"Dave... Can you take this blindfold off of me now?" Melina somewhat whined.

Dave smiled and began to take the blindfold from around her eyes.

Once the blindfold was in Dave's hand, Melina looked up at his smiling face.

"Dave...This is beautiful. You didn't have to.." she gasped, looking at the candlelit dinner before her.

"Yes I did. Tonight is our anniversary." he said, gazing lovingly into Melina's eyes. "It was one year ago tonight that I asked you out." he finished, smiling.

"Yeah...I remember that night." Melina said, looking up into Dave's beautiful brown eyes.

Dave pulled Melina's chair out and smiled.

"Have a seat and I shall be right back with our drinks." Dave said, helping Melina into her chair and smiling. Melina sat and looked out at the moonlit ocean and sighed.

Dave did all this for me...I really love him...Johnny was wrong. Dave does love me. she thought, the evening breeze blowing gently around her.

Dave came back and sat a glass by her plate and sat the other by his plate.

He held up his glass and Melina followed, smiling.

"To us."

"To us."

They ate and talked until Melina's cell phone rang the MNM theme.

She looked at Dave as if to say sorry and answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"Melina, where are you?"

"I'm in the middle of dinner with Dave. What do you want?" she snapped.

"I need to talk to you about Dave."

"Listen Johnny, I really could care less what you have to say right now. So I'll talk to you later." she said, hanging up the phone on Nitro.

She threw her phone into her purse and then looked at Dave, smiling sweetly.

"So, where were we before being so rudely interrupted?" she asked, looking just as sweet as can be.

Dave smiled and they continued their conversation.

They talked until Melina's cell rang again.

"I'm sorry Dave..Can you excuse me for a few minutes?" Melina said,opening her purse and fishing out her ringing phone.

Dave looked at her as if to say no problem and she got up and walked away from the waiting Animal.

"What do you want Johnny?"

"Where are you?"

"You're not going to leave me alone until I tell you, are you?" she said, her free hand resting on her hip.

"Where are you?" Nitro reapeated.

"I'm at the beach with Dave."

"Oh."

"Goodbye Johnny." she said, hanging up the phone.

She walked back to Dave, the sand feeling cool under her bare feet. "I'm back." she announced to the Animal, who was staring at the ocean.