Somehow, I ended up stretching this first date out... I still have about 2k words left to write, but I thought I'd post the 1.7k I've already written. Enjoy!
Note: All errors are mine and mine alone.
Disclaimer: like always, I don't own DWP.
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After a week of texting and brief phone calls to settle on a time and date that would work for the both of them, the much anticipated bad first date had finally arrived and Andy is both excited and nervous. It had taken her all week, while discarding many horrible ideas, to decide on the perfect bad date. She hopes the date she had came up with would stand up to Miranda's expectation. Andy took a deep breath and straightened out her black blazer before pressing Miranda's doorbell.
The front door opened swiftly to reveal Miranda Priestly in all her Editor-in-Chief glory. Seeing Miranda in the black striped Balmain suit, her personal favorite outfit for Miranda, Andy gathers that she just got home from work and hasn't had a chance to change for their date yet. Smiling, Andy cheerfully greets her. "Hi Miranda! Are you ready for some gourmet dinner from a bowling alley five star kitchen and exchanging our not so fashionable shoes for those lovely bowling shoes?"
Miranda's eyes widened in surprise when she saw Andy, as if not expecting her that evening. Andy's smile dropped from her face, as doubt and apprehension began to seep in. She began pulling her fingers in agitation, while she stood here looking at Miranda, not sure what to say. After standing there for another 10 long seconds, Andy gave Miranda a sad smile, shrugged her shoulder, then said, "Ah well, I should have known it was too good to be true. I'll just… um… I'm going to go now. Have a good evening Miranda."
Giving Miranda one last lingering look, she took a step back from the front door and began to turn around to prepare her descend from Miranda's stoop. Suddenly a hand shot out and grabbed hers, stopping her from taking another step.
"Andrea! I am so sorry!" Miranda began, as she pulled Andy into the townhouse and closed the front door. "I meant to call you to cancel our date earlier, but the afternoon just got away from me. The girls' father never came to pick them up and when I finally managed to get in contact with him, he tells me he's gone out of the country with his newest bimbo of a girlfriend. I don't know why I'm so surprised by this considering he's always letting the girls down without a second thought. Well, anyways, I now have the girls for the weekend, not that I'm unhappy about it since I love my girls, but Cara is out of town for the weekend to visit family so I have no sitter…"
Andy was amused with a frazzled and rambling Miranda, it's a look she never thought she'd ever see on Miranda and have decided it's cute and quite adorable. However, now that she's taking a closer look, she can see how agitated Miranda is getting. Without a second thought on her sudden, crazy decision, Andy took a few steps closer to Miranda, cupped the older woman's face with her hands, then leaned in and kissed her. She had only intended to give Miranda a quick, soft kiss to stop the rambling, however, as soon as she felt Miranda's soft lips upon hers, she was a goner.
The kiss started off soft and slow, only to be deepened as Miranda let out a moan and grabbed Andy around the shoulders to pull her closer. Andy reacted by deepening the kiss further as she used her hands on Miranda's hips to push the older woman backwards until her back was against the front door causing Miranda to gasp in surprise. Taking advantage of the gasp, Andy slips her tongue inside Miranda's warm mouth. They both moaned as their tongue touched and tasted one another for the first time. Andy's hands moved from Miranda's hip to pressing against the older woman's lower back as she slipped her right leg between Miranda's legs, pressing them even closer together.
The sounds of footsteps running above them brought both ladies back to reality. Andy gave Miranda a last lingering kiss before pulling away. They stood there in the foyer, taking in one another's flushed faces, as they breathed heavily, trying to catch their breath and calm their racing hearts. Giving Miranda one of her big, bright smiles, Andy brushed Miranda's hair away from her face.
"So, what I gathered from your rambling is the girls will be joining us for our date?" Andy said.
"Don't be silly, Andrea. I do not ramble," Miranda retorted, while rolling her eyes. "And what I was trying to tell you, before you rudely interrupted me, was that we need to reschedule our date."
Grinning now, Andy teasingly said. "Oh, it was rambling Priestly and you're quite adorable while doing it too."
Rolling her eyes again, Miranda gently pushed Andy away from her. "Keep this up and I'll change my mind altogether and decide not to grace you with a date at all."
If Andy didn't see the slight smirk at the corner of Miranda's lips and her twinkling blue eyes, she would have thought that Miranda was being serious with her threat. Chuckling, Andy grabs Miranda's hips and winks at her.
"You'd be too curious and unsettled if you decide to not go on a date with me, Priestly. After all, I've planned the perfect bad first date for us. However..." Andy began, as she dragged out the 'however' and tilted her head slightly to the right side. "... since the girls are with you, I'll have to adjust the perfect date for two to the perfect date for four."
Miranda's eyes widened in surprise at Andy's words. "You want to take my daughters and I on a date?"
"Girls? What do you say? Would you like to go out on a date with me?" Andy, while still smiling and looking at Miranda, asked loudly so Miranda's twin daughters can hear her from the landing on the second floor.
Excited responses of 'Yes!' resounded down to the foyer, causing both women to chuckle.
"You'll have to get ready then," Andy said. "Wear something warm, but comfortable to walk around in."
"Okay!" The girls hollered out, their loud footsteps can be heard running away from the landing and towards their rooms.
Miranda winced and shook her head at the loud footsteps. "I feel like I'm raising elephants, not little girls."
Chuckling, Andy gave Miranda a once over and said, "Not that I don't love you in this outfit Priestly, but you have to change too. Like I mentioned before, casual, warm, and comfortable to walk around in."
Miranda raised an eyebrow at Andy, then slightly pushed Andy away again so that she could take in her outfit. She took in the black Rag & Bone leather jacket with a white v-neck camisole underneath to her Banana Republic light wash skinny jeans, down to her black Nike Air Max shoes. Miranda hummed as she slowly ran her eyes back up Andy's body, taking a longer look at the V of her camisole, before coming up to her eyes.
"Approved?"
"Hmm… It seems you haven't forgotten everything you've learned at Runway after all," Miranda said with a nod of her head. "I'll be just a minute."
Grinning, Andy moved out of Miranda's way so that she could head upstairs to her room to change for the foursome date. Midway up the stairs, Miranda paused at the second floor landing and looked back down at Andy. "Andrea, did you mention bowling alley food and bowling shoes earlier?"
Andy let out a loud laugh at Miranda's incredulous and scandalized look.
"Don't worry Priestly, I'm saving that big treat for the third date. I don't want to start our first date with something as exciting as bowling," Andy teased.
"What makes you think I'll even give you a second date that you're already planning a third?" Miranda teased back. "You may not even live up to the first date expectation, Andrea. I might even have to call Nigel to save me from having too much fun."
"Nigel won't be commissioned tonight, you'll be too busy not enjoying this date that you'll forget all about calling him."
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Seeing Andrea behind the wheel, her daughters in the back, and herself in the passenger seat felt right. Like the missing puzzle piece of her life was finally found and all is complete. She shouldn't be surprised that Andrea is what was missing, what she had been searching for her whole life. She shouldn't. After all, Andrea has always been able to accomplish the impossible. Andrea had stood up to La Priestly, tamed the Dragon Lady, melted the Ice Queen's iceberg of a castle, and stolen Miranda Priestly's, along with her daughters', heart.
Back at the house, when she had walked out of her room, she was able to hear muted voices and soft giggling coming from the stairwell. At the top of the stairs, she caught sight of her daughters and Andrea sitting close together on the bottom steps, talking and laughing. The sight of her three favorite girls getting along and happiness radiating off of them had warmed her icy, cold heart and brought a smile to her face. It helped remind her that having Andrea back in their life was a good choice and she should have done it sooner.
She especially enjoyed Andrea's gobsmacked reaction when she had come down the stairs and Andrea was able to see the casual outfit she had put together. Tight, black skinny jeans, royal blue cashmere sweater that brings out her blue eyes, and black two inch ankle boots. Andrea's eyes have always been a window to all of her thoughts and this time it had enabled Miranda to read what Andrea was mentally saying, 'Holy freaking cow! Oh my god!' The reaction made her feel giddy like a teenage girl, it was, surprisingly. a great feeling.
"You're staring," Andrea said as she glanced over at Miranda briefly before focusing back on the road.
"I'm trying to see if I can read your mind and figure out where you're taking us."
Andrea grinned as she glanced back over and gave her a wink.
"I'm taking you ladies to dinner."
"Where are we having dinner at Andy?" Cassidy excitedly asked.
"Yeah! Are we doing anything else after?" Caroline questioned eagerly.
Miranda couldn't help but let out a chuckle. It seems her daughters are also trying to work Andrea and find out where she's taking them. However, unlike her daughters, she had more tact and finesse in trying to extract information from the tight lipped brunette.
"Patience ladies," Andrea teased, causing all three Priestly women to groan and glare daggers at her.