Diving back home I find a parking spot just outside the building and park my car there. The whole day at work I spent worrying about Steel, he was not in a good condition when I had left for work and I wonder how he is now. I walk up the stairs until I reach my floor and then open the door with my keys, I always have a second key at work. Just in case my roommate has taken my keys and I don't have a way of getting into my own apartment since I would have to wait for him.

Opening the door I'm met with him sitting by the island in the kitchen. Like in the morning he does have a hood over his face and I think he's embarrassed for his face at the moment. However as soon as I walk in he turns around and looks at me. I give him a small smile as I walk over to him and sit down beside him. "How are you feeling?" I ask him. I honestly don't know what I can say to him but then again we are practically strangers so perhaps that is normal in this situation.

Though I don't want us to be strangers anymore, I want us to be something more, friends perhaps but somehow I want more. He doesn't answer as he looks only at me and I can see it in his eyes that he's just lost and yet at the same time I see that he's present here, and he's listening, but he doesn't answer. Steel takes my hand into his and holds it tightly but not tight enough to hurt me or do me any harm but tight enough to give me this sense of warmth that jumps on my skin.

"I had a good day at work, normally I don't really like that job but today it was actually kind of nice. It was my boss' birthday, and we bought her a cake and everything. It was a chocolate cake, I'm not much for them but this one was all right. To thank us for it she gave us an extra, paid, free day that we can use someday" I speak when there is just so much silence that I need it to break and while he's not exactly interested in hearing about my day at work I felt the need to share it anyway.

Steel's face lights up a bit as he chuckles, the sound is so low that I wonder if I had heard it at all or if it was a figment of my imagination. "One day you will have all the paid, free days you want" He speaks to me and I give him a smile. He has probably guessed that I'm starting to become sorry of a celebrity. A day doesn't go by that I'm not surrounded by people that want my autograph or want a picture with me. "I suppose" I speak.

What he and the rest of the world doesn't know is that I don't want to be famous, the opposite actually. All I want to do is dance and just dance alone. Fame doesn't matter to me, dancing has always been the only thing that I have ever want in my life. Even as a small child and the first time I learned about ballet which made me fall in love with it at such a young age. "Did you do anything interesting today?" I ask him, and he slowly nods his head when I was expecting not to answer at all.

Still Steel doesn't tell me what he did and neither did I expect him to but at least he did speak something. I may not know exactly what had happened to him but the more I think about it the more I want to know and I can only let my imagination do the work but I'm not about to ask. "Are you hungry?" I ask him. This feels all too familiar to me but this time we have not been through a dinner party with Mark who can cook amazingly to the point where you're not hungry for the next hours.

"Are you hungry?" He asks, turning my question back to me. I giggle. "Yeah, a little but tha-" "Come with me" He speaks, cutting me off. He's quick to stand up and walk over to the front door. Gently and slowly pulling me along with him as he still holds my hand. I give his back a confused look as he takes me out into the hallway of the apartment building and then soon out into the bitter cold, yet being with him makes the cold not want to touch me as his hand heats me up.

"Where are we going?" I ask him. The evening is rolling in so the sky is darker making the world darker and fills with shadows that even the streetlights have a hard time chasing away. "I know a place" He says but doesn't go deeper into it. When I should feel this fright I don't because I feel safe with Steel and I feel like nothing can touch me. He's just my guardian angel that is here to protect me but also make me see the goodness and kindness of the world in ways that I have lost sight of.

We don't walk that far until we enter a restaurant together and Steel orders us a table. When we are seated I realize that this is one of my favorite restaurants but I almost never get to come here. I think I come here once a year or sometimes not even once a year. "How did you know?" I ask him once the waiter has taken our order, I of course knew what I had wanted but Steel took some time deciding. "You have a picture on the wall from I believe your birthday in this restaurant" He answers and I can't help but smile.