Caroline did not want to fall asleep, but knowing it was only a thirty minute nap, she was thankful. She had wanted to sneak out the door as quickly as possible, hoping locking
her door could become a quick process. She felt so hurt and couldn't believe how fast their relationship had declined, by his attitude! She had only gotten too say a few things,
she was only trying to explain to him that he seemed to move so fast, wanting to just get to know him way more than this, wanting things to go slow.
He decided to scream at her, and threaten her instead. She felt so scared, that she needed to get away from him. She just wanted to get along, and not move away. After all,
she just arrived here, and was already excited with many plans for the future, that she didn't want to be taken away from. She was so angry, she threw some things at the other
wall (soft things) and grabbed her wallet, slipping on her shoes. She slowly began opening her apartment door, hoping that dan was not standing outside. Suddenly, she
noticed something fell from her door, as it made a soft thud. She looked down, and saw two flowers were lying down, Dandelions. She opened her door a little more, and saw
a wet, mushy blob of petals next to them. Which looked to her like bird food to feed babies. She began to instantly think, that this was how dan felt about her. Mostly
breaking him (With the nasty spit petals) but slightly forgiving her (with the whole flowers inside her door.) She thought dan was very…Romantic, in a way. He had derangely
tried to explain his feelings with a message. She wasn't sure what to do next. She wanted to clean it up because she didn't want the sun to waft any smells on her porch. She
opened her door wider, to see if he left anything else, but saw there was nothing. She felt like she didn't really want to deal with the mess, because she wasn't sure
how dan would react if it was instantly gone. She started to feel very hot under the collar, since dan was most likely infatuated with her, not actually wanting her to move at all.
She had never had someone care this much, in anger or in interest. She really was interested in dan during some moments they shared, but she felt like she kept getting shut
out from him more. She shut her door from behind her, stepped around the spot, and looked around. She didn't see him anywhere, but decided to act on one of two options. She
could knock on his door, and ask what it meant, and what she thought it meant, or she could go out and get something to leave on his door today, without speaking to him at all.
She wanted to speak to him again, and began getting flustered. She worked up the courage, and went to his side of the apartment, in front of his door. She noticed his blinds
we're closed, so she wasn't sure if he was home. She knocked on his door, and heard a loud "who?" She knocked again, hoping to just wait for him. He opened his door finally,
and dan stared into her eyes, looking uncomfortable already. He said quietly, guilty. "Oh hey….." She moved her head to look back at her apartment door, staring at the ground,
to look at the blob of petals. She looked back into his sorrowful eyes, and asked him awkwardly. "Does this mean you slightly forgive me, by putting those two healthy flowers
inside my door? and the rest of that "spit blob" of petals, is hate or something?" She asked curiously, with annoyance at the end. Dan moves back away from her, biting his
fingernails in angst and nervousness. He said "YEAH, hahahaha." And laughs. "No, I don't know.. Yeah, iii just was saddd" in a careless, melodramatic tone, as his voice
seemed to shrug itself. "Of course… I wanted to give you what I thought, YOU WERE." He remarks meanly, then stops. Starting again anxiously, quiet. "No… I.. am.. so." Dan
reaches over to Caroline, and gives her a quick hug. Caroline felt confused at this. "….And what am I, exactly?" She asked him questionably, as he lets go of her. She gives
dan a small, dirty look, since she didn't want to hug him back. Dan waved his arms up, acting casual, and tried to explain himself again. Failing. "..Like a cute.. ugly..
weird.. crap.?" He could not know what he really thought it was, it had no special meaning to him. Caroline's face grew in anger, all over again. She made herself calm down at
his awful, weird, sly comment at her, and it left her face. She instead calmly said to him, with much shame in her voice. "Im sorry I slapped you earlier.." Dan looked
apologetically at her. "Oh yeah… that's okay. I know." He smiles a little, because he knew she was sad. She looks away from him again, and continues seriously "..Are you
really going to move away, since you think of me as an "evil woman" that won't go out with you?" She explains exasperated, looking into him for answers. He starts sheepishly
"…No.. I'm not going to move.. I won't" He looks at her dumbstruck, and states mockingly "…seriously?" She attacks back. "You didn't even let me respond when you asked
me to leave with you, then you just started yelling at me that you could never like me at all! I just wanted to get alo-" Dan interrupts her "I do want to be with you still! please
don't say anything then. I feel awful about it all!" It felt like Dan was shouting, but he was talking in his normal voice. She felt like the whole neighborhood could hear him in that
moment, and possibly even a little of L.A itself. She backed away from him, feeling bewildered with excitement, as she felt like a booming radio had blasted her back. Dan
pleads with ready. "I can go right now if you want, I can I seriously will." She whispered "Can I speak now?" Jokingly, as he had told her not to talk. "YES" he said happily, but
it felt weird that she whispered and asked him if she could, since he had forgotten he told her to be quiet. Feeling bad for dan's feelings, and wanting to have hope in him, she
says "Lets go, and have one date, okay? Before I have to do anything..?" She says, smiling with her words eagerly. Dan controls himself, and says proudly but hesitantly.
"Thank you, I just need to go out and get something. I'll be right back." and he slams the door in her face. Caroline, blushing, says to herself quietly "Go outside, and get
something? He must of meant inside his apartment.." Caroline responded to him "Okay! I'm just going to be getting ready, I'll let you know.." She hears dan yell back plainly
"Your fine!" He said far inside his apartment. She pretended not to hear him, and goes back inside her apartment. Dan was showering, and doing too many things at once,
quickly. He really hoped that she would love him on this date, he just wanted her to like everything he had to say. But he was full of dread, since what happened the other night
together, he didn't want her to feel broken anymore about anything he done to her. Caroline wen't to the bathroom, fixed her hair, and put on perfume all over her body. The
floral kind. She checked her face, and made sure that it looked good, since she wanted to just look natural, thinking she was usually good looking as herself. She
thought about changing her clothes, but remembered dan saying "she was fine." She thought about how she could look better for this date, but wanted to wear instead what
she was wearing to be payback, for him being so rude to her earlier. Thirty minutes passed, and Caroline finished, deciding to wait for dan outside. She walked out her
apartment door again, and to the corner of her eye, saw dan standing in front of his door, looking ready. He was well dressed, In a grey tee, with dark blue jeans. She had even
smelled a drift of cologne in the air. She figured it smelled exactly like cinnamon and sandalwood, to her disbelief. He was very handsome. He stood with his hands in his
pockets, smiling at her with a crooked grin. She started smiling at him, blushing slightly. "..You look really good." She said confidently. He felt heat in his face, embarrassed. He
said shyly sideways, looking at the ground "you look always good." She blinks fervently at him, and moves her hair a little to the side, off her shoulder. "Thank you." She said
sweetly, looking down. He felt like he was drifting some, and felt a burning sensation inside. Caroline stuttered loudly "Oh-Im ready! Where do you want to-" Dan interrupts.
"Anything we can do, whatever.." Caroline perks up more. "What about we drive around for a bit, and see what we both want to do?" She says to him, in an interesting way.
"Yeah, okay, Im for that." He wanted to see if they could do anything at all together on their date, and he was starting to like her more. They walked down the stairs together,
dan suddenly stopped himself and began to believe that "if they were willing to drive around together to find "whatever" they liked to do for their date" he felt in fear "His car
would run out of gas!" He looked caringly at Caroline after this thought, being narcissistic, says "Can we go in YOUR car, is that okay?" He asked nicely, looking up at her since
he moved quicker down the stairs. "We can do that" She says casually with sweetness in her tone. He began to feel nervous to go again, since it has been so long he had been
on any date, with any considerable woman. As they walked downstairs across the parking lot, dan gets inside Carolines car. She peers at dan as she starts the car. He wanted to
say more, since they have been quiet for a bit. He felt like he only needed more time to focus on what to say, like only a few minutes. Instead, he quickly says, agitated "Okay
so I really want to eat something, I guess we should go do that actually…" She looks relieved, and says "Im so hungry, Im happy you said that first." Smiling at him, since she
was actually starving. "OKay" he giggled, and acted sweet towards her once more, and felt a little ashamed at himself feeling like he had barked this a little. She laughed after
his comment "Show me where you usually go, Im curious" Since she still didn't know Los Angeles that well, and thought it was a good start to know dan by seeing where he
usually ate. Dan started plotting, and wanted to look good to her, with an extremely quiet voice, he says "Yeah, let's go to a fancy restaurant" but figures she is dressed to
casually for that. He interrupts himself "Lets go to a place where I eat at all the time" Cooly, as he puts his arm out confidently on the wheel. Caroline nods a little. "Dan, you
wouldn't mind driving there! Im afraid I'll miss it." Dan perks up "Yeah I can drive us." Dan started to feel more emotional attached towards her again. Dan and Caroline get out
of the car to switch places, as she gets out, her immediate thoughts were "how afraid she was that he would hurt her car in some way." Outside, dan stops to poke Caroline a
little on the stomach playfully, she pokes him in the same spot with dumbness. Dan found this as a slight turn on. He looked at Caroline from the bottom of her legs, to the top
where their eyes met again, with a smile on his face. Caroline smiled back kiddingly. Dan goes to the driver side to start her car, as he gets in
Caroline instantly remembers something. "Oh shit, I almost forgot-" "WHAT… shit" he said In a small voice. "There's a little maneuver to start the car, correctly. It's really old,
Im sorry. Let me-" "No its fine I can start it, what do I have to do?" He freaks out inside, and thinks this will end badly. "Turn the key and turn it off, then put the stick into four
wheel drive, and turn the gas mileage light on the front board-" Dan shouts. "whoa, okay, Jesus what, would, even be happening to me if not so..?" He looks at her scared.
Caroline suddenly looks nervous. "..We would go backwards? Without stopping.." Dan jumps a bit "WHAT, really okay then." Caroline points "OKAY, then after you put on the
light, you can turn the key again." She watches dan's movements. "Which one?" "The car key, Im sorry." Dan preoccupied himself with her directions, but he only manages to
hear a little. "Okay, that's fine, I think I got everything to go the way it needs to be now…" He smiles weakly at her, as he knew he didn't do everything correctly as the car
slowly goes backwards. Caroline's memories flood back to near car accidents in the past. Dan hit's the brakes, hoping it would stop the car, and it did. Caroline suddenly loses
her fear when he stops her car, and laughs at him. "Let me reach over you, and do that and I can let you drive!" Caroline moved quickly to do everything right for him, and
then backs away, her hands in the air in a funny expression as she smiles some. Dan looks confused looking at her, scared he says loudly "I won't be happy if I get hurt, please
don't let me! please" He whispers at the end. He was starting to feel weird about this entire drive now. "It drives normally! I came here from Maine!" She tried to boost him by
saying this confidently, as she weakly playfully touched his arm. He felt uncomfortable that this happened, and looked directly at her, changing himself to a scary face, with an
intimidating voice. "This isn't a plan to exterminate me from you, or something?" "Im planning to exterminate myself then, If I had forgotten.." She says, to at least try to make
him feel better, acting cheerful. He felt strange, and no longer wanted to drive. Shaking his head at her, he smiles and shows "he doesn't want to do this at all." He speaks.
"Drive, please do, I don't know if I can." She jokes "Now Im nervous, maybe you should drive. Since..I did drive half way across the country." Dan screams "NO I WONT, IM
GETTING INSIDE MINE NOW, AND COME ON THEN!" he laughs at the end of his sentence, getting out of her car as he could not help himself, with her silliness. With
relief on her face, she felt better not being in her vehicle after all. "Okay!" She said loudly to him, as he gets out. She liked playing around, as dan felt embarrassed that he liked
her more than he wanted to believe. He thought with some sadness, "she was so FUCKING CRAZY obviously, to kill me and her." he knew. He had to speak for her, in case she
died. "YOU SHOULD GET A NEW CAR", he said stubbornly, turning his head slightly to her as he was turned himself away, he wanted to race up ahead towards his vehicle. She
replies with some attitude "If you don't try to kick me out like you wanted, I can save my money for a new one?" slyly and cutesy, trying to pull on him. He felt angry again that
she was still thinking he didn't like her, but said with control "No I said I want to be with you of course!" "Im only teasing you." She replies innocently. "About the car too?" She
replies, a little quieter "No, I do need to save." She ran quickly next to dan, on the passenger side where he was standing, waiting for her. He carried on "Good, we'll see mine?"
Dan suggests, opening his arm out, presenting the inside of his car as he opened the door for her. It was extremely torn apart, with clumps of white cotton coming out of the
cushions, plastic bottles and trash filling up in the drivers side, that wen't down to her seat. Caroline stood in shock at the state of the inside of his car. She stood back to
observe. "It's a little torn up, what did you do to it?" She asked worried. He whispers underneath his breath "it's kind of a long story.." As he gets into deep concentration and
remembers all the times he had with it, through every revenge scheme he ever needed to take care of. He gets lost in his thoughts, then looks at her with slight embarrassment
as he felt a flow of emotions again. He needed to look slightly to the ground. She observed him, feeling unnerved, but relaxes "..Are you okay? You seem a little lost in thought."
She said kindly. "No Im okay, I just need to fix it." he says, his face becoming heated again, as his feelings started to develop a little more, since she was kind enough to worry
about him. She gives him a smile, as dan leaves the door open for her, so he could get into the drivers seat. Caroline moves a few things around carefully, so she doesn't sit at
all on "whatever" that has been left there. As Dan gets in, she watches him sit exactly on everything that was left out, whispering in her mind "..But you're jeans!" She felt
slightly disgusted that he didn't seem to care about his appearance more, but that was fine by her. She guessed, since he still looked handsome. She wiped the front of her jeans
out of OCD. As dan settles, he moves his front mirror to see himself inside of it, while adjusting it to see the road from the back, which he never did often. He remarked to her
with snobbiness "So, are you going to see me everyday here, or do you do more Caroline?" Caroline thinks this is funny. "I was going to do more yesterday, but my plans
changed." She talked like he did, but with no criticism. He hid his face inside his hand some and smiles into his palm. Looking back at Caroline. "I do, do more yes" She said,
trying not to smile, since she was playing mean. She ended up looking ahead of her instead. Dan felt angry some that she was being sarcastic, but knew she was just playing
with his head. To be crazy, He reached over and started to feel the bottom of her hair, his fingertips stroking her strands while saying a little sexually "what if you were only with
me all day, everyday, how would that make you feel…" he looked at her, while leaning closely into her ear, and smoothly kisses her on the cheek. She smiles at his words, and
closes her eyes when he kisses her, opening them again. She felt like dan was a sort of naughty character. She slapped him a little on the arm, smiling at his face while saying
politely "That can not happen.." In a mischievous tone. She shook her head at him, embarrassed that he flirted with her this way as dan grins at her deviously, relaxing his eyes
onto hers. He backs away, and chuckles at her behavior, putting his arms up over his head. She looks at him again, staring at his arms as they held his hair, then his face, and
felt weird. "So..Where do you want to-" Dan felt seriously happier. He said quietly, interrupting "I think you're adorable." he complimented. She paused and watched his face
change dramatically, into an adoring way, as she looked down from his eyes, smiling some, looking back at his face. "Thank you" she said only in a quiet sweet whisper. Dan
wanted to talk about where they were going, but instead he placed his arm around her arm and stopped talking, smiling some while staring. She looked at his arm during when
he moved on hers, and looks back at his face softly. He pulled himself away, and felt angry that he was so dumb. They both sit back in their seats quietly, he pauses then starts
the car. As he drives out, festering in his mistake, dan looked back at her terrified. He watches her say under her breath "I don't.." and sees that her face looks in question,
staring at whatever that interested her in the front window. He thought about how soft her arm was. He looked ahead at the road. "Okay" he whispers incredibly softly, as he
drove on.