I want to thank SallyJetson for the Beta of this fiction and for Audacity for the encouragement.
Part 3- What's Beyond the Sky
All she wanted to do was sleep and that's what she intended to do. She had gathered her clothes from her locker and slammed it shut. But what she didn't expect was to see Danny on the other side.
"Danny, you scared me!" Lindsay exclaimed, almost dropping her clothes. Danny, being the gentleman that he was, took her clothes and helped her put them into her bag. "I'm sorry, Montana. I just have to ask you to do something with me."
Her eyes sparkled in the light of the locker room and all Danny thought was that she was going to say yes. Please say yes, he thought.
"Are we going to work on the Bat mobile again?"
"As much as we had fun with the Bat mobile, it's actually about something else. Are you up for anything?"
"Danny, I ate bugs with you. There is nothing that you can put in front of me that I can't handle. What do you have in mind?"
"Is this what you had in mind?" Lindsay said as Danny led her to a spot in the middle of Central Park. The spot that he picked was perfect. It had a scenic view of the sky but Lindsay still didn't know why he had picked this particular spot.
"Oh yeah," Danny said, spreading the blanket that he had on the grass. Lindsay, puzzled looked at her boyfriend. She loved a romp in the park as much as anybody else but with people strolling by, it could be a little uncomfortable.
"What are you doing?" Lindsay said. She sat down on the blanket as Danny sat down beside her.
Danny reached over and scooted Lindsay closer to him. He wrapped his arms around her small body. "I'm going to show you something. I know that in Montana you lived on a farm and had plenty of chances to study the sky above. And you probably looked at the stars. I just want to show you the view of the constellations from Central Park."
"Thank you", Lindsay said, whispering close to his ear. "I was never any good at finding the constellations. I'm sure you won't mind showing me?"
They both relaxed back on the blanket and gazed at the stars. As a scientist, Lindsay knew the general gist of astronomy but not as much as Danny. She looked up and saw a series of stars that intersected in the form of a "y". She tried to remember which constellation it was but Danny noticed that she was focused on a particular portion of the sky.
"Cancer." Danny said, pointing to the stars. Lindsay followed with her eyes in the direction that he was pointing. "See how it's formed. I always thought it would be more "crab-like" but it's not."
Lindsay leaned up and faced Danny. "How did you learn so much about the stars?"
"Well, when I was little, my parents used to send me to my neighbors' apartment when they went out. Both of my neighbors, Edna and Charles were avid constellation watchers. They would spend hours teaching me the different shapes of the constellations. It is something that I never forgot."
"I wish I could have met your neighbors Danny. That way that I could tell them that they taught a young boy is that the key to a woman's heart is beyond the sky."