my cheeks. When Dan looked over at me with a questioning look, as if to ask 'do you really mean that?', I let out a small giggle and bit my lip. I looked down at my had witch was still intertwined with Dan's and gave it a squeeze as if to say 'yeah'. My stomach was doing flips, it felt good and exiting.
"Ok, then what do you want to watch?" Phil asked cutting in.
"Just because I know what I don't want to watch doesn't mean I know what I want to watch" I replied.
"OK, well I have an idea" Phil stood, walked over to their movie collection, and went over the backs of the movies with his finger before he found what he was looking for. He took the movie he'd selected out of the cabinet and handed it to me to read.
I read the back, it was an action-comedy that I hadn't seen before "Sure we can watch this" I agreed.
Phil took the movie from me again and after getting a nod of approval from Dan he placed it in the DVD-player. He came back to the couch and sat down next to Dan again. Dan leant back into the couch as the movie started and I snuggled up to him to assume our now perfected snuggling position. I looked over at Phil and noticed that he looked kind of lonely sitting there all on his own. I definitely had to work my magic a little and see if he might be interested in Ally, so I could subtly set them up.
