It was August the 14th. Danny and Alice were going up to Glasgow for a couple of days. They were staying at Shauna's. Alice had tried to say they were fine staying at a hotel, in separate rooms but once Mrs Carr heard that Danny was there she wouldn't hear of it. She even went as far as phoning Danny's mum who had of course agreed whole heartedly. They never got any time alone. Supervision was a bitch. They had a chaste kiss and were treated like they were going to rip each others clothes off! Danny's mother knew that he and Alice were above the legal age and could be considering sex so of course she never left them alone for a minute. It was frustrating. I mean she and Danny were practically adults and could control them selves. Well that hadn't actually been proven. But she was certain they could! The good thing was that Danny's parents were going away to Blackpool for 3 days on the day she and Danny returned. Danny was supposed to be going but they left before she and Danny got back. She and Danny had 3 whole days of just him and her, 3 whole days of peace and she couldn't wait! Just because they had those 3 days alone didn't mean anything would go on though. She and Danny were going fine and there was no rush. She loved him and he loved her and that was enough. They didn't need to show the physical side to prove they loved each other. They just did.
Danny was looking forward to meeting Mrs Carr. If she was anything like her daughter they would get along like a house on fire. He felt a deep affection for Shauna. Sort of like a sisterly love. Well she practically was Alice's sister so. The affection he felt stemmed from the fact that she was such a good influence on Alice. Alice with Shauna was different from Bristol Alice. She changed since Shauna had came for her visit. She was a lot happier and relaxed, and that made him love her even more if that was possible. She helped Alice with her problems and was loyal and supportive and would fight to the death for her. Alice had told him what Sarah had done at the metrocentre. God she was a bitch! But 3 on 1 that was low even for her. The fact that Shauna had walked in cool as ice and then had them running scared made him smile. All he wanted was for him and Alice to have a quiet and happy life. That wasn't too much to ask for was it? He also wished they were going to Glasgow for a happier reason, but they weren't!
They arrived at Glasgow at 3oclock. Mrs Carr unfortunately couldn't meet them so they had to make their own way to her house. This made Danny nervous.
"You sure you know where your going?" he asked for the fifth time.
Alice rolled her eyes. "Actually Danny no I don't. I'm afraid that we're lost!" she said seriously.
"Oh God we are aren't we!" he said.
"No!" Alice said laughing. "I lived here my whole life Danny. I don't know why your worrying."
"I just like knowing were I am!" he replied nervously.
They stood at the bus stop. "Can you believe we have to stay at Mrs Carr's!" Alice said indignantly. "Do they not trust us or something."
"No they don't." he said boarding the bus as it came to a stop. "With good reason too!"
"Hey I can control myself!" Alice replied.
"I can't!" he said and laughed. He looked and noticed the passengers looking at him funny. "Why is everyone looking at me like I have two heads?" he whispered.
"It's just ya dodgy accent, don't worry about it." she said and grinned.
"Dodgy accent. Mines better than yours!" he said insulted.
"Should you be saying something like that in Glasgow. You could get yourself lynched!" she told him calmly.
His face turned serious. "Your right!" he agreed.
"Here's our stop." she said and they climbed off the bus. They walked through a park. She took him to a tree. He saw AC+SC+ML. she traced the writing with her finger.
"We carved this 3 weeks before I left. They didn't know I was leaving. Neither did I actually. He just up and moved me one day. He told me the night before we were going. I rang up Shauna in tears asking her to kidnap me." she laughed smally. "He came up later for all the stuff from the house. I resented having to move down Bristol leaving all my friends. I suppose one good thing came form Bristol though. You." she said and kissed him.
"Alice Collins." A young man shouted. "Put him down you don't know where he's been!" he shouted and laughed. Alice and Danny looked over. 2 young men walked towards them. Alice ran over and hugged the tall one. He had dark hair, brown eyes and was very handsome. Danny was instantly jealous.
"Terry." she said and smiled and hugged him. He swung her around. "God we haven't spoke in at least 6 months!" she said. "And it's even longer since I last seen you. You look good!" she said.
The other young man was stood staring at Danny. "Hi." Danny said and extended his hand for him to shake it.
"Oooo, your accent is so cute!" he said to him. "I'm Graham." and shook his hand and winked. Danny resisted the urge to pull his hand away. He wasn't a homophobe but he just didn't feel comfortable with a gay man coming on to him!
"Danny, this is Terry and you've met Graham." she said.
Graham was stood beside Danny and kept trying to grab his hand. He wanted to put them in his pockets but he didn't want to seem like he was sending an invitation. God this was uncomfortable. He looked at Alice pleading.
"Graham Danny is my boyfriend. As you can see from our very heated kiss before." Alice said.
"Oh am I coming on too strong?" he asked in his singsong voice. "Your just so cute!"
"Ok, look I'm going over there." he said pointing to a picnic table. "Alone!" he told Graham, who followed him anyway.
"What a waste of a good looking lad." she heard Graham say. "Your wasted on woman!" Danny looked at Alice and mouthed save me! She grinned and turned to Terry.
"How ya been Terry?" she asked.
"I've been really good Alice, it's not been the same having my little honey bee with me though." he said and twirled her hair in his finger. She backed off. He went to grab her hand.
"My boyfriend is over there Terry." she said and he stopped. "Plus I'm sure you survived without me!"
Terry didn't mean any harm he just overloaded on flirtatious energy when a good looking young girl was near. She'd been so surprised when he'd decided he'd liked her. She been 15 and him 17 and she was like wow. She now knew that he was hollow inside, unlike another certain young man she knew.
"You like him a lot. You never looked at me like that!" he mentioned. "Anyway it was nice seeing you again, I must say your as gorgeous as ever!" Terry told her and kissed here cheek.
"Bye Terry." she said and walked over to save her beloved who was sat on the edge of the chair trying to escape from Graham.
"C'mon Danny, we'll head to Shauna's. Mrs Carr will be worried." Alice said.
He picked up the bag from the floor, ran to Alice and hugged her.
"Thank God! - he was trying to get me in the bushes and it wasn't to play hide and seek!" he shuddered dramatically.
"Bye Danny. Phone me!" Graham said and blew him a kiss.
"C'mon let's run!" he whispered.
Alice laughed and they walked along. "He wasn't that bad."
"I went to get my phone and he thrust his hand in my pocket and got it for me. I swear I nearly screamed like a girl when he did. I'm traumatised, I'll never go to a park again!" he hissed.
"Aw Danny, it's just Graham. He's harmless." she said.
"Harmless, HARMLESS!" he exclaimed. "He told me it was his mission in life to turn every good looking lad gay, starting with me!"
"Should I be worried Danny?" Alice asked.
"Well." Danny said ain a high pitched voice and smiled.
"I make it my mission to change you back then." she told him and pulled him into her arms.
"Won't take much persuasion." he said and lowered his lips to hers.
(X)
Danny and Alice were holding hands walking down a residential street. An old lady saw them and smiled. Danny was whispering in Alice's ear and she was smiling widely.
"Aw young love!" She said.
They both smiled at her.
"Hold on tight to each other - you'll never know what'll happen in the future!" she warned.
"I never intend on letting her go. She's one of a kind irreplaceable" he said and kissed the back of the hand he was holding. He then looked into her eyes and she smiled. It was like they were the only 2 people in the world.
The old lady smiled and left them to it. She walked on.
A few minutes later they heard a shout. They swivelled round. A young man had the old woman's bag and was tugging at it.
"Help me!" the lady shouted.
Danny got angry. "Hey!" he shouted.
The young man pushed the lady onto the floor and ripped her bag from her hands. Danny and Alice sprinted towards the old woman. Alice dropped to her knees as Danny took chase after the lad.
"Are you ok?" Alice asked. The old woman was lain on the ground. Alice bundled up her jacket and lain it under her head. She dialled 999.
Danny ran as fast as he could through the winding Glasgow streets. The lad had a definite advantage that he knew the area. But Danny had sped and endurance. The other boy was already starting to slow. They were in a dark alleyway. The old ladies bag swayed in the wind behind the thief. Danny gave one more burst of energy and stretched for the bag. Danny tugged and the handle snapped. Danny held it victorious then flung it behind a bin. Hidden from sight. The young man turned suddenly and pulled a small blade from his pocket. It gleamed in the sun.
"Whoa now!" Danny said and held his hands up in a back off gesture.
"Gimme the bag!" the young man demanded.
Danny backed off slowly. "No!" he said simply.
"Gimme the fucking bag!" the thief said and waved the knife menacingly.
"Calm down" Danny said in a soothing voice.
"Don't tell me to stay calm. I'm telling you give me the bag before I cut you up!"
Danny exhaled slowly. "Look mate, it's not worth it! Do you really wanna go to prison for a £10 bag?" he asked.
"No I'll go to prison for this though!" he yelled and lunged at Danny.
Danny panicked for a second. He saw the blade edging towards his chest. It was like slow motion. He turned and felt the slice of cold metal against his skin. He hissed in pain. A rush of warm sticky blood gushed from the wound in his chest. The blade had sliced through his shirt like butter. The boy smiled menacingly.
"I'm gonna make you squeal like a pig!" he said.
He lunged at Danny again.
(X)
Alice sat on the path with the old woman.
"C'mon stay with me Mrs? What's your name?" she asked.
"I'm Florence Rawlings dear." she said weakly.
"O you ever had it shortened to Flo. My mum had a Auntie Flo once." Alice knew she was babbling. Where the hell was the ambulance. She was worried about Danny too. He didn't know where he was.
"What's your name?" Florence asked.
"Alice, I used to live around here a few years ago." she said.
"And your young man's name?"
Alice's favourite subject. Her face and eyes grew animated.
"His name is Daniel, Danny. We live in Bristol." Alice said.
"Ah I thought he didn't sound normal. Dodgy accent" she said.
Alice smiled. "I knew I wasn't the only one who thought that!"
"You obviously love your young man very much." Flo said to her.
"Yeah I do. No-one will ever know how much. Words can't describe how much!" Alice told her. "We've had our ups and downs but we love each other so much and worked through them together."
"I loved like that once." Flo said wistfully.
"Really, what happened?" Alice asked.
"Me and Edward couldn't be together. It was a different time then. My parents didn't approve and threatened to disown me. So I broke it off! If you and your Daniel are meant to be together then stay together. You are better off together than apart. Stronger together than apart." Flo told her passionately.
Alice heard a faint siren. "Tell me about Edward. What did he look like?"
Flo smiled and her eyes went cloudy as she remembered happy times. "He was so handsome. Tall about the size of your young man. He had the most amazing expressive brown eyes. When he gazed at me they would look like a soft liquid brown. He had long black hair and a smile that made my knees weak."
"There's still time to find him!" Alice said.
The ambulance came to a stop beside them.
"I don't know if my children would approve!" she said.
"Excuse me Miss." the ambulance technician said.
"We'll continue this conversation later." Alice said. "As soon as I find Danny we'll visit you in hospital."
The old lady smiled. "You spend your time with your young man. Don't waste your time with an old woman!"
"We'll see you later." Alice said with a wave.
They loaded the old woman into the back of the ambulance and shut the door.
Alice pulled her phone out and rang Danny. it went on to his voicemail.
"Shit!" she whispered. She started jogging in the direction he ran. "Danny!" she shouted.
A/N gettin really close to the end of the story :) hope your enjoying it x
