And You're Just What I Need...

Day Three

It was about one am when we drove up to the house. We walked to the door and just as I’m about to say goodnight to Adam the front door opens and I’m pulled through it.

“hi to you too.” I tell Dakota as she drags me up to my room and then tosses me onto my bed.

“so?” she asks, taking a seat on a chair across from me.

“so…? can I just go say goodnight?”

“no, what happened?”

“well, I was fed up being here, so I asked him to take me out early and we went to some bowling alley and played some pool and then ate and then went to this music video festival thingamajig like two hours away and now we’re here.”

“details woman!”

I sigh, “okay, so on the way there he started singing my favorite song by cake, you know, “shirt skirt long jacket” and then he was daring enough to try nachos dipped in a shake.”

"You had him try that?!”

“uh, duh.” I laugh, “and then at the music festival thing we danced and kissed and it was sweet. Can I please go say bye now?!”

“no.”

“and why not?”

“Finn is talking to him.”

“oh.”

"You look exhausted.” She points out.

“I am exhausted. I wasn’t expecting a twelve hour date. Did you realize that, twelve freaking hours!”

“but you still had fun.”

“I did.”

“so we decided on a date.”

“really, when?”

“Saturday, October 16th.”

It was the end of April now so it was about six months away.

“cool. Any specific reason or just a date.”

“it’s the sweetest day according to my calendar.”

I laugh at this, “ that’s a pretty awesome reason to have your wedding then.”

“that’s what I thought. You’ll stay until then, right?”

“right. Adam got me a job so I’m all set.”

“where?”

“Dorias I think.”

“sweet! I love that bakery.”

The door opens and Finn walks in with Adam close behind. “hey, mr.manners, ever heard of knocking?” I ask Finn.

“don’t think I have. Anyways, Dakota, Adam called his parents about the wedding and all and they kind of had this whole deal they want to do.”

Dakota looks at me and then back at Finn. They stare at each other for a moment and I interrupt, “would you guys like to sit down?”

“sure.” Finn pulls my other chair toward him just as Adam reaches for it, so Adam walks over and sits next to me on the bed.

“what’s the deal?” Dakota finally asks, looking at Finn and then Adam.

“well,” Adam starts, “she doesn’t want my sister missing any school, and since you guys chose October 16th, she would be missing at least a week. So basically, she either wants Katelyn to move here for the year or she can’t come to the wedding.”