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Note: THANX sooooooooooooo much for all the great reviews, and I'm really happy to hear that you seem to like the Lerissa and Dally pairing. I'll try to have other pairings too, what do you guys think of Cherry falling for Johnny???????

Oh and I know in this chapter Lerissa and Dally would freeze to death if it were in real life, but I couldn't help but to write it this way! @_@





Lerissa



"Dally?" I called, making the figure's head snap up and his light blue eyes met mine.

"My, vampires are real after all," Dally grinned looking me up and down.

"Huh?" but suddenly I realized why he just said that, I mean I'm quite pale, with unearthly eyes and long dark hair, besides I was dressed all in black, so I probably did look like a vampire.

"What are you doing here, looking for blood?" Dally asked and I rolled my eyes.

"Very funny. Not. I couldn't sleep so I came out for a run, why are you here?" I asked following him as he made his way to a park bench.

"Nowhere else to go," Dally shrugged and I sat down right beside him.

We sat down in silence for a few minutes, until I looked up and nearly felt my mouth drop open in amusement. There up in the sky there were millions of stars visible, so beautiful that I was left breathless. Oh sure I knew about how night skies were supposed to be full of stars and all, but where I lived the air was too polluted for us to be able to see the stars clearly, not like I could see them now.

"You look like you've never seen stars before," Dally grinned looking amused.

"I haven't, at least not this clearly. Besides who're you to talk, I mean you probably never looked at the night sky before either," I said, turning to Dally who was now looking up at the sky, his eyes softer than I have ever seen them.

"When you grow up in the street the night sky is all you really have," he said softly and I couldn't tell if he was talking more to himself or me.

"You know as a child I always wished I could sleep under a sea of stars every night, and I think I finally got my wish. Just never though it would be this amazing," I sighed, then my face stretched into a wild smile and I jumped up, "it's making me want to do something…something wild or fun."

"Like what," Dally snored, but my grin only widened and I suddenly knew exactly what I could do, so I grabbed his hand and pulled him up before he had a chance to protest.

"Lets dance," I suggested pulling him towards me.

"What?" Dally frowned, "you want to dance here?"

"Why not, there's a lot of space and nobody's around, although I wouldn't mind for an audience," I suddenly smirked thinking of a way I could get him to agree, "what's wrong Dally, are you too afraid or something?"

"Hn you wish," he sneered, "fine, I'll show the real meaning of dancin'."

"Let's see it then," I said as we began to dance, close but wild.

It was original and incredibly fun, in fact I never remembered having so much fun. I never remembered laughing so hard either. While we were dancing I felt like I was having the time of my life, and from the way Dally's eyes shown I could see that he felt the same.

We finally got a little tired and needed a little break, but I couldn't resist but give Dally a little push so he'd fall into the deep end of the little pool in the park. The scene of him falling was so incredibly funny that I had bent down clutching my stomach with tears running down my cheeks.

Dally smiled dangerously, and before I could react he grabbed my free hand and pulling me in the water.

"Hey the water is warmer than I thought it would be," I managed to chock out, still shaking with laughter.

After we both calmed down a bit a sudden idea hit me, so I swam towards him and quickly put a hand on top of his head and another on his shoulder pushing him underwater. But like I had guessed he was too strong. He used my waist to pull me down along with him, and in the process my arms ended up circled around his neck.

I suddenly realized exactly how close our bodies were, especially our lips, Dally seemed to have noticed it too. It seemed like such a shame not to go ahead and kiss him, after how close his lips were to mine, so I bent forward and covered his lips with mine, and incredibly enough he responded with an equal amount of desire.

As our tongs wrestled he circled his arms around my waist pulling me closer, sending electric waves all through my body. I ran a hand through his wet hair waiting for him to make the first move for us to go farther, as his hands caressed the edge of my tight tank top, but he never made any attempt to pull it off.

I suddenly pulled back, my eyes full of confusion and hurt, why didn't Dallas want me, the question nearly brought tears hot tears to my eyes, but I blinked them away. Dally put a gentle hand on my shoulder, and used his other hand to brush my wet her out of my face.

"It's not that I don't want you," he said understanding the reason I was hurt.

"Than what is? Why didn't you want to get closer to me?" I asked my voice full of hurt.

"I don't know! I just…if you were any other girl I would have fucked you without a second thought, but your not. There is something about you that makes me want to get to know you better before we go any farther," he turned away as if he was embarrassed to say what he was about to say, "I don't want to bed you the first night like the way it was with all the other girls I was with, because your different, there is something special about you. It's like I want to appreciate the beauty inside of you before I appreciate the one on the outside."

I felt my mouth drop open in surprise, weren't girls the ones who usually wanted to wait to have sex and guys the one who pushed them into doing it? Besides it never accord to me that Dallas Winston would care about getting to know anyone before bedding them, but then he had said I was special and maybe he really meant it, maybe he really cared about me, the way I cared about him. Where did that come from, I thought, since when do I care about Dally? Am I falling in love with him?

"Please don't feel hurt?" his eyes no longer looked hard and cold, but caring, as if he really didn't want me in pain or something.

"I…I don't," I said still in shock, then slowly got out of the pool, followed by Dally.

We made our way back to the bench, drenched to the bone. I couldn't help but to be relieved that it was June so it wasn't freezing cold, but the air was still a little breezy, so I shivered a little. Before I knew it Dallas' arms were wrapped around me and the sky had turned golden meaning the sun was raising.

After watching the sunrise I couldn't help but feel exhausted so I rested my head on Dally's shoulder and let myself fall sleep, and for once my dreams were peaceful.



A/N: I think for my next chapter I'm gonna have Dally as the main character, and I'm gonna take Zevie's advice in showing his sweetness!!! ^_^