Last chapter :). Thank you so much for the reviews and for reading! I'll probably write more, with the hiatus and all. Bleh. Oh it gets a bit hot and heavy in this one but nothing too naughty.
He picked her up early in the afternoon after telling her to dress casually and to leave her clown shoes at home. She protested that they weren't clown shoes but he had stopped listening to her.
"A library? Really Danny? This is our romantic second date?" Mindy had sneered, but before she could throw a grandpa comment in there he had pushed her through the doors.
"I used to bring Richie here when we were kids. I wanted to do something.. personal. It's stupid I guess we can go if you want.." He turned around and started to open the doors.
"Ugh. Danny. Stop. I didn't know it meant something to you. We can stay." She waved for him to come back over and laced her arm through his. "So, show me around?"
They didn't start in a particular spot, but Danny had a lot of information about the architecture and the history of the building so they made their way through the sections while Mindy listened to him talking. She wasn't particularly interested in any of it, but she loved how passionate Danny was, so she liked listening to him talking. Danny loved being able to share something like this with her. Neither of them noticed that two hours had gone by since they arrived.
They found a table and decided to sit down for a few minutes.
"Hey Min, I'm really glad we did this," he said with a big grin on his face.
"Me too," she agreed. "I kind of thought we would be here sooner but I'm glad we got here eventually."
Danny felt his heart explode. "How much sooner?"
"I don't know.. when we went to Santa Fe, I guess. The airplane. You grabbed my hand.. But then Christina came back and I was with Casey.. life happened."
Danny didn't know what to say. If he had known she was interested back then he wouldn't have gone back with Christina.
"I wish I knew," he managed to come up with.
"It's not like you were carrying this big sign on your forehead either," she said, getting a little irritated.
"Are you serious? I've been following you around like a lovesick puppy for months! I let you stay in my apartment, which by the way you had to ruin by talking about Cliff." For some reason she always knew how to get him riled up.
She leaned back in her chair and looked around the library. "You know, maybe this wasn't such a good idea." She folded her arms across her chest. Suddenly he stood up, walked around the table, and grabbed her hand.
"Come on," was all he said and started leading her away from the table.
The library had cleared out a little, but there were still people scattered here and there. Danny started walking a little bit faster and Mindy thought that maybe he was leading her somewhere- like to a book or something. They kept walking in silence to the end of the room and behind a few bookcases, then Danny pushed her up against the wall and started attacking her mouth. Mindy fought to catch her breath.
"Ow! Danny! You're on my hair!"
"Well move!"
"Shh! You're going to get us caught!"
"You started talking!" And with that he pushed her up harder against the wall, his right hand up next to her head and his left hand over her bra, underneath her shirt. She responded by biting his lip and running her fingers through his hair as they continued to make out in this quiet corner of the New York Public Library. Months of pent up anger and sexual frustration, from both of them, came pouring out.
He positioned his knee between her legs and she shuddered at the pressure, her body going crazy and wanting him right then and there. His finger slipped underneath her bra and brushed over her nipple, causing her to gasp and clutch on to his hair. He broke the kiss and leaned into whisper in her ear.
"You like that?" he breathed, causing her to shiver and nod her head.
"Well then I guess we better get you home."
He started kissing her again and ran his left hand down her stomach and to her pants button. He started unbuttoning it, waiting for her to stop him.
"Or we could just…" he whispered, getting to the zipper.
"No, no stop," she finally got out. "We're going to do this right, not in this gross library. Besides, I am not getting interrupted by someone again. Let's go to my place.
They walked out of the library hand-in-hand, both with massive grins on their faces.
"This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.." Danny muttered, hoping to sweep her off her feet even more with a movie reference.
"We're already friends? I don't know what you mean," Mindy replied.
"Are you se-? It's from Casablanca! How have you not seen that?!"
"I don't know I might be too young for that.." she said playfully, poking him in the side with her free hand. She leaned her head on his shoulder as they stopped to wait for the crosswalk to turn.
Danny laughed and lifted her chin up with his right hand, giving her a quick kiss. "You drive me crazy, do you know that?"
"I know."