Chapter Six: All Humans must feel Emotion
Tempe sat on the bed waiting for Booth to finish in the bathroom, still hearing the water running she grew impatient.
"Booth, are you done? You're worse than a woman!"
Booth could only hear muffled yelling; he poked his head out of the bathroom to see what the commotion was.
"Did you say something Bones?"
"Yeah, I said are you done yet? You've been in there almost half an hour"
"Oh sorry, I didn't realise, I had to wash my hair and shave"
"You shave in the shower?"
"Yeah don't you?"
Tempe didn't know what to say to that.
"Just hurry up ok, I want a shower before dinner"
"It's dinner time?"
"Yeah its 5.45pm"
"Ok" he popped his head back in the bathroom and shut the door, re-appearing a few seconds later with only a towel around his waist and water dripping down his torso and over his hairy masculine chest, Tempe couldn't help but stare. Then she realised what she was doing and snapped herself out of it. She gathered up her towel, toiletries and clothes and entered the steam filled bathroom, Booth grinned to himself as she walked past; he knew she was going to be wearing something stunning for their dinner date that night.
Ten minutes later the bathroom door opened and out walked Tempe in a stunning little black dress, Booth saw her and immediately he was speechless and his jaw dropped to the floor, all he could manage to say was "wow".
Tempe smiled when she saw his face and laughed a little.
"What?"
"You look… wow"
"Is it too much? I can change"
"No! don't change"
"Ok" Tempe was slightly confused but she went with it anyway, after all that was Booth's way of telling her that he liked what he saw. She walked over to her bed, bent down to pick up her stiletto heels and sat down to put them on. Booth was adding the finishing touches to his hair. Fifteen minutes later they were out the door and on their way to a fancy restaurant that also included a dance floor, a good way for them to make a fool of themselves, Tempe thought.
When they were seated at a table over looking the ocean, Booth took this opportunity to tell Tempe how truly beautiful she looked. He reached out across the table and took her hand in his, this sudden touch of Booth's warm hand surprised her and she looked up at him and smiled.
"You look beautiful tonight" he told her, adding his usual Booth charm smile for effect. Tempe felt her cheeks flush with embarrassment.
"Thanks, I think"
"No you do, you actually look beautiful all the time but tonight, wow"
"Ok, what do you want?"
"What? I don't want anything but to sit here and look at you all night"
"You're especially flirty tonight, what's up?"
"What, aren't I allowed to flirt with my girlfriend?"
"Yeah I didn't say you couldn't flirt, its just you're really flirty tonight"
Booth just replied with a charm smile and Tempe burst out laughing, which also made Booth break out with laughter.
The waiter came to take their orders. Booth ordered for them both, they both got seafood dishes and Booth also ordered another round of drinks, beer for himself and the house wine for Bones.
After they had finished, Booth was eyeing off the dance floor. There were a few other couples dancing so he begged and begged Bones to get up and dance with him.
"Booth you know very well I can't dance" she protested
"No that is a lie, I know very well that you can dance" he told her.
She paused for a moment, thinking about the situation
"I can't win here can i?"
"No you can't" Booth replied with his charm smile, the one that always made her melt and give in. She let him drag her onto the dancefloor.