The Rose

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   Saturday morning Dale hooked Missy leash to her rose collar he got her. Was heading outside. At the door there was a muffin basket sitting there. It had a note to it, saying 'Hope you have a good, we should hangout sometime soon. Love Loca.' Dale picked it up and set the basket in the kitchen then headed out. In the lobby of the apartment building Loca was standing at the front desk. She speed walked over to Dale.
   "Hi, Dale how are you today? Did you get my basket?" Loca said excitedly.
"I'm good thanks, yes I did." Dale replied turning to her.
"So are you free tonight?"
"Sorry I'm not I got plans with a friend."
"Oh... Ok... Well have fun, see you around." Loca said sadly.
Loca headed off to the elevator. Dale walked outside with Missy. Turned left and was going for two blocks. Crossed the road and turned back. Once he got back to the building it was still only 10 am. Still had ten more hours until dinner with Jenna. He went upstairs with Missy, unlocked the apartment door and walked in. Went over to the kitchen and saw the muffin basket still sitting there. Not knowing what to do with. It had 6 muffins in it. Two banana, two chocolate chip, and two blueberry. Loca moved in a week after Dale moved into the apartments. Every week she try's to hang out with Dale. The first two times he agreed to it. But she became to needed, annoying, repeating herself, and clingy. Dale talked her that they are just friends a few times, but Loca always wanted more. So Dale walked over to the cupboards to find a container to put them in. He found one that was just big enough. Putting the muffins into the container his phone rings. It's Jill from work.
    "Hello."
   "Hey Dale, it's Jill, just wondering how Missy was working out for you?"
   "Hey she just doing fine. Just laying on the couch now."
   "Oh that's good to hear." Said Jill.
"So what will you be up to today?" Jill asked.
"Not much, just going to hang out around home, and go for dinner later, how about you?"
"Going to head to work for a few hours, well I probably should get going. Glad missy working out. Bye."
"Me too. Bye."
Dale hung up and walked over to the couch next to Missy. Gave her a pad on the head and pulled out this laptop. He look up Jenna Jackson, to get himself ready for the date. Jenna's favorite flowers were Daylily's. She likes red wine. He made a little note to get her Daylillys and to order red wine at dinner. To past the time Dale cleaned the dishes, straighten up the living room and played with Missy a little bit to pass the time. The time has slowly arrived that it was 7 pm, Dale had a hour left. He went over to his closet to find a nice lookin shirt and pants to wear. He puts on black pants, couldn't decide if he should go with the red or blue button up top.
   "Hey Missy, girl what shirt?" He said holding out both shirts to Missy.
   Missy pick her head up and looked at him but she put in back down.
   "Oh you ain't no help." Dale mumbled.
   He put both of the shirts on his bed, thinking of what one he should wear. After awhile he pick the red one. So he put it on and button it up.

Meanwhile on Essex Rd. Jenna is in her bedroom looking through her closet, she pulled out a pink dress, fancy black top with black skirt, and also a dark blue dress. She holds up the pink dress and asks Lexi what she thought of it. Lexi said past. So next she did the black top with the skirt. Lexi looked at it for awhile and said maybe but try the blue one on. So Jenna grabbed the blue dress, it's was really pretty.
"I love this dress, but the top and skirt are so cute too." Jenna said.
"This is a hard one... They both look really good."
"So I'm thinking about hair up, so what one do you think will look better with my hair up?" Jenna asked.
Lexi reply, "I think the blue dress will and you can also put the blue butterfly clip in your hair to go with it."
So Jenna put the dark blue dress on. And had Lexi help her with her hair. They got it up into a high bun, Lexi put the butterfly clip on the left side of the bun. Jenna went into the bathroom to grab her makeup and did a silver eye shadow, and glossy nude lipstick.
"You look great. I hope you have a fun time." Lexi said smiling.
"Thank you for the help and I hope so too... By the way are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, why?" Lexi said little confused.
"Well because of the other night, when you got that note. Are you sure you don't what to stay here tonight?"
"Yeah, That was weird. But I'm good, it probably was just one of my brothers. Thanks for the offer though."
"Are you sure it was just one of your brothers? None of them even live close by. Well actually they all live in different states. Do you think it could be Ryan?"
"Ryan? Why would it be him, we broke up six weeks ago."
"Well you know how he is, he gets weird and jealous. He has started a lot of fights, he was unstoppable. If he got something on his mind, he would stop until he got it. He also try to get you back a few times." Jenna said worried.
"Yes, I know. That's why we broke up. And I don't believe it's him. Ok now let's stop talkings about this, cause you got a date to go on."
"Ok, fine. Just beware I don't want you to get hurt."
"You worry too much, Jenna. It'll be fine, just some kind of sick joke. And now I should get going and you should too."
"Ok, ok. Bye I love you." Jenna said as she gave Lexi a hug.
"Good luck on your date, have fun. Byes."

Back at the apartment building Loca is sitting there in the lobby. Dale came down the elevator and got off. Dale waved to Paul at the front desk. He try's to walk fast past the lobby sitting area. But Loca called out for him and stood up.
"Hey Dale!"
"Hey Loca, sorry can't talk now, I have to go." Replied Dale walking past her.