Okies... when I started to write this I didn't expect it to be this long... so here is chapter two.
Lights of Las Vegas
By Cat
Chapter two
Mary...
"Mary?"
The familiar voice said and she felt a hand on her shoulder... she turned...
"Luis...?"
The look of surprise on Mary's face was to say the least very scary. In fact, at the moment she was scared, Mary had been hoping that it was no-one Danny knew... but that was a little un-realistic as he knew everyone and everyone knew him. But did it have to be Luis Perez? One of Danny's best friends...?
Danny had been really jealous the last time and had even refused to talk to her for a few nights. She knew that Danny wouldn't hurt her physically but he would probably hate her for the rest of their lives! She was very scared of something like that happening as she did love him despite every thing that had happened between them.
"What are you doing here?" Luis asked.
"I'm waiting for someone." Mary replied hoping that he wouldn't tell Danny if it wasn't him.
"Well, I'd like you to meet my fiancé; Jennifer. Jennifer this is Mary." He said gesturing to the beautiful blond hanging on his arm. She was slightly shorter than Luis with brown eyes and most likely a hooker or a stripper from the way she was acting.
They both said their hellos and Luis and Jennifer walked over to a table in the back of the restaurant. Mary watched them from my table for a few moments. They acted really well together... or at least Luis did, she was acting as if she was only in it for either the sex or the money, Mary figured that it was probably the latter.
Mary looked around at the tables. Every table had a woman hanging like a love sick puppy on their husband or boyfriends' arm. Mary felt lonely; she once again wondered why she was here. Danny would be upset, she would be upset and it was all tears all around. She felt stupid for coming. it was only five more minutes until 'her admirer' would be here. She knew she'd regret it!
Danny...
The lights of Las Vegas came into view as the plane neared the majestic city Danny loved so much. It was the morning of the thirteenth of September. He wondered if anything had changed while he was gone.
The beautiful lights of the casinos made Danny feel like home, and from the air he spotted Montecito, a site Danny had always loved to see! His friends at the Montecito were like family to him. And thinking of family, he wondered if his father complied with him about finding a lady friend, his father had never really spent all that much time with him after his mother had died and it had become near to nothing when he left for the marines.
He first visited his house to have a shower, change, and have a nap, etc... After what Danny called a "short" nap- which in reality lasted eight or nine hours- he visited Mike at home to see if he could manage to pry his car away. Okay, so in reality he waited for an hour for his cab to arrive and then he went to see Mike.
After retrieving his car he drove home to catch a bite to eat, sleep for a few more hours and all the things a male like himself would do.
After much consideration he visited his father at the new work site, they had been building some new houses just off the Boulevard. He entered the site and his father had a look of great surprise mixed with great happiness. He embraced his son in a tight hug and Danny winced in slight pain but it went un-noticed to his father. To his great excitement his father had in fact found himself a good lady friend, whom he was going to meet when he went over to Sunday dinner that particular weekend.
During their chat they discussed what had been going on with each other while Danny was away and too his surprise almost nothing had happened to his father in changes. Danny told his father about how he had found most of the training and fighting hard and painful and how he missed everyone, he mentioned about himself missing Mary the most too. To Danny's great surprise his father nodded.
"And how is she?" His father asked gently.
"I haven't seen her yet," Danny replied somewhat awkwardly. Truth be told, he hadn't seen her yet. He was still trying to figure out what to say.
Mary...
Mary had become a wreck in the few minutes to wait for her admirer. It was tearing her up inside. If she left then she wouldn't find out who it was and if she stayed Danny and her both would get upset- her being upset because of Danny being upset...
She looked down at her fingernails, she never really cared about them but at this particular moment she would as not to worry about who came in the door in the next few seconds.
The dark-browned male walked across the floor of the restaurant and their eyes met, his greenish brown eyes looked spectacular to her after all this time. His new goatee made him look more mature than she had ever seen him and his smile made butterflies fly around her stomach as they had always done when she had seen his smile.
He sat down at the table as if he had not a care in the world except to see her, which was in fact true on his part.
"Hello," his husky voice said and his eyes twinkled with delight as they met hers'.
"Danny..." She whispered quietly...
After dinner they walked to an old park where they used to play as kids.
"Mary... could I ask you something...?" He said gently.
"Sure..." She become curious to how secretive he was at the moment.
Curious that is until he squatted on one knee and pulled a ring out of his pocket...
"I love you Mary Connell, I always have and I always will. Will you marry me?"
To be continued...