Danni headed down to breakfast happy but nervous. She
thought last night might have been a dream and Mark would be his hateful old
self when she got there.
"Hey girl, what happened last night?" Jeff said coming up to Danni.
Danni smiled at Jeff, Bill was right behind him and stood there waiting.
"We had nice talk." Danni said.
"That's all?" Jeff asked.
"Yes big brother, dad, that's all." Danni said laughing at the two of them.
"Are you okay?" Bill asked.
"Yes, we're going to just takes things slowly, see where they go?" Danni said.
"Where are you headed?" Bill asked.
"We're having breakfast." Danni said grinning.
"Hey what about us?" Jeff said.
"You two are more than welcome to join us; I wouldn't dump my two best friends for anyone." Danni said hugging each one of them.
"No sweetie, you go ahead. We'll see you on the flight." Bill said kissing Danni's cheek and dragging off a protesting Jeff. Danni laughed and headed down to the hotel restaurant. Danni looked around and saw Mark sitting at a table and walked over still nervous. He jumped up as soon as he saw Danni and pulled a chair out for her and pushed it back in as she sat down,
"Thanks." Danni said smiling.
Mark sat back down and looked sort of nervous himself.
"Sorry I'm a little late; dad and big brother stopped me upstairs grilling me." Danni said.
Mark smiled a little.
"It's okay." Mark said.
They ordered breakfast and sat back to wait.
Both were nervous and kind of sat there in silence.
"Uhh tell me something about you self Mark, all I know about you is your from Texas and your grumpy a lot of time." Danni said teasing him.
Mark smiled and started telling Danni about his childhood growing up in Texas. Danni listened raptly and found out a lot about the man. He was raised in a men were men household. Men don't show emotion and all that jazz. Danni figured that's why he had a hard time expressing him self. They ended talking through the whole meal and Mark was shocked how easy she was to talk to. He had told her more about himself than he had ever told anyone.
"It's time to go; we got a flight in a little while." Danni said.
"Will you set next to me on the flight? It's your turn to tell me about you self." Mark said.
Danni didn't say anything for a minute.
Mark realized she was upset.
"Something wrong?" Mark asked.
"Uhh no, sure I'll sit with you." Danni said smiling.
Mark got up and pulled her chair out. Danni got up and gave him a quick hug.
"Thanks for breakfast." Danni said.
"Yer welcome Danni." Mark said holding her for a second before letting her go.
Danni took off to get packed and Mark watched her. She seemed to balk about talking about herself. He wondered if he could get her to open up.
Danni ran into Trish and Jeff coming out of her room.
"Hey girl." Trish said.
"Hey Trish." Danni said grinning.
"I would say by that smile breakfast went well?" Jeff said.
"Yea, I had a good time." Danni said.
"Uhh I know my seats beside you guys, but Mark asked me to set with him." Danni said not wanting to hurt Jeff's feelings.
"That's fine girl, you and Mark have a good time." Trish said winking at Danni.
"Yea Danni, that's cool. I'm glad you are Mark are working things out. Remember I was the one who knew for months you two had a thing for each other." Jeff said laughing.
Danni just rolled her eyes.
"Okay Master Yoda, oh wise one, get your ass in gear or we're going to miss our flight." Danni said.
Jeff just grinned and followed behind the chattering females.