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Mindy sat on the couch in the doctor's lounge, staring at Cliff's name on her phone. She knew she had to break it off with him; not that they were together but he needed to know it wasn't going anywhere. Danny… oh Danny. Those eyes. Her thumb hovered over the call button. Maybe it was mean to do this over the phone. Suddenly her phone lit up with Cliff's face and she let out a 'shit!' and dropped the phone. She laughed to herself and quickly picked it up and answered.
"Hey Cliff! I was actually just about to call you," she said, still amused by reaction.
"Mindy! Hey. I had a really great time at that Christmas Party. I was .. wondering if you would like to go on an actual date with me this weekend?" Cliff sounded nervous. She felt bad for the situation; he broke up with Heather to be with her and now.. now there was no way she could be with anyone but Danny. Sure their first date was a disaster but it was Danny.
Danny yawned and entered the doctor's lounge and plopped down next to her on the couch. Of course he would show up right now, she thought, trying to turn away from him and put the phone to the ear farthest away.
"Oh.. I had a really good time too. I just. I'm sorry, Cliff, I can't." she said, turning her face away completely so she didn't have to look at Danny's smug face right now.
"Was it something I did? You know Heather and I are over, right? I did make that clear?"
"Yea you did say that.. It's just.." she could feel Danny moving closer to her on the couch. Focus. "I'm sorry Cliff. It's not you it's me. I like someone else." There. Now she got that out of the way. And out in the open, which wasn't exactly her plan to say in front of Danny but what the hell.
"Are you serious?" Cliff replied, getting angry. "Mindy we were making out less than a week ago. Is it the stock broker?"
Mindy forgot what they had talked about outside and got really confused. "Stock broker? No I'm.. talking about Danny. I'm really sorry Cliff."
"Danny. Wow. Well, I can't say I'm surprised. I guess that midwife was right you do make your way around the work place."
"How dare you!" she started, but he hung up on her. What a jerk. She was about to feel bad for herself but when she finally turned back around Danny was sitting almost on top of her.
"Hey Min," he said with a grin. This reminded her of that night when she told him she was going to Haiti. He was sitting so close to her and she wanted him so badly, except this time he looked happy and not like she had just ripped his heart out with a metal spike or something.
"h-hey" she managed to say. "Just sorting things out with Cliff…"
"I heard."
He reached up and removed her glasses and rubbed them with his sleeve. Woah, deja vu.
"So, second date?" she asked, trying hard to sound confident.
"Mhm" was his response, and he leaned in to put the glasses back on her face. His hands lingered on her ears, and slowly his right hand moved around to the back of her head. Mindy sighed and he pulled her in closer, but before their lips touched he stopped and smiled at her.
"What?" she asked breathless.
"This reminds me of before you went to Haiti. Except this time I get to do this" he whispered, finally kissing her. Her body was on fire and she wanted more; he on the other hand was trying his best to keep control as they now making out on the couch. Mindy was sitting with one leg up on the couch and she used that as leverage to push him down and lay on top of him, all the while trying to not break contact with his lips. She forgot where they were, she forgot about Cliff and the baby she just delivered.
Danny knew he wouldn't be able to stop if they kept going for much longer. He had dreamt about these scenarios for so long but this was so much better than he could have ever imagined. He ran his hands up and down her body, and being a little daring, started to play with the edge of her shirt, seeing if she would object to his hands underneath it. She only responded with more kisses, so he slowly started running his hands up her sides towards her bra, pulling her shirt up along the way.
"Gettin' some lunch, got some corn," came a signing from the hallway. Tamra came dancing into the room and stopped abruptly at the scene in front of her. "Oh.. my god.." she said, shocked. "Doctor L gettin her groove on. This doesn't seem very sanitary.."
Danny's thumb had just made it to the edge of Mindy's bra before Tamra came in, and they quickly broke apart, though there wasn't anything they could really say to make this not look like what it was.
"Oh don't mind me," Tamra said, grabbing her lunch, and then singing her way back out of the room.
Mindy was mortified. She tried to catch her breath and looked at Danny with a horrified expression. That might have gotten out of hand. They decided to sit a little bit farther apart, and Mindy grabbed the remote and turned the tv on to distract them, though neither of them could stop smiling now.
"Doctor Castellano? Can I talk to you for a second?"
"Sure Betsy, come on in."
Danny was sitting behind his desk a few hours later, both irritated and glad at the interruption of his Mindy thoughts.
"What's going on?" he asked, not really sure why she was in his office. Ever since that night at the "art" show when his naked pictures were up for the entire world to see, Betsy avoided being alone with him.
"Tamra told us what she saw.. you and Doctor Lahiri.." Betsy started.
"Of course she told you. Listen Betsy I know it was unprofessional and - wait, who's 'us'?"
"Well, me and Morgan and Doctor Reed and there were a few other people in the elevator.."
Danny groaned and put his face in his hands. After years of getting their respect as a professional in the workplace he managed to destroy it all in a matter of minutes.
"Does Doctor Lahiri know?" he asked, now worried about how Mindy would be handling this.
"Oh yes, she yelled at me to get out of her office after I told her, as her best friend, that you should marry her first before getting into her secret rose garden," Betsy said, and whispering 'secret rose garden', sounding confused as to why that would irritate Mindy.
"Oh come on Betsy! It's none of your business! Go back to work!" Danny yelled, and got up from his desk to go talk to Mindy about this. He opened the door and followed Betsy out, keeping an eye on her to make sure she went back to her area and not somewhere else to keep gossipping. He knew people were looking at him now as he was walking to Mindy's office, and didn't even knock before he went in to get away from the stares.
"Dann you would not believe what Betsy just said to me!" Mindy yelled, waving her pen in the air.
"She just told me. Look, are you okay?"
"I'm really mad if that's what you're asking. I can't believe Tamra told everyone, even those creepy taxidermists from the fourth floor they're always staring at me and I know they're trying to work out how they would stuff me with sawdust!"
"I'm so sorry, Min."
"And another thing, why do we have to share a building with them? We're actual doctors. Wait, why are you sorry?"
"It was my fault, I let it get too far and now both our reputations are in the mud."
Mindy just shrugged. "I don't really care. I enjoyed it. Besides, you're taking me on a second date soon. So it'll work out." She winked at him and he felt himself relax. Okay, if she wasn't destroyed by this he would let it go too.
"About that second date," he said, moving closer to her desk. "Saturday afternoon?"
Mindy pouted a little. "What about dinner? Saturday is so far away.."
"Don't be dramatic, Saturday is tomorrow."
I didn't want the chapter to drag on but I'll have the next one up by the end of the night I promise!