It All Started With A Kiss (Continuation)

Night Out

Mike and Aly are now at his condo in LA, been there since Tuesday while Alex and I are at my place in Florida. She's gotten up before Mike and put on a swimsuit before going out to lay by the pool. After a while, she doesn't hear the door slide open and closed. But with her eyes closed she can tell that the sun was getting blocked from above her.

"Morning." She says without opening her eyes.

"Morning. How'd you sleep last night?"

"Better. Still not nightmare free but..." She trails off and shrugs.

"I wish I could stop those..." He sighs.

"I know but just having you with me and not being around...him...is helping." She replies after rolling onto her back and opening her eyes to look up at him.

"I knew it would." He smiles.

"Smarty." She giggles.

"Yes, yes I am."

She swings her legs off the chair and sits up.

"And how are you feeling?"

"Better, a lot better actually."

"That's really good to hear." She smiles and gets up.

"But it's still Wednesday, so I still got to take it easy."

"Right and I'll be here making sure you do."

"Of course, I don't know what I'd do without you."

"Go crazy." She teases.

"Maybe." He chuckles.

She giggles and taps his nose before walking over to the pool steps and wading in.

"Are you gonna stand there or come in with me?"

"It's getting lonely in here..." She says in a sing-song tone.

"Oh, we can't have that." He adds.

"Well are you going to do something about it?" She teases.

"Maybe while I'm at it, I should go find someone to fix the lack of kisses lately."

"You wouldn't dare..."

She pretends to think about it.

"Give me a minute...I need to change." He says, rushing to the sliding door and opening it, heading inside.

She laughs and swims around. After a few minutes, he comes back out and doesn't hesitate getting into the water. She squeals a little and turns her head as she gets splashed from him jumping in.

"Aha, got you." He laughs, after surfacing.

"Yes you did." She says dryly.

"Awww, did you not want to get splashed?"

"I'll live."

"That's right, you will. It's only water."

"With chlorine, but whatever." She laughs.

"Yeah well water's water."

"Sure." She swims around lazily.

"How do you feel about dinner tonight?" He asks, while they both swim around.

"Sure, sound good."

"Jericho is gonna be joining us. He actually called me last night and asked if it was alright if you, me, him and the American idol contestant James could go to dinner together tonight after Idol was over."

"Oh really?"

"Yeah, apparently James is a major fan of mine and Jericho's."

"Nice. So dinner with Jericho and James...interesting. I never really got to meet Jericho before he 'left' you know."