Previously

“Bye Babe, love you.” I drawl into the phone, trying hard not to laugh, because I can so see her pouting.

“Yeah, love you too. See you soon.”

“Bye.” As I’m moving the phone from my ear, I hear her yell into it.

“Wait, Al?”

“Yeah.”

“I really missed you. I can’t wait to see you.” Now I’m just swooning.

“Me too Dane. Just a few hours. Love you.”

As
I hung up the phone and started to walk into the kitchen I passed a
mirror on my wall. I looked in the mirror and saw something I haven’t
seen in a long, long time. A smile that came from my soul. Tonight is
going to be good.

Chapter 8

Dana should be home
in like fifteen minutes and I have no idea what the ***** to wear. She
has seen pretty much everything I own, but it’s been a few days and I
want to look good. My clothing crisis did cause a problem or two
though. I had spent an hour trying to make my place Dana clean, not
Alice clean and in 5 minutes of rummaging through my closet, its now
like a storm blew through and I’m still standing in here with jeans and
no shirt because I have no idea what to wear. I hear the buzzer going
off in the kitchen and realize that I had better pick something because
I’m about to burn dinner.

I grab a plain black
t-shirt and run in to the kitchen to shut off that annoying buzz. That
buzzer can be reason enough not to cook. But I am so totally proud of
myself. Dinner is almost ready it looks right, and it’s the right
color. I love when that happens. If I’m totally honest, there have been
a few times with some strange colors or shapes.

I turn on the cd
player and put in the one that Carmen made for me and add in my own
little cd mix. Carmen threw on some great hip yet romantic songs with a
smooth beat, mine is country. I love that I can go onto the internet,
search for a song and download it for 99 cents. After that little tape
Dana left me, I have to admit I have actually become a country fan. I
still can’t handle that twang thing they do, its just unnatural, but
the words are amazing.