Chapter Twelve

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A couple of days later

Around 1 or 2 am

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In the early wee hours of the day and when Danny was deeply in his sleep with Elena by his side, he could hear his cell phone ringing in the background.

Wondering who is calling him right now, Danny groaned to himself when he sat up on the mattress, turned on the light lamp sitting on the bedside table, grabbed the phone and without looking at the screen to see who is calling him, Danny put the phone on the right side of his face and greeted the caller, "Hello?"

Seconds later, he heard a female voice on the phone, greeting back to him, "Hi, Danny. It's me, Grace and sorry about waking you up this early, Danny. I just came back."

Understanding what Grace was saying to him but had no clue how Grace got his cell phone number even through and as far as he remembered, he didn't gave her one and thinking about it at that moment, he knew that someone gave Danny's number to her. Someone that Grace might be sleeping with right now.

After hearing Grace's voice, Danny said back to her, "Oh, Hey, Grace. That's okay with me and how did I got my number? I never gave you one."

Answering Danny's question about the cell phone number, Grace said to Danny, "Danny, the truth is that Martin gave your number to me in case of an emergency and so, are you okay with it?"

Completely okay with it and making sure that he had to talk to Martin about this giving his cell phone number to his girlfriend without telling him first thing in the morning, Danny responded to Grace's question by saying to her, "Yeah, I'm fine with it, Grace."

"Good, then but Danny, before I go ahead and end the call, I had something to ask you, about the talk at the café a couple of days ago. About you know, you and me and the guy you saw me with."

That just came back to Danny's mind when he heard those words and wanting to know about it, Danny nodded to her and said to the woman he is talking with, "Yeah, Grace. You can ask me that and what's it?"

Moments after saying that, Danny can hear Grace's sighing to herself and once she was done with that and clearing her voice, Grace Cahill told Danny something about the moment at the café a few days ago.

"Danny, do you know about that diner with the best burgers near where you work at?" asked Grace.

Knowing what that diner is about since he knows that Martin eats their burgers there a couple times per week, Danny answered Grace's question by saying to her, "Yeah, I know where that diner is. Why are you asking me this?"

Danny heard Grace sighing to herself and after seconds of inhaling and exhaling her breathing, Grace said to Danny, "Well, Danny. Can you meet me there for lunch so we can talk about what you know?"

From the look of it, Danny turned to Elena who is sounded asleep. Danny smiled at her, knowing that Elena will understand this and before talking to Grace, Danny can hear Martin's sleepy voice in the background, asking Grace to come back to bed with him so they can replace that time that they were separated with some great ones in…..

Hearing Grace joking to Martin, "Marty, please be a good little boy right now so I can finish my phone call with Danny. I think that he can hear you saying that to me!" Second after hearing that, Danny heard Martin's still sleepy voice, saying to his girlfriend, "No, he isn't and please, babe. Come back to bed so…"

Before hearing those last couple of words, Danny can hear some smacking with a pillow, probably from Grace to Martin and the moment Danny think that a quickly-recovered Martin is coming over to Grace to put the phone on and turn it off before heading back to bed, Danny quickly said to Grace, "Grace, I'm fine with that. See you there!"

Milliseconds after saying that, Grace quickly said to Danny, "Good! See you soon!" The moment he heard that, Danny smiled at that and hearing some giggling in the phone's background, Danny quickly turned the phone off and put it away before heading back to bed with his own girl.

The moment he went back to Elena and put his arm around Elena's waist, a sleepy Elena asked Danny, "Danny, who was that?"

"It was Grace, honey. She wants to see me today and are you okay with me to have lunch with her?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. You should have lunch with your best friend's girl and speaking of the best friend, was that Martin in the background? Asking Grace to come back to bed with him so they can in his words, to replace that time that they were separated with some great ones?"

Danny nodded to that and answered Elena's question by saying to her, "Yeah, that was Martin and I'm pretty sure that the both of them are doing it at this moment or Grace is just smacking him with a pillow right now for him being so impatient."

The moment she heard that, Elena just told him, "Mmm, you probably right with that."

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Really great, uh? And I know that this chapter was shorter than the others but I just wanted to put this chapter in before heading off to one of the most shocking cliffhangers of the story in the next chapter and that chapter will be one of the longest ones that I will ever write plus that chapter will probably comes this weekend so stay tuned!