Can't help myself. I promise something will happen next chapter I just had to say where everyone was at feelings-wise.

It was Monday morning and Mindy was ready for the week to begin. She had an amazing night at the office Christmas Party, landed Cliff, and now everything could only get better from here. She was staring at herself in the mirror and applying her make-up while Midnight City played from her iPod in her bedroom. Something about this song made her think of that night she ran to Casey to tell him she wanted to go to Haiti with him. It had been so long since that it seemed, and now she was with Cliff. Her thoughts drifted to the end of the night when she was sitting on the couch with Danny. They had been so close and he had spoken so softly. She desperately wanted him to kiss her but she knew she couldn't hurt Casey like that. She tried to convince herself that he was just trying to get back at Christina, even though rationally she knew he would never think of doing something like that. They wrote the whole time she was in Haiti and she found herself looking forward more to his letters than seeing Casey at the end of the day. She had almost convinced herself that it was entirely on her end until she announced their engagement in the hospital room and she caught a glimpse of his expression before he turned away from her. Still, he never made a move and she wasn't about to say anything to him and risk having the most embarrassing moment in her life, not to mention the uncomfortable consequences at work afterwards.

There was a moment, that night she was locked out and staying at his apartment, when he looked at her and told her "We need to talk about us," in that tone. She had tried to play it like she didn't know what he meant but inside she was screaming. It would finally happen. She had purposely left out Cliff's name when she told him she liked someone in the building, hoping that he'd think it was him and he would finally say something. Everything was ruined by his crazy neighbor though and she kind of gave up hope. Then he made her breakfast and told her she was great.

"Hey, I love that you said that," she said, so incredibly happy and she yelled at herself to say something, anything to tell him that it was him she was talking about. Instead she said Cliff's name. What the hell Mindy? Did I just have a stroke or something what's wrong with me? she thought, and she could immediately sense the change in Danny's mood. She felt awful but it was too late to go back now and he still didn't say anything. Then she found her phone with all the texts and she was actually happy that Cliff was at least man enough to say something to her. Okay, it wasn't technically her but he didn't know that at the time. She really did like Cliff and she didn't always feel the need to impress him like previous guys. And if he was into her too then she was going to go for it and stop waiting around for Danny to say something. She was only human.

So ignoring the fact that she was incredibly moved by Danny's dance or how close they were to kissing again, which, let's not forget, he turned her down, she was determined to stay on course with Cliff. He broke up with Heather for her, after all. Josh didn't even do that. Ugh Josh. His wedding had actually given her a really good chance to get Danny alone and in a romantic setting but his brother had to come into town and ruin everything. Cliff was a nice guy and they had a really good chemistry. Plus his kissing skills were amazing.

She put her make-up down, satisfied with her look today and started to get her purse and coat together so she could go to work. She barely made the subway car before it pulled away and she smiled at her luck. Yes, everything would be better from now on. She looked around the crowded car and noticed Danny sitting down a few feet away from her. He had his head buried in a newspaper and seemed unaware of everything around him. She squeezed through people and made her way over to him.

"Hey Danny!" she said cheerfully. "How was your weekend?"

"Good morning Min," he said, unable to help himself from smiling back at her. "It was good, I watched a really great documentary about World Wa-"

"Yeah that's great grandpa that sounds really interesting. Ask me how my weekend was!" She didn't know why she was being like this. It felt mean.

He looked back down at his newspaper and sighed. "How was your weekend?"

"It was great. Cliff is. Who cares!" she said, laughing suddenly. He looked up at her confused and she awkwardly walked away back to where she was standing before.

What the hell Mindy? Pull yourself together. Sure as soon as he looked up all I could picture was him dancing, or stroking my chin softly, or holding on to my arm and leaning his head forward. And those eyes that make me want to drop everything and run away with him when he looks at me like that. Cliff Cliff Cliff Cliff think about Cliff. The kiss on the balcony. In the snow. Come on!

As soon as the train stopped she got out as quickly as she could and almost ran up the stairs to put some distance between them. She beat him to the office and ran in and shut her door. Morgan and Tamra were standing at the reception desk talking but couldn't get a word in before she was gone into her office. She put her iPod in the dock to get some music going so that she wouldn't be alone in her quiet office. She clicked on the Pandora icon and a smooth beat started to fill her office. She looked at the song: Do I Wanna Know? by the Arctic Monkeys. She hadn't heard it before but she really liked the way it started.

"Have you no idea that you're in deep?; I dreamt about you nearly every night this week; How many secrets can you keep?; 'Cause there's this tune I found that makes me think of you somehow and I play it on repeat; Until I fall asleep."

Mindy put her head in her hands and moaned. She had listened to Midnight City at least a hundred times and it always made her think about Danny in the end.

"So have you got the guts?; Been wondering if your heart's still open and if so I wanna know what time it shuts"

Danny was so hurt by Christina and she didn't want to do the same thing. She knew she wasn't always the best person and she would hate herself if she ruined their friendship. She didn't have the guts to say anything now. She sighed and looked at her schedule; she had a patient in about fifteen minutes. Time to focus and get to work, she told herself.