Dana and Carter - Chapter 4 / Dinner
Dana's POV
I wanted to impress Carter for our date tonight but I had no idea what to wear, I had plenty of clothes to choose from but none of them seem to look good enough for our date. Kelsey helped me look through my clothes and choose something which I thought might look OK; it was a white see through blouse, I had a white bra on so it didn't really stand out, I also put on a pink high waist skirt and matched it with some pink shoes, I grabbed my black bag and made sure I had my essentials. There was a knock on my door and I opened it and seen Carter standing in the other side wearing some black dress pants and a red shirt... He looked hot.
We smiled at each other and he handed me some pink roses "These are for you" He stated, I thanked him and I invited him in so I could put them in some water "Are you ready to go?" He asked. I nodded and he grabbed my hand and we made our way to transport "You look amazing tonight by the way" he told me as we made our way down to transport.
"Thank you" I looked down at the floor and blushed a little "You look really good too" I said.
When we arrived at dinner he pulled my seat out for me and then sat opposite me, we held hands over the table and talked about numerous things from our childhoods to what we thought about being power rangers "I feel honoured that Captain Mitchell chose me for this" he stated.
"You know I honestly had no idea that he was training me to be ranger I thought he just wanted me to know bow to look after myself... I was as shocked as you lot were" We both laughed.
Our dinner arrived and the conversation slowed down to a bare minimum but once our dinner was finished the conversation flowed again. I was worried about going on this date because I didn't know what we would talk about and I thought it might become a little awkward, I was surprised at how normal and comfortable this felt.
"You know Dana I'm glad I finally asked you out I've had a really nice time tonight and I would like to do this again with you... If you want to" He was nervous which was cute.
"Of course I would like to go out with you again" I answered.
We made our way out from dinner and was about to get into the car when our morphers went off "Dana, Carter we could really do with some help here!" Kelsey's voice came over the comm system.
"Ready?" Carter asked looking at me.
"Ready" I answered.
"Lightspeed Rescue!" We called out and morphed.
We arrived at the fight scene to see we were losing the fight to the demon, Joel and Chad were fighting the demon and Kelsey was trying to fight the Batlings on her own "Dana you help Kelsey I'll help the guys" I nodded and went over to help Kelsey.
Carter's POV
As I approached the guys Vypra came out of nowhere and shoved me back "I don't think so red ranger... Your mine!" She shouted out and went for me and she got to me before I could get to her, I looked up at her from my position on the floor.
"Carter!" I seen pink and Dana helped me up "Are you OK?" She asked.
"Yeah, go back and help Kelsey" I replied.
"Ryan showed up, he's helping Kelsey... Plus me and Vypra have some unfinished business" She said.
"Aw how sweet, your little girlfriend has come to help you" she laughed evilly and lunged at Dana. Dana got out her rescue blaster and aimed it at Vypra and she managed to get a few shots in before Vypra got her, she rolled towards me and I helped her up. We attacked Vypra at the same time and it knocked her to the floor "This isn't over rangers... Trust me!" She shouted angrily and disappeared.
Me and Dana went over to Chad and Joel who were fighting the demon and struggling, me and Dana had our rescue blasters ready and took our shots and it made the demon stagger which gave Joel and Chad enough time to finish the demon off then the four of us went and helped Ryan and Kelsey with the Batlings but then they disappeared too.
We all powered down and Ryan looked at Dana weird "Where have you been all dressed up?" He asked confused "Have you been on a date?" He asked.
"Yeah... I went on a date with Carter" She answered.
Ryan looked towards me with a look in his eyes but I couldn't figure out if it was anger or confusion "You went on a date with Carter?" Dana nodded and looked towards me "Carter me and you need to have a little chat" He stormed over to me and started pulling me away from the rest of the group then when we were out of earshot he let lose "Are you crazy?! This is my baby sister! She has lots of time dating boys but when she has finished medical school and has a stead and stable job when she's like twenty five or thirty not now at eighteen!" He sighed in frustration and kicked something that was on the floor.
"Look Ryan I really like her you know I've been wanting to ask her out for a long time, it's not like I woke up this morning and decided to ask her out. I understand what your saying about her finishing with school and everything but I'm not going to let her fail school and you know she wouldn't let me come between her school, I know I'm a little older then her but feelings have no age limit" Ryan looked at me and I knew he was angry.
"Leave her alone" He warned and walked away.
Dana's POV
There was a knock on my door and Kelsey answered it but called me telling me it was for me, when I got to the door I seem Carter standing there "Can we go somewhere and talk?" He asked. We ended up into the deserted galley, everyone was asleep by now so we didn't have to worry about interruptions "Me and Ryan talked and he made a really valid point which I know you won't like but maybe he was right... Dana your younger then me and you still have to finish school and juggle being a power ranger, adding a boyfriend to that mix isn't a good idea. You have so much time to settle down and find a boyfriend and as much as I like you and as much as this kills me to say I think maybe we shouldn't go on that second date" He explained to me.
This was all Ryan's fault! "Ryan doesn't know me, he's been in my life for five minutes he doesn't know what I can and cannot juggle in my life but if you just don't want to go on this second date then I'm not going to make you, it's probably best anyway I mean if you scare that easy your clearly not the man I thought you were" I told him and stood up from my chair "Goodbye Carter" I stormed out of the galley and went to find Ryan.
I found Ryan with dad, Joel and Chad looking over the footage from our fight "Dana, you did good out there" Ryan commented and smiled.
I stormed up to him and slapped him hard across the face "I hate you! You haven't been in my life for five minutes and your trying to act like the big caring brother! Remember when you tried to destroy me? Who the hell do you think you are?! Stay the hell away from me!" I shouted and made my way back to my room where Kelsey was sitting on the chair reading a book.
"Everything OK?" She asked and I explained to her what happened "I cannot believe he would do that, Ryan has no right and I'm glad you smacked him it serves him right" She stated.
I got the flowers Carter got me and threw them in the bin "I hate men!" I shouted, there was a knock on the door "Go away!" I called out.
"Dana it's me" My dads voice said from the other side. I went to the door and opened it and seen my dad standing on the other side with Ryan next to him "Ryan explained to me what happened and as much as I like Carter he's right... Finish school first then look for a boyfriend" He explained.
"Why does no one understand? I'm an eighteen year old girl! I'm going to go out on dates fall in love that's what people do at my age but it doesn't matter anyway because Carter doesn't want to go out with me again so you two have got your own way, screw what Dana wants as long as you two are happy" I closed the door in their faces and went and sat next to Kelsey who hugged me "I really liked him Kels" I said.
"I know you did Dana and they are out of order for saying that... Carter isn't a bad guy I think he just wants you to focus on the stuff you have on your plate right now that's all I know and everyone here knows how much he likes you" She explained to me.
"Not you too Kels, your supposed to be on my side" I stood up in a huff and got into bed and turned my back to her.