The Month Of July

Chapter 12

"Daniel John Mark Luke O'Donoghue! We're going to miss our flight!" I holler through the door.

"We're not going to miss our flight Sabrina!" Danny comes downstairs with his suitcase and his backpack. "Okay, lets go then." He slips his combat boots on quickly and runs out to the car.

"I'm so excited!" I squeal as we pull out of the driveway. Danny laughs and turns on the radio. Jessie J comes on and he cranks it up. We sing along to the radio until we get to the airport. A whole month, just Danny and I, no Ryan, no stuffy, cramped tour buses. If this isn't paradise, I don't know what is. We drop our bags off and then go through the rest of security. We get to the terminal and suddenly I start to feel sick. Plane rides, oh god. I swallow hard and Danny notices how nervous I am.

"It's all going to be okay, I'm right here beside you."

"I'm not sure about that." I clench my teeth as we start to file onto the plane. I hand over my passport and I can feel the tears starting. Danny puts my bag up top and squishes me against the wall. His legs are too long to sit comfortably in the plane. I laugh as he tries to get comfortable. Dan sticks out his tongue at me.

"You won't be laughing when I can get things off of high shelves."

"I'm 5'8, I'm pretty sure I can get things myself Dan." I say with a laugh.

"You're not 5'8!"

"I am!"

"First I find out you're actually thirty one, now I find out that you're 5'8. "

"You say this like you've known me for years and you're just finding it out. You've known me since Christmas."

"I've known of your existence since Christmas. I ignored you that whole night and I didn't see you again until the Native tour." Danny corrects me. The plane starts to glide down the runway and Dan passes me a piece of gum. I take it and I can feel my stomach churning. It's all okay. If I lose myself tonight, it'll be you and I. I'm okay, I'm going to be fine. We level out and I let out the breath I didn't notice I was holding. "Thank you Ryan, you fucked up and I won it all." Danny says to himself.

"Really? That's how you see me? It all? The grand prize?"

"Of course! Sabrina Adkins, you may not've been Ryan's ever after, but you may just be mine. I've seen it all, I've dated them all, but I dunno, you've got that spark that the other ones never had." Danny smiles. "Geez, I hope my guitar is okay."

"Isn't it always?" I ask, wondering how he transports it every tour.

"Yeah, but I never travel by this airline." Ah, I understand. "Let's do something. I brought a deck of cards. My laptop, my beats, my phone." I laugh.

"How about we play checkers on my tablet?" I suggest. We play random games and talk about funny things. "You think that was bad? I've had sex with my gynecologist." I add to my already ridiculous story. Dan's jaw drops.

"You what?! At least he knew you didn't have any STDs." He lets out a short laugh. "Have you ever had one? I ask this now, I should've asked you this before our first time."

"Nope, have you?"

"Nah. Anyway, I wanna hear more about this gynecologist." Danny says with hopeful eyes.

"Okay, strapping, 37 year old Dr.Love, not kidding about the name by the way, 6 foot nothing, dark haired guy, we ran into each other at a bar one night. He recognized me immediately and yeah, I've had sex with my gynecologist."

"Is he still your-"

"Gynecologist? Yeah, unfortunately."

"So I guess he wasn't very good then?"

"No! He was good. But it's very awkward. Go for a pap smear, oh, you were inside me and now, yeah." Dan and I laugh.

With Dan, 8 hours seems to fly by. The plane lands and we leave the airport as fast as we can manage. We get to our resort in Disney, the Nemo room for my little kid.

"Okay, I have our schedule, we have sex, we go for dinner and then we go to the parks till closing time."

"Agreed. We're going to Epcot today, Magic Kingdom tomorrow then Hollywood Studios and then we spend the rest of July in our cottage by the beach."

"A house all to ourselves? This is going to be great!" Danny cups my face and kisses me, slowly pushing me down to the bed in the process. We rip each other's clothes off and get under the bed. After sex for about an hour or two, I get cleaned up and ready for dinner. A maxi dress and sandals. Instead of being plain old me, decked out in black, my dress is aquamarine. Dan looks like he's facing rainy Dublin in his black skinny jeans with his black shirt, black vest and black boots.

"You're going to boil Mr.O'Donoghue."

"Alright." Dan grabs his Canon camera and his phone.

"My boyfriend's a vampire." I mutter.

"No, I'm a weapon of mass seduction. Not a vampire." I laugh. He opens the door and we leave to the elevators. "Where are we going Sabrina?"

"We're going down to the lobby, I was told there's a great restaurant down there."

"Told by who?" He asks curiously.

"Told by people on the internet."

"Oh, got it."

"Stop it Daniel!"

"Stop what?"

"You're mocking me!"

"Mocking you? No! I'm not!" Danny laughs guiltily. I push him and he trips up, stumbling into the wall. We walk up to the hostess and she seats us. Dan eats quickly, not wanting to waste anymore time. I finish up and we leave, both of us extremely excited to see Epcot.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I hope you all had a great 2014 and an even better 2015!! I didn't cry this time, one of the first times ever! Really proud of myself.