Dani's December

Chapter 10

Those next few days i spent in a panic. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. So much waiting. The days seem to have drug on forever, lasting far longer than they should have. I remember that Friday distinctly, They had just passed a law allowing same sex marriages. I had read about it in the paper that morining, and on my way to work i was still high from the thought that this could be a possibility for Dani and i.

Untill i saw the protestors.

They were all just so... Angry.

I've never seen such hatred, and all for what? Allowing people to be happy?

They held signs that read cruel things telling 'us' to burn in hell and get off their planet. Was this what i was? Something these people could hate so easily? They didn't even know me...

They shout things at me as i pass, grabbing me, asking what my opinion was, telling me it had to be their opinion or i was going to hell as well.. If they only knew..

The sounds echo in my head, i got dizzy, people seemed to be touching me from all angles. I was going to collapse. I refuse to collapse surrounded by these idiots. I thought over and over as i pushed my way through the crowd. Somehow breaking free, making it to work, into the back before i officially let myself collapse. Crying, shaking, gasping for air, on the frozen concret floor.

This is how Dani found me.

"Toots?" I glance up at her, she spots me, her moment of happiness fades quickly when she sees my condition.

"Toots what the hell is wrong..?"

"Noth.. Noth.. Nothing." I manage in between raged inhales.

"Bullshit, what's wrong?" She says crawling on the ground, pulling me into her arms.

With everything going on i still managed to comprehend how new this was, and how good it felt.

"Was it the protestors..?" She ask in a quiet voice.

I open my mouth to speak but no words come out. I qive up trying and just focus on breathing, in, out, in, out, Each breath bringing in more and more of her scent.

After a while though, i remember, i am supposed to be working. The tears have dried up and Dani has gotten a quiet thinking mask on when i finally pull myself away from her. She watchs me as i do this. In face she watchs me for the rest of the day, each time i ask why she just gives a half hearted shrug. Then when i get off work she insist on walking me home. Not that i mind, i'm still thinking about the closeness earlier.

When we walk by the protestors is when it all changes though. Halfway through the crowd Dani whispers in my ear 'I've got an idea.' I turn my head to ask her what but her mouth presses down hard on mine before i get a word out.

My head is swimming, She taste better than i imagined possible. Her arms hold me close to her, I hear nothing, suddenly the only thing i can feel, hear, taste, is her. Her peircings feel exactly how i had imagined them, only better.

Then it hits me.

Not an idea. A rock. I guess if i had zoned out of Dani in even the slightest bit i would have remembered the protestors, the shouting and then eventually the rocks.

Dani pulls her face away from mine, glaring towards the crowd. I knew that glare, it was evil, it was looking for a fight, it was knowing she had just found a big fight, it was looking forward to it, it was dangerous. It wasn't Dani. "Toots, go get the police." She says to me sternly, not looking at me. "Why? Why don't we just leave." I plede. "Toots." She says again, not caving. "Please." I say again knowing it was useless. "Toots." She says again, but by then i'm running, pumping my legs faster and faster with each stride, i know the sooner i get the police and get back there the less damage Dani can receive.. or cause.

It feels like it takes an eternity but it was only 7 minutes. Another 3 to explain the situation to the officer, 5 more to get back to the scene. "We where afraid this was going to be a problem." He says.

All the protestors are gone when we get back. And so is Dani. "Wha.. Wha..Where'd they go..?" I ask confused and lost. "They probably took off when they heard the sireins. Don't worry, we'll monitor them better from now on." He says climbing back into his car. He obviously doesn't give two shits. Hell if he wasn't at work he'd probably be out here doing the same thing. As he drives away i get so angry i pick up a rock, aiming, a hand holds my arm from throughing it unfortunately.

"Dani?" I ask as i spin at warp speed to see who is  touching me.

"Yeahh toots." She says with an accomplished look on her face. There is something else too, hiding in the depths of her eyes but i'm to happy to notice at the moment. I fling my arms around her so happy she is alive. All the thoughts that had ran through my head in the last 20 minutes. None where good. Now she was here though, in my arms, seeming unhurt.

Seeming, being the key word. She winces as i hug her, but when i glance up she is smiling at me.

"How bad..?" I ask sheepishly.

"I'm fine toots." She says but she doesn't look fine. She looks like she has been stoned, nearly to death. Her sweatshirt is dirty and cut, blood spots popping up left and right, her pants are no different. Her face is pink and swollen, a small puddle of blood forming right above her left eye.

I feel the tears sweel up but refuse to let them fall, Instead i put my arm around her and help her to my apartment. Silently i bandage her, putting hupdy dumpdy back together again. When she pulls her shirt off i gasp, Her rich skin tone doesn't change at all, yet there are pinkish white scars all over, the number uncountable, Her stomic is rock solid as i move against it, cleaning and doctoring each wound. She sit silently, watching me move about her. Then when i am all done she pulls me into her arms, kissint me again. I knew i never wanted to be anywhere else ever again.

That was the first time i woke up in Dani's arms.

One month 30 days.