Chapter 6

Sydney smiled and nodded at him. "I'd like that." She replied genuinely. She watched as the anxious look on his face, was replaced with a smile that mirrored her own.

"Great!"

They remained standing in the street, each of them thinking about the their date. Finally Sydney realized that she had to get going and broke the silence. "My number's the same as Francie's. Give me a call." She gave him one last smile, before climbing into her car. Vaughn watched her leave for the second time that day, only this time he felt better about the way that their conversation had ended.

Sydney opened the windows in the car as she pulled up at some traffic lights. She waited until she was a couple of streets away from where she'd left Michael before she let all her excitement out. She let out a high pitched squeal and excitedly hit the steering wheel. Once she was done, she cleared her throat and glanced up at the traffic lights, a huge grin on her face. Her smile quickly faded as she felt a pair of eyes on her. She slowly turned to see an elderly woman in the car next to her, her eyebrow raised as she curiously watched Sydney. Sydney blushed and sunk further into her seat, while she waited for the lights to change.

Vaughn hadn't stopped smiling since Sydney had agreed to go out with him. Him and Weiss were walking back to work, and Weiss could sense a change in his friend's attitude. "So where are you going to take her?"

Vaughn's smile faded as he realized that he had no idea. "Oh God, I hadn't thought about that. I don't want to take her out to dinner; we had dinner last night…" He trailed off, looking at Weiss for some ideas.

"Ok, you just need to come up with something that's suitable for a first date!"

"Like what?"

"Erm…a movie, the fair, a baseball game…oh I know!" Weiss stood still in the middle of the street, a smile on his lips. "I have two tickets to the Kings game on Friday. You can take her to that, it's like the perfect first date. You can both get to know each other better while you watch the game!"

"The Kings aren't playing on Friday!"

Weiss laughed, and gave Vaughn a funny look. "Yeah, they are. I bought tickets last week. You call yourself a fan, and you don't even know when your favourite team is playing." He rolled his eyes at Vaughn as they started walking again. Vaughn was slightly confused; he had no idea that there was a game that week, but Weiss had bought tickets so there must be one.

"You'd give me the tickets?"

"Well I was going to go with you anyways, but you might as well take Sydney. You can just pay for us to see the next game."

"Thanks man." Vaughn patted Weiss on the back. He was relieved that he now had some place to take Sydney for their first official date, and that was all thanks to Weiss.

"You will never believe what happened to me today…" Sydney started up a conversation, as she sat across from Francie in the restaurant. The restaurant was fairly empty; they didn't usually start filling up until around 8 O'clock, so Francie had plenty of time to take a break.

Francie thought for a few seconds before replying. "You got a promotion?" Sydney shook her head. "You met someone famous?" She shook her head again. "You ran over a cat?"

Sydney laughed and rolled her eyes. "Do you really think I'd be smiling right now if I'd just did that?"

"True. Ok, I give up!" Francie shrugged, as she drank the coffee that Sydney had brought.

"You give up too easily!" Sydney teased. "Michael asked me out!" Her smile grew. Saying it out loud made it seem less of a dream.

"Michael?" Francie looked at her questioningly and then her eyes grew wider. "Michael, as in my dentist Michael? That Michael?"

Sydney nodded, causing Francie to scream excitedly. She threw her hands over her mouth, as she tried to calm herself. "Oh My God, I knew you guys like each other."

Sydney blushed and looked down at the table.

"So tell me what happened…"

Later that night, Sydney was sat crossed legged on her couch, a stack of assignment papers layed out infront of her. Francie was still at the restaurant, so the house was fairly quite except for Norah Jone's voice, which was coming from the CD player. With a glass of wine in one hand, and a red marker pen in the other, Sydney started to mark the work. She was half way through one question, when the phone rang, breaking her concentration. She placed the glass down on the table as she reached for the phone.

"Hello?"

"Sydney? It's Michael Vaughn…"

Sydney dropped her pen and sat back on the couch, a bright smile on her lips. "Hi Michael."

"Hey. I hope I wasn't interrupting anything." He had been debating with himself all day, about whether or not he should call her that night. The hockey game was in 2 days, and he wanted to give her enough notice, but he didn't want to seem to keen. But after drinking 2 bottles of beer, he finally plucked up the courage to call her.

"No don't worry about it. I was just experiencing the joys of teaching; marking." They both laughed at her comment.

"I was just calling to see if you like ice hockey?" His heart was beating in his chest again, as he anxiously waited for her answer. Why does she have this effect on me?

"Yeah, I love hockey." Although she hadn't been to many games, she would always watch the games on the TV whenever Will was over; which was practically all the time.

"Great, I have two tickets for the game on Friday night, and I'd love for you to come with me." Sydney could hear the excitement in his voice, and she was feeling exactly the same way.

"Yeah I'd love to." Vaughn had to stop himself from dancing there and then in the middle of his living room. They had been the words that he was hoping to here.

"Ok, I'll pick you up around 7:30?"

"Yeah that's good."

"Well I guess I'll let you get back to your work. Good night Syd."

"Ok. Good night Michael." Sydney hung up the phone and for the second time that day. She tried to continue with her work, but she could no longer concentrate. All she could think about was that she now had a date with Michael Vaughn.