I look around and then behind me, making sure no one else was around. Just in case.

"You're asking me?" I point to myself and he lightly swings himself on the swing.

"No, your mom." He grumbles and I can't help but laugh.

He just made a your mom joke, he really is perfect. My Gosh.

"Well in that case, good luck impressing her." I scoff playfully, she's one hard lady to make happy. Especially if you're me.

"So, will you?" He looks down at his feet, getting shy. At least I think that's what's happening.

"Hmm, will I, Thalia go on a date with Heath?" I tap my chin, pretending to think hard about it.

"Hurry up and answer or I'll take it back." He rolls his eyes and I chuckle.

"Of course I will! " A smile falls upon my face just by the thought of it, I can't help it.

He finally asked me out. Honestly I was about to ask him out if he didn't ask me any time soon. I think we can all say it's about time, right.

"When is our little date?" I ask happily, swinging my legs back and forth so that I could swing high.

I like swings and the feeling of going higher and higher into the sky. Kinda like flying. Now I wish I could fly. If only, I could. Birds are lucky.

"Tomorrow" He responds and lucky him, I'm free.

"Tomorrow it is then. I'm excited, aren't you? What are we going to do?" I ask, even though I rather it be a surprise, I'm too curious for my own good.

"You'll see." He answers me, standing up from the swing.

"Get your butt back on that seat. Fly with me." I point to the seat next to me and he follows my point.

"Fly?" He asks, confused as to what I meant.

"Yeah. Hop on and you'll see what I'm talking about." I said and he listens to me.

As he should. He knows the consequences if he doesn't.

He puts the slurpy down and Gets on the seat, he looks at me for further instructions. I land my feet to steady myself from moving.

"Okay, now swing your legs and make yourself go as high as you can." I tell him and start doing it myself.

I can tell he thinks this is dumb by the look on his face but I simply don't care. He follows my actions and soon we're both in the air, swinging back and forth.

"Now close your eyes." I told him and as always he questions me.

"Why? This is stupid." He scoffs and I shake my head.

"Will you just do it, please." He can never listen can he?

I close my eyes and hope he follows along with me but I can't tell cause I can't see. If you close your eyes and have a wild imagination like mine, you'll really feel like you're flying.

"Are your eyes closed?" I ask, and peek one eye open to see if he would tell the truth.

"Yeah." He says truthfully, both his eyes were closed.

"And how do you feel? Feel like Superman yet?" I ask still closing my eyes. My hair blows as the wind starts to pick up.

"No. I feel dizzy." He says and I purse my lips. Well I guess this was no use then, I'll just have to pretend to fly by myself now.

"Open your eyes, you can stop now." I giggle and he uses his long legs to stop him from moving.

"Well that was fun, wasn't it sugar plum?" That name just came out, my dad really has an effect on my vocab.

"Can I go to your house?" I ask, stopping myself from swinging and just use it to sit on it.

"If you want." He answers as he gets off the swing. He crouched down and reached for his slurpy, still drinking it.

"You like it, don't you gum drop?" I wiggle my brows as I watch him drink his slurpy.

"Want to make purple?" He bluntly said , but that smirk on his face told me it wasn't innocent at all.

"No thanks, I have a date and don't want to kiss anyone until then." I turn my head the other way so that I wouldn't be tempted.

"You do?" He looked at me with a serious expression

"Yes, with you silly, remember?" I shake my head lightly and he relaxes.

"Oh" he nods as he remembered. And here I thought I was a little slow.

He starts walking away without even telling me. Where does he think he's going? And Without me.

"You can run from me but don't run from the lord." I said as I chased after him. Jeez, he walks fast.

"You're so fucking weird." He shakes his head and starts walking away from me.

"I'm calling a cab." He tells me and goes onto his phone.

Thank the lord. I can't walk any longer. Phew.

"Lazy. Tired of walking already?" I shake my head at him as I playfully glare.

He doesn't answer but just types away on his phone. Eventually our cab comes and drives us all the way to Heaths house. I'm relieved to be here because I felt like I've been out forever.

I've been away from Beau too long. I almost forgot what he looked like, I think he gets more adorable each time I see him. Like always, he greets Heath first before greeting me.

"Beau! I missed you. Did you miss me too? Yes you did." I kiss him on his head as he wags his tail and stands on his legs, jumping on me.

"You don't greet me like that." I hear Heath mumble as he walks away. I'll make sure to scratch behind his ears when I see him then.

"I think he missed me" I said and Beau licks my face, almost my mouth but I pull away before he could.

I look around Heaths house to see if anything was different but so far everything looked pretty much the same.

As I follow Heath through the kitchen, immediately my gift of pink piggy slippers catch my eye. What are they doing on the table?

"Did you like my gift?" I ask, standing in front of them and look up at him.

"I do." He replies and leans his arms on the counter, across from me.

"What about my flowers? Did you like them? They were pretty weren't they?" I smile as I remember specifically picking out those flowers for him.

I hoped he really liked them, I look around the kitchen expecting to see them in a vase or something.

"yeah, I did." He finally answers and plays with the bracelet on his wrist.

"Where are they? You better have not let them die yet. It's only been a few weeks." I look around again but still no sign of flowers.

He looks at me but doesn't say anything, even though it looked like he wanted to. He clenches his jaw before finally saying something.

"I threw your flowers away that day." He looks down at the bracelet and I'm a little hurt but they're just flowers.

"Oh."

"That's okay. Don't worry about it. I'm glad you liked my slippers though. Now we can match when I come over." I decide to not make a big deal about the flowers, I know he only did it because he was mad that day.

He nods and stays quiet for a while longer. He then walks over to the fridge and takes out a water bottle and starts drinking that.

Wow. He's not even doing it on purpose but he looks really good right now. Not cute, just like hot. Imagine being that water bottle. He tilts his head slightly back as he chugs the whole thing and his other arm flexes on the counter.

Wowzers.

"What?" He licks his lips, breaking me out of whatever spell he had me under.

"N-Nothing." I clear my throat and fix myself up.

"Your hair looks messy today." I said just to humble him. I wipe the drool off of my face.

Can't have him thinking he's all that and a bag of chips because he will start to act like it. Plus, I'm sure he's looked in a mirror before. He knows he's hot.

"Come upstairs with me" Heath nods his head to the staircase.

"To do what?" I ask skeptically and he looks at me.

"Stuff, come on." He walks up the stairs first and I follow behind.

"Okay.... But just so you know we can't do anything-"

"I won't." He said but something in his voice didn't convince me too much.

We walked into his room and I sat on the edge of his bed as I waited for him to come back from the big closet.

He comes back holding a long black box and sits besides me on the bed. He puts the box on my lap and looks up at me.

"For you." He looks back down at it for me to open it. Now what could this be?

I had some wild ideas but I'm not going to say what I think it is because if it's not that, then that's just embarrassing for me.

"For me? I wasn't expecting anything." I open the box and put the lid down on the floor.

I take out a dress from the box and hold it up to my view. It was a pretty, short black dress with thin straps and a slight slit down the chest area.

I could tell he picked this out for his liking as you would be able to see everything downtown but still, the dress was beautiful.

"You got this for me?! When? I love it." I smile and hold my arms out for a hug, leaning in to wrap my arms around his neck.

" I was going to give it to you but then you brought your sister and I wanted you to be focused." He explains and I can't help but feel like I ruined his whole surprise by bringing Sarah along.

"That's what you wanted to give me? I love it, thanks Heath." I smile from ear to ear at how he thought to even buy me anything. I stand up holding the dress against me as I look myself in the mirror against the wall.

"Try it on for me?" He leans back on the bed, his arms holding him up keeping him from laying all the way down.

I watch him through the mirror as his eyes scan my whole behind since I wasn't even facing him. He must not think I was looking. But I caught him in the act.

"In here?" I ask and he shrugs, still keeping his eyes on me.

"That would be nice." He answers and looks me in the eyes as I finally turn around.

"Someone's in heat." I whispers under my breath.

"I don't think so buddy, not while Jesus is always watching." I shake my finger and he smirks.

"Will you wear it tomorrow?" He asks so gently that I can't say no.

"Of course. Anything else you want me to wear for you hunny?" I playfully speak and his eyes light up with ideas.

"Have any red underwear?" His eyes hold a playful stare as he looks at me in the dress I wore now.

Yes.

"Nope, sorry. I'm leaving now." I turn away before he could see my flustered face and reach for the door.

"I'll see you tomorrow for our date. Don't miss me too much until then." I shout once I'm out of his room.

My Gosh. I can't handle such a blunt Heath.

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