Hey guys! I'm back from my vacation. Sorry I didn't update when I said I would, my dad took off this week and made my brother and I do stuff with him. But I guess I had fun. So, he went off to do something by himself today so I get the day off. I have the next two chapters planned out and I hope you guys enjoy them. This chapter, Charlie and Claire are actually going out on a date. Hope you enjoy. :)

Chapter Seven

Charlie was moping around the apartment. It was raining, which really wasn't helping with his moping. He slumped down on the couch and stared aimlessly at the TV. Liam watched his brother from the kitchen. He turned to Claire who was making breakfast.

"Do you know what's wrong with Charlie?" he asked.

"No, I didn't even know something was wrong with him," Claire said. She looked out the doorway and saw Charlie sitting there silently and staring off into space. She looked up at Liam. "Your right, there's something wrong with him."

"For the past couple of days he's been moping," Liam pointed out.

"Maybe it's because you're here," Claire joked. Liam rolled his eyes and then looked out at Charlie. He knew exactly what was wrong with his brother. He was in love, but wasn't able to show it.

Liam went out to sit next to Charlie on the couch. He sat down and Charlie didn't even look at him. "What's wrong baby brother?"

Charlie looked over at Liam. "You tell me, what would you do in my situation?"

Liam sighed. "If I was in the situation you were in with a beautiful girl like Claire, I would get the nerve up and ask her on a date. That can't be too hard can it?"

"It's not, and I want to do it, I just don't know how to word it," Charlie said. He placed his head in his hands. He had never acted like this around a girl. Why couldn't he say the right things for her?

"Just go with your gut instinct. But just wait until you two are alone, not somewhere where I can't hear you stuttering trying to get the sodding words out," Liam explained. Charlie smiled.

"Okay," Charlie said. 'Just go with your gut instinct Charlie, your heart,' he thought to himself.

Suddenly, Aaron started crying. Charlie on instinct got up and ran down the hallway to the baby's room.

Aaron looked up at Charlie as tears rolled down his face. Charlie picked him up. "Aw, it's okay Aaron. What's the matter?"

Claire came through the doorway. "Is he okay?" She placed a hand on Aaron's back.

"Yeah, I think he just wanted to tell us he was awake," Charlie said. Claire kissed Aaron's forehead.

"Thanks for getting him," Claire said as Charlie handed her Aaron. Charlie smiled.

"No problem," he said. Claire took Aaron over to the changing table to change him. Charlie knew that this was his chance.

"Um…Claire?" Charlie said feeling the butterflies rising in his stomach.

"Yeah?" Claire asked. "Can you hand me the wipes Charlie?" Charlie reached for them and handed them to Claire.

"What are you doing tonight?" he asked wringing his hands.

"You should know Charlie don't we live together?" she asked giggling.

"Oh, right," he said. He cursed himself for asking that. "Well, would you like to go out to dinner tonight with me?"

Claire turned around. Was Charlie just asking her out on a date? She smiled at him. "Yeah, I would love to." Charlie smiled, he felt giddy.

"Great, um…what time should we go?" Charlie asked.

"Whatever time you pick. I don't care," she said smiling. Claire felt as though her heart was going to burst with excitement. But then she stopped smiling. "Who's going to take care of Aaron?"

"Liam will do it," Charlie said automatically signing up his brother. Claire nodded.

"Okay, I trust Liam enough with my son," Claire said laughing. Charlie smiled. He rubbed his hands together, tonight was the night.

Later that day…

"Whoa! I never thought I'd see my baby brother all nicely dressed to take a girl out!" Liam exclaimed.

Charlie looked himself over in the mirror ignoring Liam's comment. He was wearing a nice shirt and slacks, not jeans. "I'll have you know that I want to impress Claire."

"You don't need to impress her, you've already got her hooked, and you've started to reel her in," Liam explained.

"Will you please stop referring to the woman I love as a fishing analogy?" Charlie asked. Liam laughed. Charlie turned to him. "You'll be okay with Aaron right?"

"Charlie, I have a four year old at home. I think I know how to take care of a four month old. I got it covered," Liam said. Charlie nodded. "You nervous?"

"No," Charlie lied. His palms were sweating. Of course he was nervous. He heard Claire's bedroom door open and she walked down the hallway with Aaron in her arms.

Charlie felt his heart soar. She looked beautiful. She was wearing a peasant dress that hugged her curves. Her hair hung loose in her face and she smiled at Charlie.

Claire never thought she'd ever see Charlie dressed up this nice. She thought he looked absolutely handsome. She smiled at him.

"Okay Liam," Claire said going over to him first. "I just fed him, so he should be good until Charlie and I get back. You may need to change him in a little bit. He goes to bed at 8:00."

"Okay," Liam said as he took Aaron. "Have fun you two." Charlie and Claire walked to the door.

"We will," Charlie said. As Claire went out the door he winked at Liam and followed Claire. Liam looked down at Aaron.

"Your mummy is going to fall in love tonight. I can feel it," Liam said.

At the restaurant…

"Did I tell you that you look beautiful Claire?" Charlie asked once they were seated.

"No, but thank you," Claire replied smiling at him. "You look handsome."

"Thanks," Charlie said. He opened up his menu. "So, what will it be?" Claire looked through the menu.

"Charlie, you do realize that most of the words on this menu are French?" Claire asked looking up at him. Charlie glanced at the menu and then smirked at Claire.

"Sorry, well we know that escargot is snails, so you know not to order that," Charlie joked. Claire giggled.

The two tried to order as best as they could, but when finding out what most of the things were, they had to do everything in their power to not throw up. When the waiter left, Charlie looked at Claire.

"Burgers and fries?" he asked. Claire smiled.

"That sounds good right about now," she said. Charlie and her stood and walked out of the restaurant and went down to a burger place.

They sat out on Charlie's car hood and looked at the stars while eating. "Sorry I took you to that place," Charlie said.

"No, it's okay. You just didn't know," Claire said. She watched him look up at the stars. "When's your birthday?"

"Why?" Charlie asked looking at her.

"Just wanted to know," Claire said shrugging.

"It's October 27," Charlie said watching to see why she wanted to know.

"That means you're a Scorpio. I'm a huge astrology nut, would you like me to tell you your characteristics?" Claire asked. Charlie nodded. "Well, you're determined, forceful, emotional, intuitive, powerful, passionate, exciting and magnetic."

"Sounds like me," Charlie said smiling. "Do I have bad traits?"

"Ever sign has bad traits, you're jealous, resentful, compulsive, obsessive, secretive, and obstinate," Claire explained. Charlie thought about that, he was some of those too. "So, that means your birthday is coming up soon?"

"Yeah," Charlie said. "The big 26."

"You don't look 26," Claire said. Charlie smiled.

"Thanks, what about your sign?" Charlie asked.

"I'm Taurus. Patient, reliable, warmhearted, loving, persistent, determined, placid, security loving. But I'm also jealous, possessive, resentful, inflexible, self-indulgent, and greedy," Claire explained.

"You're not greedy," Charlie said. "Maybe self-indulgent, but not greedy." Claire scoffed and slapped him playfully.

"And you're not obstinate?" Claire asked. Charlie laughed. He watched as Claire looked up at the sky. He took a chance.

"Claire?" he asked. She looked at him and he leaned in to her face. Claire closed her eyes. They were centimeters away when Claire pulled back.

"I need to call to check on Aaron," she said. Claire got up and walked around to the car to get her cell phone.

Charlie sighed. He felt horrible; maybe he was moving too fast. Maybe he scared Claire. Charlie watched her talk on the phone. He went around to the driver's side and started the car. While Claire talked, he drove home.

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Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I decided to throw in Claire's interest in astrology to fill in a gap. Remember to review. In case any of you would like to see a Lost music video of 'Why Don't You and I?' you can visit lostvideo dot net. I didn't make it, but I highly recommend it. To see it go to ensemble and then scroll down until you see it. I love that video and it was from that video I got the idea for this story. See you all next time.

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Until next time,

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