chapter 4*

Danielle woke up in a cold sweat.

'God what the hell was I dreaming? And why do I keep having all these bad dreams?' she thought to herself.

Danielle looked at the clock and it was only 6 am. She decided to go downstairs and get a glass of water.

As she walked downstairs she heard rattling by the front door.

"Who's there?" she asked.

Nobody answered.

"It's probably just the trees." she told herself.

She walked into the kitchen and saw that there were some dishes still left out on the drying rack so she put them away. She was holding a large sharp knife when out of nowhere she heard a voice.

"Danielle." the voice whispered.

"Ahhhh!" she said turning around quickly with the knife in hand and almost cutting the person.

"Calm down! Calm down! It's only me JC." he said taking the knife from her and putting it down on the counter.

"OMG! You scared the shit out of me! Don't ever do that again!" she said hitting him on the shoulder.

He laughed.

"Okay I won't."

She sat down on one of the stools and looked at JC.

"So what are you doing over here? Sneaking into my house at six in the morning..." she said

"I need to talk to you. Why are you up at 6 am?"

"I couldn't sleep. Bad dream." she said

"Aw! Are you ok?" he asked going over to her and wrapping his arm around her shoulder.

"Yeah I'm fine."

"Your clothes are a little damp."

"I know, I woke up sweating....I must have had a really bad dream."

"Well shouldn't you remember your own dreams?" he asked

"Not always. I only remember some of it."

"You mind to share?" he asked sitting down next to her.

"I'd rather not. I've been having a lot of weird dreams lately and I just need some time to figure them all out."

"Ok. That's alright."

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" she asked

"Um...about yesterday...morning." he said

"And?..."

"Well what are you going to do about that? I mean cause Lance also likes you and I don't want to pressure you into choosing one of us. That's too hard."

"I don't know what I'm gonna do....All I need right now JC...is time, time to think about everything. I mean cause I just moved here and all kinds of stuff is being thrown at me and I need time to catch up."

"That's so true. I'm sorry for moving so fast on you."

"That's alright, you just needed to tell me how you felt. So you did."

"Wow! your a really understanding girl!" he laughed

"Yeah I can be sometimes, most of the time I am." She laughed

"That's good."

"Yeah."

"Well....I better be getting back. I'll see you tomorrow." he said getting up.

"Oh you don't have to go back. Look it's starting to rain again. You can stay in the guest bedroom." she offered

"Ok. Thank you."

"No problem." She said turning off the kitchen light. They walked upstairs.

"How many floors do you have in this whole condo?" JC asked

"Um...4 including the basement."

"And your all the way on top."

"Yep."

"Kim's got the master bedroom. How's you two choose who gets it?"

"We flipped a quarter and she won." Danielle laughed

"That sucks that she won."

"Yeah, but we still hang out in there a lot together."

"That's cool." he said. They were upstairs in the guest bedroom. There were two twin beds.

"Well here ya are. We've already changed the sheets when Joey and Lance slept in here."

"Ok." he said

"Think you'll fit? Do you wanna push the beds together?"

"Um...yeah I think that'll work."

"Ok." Danielle went in between the two beds and moved the lampstand out of the way. JC went over and helped her push the bed over. As they were pushing the bed over they both tripped on the vacum cord and fell. They both laughed.

"Were so clumsy." Danielle laughed

"I know." JC said laughing with her.

Danielle then realized that she had tripped and fell on top of JC. She looked down at him and saw his beautiful crystal blue eyes.

"You have beautiful eyes." she accidently said outloud.

"Thank you and so do you." he smiled

"Thanks." she said then she was cut off when JC's lips met hers. She hesitated at first then relaxed and let the kiss happen. They were both so into the moment that they were kissing passionatly. Danielle pulled away first. She leaned her head on his shoulder, breathing heavily on his neck.

"Om my god, what just happened?" she said out of breath.

"I think we just kissed." JC said still catching his breath. She got off of him at sat on the bed near by.

"OMG! what that supoposed to happen?" She said looking at him.

"Maybe? Everything is supposed to happen for a reason Danielle." JC said

"Not always good though."

"Right, but don't you want something to happen? Cause I do." he said going over to her and held her hands.

"I don't know JC, I don't know what to do? I'm so confused." She said, she was about to cry.

"Please don't cry, I'm sorry. Me and Lance are the ones confusing you...I'll just back off then." he said

She looked at him with wide eyes

"No JC! no, don't do that. I really like you too, but it's just that I have to think about things. And it's not only you and Lance confusing me, my work is, my new boss and myself. I'm confusing myself more than anyone. I'm letting myself get into trouble." She said as she cupped his face.

"Please don't, please don't back off JC." she said kissing his forehead.

He looked at her for a few seconds. Then he also cupped her face and kissed her again. He pulled away.

"How could I? your just...so great." he said looking her straight in the eyes.

She smiled

"Thank you." he said

"For what?"

"Everything."

"Ok...well I better go back to bed...Goodnight JC." She said

"Goodnight Danielle." he said lightly kissing her on the lips. Then she walked out of the room and upstairs to her room.

She soon fell asleep once again with a little guilt on her shoulders.

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Danielle woke up again at 11 a.m.

She walked downstairs and went into the guest bedroom to see if JC was up. She opened the door and saw him sitting up in bed with only boxers on and watching tv.

'God Damn he is fine!' she thought to herself.

He looked over and saw who it was.

"Hey. Good morning." he smiled

"Hi, you too. I just came to see if you were up."

"Oh, well I'm up. Come here." he said patting the spot next top him.

"Ok." She closed the door and walked over to the bed and sat down next to him.. He wrapped his arm around her and kissed the top of her head.

"So what ya watchin'?" she asked leaning her head on his shoulder getting comfortable.

"I'm watching Hang Time." he said

"Cool I love basketball!"

"Yeah I've noticed, your always outside shooting hoops on that court."

"I love it! I've always wanted my own basketball court."

He laughed

"Don't laugh! I'm seroius." she said

"I'm kidding...but I gotta say your a good basketball player, for a girl your pretty tough."

"For a girl? Excuse me?" She said sitting up

"Well...like a lot of girls aren't that good, well there is a lot of girls that are good, but not that I know of...but your like one of the guys when it comes to basketball, you play tough." he said trying to cover up.

"That's more like it." She layed back down.

"See I wasn't being mean."

There was silence for a while as they both watched tv.

"JC?"

"Yeah."

"What are we going to do?"

"I don't know, like you said lets give it time." he said

"Ok...and the thing that happened this morning. Let's keep that our secret for now...I won't even tell Kimberly."

"Ok." he laughed

"That's gonna be hard though cause she knows me so well and she'll be able to tell something happened. And force it out of me." She laughed. He laughed with her.

She sat up again.

"Where are you going?" he said pulling her back down next to him.

"Downstairs...The guys are probably wondering where the hell you are." she said

"Let them." He said leaning down and kissing her. He pulled away a few seconds later then went down for another one. Before he could kiss her again she slipped from under him and went to the door.

"Bye. I'm going downstairs."

"And leaving me here hangin'?" he said sprawled out on the bed

"Exactly." She said walking out the door and closing it.

She walked downstairs and Kimberly was coming out of her room.

"Hi, morning D." Kimberly said

"Morning, sleep well?" Danielle asked

"Yeah, but early this morning I swear I heard someone come over."

"It was JC. He snuck over her to talk to me."

"Oh really?...What happened?"

"We talked then he was going to leave and it was raining so I told him he could stay in the guest bedroom."

"Oh.O-K....." Kimberly looked at her hard.

"What?!"

"Your hiding something. Don't worry I'll get it out of you later." She said

"Whatever."

Just then JC walked out of the guest bedroom. He had put on some drawstring sweatpants. No shirt.

Danielle and Kimberly watched him in aw. Kimberly walked by Danielle and whispered in her ear.

"Damn! He has got one NICE body."

"I know." Danielle whispered back

"Good morning ladies." JC said walking down the stairs

"Good morning." they both said

The three of them sat down and ate breakfast. Danielle and Kimberly then went and got ready for work.

JC had stayed downstairs and watched tv in the living room.

Danielle had finished getting dressed first. She walked over to where JC was.

"Hey."

"Hi." he said

"Um...Were going to be leaving soon. You can stay here if you want, just don't take or break anything, okay."

"Ok I won't. I'll just lay on your bed naked. Cause that's probaby the closest I'll get to you." he said

"OMG! JC, your insane!" She said walking away

"Ready to go?" Kimberly asked walking out of her room.

"Yeah."

"So that's a yes?" JC asked

"Whatever JC! Bye!" Danielle said as her and Kimberly walked out the door.

"Alright!" he said then going back to watching tv.

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