Chapter 5: Breakups, Dates And Double Dates

A couple of months passed and Casey returned to New York. His church welcomed him back with open arms, but he had a surprise announcement. He was giving up his calling as a minister, to pursue his new calling of being a DJ. This announcement came as a shock to Mindy, but as a good fiancee she supported it. Six weeks passed and Casey didn't seem to be going anywhere with his new calling. Mindy's patience was wearing thin, and after going to a musical festival and some wise words from Danny, she was back on board with supporting Casey's new dream. That is until he up and changed callings yet again, that ,Mindy could not support.

Mindy refused to follow Casey from one thing to another. She'd already done it once, by moving to Haiti with him. She would not be doing it again, and again, till Casey found his true calling, whatever it would be. Thus ended her engagement to Pastor Casey. It took her awhile, but with some help from Morgan, Mindy found her path to healing from her break up and was ready to move on.

A few Weeks Later

" Hey can I bring a plus one to your wiener night thing? I'm thinking of inviting that snobby guy Jason to come to it."

" No, you're not doing that ,and its not called wiener night,ok. If anything it should be called injustice night."

"I think that 'wiener night' is really taking off as a nickname."

"Why are you seeing that guy again , wasn't he really insulting to you?" Danny said referring to Mindy's date with a pretentious cultural writer , named Jason.

" Yes he was Danny, but it bothers me that he thinks hes so much better than me, and hes not. I just want to prove it to him."

" Oh, good. I'm glad this can all be worked out over photos of my genitals!"

" I'm sorry. Were you forced to take those photos against your will? Or did you take them as like sexy time with your wife?" Mindy said sarcastically , not having any pity for him.

"Ok.

" Ok, that's what I thought." Mindy said before exiting his office.

Later as Mindy and Danny made their way to Christina's art show opening, Danny started to regret showing up. He couldn't believe that everyone would be seeing his body, it would be full frontal nudity, and he was freaking out. Mindy, in her way, tried to make him lighten up about it.

" Come on, come on you're just, you're being very dramatic."

" I'm dramatic, you tried to shut down the M&M store , because you thought the brown lady M&M stole your look!"

"She Is stealing my look!"

" Look, I can't do this!" Danny said then tried to walk away in the opposite direction of the gallery.

" Hey, hey, hey, hey! Come on, you're doing this . The best thing you can do right now is to go in there , look Christina in the eye, and show her that this does not bother you."

" Yeah..."

" Yeah, and it shouldn't bother you. We're doctors, we can handle nudity." Mindy said, but upon entering the gallery and seeing the photographs she immediately changed her mind.

" Oh my god this is horrible , we shouldn't have come."

" Ok, stop, you said we're adults, we can handle it."

"I can see every hair follicle!"

" Aw man this is a, yeah this is a nightmare."

The show was not going good for Danny, and when Christina's little devil spotlight begin, Mindy knew she had to do something to defend him. And also take those artsy cultural people, namely Jason, Brendan Deslaurier and Jeremy, down a peg.

" Ok enough , that's enough this is dumb, this is not art. Everything on these walls I could have done that with my phone. I'm taking a picture of my boobs I guess I'm an artist now too. Ok I'm gonna delete that... i instagramed it, damn it, no don't look!" Mindy said as she accidentally sent out a photo of her breast, while trying to make a point.

" Yes, it would be extremely challenging to live with this man, but hes a good guy, and I'm a good guy."

" And I'm a good guy." Morgan , then Peter chimed in.

" No you're not, you're both ok, fine men. I'm not as artsy, or well read as I wish I was, but you know when I was very well read? When i was studying in medical school to become A Doctor. Yeah, bet you didn't think with this bod ,that I had a brain too. And pretty good boobs. And when I'm not delivering babies, sure I like to watch real housewives ,or listen to Katy perry ." Mindy said, and with those last words, the crowd started to boo.

" Oh come on, don't pretend you don't like Katy Perry!"Mindy continued to defend herself, while the crowd continued to boo. This made a clearly drunk Danny join her and start to defend her.

"Whoa,whoa, why are you booing her...because she doesn't quench your thirst for pornography!"

" I get it, hold this." Danny said before handing Mindy his beer, then taking off and throwing his jacket down on the ground.

"You know what, I'm sick of this! You came here tonight for this, this what you want, cause I'll give it to you!" Danny said, then started to unbuckle and unzip his pants, before pulling it down, while Mindy tried to stop him. That's when the cops came in.

Cliff, a lawyer Mindy had tried to sue when she was broken up about Casey. And that Morgan had used in a suit against Mindy, did his lawyer thing and handled things with the cops, he even waived his lawyer fee for his time helping out Danny.

Later, Danny was sitting on the sidewalk outside of the gallery a cigarette in hand , when Mindy walked up and joined him.

" Hey Danny, I didn't recognize you with all your clothes on." Mindy said with a smirk before taking a seat next to him on the sidewalk

" Ok, that's very insensitive, given my circumstances right now."

" Can I have a puff?"

"Yeah."

"That's stupid you shouldn't smoke." Mindy said throwing the cigarette on the ground.

"Hey! I'm a joke." Danny said running his hands down his face."

" You're not a joke Danny, you have to be funny to be a joke." Mindy said trying to lighten the mood.

" I should move someplace where there's no art, like Iran, or Utah."

" Ok, that's enough, everyone came here tonight to see photos of your hot body and they called it art . You know what people are saying about my boobs online, they're calling them handsome."

"They did?"

"Don't..."

" You think my body's hot?"

"You know that it is..."

" The guys at the gym , you know ,they make comments, but they're flirts."

" Great."

" I gotta tell you, I really like that Cliff guy."

" Hes cool, I mean he has a girlfriend, but, I couldn't help but wonder."

"I mean, I like for him to be my friend!"

"Ok, god!"

That's when an attractive woman walked up interrupting their conversation, and taking an interest in Danny based off his photos. Danny was reluctant to leave Mindy and go off with the woman, but she looked like she was already undressing him with her eyes.

"Ok, go, just go, you obviously want to, just go." Mindy said. Just because her night was a bust, didn't mean Danny's should be too.

"Ok, I'm gonna go."

"Go!"

"Alright." Danny said after giving her a quick kiss on the cheek . He then walked off with the woman.

Mindy felt her cheek warm, at the lingering sensation of Danny's lips pressed against her cheek. She shook off the strange fluttery feeling ,mixed with a hint of jealousy, over seeing someone else walk off with Danny. She then made her way home stopping to get a corn dog on the way there.

Jason the artsy guy she was trying to impress that day was waiting for her outside her apartment building. He apologized for being pretentious and presumptuous on their first date and at the gallery opening.

After a small pop cultural reference and musical romantic gesture , she and Jason became a couple. That relationship like so many of her others didn't last long. What was different about this breakup though was Jason's subtle reasoning behind why him and Mindy weren't going to work.

Mindy had been trying to get Peter, the newest doctor at Schulman & associates to like her, and had somehow found herself at his amateur MMA fight. While dealing with that ,she ended up flaking on her dinner with Jason. After Peter's devastating loss , Jason found her at the hospital.

" What a wonderful surprise." Mindy said hugging Jason, he pulled away quickly making the hug awkward.

"Oh my God, oh my God ,I was supposed to meet you at my apartment !" Mindy said suddenly remembering, her broken plans.

"Mindy look, I think you're great." Jason Began.

"And I think you're great ,and that can just be the end of the conversation, you don't need to continue anything." Mindy said knowing what might be coming next.

" No, this is a, I think you're great, but..."

"I am so sorry I forgot about our plans."

" Twice..." Jason reminded her

"It's just that , it was important that I go for work. Haven't you ever had to do something because of work?"

"Yeah, sure. I just went to my bosses kid's, middle school graduation, but that doesn't mean I've memorized her favorite sushi order. I'm sorry Mindy, I'm gonna ...goodbye."

Jason gave her another awkward hug then walked away. Mindy didn't know what to think, to be honest she wasn't that upset about the breakup. She was more concerned with thinking about what Jason had implied.

So she knew Danny's favorite sushi order, they were friends. Proof of which earlier, was his acceptance of her friendship cake. She couldn't help but wonder, if it was more than that. First Josh had brought it up, now Jason. Josh had out right said he knew there was something between her and Danny. While Jason had hinted at it. Was there something she wasn't seeing, or rather something she didn't want to see.

At Mindy's need to prove to Danny that she wasn't picky when it came to the guys she dated, and his need to prove the same , they found themselves on yet another slightly disastrous double date. This time their dates were a gorgeous forty something tattooed and nonsensical professional skateboarder for Mindy named Graham , and a plain Jane, total snooze fest named Mary for Danny. At the end of the night, just like with their first unsuccessful double date , they found themselves without their dates, eating food and having light banter.

"Hi, what are you doing here?" Mindy said when Danny approached her at the sushi place they had dined and dashed at earlier in the evening.

" I came back to pay."

"Really, Mary didn't run of internet videos to partially remember?"

"I fell asleep, while she was talking."

"Oh my God."

"Yeah, and I didn't even wake up when she started kissing me."

"What!"

"Look..."

"How often is that happening to you..."

"Can we just admit that we were both dumb, that we, we were both dating someone to prove a point. "

" Ok. It began as me trying to prove a point."

"OK." Danny said as he started to eat from her tray of food.

" But it evolved into a very deep need for me to have sex with him." Mindy continued.

"Ok, that's enough, I don't want to hear that."

"And I hope that need goes away."

" I don't get the tattoo thing , he looked like the wall of a bar bathroom."

"I thought it was super hot . In fact I was thinking of getting a tattoo on my wrist that says breathe."

"Breathe is that something you forget to do, you should get 'walk' on your feet. You should think about getting 'idiot' on your forehead. "

"You know what if you're gonna diss me, don't eat all of my desert."

Mindy found it funny, that again, her after 'date" with Danny, had gone way better than her actual date. She had brought up the tattoo thing knowing it would annoy Danny, and though she would never admit it to him, she loved to hear him rant.

She liked it just as much as their back in forth banter, especially when Danny would try his hand at a joke. The smirk that would appear on his face when Mindy's reaction indicted the joke was clever, was kinda adorable.

A/n: There is more, but I have to go run some errands, look out for the remaining chapters later tonight or tomorrow, thanks for reading, hope y'all like it so far.