Chapter Three ;
No One Closer
A knock at the door made Dani jump out of her daydream. She turned her head and Sara was no longer in the room. She was in a different chair now, the one across from the one she was in earlier, because she got up to answer the phone. It was probably Adam at the door, so Dani decided to get up. She moved towards the door, and yawned. She was really tired.
Dani got to the door and went on her tip-toes to see through the peephole. She saw Adam's skinny and normal-height figure. She also saw his brown hair that wasn't too long, but wasn't really short either. Dani opened the door and Adam walked in, kicked off his shoes, and sat down on the couch with Dani after she closed the door.
Dani picked up the remote to the TV and turned it on, some soap opera was on that Dani had seen maybe two episodes of. Her and Adam liked watching one episode of one, and then making up their own storylines as to what happened or what might happen.
In the soap opera they were watching, some woman was claiming that some guy was the father of her unborn child. They were in a courtroom, and the woman was screaming accusations to the man and the judge couldn't control them.
"The lawyer is the father," Adam suggested.
"No, it was the lawyer last time, this time it's the judge," Dani corrected. They watched for a while and eventually some random guy came bursting into the courtroom yelling that he was the father.
"Who is that guy?" Dani asked.
"The lawyer's brother," Adam answered. Dani turned and looked at him, holding back a smile. She turned back to the TV and found out it was the woman's first child's father. The soap opera ended, and the credits of the show started.
"I didn't expect that one," Dani concluded.
"Because it was too obvious that it obviously wouldn't be obvious on a soap opera, so the people who wrote the soap opera decided to be smart for once and make the ending the not so obvious ending because it would be too obvious to be obvious," Adam explained.
"Want to know what's scary?" Dani asked and turned to him.
"What?"
"I understood that," Dani said and laughed.
After a few minutes of channel surfing, then giving up because there was absolutely nothing interesting to watch, Dani turned off the TV and turned to Adam.
"What do you want to do?" She asked him.
He shrugged, "Walk?"
Sara walked in the room and Dani got up and walked over to her, and Adam followed.
"Sar, we're going for a walk, okay?" Dani half asked and told her.
"Sure, it's nice outside," Sara said and smiled.
Dani and Adam put on their shoes and walked out of the apartment. They walked down a small set of stairs, then another set on the opposite side of the hallway. They walked down another six sets of the small staircases then opened the glass door and were finally outside the apartment building.
They started walking the opposite direction of the busier streets in Vegas. Dani usually stuck to the side streets, because the more busy ones scared her. They walked for a while until they were about to pass by a park.
"Want to go swing on the swings?" Dani asked.
"Sure," Adam answered, then he started running into the park. Dani chased him, down the ditch and then back up the other side and into the playground.