Chapter 3
Raven's life had been proceeding as normal. Get up, got to work, come home read, and go to sleep. And in between those activities she ate food enough to keep her going.
About a week after her first encounter, or reencounter, with Gar she got a phone call for him.
"Hey Rae waz up?"
"Nothing much just plodding along in this uneventful life."
"Well how about I help you break that wonderful life and accept my offer of a second date?"
"Well..." Raven thought about it. 'It might be nice to do something with him again.' "Oh alright."
"That's great Rae. So I'll pick you up at 7 on Wendsday and we will go ice skating."
"Sounds fun. I'll see you then. Bye."
"Bye, and remember its Wendsday at 7."
Raven sighed as she set the phone down gentlely becasue to confess she was OK at skating but not that great, and she just knew that he would have a field day with watching her fall over and over.
----------Wendsday evening-------------------
She had to dress in layers because the ice rink in the town was outside and would be colder than normal. She heard a knock on the door and answered it and found a Garfield and was dressed in regular clothing. No heavy coat or gloves.
"Aren't you going to get cold?" she asked.
He answered with, "Naw I'll be fine but it's great to know you care so much." He gave her a small wink.
Again it was another quiet ride to the ice rink. When they got there Raven went up to the counter and got a pair of ice skates for her, determined to pay for herself. She hadn't gotten a pair for Gar because he had a pair of hockey skates over his shoulder. They both say down and put on their skates. Gar got up and immediantly went to the ice. Raven sat back a little and watched him.
At first he carefully tiptoed on to the ice wobbeled a little almost fell then righted himself and started speeding off to the other side of the rink. Rae's jaw just dropped. She had no idea that he was such a good skater.
As she made her way out to the rink as Garfield came back and did a hockey stop just before her.
"How did you...when did you...why are you so good?" studdered amazed at his sweet skills.
"Well after high school I didn't have a car so I had to get around on a bike or blades so I went with blades," he said casually.
Raven forgot that she too was now on the ice and took a step forward and slipped. As she fell she waited for the impact of the hard cold ice, but it never came. As she carefully opened her eyes she looked up to see Garfield's face filling her view.
"Looks like you might need some help getting your ice legs," Gar said chuckeling a little as he stood her up.
After a half hour of skating lessons and embrassing falls done by Raven, she was ready to go home.
"Just give me a sec more," yelled Gar over his shoulder speeding down the ice. Now before we go any further you should know that this ice rink is set on top of a lake. Gar reached the other end of the lake and turned around and started blasting back to the end Raven was at. Just twenty feet before Gar reached Raven he reached a weak part in the ice and fell through.
Raven just stood there was a sec just shocked but then her mind kicked her into action. She ran to the newly formed hole and plunged her arm in the chilly water all the way to her shoulder. She swirled her arm around screaming for Garfield. Finally after a minute she found something and pulled it up. She had grabbed Gar. She struggeled to pull him up on to dry land. He wasn't breathing so she was about to give him CPR, but he stared to cough and hack up water. He rolled over coughing up water.
Raven was a little nerve wrecked to say the least but she managed to spit out her question, "Are you OK?"
"I'll hack hack hack survive. But I would feel better about getting warmer hack hack." he coughed out shivering.
"Yea. Sure lets get you back to my place. Do you have a blanket in your trunk?" inquired Raven starting to drag him to his car greatful he didn't have tons of clothing on.
"Yeah and here are the keys," he said shivering as he pulled his keys out of his pocket.
Raven got the blanket out and setteled him in with the blanket on top. She quickly drove to her place and, with an effort, lugged him both filghts of stairs, this not being the first time she wished she lived on the ground floor. Fumbled with her keys she opened the door and laid him on the couch. She heated up some heat packs and grabbed five blankets. Embrassed at what she had to do mext she stripped him down (A/N: not till he was naked you sickos who were thinking that) to his boxers and grabbed a bunch of her over-sized sleeping clothes and redressed him. He had fallen asleep during the drive to her house. Rae had noticed that his breathing was more normal now that he was in dry clothing. As she watched him to make sure he didn't worsen she noticed he slept with a little smile on his face.
'Awe. How cute...wait did I just say cute? Mental note: hit self over head with bat after Gar has left to knock that word out of my vocabular.' As she gazed at him she took in his unique features. His jaw line that was square but had a certain roundness to it. Or his ears that were slightly pointed but only noticable if you looked close enough. And his lips, soft but firm...
'Wait did I just think that? Mental note: to hit selfbat over headagain because I had bad thoughts about Gar,' Raven thought to her self shaking her head hoping that would expell the unwanted thoughts.
Raven was getting tired now the her adrealine rush had subsided. And her couch looked so comfy. So instead of getting on the couch, she took off one of his blankets and laid on the floor to get some well deserved sleep.
---------------------------------------Thursday Morning------------------
As Raven awoke she noticed that the ground beneath her was softer than normal. She felt around and it doned on her where she was. On the couch. She sat up and scanned the room looking for any trace of Garfield. After a second sweep of the room she noticed a note on the front door. She gronded as she lifted herself off of the couch. Hobbeling over to the door she read the note as she approphed it. And it read:
Hey Rae,
Thx for the save last night. I think I wouldn't have been OK if hadn't been there to pull me out of the water and saved my butt. And it was so nice of you to sacrific your sleeping comfort for my well being. I move you to the couch just as a small repayment for the service you did for me. Well see you later and hopefully under less life threatening circumstances.
Lots of thx, Gar
Rae folded up the note and stuck it in her back pocket of her jeans. As a reminder of the exciting date. She dressed think of what hell work would bring for her today. Raven got in her car and drove down a couple blocks to Target. She was still thinking about random things as she walked into the employee's breakroom. But because she wasn't looking she ran into to someone with a painful thump.
"Sorry sorry! Are you OK?" asked the person she bumbed into.
"It's OK. I'll be fine," Raven said as she accepted the offer of help up from the other person.
"Well I just wasn't looking where I was going and...hey Rae is that you?"
Raven finally looked up at the other person and was surprised to see...Star!
"What are you doing here?" Raven yelled at Star surprised to see Star dressed in a target uniform.
"Well I got fired from my last job for sticking up for myself againist my boss so he fired me. And do you remember that recomend I wanted you to write for me?" Raven nodded her head yes, "Well I didn't tell you but it was so I could apply here. And with a good recomendation from you it landed me the job I wanted here," finished Star.
"And that job would be...?" questioned Raven.
"Assistant manager," Star said quietly. "But don't worry I'll be working under you so you can order me around."
Raven just waved that statement off saying, "Whatever. So what are you doing right now?"
"They're having me start out by following you around and your supposed to tell me what to do and how to do it."
"Fine. Lets get started," sighed Raven as she truned. But when she turned her back to Star, Star noticed that there was a piece of paper sticking out of Raven's back pocket.
"Hey Rae what's this?" asked Star as she pulled the note out of Raven's pocket.
Raven turned around just a little too late to stop Star, "No! Wait! Don't read that!" exclaimed Raven.
"And why not? Is it a secert love note from Gar hum?" Star asked wiggeling her eyebrows and opening the note to read it. Raven just stayed rooted to the spot waiting for Star to finish reading and say something.
"How could you not tell me what happened!" yelled Star.
"Shhhh! Not so loud and what are you talking about?" Raven said trying to quiet Star and stop attracting the attention of other people.
"You went on another date and saved his butt. How could you not tell me."
"It just slipped my mind."
"Yeah 'just slipped your mind,'" Star commented her voice dripping with sarcasm. "And it also just slipped your mind to fail to mntion that you had to use CPR."
"Accutally I didn't," said Raven 'But wanted to...' she thought.
"But you wanted to probably."
"Chica are you a mind reader or something?"
"No I've just known you long enough to figure you out."
They started to walk toward the first training area for Star and Star had a lot of questions about Rae's date. Rae used al; he pacients to answer the questions. She really didn't want to but she did anyway.
-------------------At Rae's Apartment--------------
Raven sighed as she ploped down on the couch tired from all the questions about her date with Gar and how things worked in the store from Star. She checked the messages on her machine and found one from a credit card company but nothing new.
'I wounder what he will be doing tonight?' thought Raven as she changed from her work uniform to a special outfit for tonight. After she finished changing she got in her car and drove to her destination. When she arrived she thought 'Wow. I didn't realize how many people were going to be here tonight. Oh well I guess it won't be too bad waiting in line.'
She stood there in line for about a hour before everyone was let in. As she looked for a good place to sit she noticed one empty spot next to someone. So she elbowed her way over and started to get comfy when she heard someone say, "Hey Rea is that you?"
She turned around and look who she found sitting next two her but...Garfield!
"What are you doing here?" they both whispered fiercely.
"Well I like Harry Potter so that's why I'm here," Gar replied, "What about you?"
"Ditto."
"Well never thought you would like this stuff," he said thoughtfully, "you never seemed into the main stream stuff."
"I was into Harry Potter when the first book came out not when the movie came out probably like most of the people in here."
Gar rubbed the back of his head, "I guilty of not reading the book until I saw the movie. So are you dressed up as anyone? I'm supposed to be Ron but it didn't come out too well."
"Raven turned a little red in the face embrassed at her answer, "Well...I'm supposed to be...umm...Hermione." she wasn't speaking very loudly at the end of her statement.
"Oh," was all he could say. But luck was with him because the movie had just started to save either of them from asking anymore embrassing questions.
Raven and Gar had a great time during the movie. They laughed along with the rest of the audience, clapped and almost cried at all the right moments. As the two exited the theater they were reminding each other of all the funny parts and lines of the movie.
"Remember that part with the dragons that was so freakin' cool!" Gar exclaimed jumping around like a little kid on tons of sugar.
Rae giggled at his reaction, "Yes that was a fun part. I thought the Yule Ball was pretty cool too."
"Yes! That too. The dancing was great!" and as Gar said that he grabbed Rae and twirled her around like in the movie and spun her out. As they were stretched out after the roll out Gar heard a loud pop and saw as a light bulb right above Raven started to fall. Seeing this he quickly pulled her in a close close hug to protect her. Raven didn't realize what had happened until she was very very close to Gar. After a few moments of looking into each others eyes woundering which one should break the moment, but meither had to do anything because a theather manager came along and asked if anyone was OK. They shook off the strange feelings they both had and came back to the real world. Both still in a daze they said good bye and went their seperate ways
End Chapter 3
A/N: Ok the real life situation from the last chapter was when Star asked Gar if he wanted to give Rae a kiss and Rae blushed. It was so funny in real life. But the real life situations in this were the light bulb thing except it just almost hit my friend but he was sitting just far enough over to have it miss him. And I did go see the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and one of my guy friends didn't become a Harry Potter fan until he saw the first movie. And anyone who did that is not a true HP fan in my book. Plz R&R! PLZZZZZZ!
P.S. Sorry to my friend who wanted this update earlier but I had writer's block.