Mako's Message: Well… I'm only disappointed in this because I actually thought I'd get it up on the same day as the last one. Hooray for reality crushing my ambitions!

Anyway, I almost wrote this covering the Thanksgiving as well… then the ending happened. But really… I think I crammed too many days into November. I know more happened this month than the others…but half this story takes place over less than a month. The first half over two. How the hell did I do that? What's scary is that I realized I was practically writing this in real time. Noooooo!

Oh, and guess what? It's 2010 in my fic. Yeah, I decided on that tonight.

Oh wait. Almost forgot. I was really surprised by you reactions to Riley. I was not expecting the small, but potent, amount of hate I saw in those reviews. Guess I did a good job on her.

I think hell might have frozen over or something. The last time I saw Katie at school she asked me to keep Dave occupied as much as possible while she was out of town with her family.

She specifically asked me to spend as much time with him as possible.

Maybe it was just me, but I kinda thought she didn't like Dave hanging around me so much. Though, I guess she'd rather he be with me than going out after work with Riley. Well, I'm sure as fuck not gonna argue about it.

So, the next day I asked him if he wanted to go do something that night, since Katie was gone for the holiday.

He said he'd love to and asked what I wanted to do. I just figured we'd go do what we normally do when we go out, but since he actually asked... I had to think about it. I guess it didn't occur to me that we could go do something else. And since we wanted to make sure he didn't think about boning Riley I thought it should be something different. Something just for fun.

"Let's go see a movie," I said.

"Cool, sounds like fun," he said.

Then I said, "It's a date then."

WHAT THE FUCK! WHY DID I SAY THAT! UUUGHHH!

I still feel stupid because of that. Dave didn't seem to think anything of it, thank god. If he'd said anything I'd have had to kill him to stop him from mentioning it again.

Anyway, I asked Marcus to drop me off at Dave's job, since Dave was able to borrow the car to get to work.

The store was empty when I got there and Dave was in the back. I could hear him talking to Riley. I saw him look out and smile at me, "Be there in a minute," he says.

I hear him tell her, "It's Mindy. Is everything good to go?"

She says, "It looks like it. But do you have to go? I was hoping we could hang out after work one of these days."

Hah. That's not going to happen if I have anything to say about it.

She put her hand on his shoulder when she said goodbye and let it drag down his arm as he walked away. I swear on all that is holy this slut looks for any opportunity to put her hands on him.

When he came out he was still putting his jacket on and he put his hand on my shoulder as we walked out. I don't know why he did that, but I'll call it a win for our side.

As we walked to the car Dave asked me if there was anything I wanted to see, and I had another one of the stupid moments were my mind went blank. I hadn't thought about that at all. I didn't even know what was playing.

I told him I hadn't thought about it, and he said, "Well, there's one movie I'd like to see. I'm just not sure if it's in theaters anymore."

"Sure. Whatever you'd like to see is fine with me," I said.

So he took me to the dollar theater, saying if it was in theaters at all it'd be here.

As soon as we walked in he sighed in relief and said it was there.

When I asked him which one, he said "Let Me In". I'd never heard of it, but he said it's been called the "anti-Twilight" so I was all for it.

The movie was really good. I really identified with Abby. She's more mature than she looks, she doesn't fit in, she's done horrible things (though, her victims might have been innocent, mine were at least guilty of being pieces of shit) and she found someone who accepted her for who she was, who really connected with her, and was willing to take care of her.

Dave and I went out and got dinner afterwards, and talked about the movie. He said it was exactly what he needed since Katie had had him watch Twilight with him again before she left. I told him I thought it sucked that all vampire romances couldn't be like Let Me In. I'd be all for them if they were.

It didn't occur to me until after he took me home that we'd just spent a perfectly normal night out together. No guns, no training, no talk about our other selves. It surprised me even more when I realized I liked it.

Well, more normality is in store for me tomorrow I guess. It's time for my first real Thanksgiving dinner.