Awaking the next morning, she got up and dressed quickly. The time was only 10:30, but she desperately wanted to explore Los Angeles. Her mind was on dan,
and she was curious to see if there was any damage to her car. Instead of exploring the city, she opened her door to rush down the stairs, and check all around
her car for any tickets, tire bumpers or key marks on her door. When she got to her car, she saw on the door side, the most slight dent that was absolutely not
there yesterday. She felt so angry, believing that it was probably dan's boot that had kicked it in. She circled around the entire car, and saw nothing else was
wrong with it. She stopped at the dent again, and inspected it more closely. When she had leaned in, a familiar voice called out from the balcony. "Excuse me! I
really need to talk to you." She whipped around to the apartments behind her and saw dan was standing there at the edge of the stairs, looking very angry at
her for a second until his facial expression softened. He didn't look as angry as when she first turned around instead it changed into a more awkward look, and
they had a soft shade of red on they're cheeks, which she thought could be a sun burn, since they were so pale. "What is your name?" They asked me, which
then they started to decline down the stairs towards my direction. "Caroline." I said, kind of awkwardly since they looked awkward. "What Is your name?" I
asked casually, as they directly walked up to me and stopped. "My name is dan." He said In a very casual, stuck up way. He looked side eyed towards my dent
on my drivers side and then looked back at me. "I did do that by the way, but its only because you parked directly on my spot where I park everyday. It is a
direct parking violation and is a crime-" and they wen't on and on. They started walking around me, still looking at me and talking with they're hands behind
they're back, looking over at the side of my body, then I turned around as they slowly kept walking towards the back of my car again and were still talking, "-So
I wrote down your license plate, because this is a definite police matter to be investigated clearly, BUT-" I did not get any words in of course, and they were
directly staring into my eyes as I was staring in to theirs, waiting for they're response. Instead they had this devious smile written across they're faces into a
smirk and relaxed green eyes which I could only take they were flirting with me somehow. I crossed my arms and side eyed my car "but what?" I said, confused
and thinking that this argument that this was a police matter was crazy enough and truly there was no crime after all. He finally looked down and said politely
"Caroline, will you please park your car-" pointing across to the other side of the parking lot behind them. "Over there!" Then they turned around and looked at
me and raised there eyebrows, with an innocent expression on they're face. I nodded, and smiled a little by accident and had to keep myself from laughing,
because I was starting to think they were a little crazy. I got into my car, and parked it behind me instead. Dan was standing with crossed arms where I originally
parked, then when I got out after putting it into park, I watched dan get into a red car which was parked three parking spaces over next to where I originally
was, as he took the parking space for himself. I walked right next to him as he stopped his car, with his window still rolled up, He slowly put his window down.
"Are we good now? Is this what you wanted" I said sarcastically. He said "Yes, this is exactly how these problems get cleared, no police needed." He smiled at me
"This is a very important spot to me, Its where I can directly walk up the stairs to directly walk to my apartment." He was still smiling, but I had lost mine.
"Okay, Im glad you're happy" I said, sarcastically again. I looked at them a few more moments and walked away back up stairs. I heard them get out of they're
car. "Hey, are you the new woman that lives close by me?" He said matter of factly. "Next to me, I presume?" I turned around and looked into they're faces, and
saw that they only wanted to be nice to me. I wanted to believe that. "I moved in yesterday, actually, Im in room 214." I said in a matter of factly tone as well.
He nodded, with his one eyebrow up with an interested look. "Mine is actually, room 215, which is exactly what I presumed." He said in a funny way. I started
laughing a little again, but he caught me laughing at him because I wasn't able to hide it. "Are you trying to flirt with me?" He started "No, No I was only hoping
to help you with your moving In, like your bags-" "Oh I see" I said, catching them off guard. "Im actually already completely unpacked everything from my car.
. a good thing too, I see now." I looked at them, and too where I am now parked. "Dan, I think it's really rude of you, to make me really scared earlier that I
really did something wrong-" "But you did" "No! Threatening someone to move there car to the other side of the street, just so its to the convenience of your
walking needs to the stairs and your apartment, is really chaotic!" I said a little loudly. "I drove across the country to be here! I just wanted to be a little more
comfortable in a new place, that's all." I said in a weary-annoyed tone. He looked a little intensely at me, then softened. "Im sorry you feel that way, maybe I
made an error. What if you could park your car next to my car?….If you can?." He said in a moronic, hopeful way. I looked at my car and where his car was
spaced. "No thank you, I don't think that will work out, considering there is no space left available." Then dan looked up from the ground and said "Well, I guess
it can be perfectly suited and comfortable over on the other side of the street." Then he started whistling happily, and looked away from me and started up the
stairs again. "Caroline? Can I see you again possibly?" He said smiling from the top of the stairs at me, I turned around and looked at him in a shocked
expression. "What?" "Because I hope we can become friends some point..Like tomorrow or Wednesday, Im not busy at all…" I felt desperation, that he might of
wanted to show himself more to me, but I was nervous to see more of dan after today, but also was generally curious as to what type of person dan really is.
"You..Wanted to see me tomorrow?" I said. "Yes, if you want to with me someplace." Dan said. "Im confused, are you making fun of me?" I had to ask, since this
whole conversation seemed a little off. "No! Of course not I think your very pretty-no I mean nice and-yes I do want to see you actually." "So you actually want
to go out with me?." Dan made a terrified look and said "what" quietly and walked away. "Dan?" I was extremely confused, but when I made it to the top of the
stairs to see him, He whipped around to me and I only heard a little "Yes I do want to go out with you" and they looked badly at me, in a weird-sad, semi-
disgusted manner. He walked away towards his apartment door, and leaned his body away from me, with his arm half on the side and one of his legs behind him,
not looking at me. On the other side, Dan's face had looked like it was in questioning. To Caroline, they looked like they felt awful for saying it, dan shook his
head and stepped inside his apartment, and didn't come out. Caroline just stood there, next to her apartment door, looking ahead at the space where they stood.
"They were obviously extremely embarrassed to ask me that" and she was starting to feel red over the whole ordeal. She wen't inside her apartment, and
decided to go to the bathroom in order to take a shower. She needed to really relax and to go over her thoughts, then to sneak and leave the apartment to
explore Los Angeles like she wanted to earlier, preferably with earphones until she hit places she wanted to see. She defiantly needed music to boost her spirits.
She turned on the shower, and waited for hot water, and wen't over dan in her head. "Why would dan make such a big deal over something so ridiculous? Then
be so rude to me, then be wanting to know me all of a sudden to wanting to actually go out with me?" She said out loud. She started to worry about how dan
felt, and maybe they were to infatuated with her since the beginning, and had brought out their feelings about her too much, that she accidentally embarrassed
them badly? She remembered them becoming awkward on the staircase, when she first saw them this morning after they're angry outburst, and how they're
face began a shade of red. She couldn't really help these thoughts, on top of feeling that dan might of made her feel awkward like that as well when she first saw
them, and how she saw them yesterday night in that dim yellow neon light. Caroline felt hot and sticky in the shower, just thinking about the way they looked
with all that darkness around their body, and only being shown a little. They honestly are very attractive, his dark messy hair really makes his green eyes pop
out, especially since he decided to wear that black shirt again. She didn't really think about it until they really started really flirting with her during the end. "I
wonder if I will accidentally see them again after I get out of my shower?" Caroline sat In the shower for a solid 20 minutes, then got out and dressed herself in
ripped blue jeans, a white peasant blouse and small brown heels. Changing her hair to become more wavy and shiny. She knew she had to look good, it was Los
Angeles after all. After finishing, it was probably only forty minutes, but she was nervous to exit her room, afraid that she would upset Dan again, since she
wasn't exactly sure what was going to be said next.