"What you thinking about me for, when I'm right here you goofball?" She asked with a smile, playfully hitting his arm.
"I was thinking about what I want to do with you," He replied pulling onto another old dirt road.
She threw him a mischievous smirk and laid her head on his shoulder.
"Not like that silly girl, get your mind out of the gutter," Derek chuckled, before pulling the car over at the side of the road.
"Than what do you mean baby boy?" She asked with a small frown, but decided that whatever it was must be worth taking over his thoughts.
"You'll see, stay in here and close your eyes no peeking," He said before walking around and getting out and grabbing the other thing he had picked up at the farmers market. He had found an old satellite radio, some string lights and wood stakes.
He went out into the field of wildflowers he had saw and walked to the middle of the field. He put the four stakes in the ground in a square and wrapped the lights around, thankful that they were powered by batteries. Before sitting the blankets on the ground, knowing they wouldn't use them until later. Before sitting the radio on the stack of blankets and finding a station that came in. Smiling finally happy with his work, there was a square in the middle of the field with lights around it. It was perfect and he hoped that she would love it.
He walked back to the car and saw her sitting there he hands over her eyes and he smiled. She looked so beautiful, with bright flowers contrasting against her dark hair. Her clothes more laid back and her face free of makeup. She looked down to earth and happy and in turn it made him happy too. He couldn't believe that he had finally found someone who could love him for who he was and not how he looked. He knocked on the window and she moved her hands from her face, her mouth dropping open as she saw the scene before her. She got out of the car and walked to where he was, and he grabbed her hand leading her into the field of daisies. She was happy that she had worn her light dress today so that she looked nice. The flowers went up to their knees and even though it was dark outside the lights offered a beautiful soft glow.
"What are we doing?" She asked in confusion when she heard the soft music playing.
"Dancing, sweet lady," He smiled using a pet name as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"I-I don't dance," She stuttered out, she had never been one for dancing ever since she had been told as a little girl that dancing wasn't for her.
"Why not?" Derek asked his face furrowing in confusion.
"It's not my thing," Penelope said looking at the ground.
"Why not?"Derek asked again still not understanding why she didn't like to dance until one thing occurred to him, "You don't know how?" he asked.
Her face turned a shade of bright pink, looking back down at the ground. She had always been embarrassed about not being able to dance. No guy had ever asked her dance before and so she had no idea what to do.
"Hey there's nothing to be embarrassed about," He said before continuing, "Just lay your head on my chest and follow my lead," he said.
She stood on his toes and buried her head in the crook of his neck. He swayed them back and forth the music seeping out of the old radio speaker. Old enough to be adults, but not old enough to dance like adults. He rested his head on her shoulder and continued to sway them around the middle of the field. He swayed with her in his arms not wanting to let go until he felt her breathing even out and knew for sure that she had fallen asleep.
When they woke up in the early hours of the morning light orange rays of light floating through the air with the rising morning sun. They both slowly started to get up and gather the things from the night before. They worked into comfortable silence before getting into the car, when Penelope turned to Derek.
"I think I want to stay here for a while," She said looking around her.
"Really?" Derek asked looking around finding that he quite liked the place, he just hadn't figured she would feel safe so close to California. He figured there were somewhere in Idaho and the woods would offer cover from law enforcement.
"It's beautiful here, don't you think?" Penelope said taking in all the trees around the field and all the flowers.
"Yeah you're right it is," Derek said with a smile leaning over to give her a quick kiss, "We just have to find somewhere to stay."
"Where are we exactly?" Penelope asked with an idea of where they could stay, if they were in the right place. Derek pulled out his phone and found that he finally had signal, it was a burner phone so that no one could easily trace it back to him. He handed the phone to Penelope figuring she could find their location faster than he could. She quickly got into the phone's gps and from there she was able to figure out where they were. Smiling when she found that they were indeed where she had thought.
"I know a place for us to stay," She said with a smile.
"You do?" Derek asked raising one eyebrow in confusion at the likeliness that she would be able to find them somewhere to stay so easily.
"Yep," She said before buckling her seatbelt and telling Derek where to go.
"You're a genius woman," Derek said with a smile.