"Parker," I call out waiting for her to turn around and come back over to where I'm standing, just a little away from everyone else, "what are you doing tomorrow?"

"Not much before we all meet up for dinner and movies. I'm glad we finally have a whole weekend off." Parker says grinning at me.

"Good, then you're free to go out with me tomorrow afternoon?" I ask.

"Sure, I guess so. Where are we going?" Parker asks.

"It's a surprise, but I'll pick you up from Sophie's tomorrow at noon. She mentioned earlier that you guys were having a girl's night sleepover tonight." I say smiling and as she turns to walk away tap her on the shoulder so that she looks back at me. "Wear something nice. Sophie will help you. She knows where we're going and Parker just so we're clear, this is a date." I walk off so Parker doesn't have the opportunity to change her mind or ask me questions.

I show up at Sophie's door promptly at noon and knock. The door swings open almost immediately with a nervous looking, but still beautiful Parker looking at me. She's wearing a long, flowing skirt with a dark shirt that she's able to still wear her boots with. I'm glad Sophie found her an outfit she could move in, but that would fit in where we're going.

She turns away almost as soon as she opens the door, "I just have to get my jacket" she says.

I grab her arm as she turns away, causing her to turn back towards me. Surprisingly, she doesn't pull away. "Hi" I say, "you look more beautiful than usual. I got you these." I hand her a white box.

Parker just stands there for a moment looking confused before taking the box and opening it up, revealing the bouquet of wild flowers I had gotten for her. Roses seemed too serious and not really her style, but these were colorful and fragrant and I thought maybe she would like them. After a second, she leans down and sniffs them before looking back up at me, "They smell nice."

I grin at her, "I bet if you give them to Sophie, she can put them in some water for you." I keep talking quickly before she can take off to find Sophie, "I also got you these." I hand her a small brown bag with some new locks inside. "I thought if you wanted to put them in your pockets, you could fiddle with them if you get bored or nervous while we're out."

She looks surprised and takes the bag, pausing for a second before saying "Thanks." and then whirling around to find Sophie. I hear her call out from the next room, "Sophie, Hardison got us flowers. What do we do with them?"

I stand in the entryway for a few minutes before she returns with her jacket already on. "Ready to go?" I ask.

"Yes" Parker responds.

I'm proud of myself because I manage to get to the front door before her, holding it open for her as she walks out. She's still wearing that slightly confused look, but I figure she'll get used to it. Nana would not be happy if I didn't treat her well like I was taught.

As we start walking, I ask, "Did you have fun with Sophie last night?"

"Yeah, but Sophie wouldn't tell me where you are taking me. She made me pick out these clothes before we went to the spa. Apparently, you need to know what you are wearing so that your nail polish can match. " Parker shows me her fingernails, which are a pretty color. "I like going to the spa with Sophie, but I don't really know why she wants me to do these things. My nail polish never lasts more than one day before it gets scratched up and you can't see my toe nails." Parker says frowning slightly.

"You can show me your toes later if you want" I say smiling "And we're going to Cafe Fleuri, for brunch and then I thought we could go over to the aquarium if you're not tired of me by the time we finish eating." I tell her, leaving out the fact that it is a chocolate buffet for now.

"I've never been to the aquarium before" Parker tells me.

"I know. You told me once, though I don't know why you've never taken yourself there now that you could, but I think you'll like it." I say. "And, I figured it was a good way to walk off the food we are about to have."

We arrive at the Langham hotel where the Cafe is and I open the door for Parker to enter. We're seated quickly and I see Parker's eyes light up when she sees the giant chocolate fountain in the buffet area.

"It's a chocolate buffet" I tell Parker. "You can have as much as you want. Just try to remember that we have other things to do today." I follow her to the buffet and watch in amazement as she somehow fits 1 of everything from the first table onto a plate and gets a cup of Mexican hot chocolate. Then, I let her pick out the ingredients for my chocolate crêpe. I'm not surprised when it's filled with 4 different kinds of candy and topped with whipped cream and chocolate sauce.

We walk back to our table and I eat slowly as I watch Parker go to work on her plate. I know I should eat slowly since there is zero chance I could possibly keep up with her and chocolate, but I'm glad that she seems to be over her initial nervousness. I knew the chocolate buffet was a great idea.

I take a forkful of my crêpe and offer it to Parker, telling her "you picked out the ingredients, don't you want to taste it?"

She looks surprised since I'm sure she was planning to just steal a bite when she was ready for it. I'm holding it close enough that she doesn't have to take the fork from me and she just scoops it off the fork licking her lips to get it all.

"Pretty good, don't you think?" I ask her.

"Not as good as this" she says holding out a bite of some chocolate mini pie.

I'm sure she meant for me to take it and feed myself, but I just lean down and take it from her fingers watching as her eyes widen slightly before she returns to finishing her plate. "Yeah," I say watching her "that was better."

I see one hand go to her jacket pocket, where I'm sure she put those locks, but she doesn't actually take one out. Instead, she gets up to get another plate of food. I do not know how she eats all of this without getting sick. I head to the buffet while she's gone and pick a few things that look interesting.

I'm fidgeting with my food so I don't finish before her and making small talk about the job we just wrapped up. She's nearly done with plate number two when she surprises me by offering me a bite of something else she especially likes. And this time she's holding it closer to me with the clear intention that I should eat it from her fingers so I do and she doesn't look away from me. In fact, she actually licks her lips before polishing off the last bite on her plate. All of the sudden, I'm sweating because I know she probably learned that from something Sophie said or did around her and I don't know what to think of it.

Seeing that she's done though, I ask her if she wants to get ice cream sundae's telling her we should probably wrap up our lunch if she wants to have time for the aquarium. She nods and bounces off to the sundae station where she makes an enormous chocolate sundae and I make a tiny one that I'm not sure I can finish.

As soon as we finish our sundae's and I've taken care of the check, Parker is tugging me out of my seat eager to get to the aquarium. I hope that the walk to the aquarium will burn off a little of the high before we get to the crowds of people who are probably there on a Saturday afternoon.

We're about a block away from the hotel when I reach over and snag Parker's hand, threading our fingers together. I notice the little pause in her steps, but she doesn't pull away and continues walking next to me.

"Parker" I say figuring this is a good time to talk. We're about a mile from the Aquarium and I have a hold of her so she probably won't run away from me. "This is what I want, to be able to sometimes hold your hand, hug you or kiss you and have that be okay with you. I want to go out with you and do fun things and sometimes to just stay in and hangout like we've always done. Most importantly, I want you to tell me if you don't like something or if you want me to do something else. I need you to tell me, not Sophie or Eliot.

I want us to have fun together and when you figure it out, I want you to tell me what you want even if it's just something you want to do on a date. I don't want you to take lessons from Sophie and Nate. Their relationship is way too complicated and we don't have to be like that. We just have to talk to each other. If there is something you want to say, but you just can't for whatever reason, you can email me or text me or whatever you feel comfortable doing, ok?" I pause waiting for a response because she hasn't actually said or done anything during my entire speech and I can't see her face so I don't really know what she's thinking.

We a block or so with our hands swinging between us before Parker says anything. I was starting to get worried when she finally speaks, "Ok, I never did any of this stuff before, but it doesn't sound hard. Just...can you just tell me if I'm doing it wrong and not get angry about it?"

"I'm not going to get angry at you for doing it wrong Parker. You can't do it wrong. There isn't really a normal when it comes to dating. Normal is whatever we decide it it is. Some people like to spend all their time together or touch each other all the time and some people only like to be touched sometimes or to spend a lot more time by themselves. We just have to figure out what works best for us. I might get angry at you though sometimes Parker, but I won't stay angry at you and it's okay for you to get mad at me if I mess up too. You just have to tell me so that I can try to fix it. It's only bad if we get angry and don't try to fix it." I tell her.

We're just across from the Aquarium, but Parker hasn't noticed it yet so I tug on her hand getting her to stop and look at me. "You're not going to figure it all out right this minute, Mama. I don't even know it all. We just have to learn it together and I'm okay with that if you are." Parker nods at me. "Great!" I smile at her "Let's go see some fish."

A/N: I have to figure out what happens at the aquarium, but I think we're going back to Parker's POV and after that I'm pretty sure we're going on their world travels with them, at least some of them. I had a very long drive yesterday by myself during which I had a bunch of ideas for P/H dating, but traveling around the world does require some research & I just started a new job so I'm not sure how soon the next few parts will go up. Also, I didn't really plan to plan to write another longer story while working on What life is about & I have an idea for a little something that goes after the series finale.