The end where I begin

C h a p t e r 17

'Okay then, let's go. I'll show ye around!' He put his arm around my shoulder as we walked outside. We decided to walk down to river Liffey first and walk over the bridges. I've seen a lot of pictures from here and it has always been a dream to see this in really life, now I finally had the chance to. And that together with great company, whenever he decided not to be annoying.

'By the way Laurs, I saw the blushing in the cafe. It's cute ha ha!' He then pushed me gently in the side and chuckled.

'The fact that you're laughing doesn't really make me believe you!' I looked up at him as he got closer to me, if that was even possible.

'Well it's true though. You just need to realize that!'

'Realize what?' Of course I knew what he meant, I just wanted him to say the words. He knew I was doing that, the way he looked at me gave it away.

'You know what I mean Laurs. You only want me to say it.' He then looked down at me while I looked away.

'Well, yeah, maybe.' I then turned to him again and smiled.

'You're gorgeous and I'm gonna continue saying that until you believe it yerself.'

'Good luck with that!'

'Challenge accepted!' He then started to walk away. I tried catching up with him, but his legs are too long and mine are too short. I then started running after him. As soon as he turned I saw that he started running.

'Ugh, Dan please wait up for me! I'm not exactly in shape here, and you are way too fast for me!' I shouted after him. He just laughed and continued running over the O'Connell Bridge.

'Seriously Dan! I mean it! Please come back here!' By now he was half way over the bridge. I had no chance of catching up with him at this pace. I slowed down and just started walking instead.

'Aw come on Laurs! Take this as exercise!'

'I thought you said I was gorgeous!'

'Yeah I did, that has nothing to do with this!!' He shouted once again over the bridge. I was still far away for him.

'Then why are you making me exercise?!'

'Smart thinking there Laurs, impressive!' I slowly got closer to him as he had stopped running, and moving in general. He stood in the middle of the bridge waiting for me to get to him.

'Why? Did you think I wasn't smart Danny?' I grinned at him. I knew comments like this made him uncomfortable.

'Uhm no of course not, I didn't mean it like that Laurs.'

'I know Dan, I'm just teasing you a bit, and I know you like that as well!' He sure did enjoy that.

'Got that right. Now what are you gonna do about that?' As he was speaking both of us moved closer and closer. I could almost feel his warm breath against my neck. I stood on my toes to get closer to his height. I then opened my mouth slightly as I was to kiss him while looking deeply into his eyes. As I was getting closer and closer I could see his eyes widen and his breath became shorter. At this point our foreheads were leaning against each other. As we were both caught up in the moment the most unbelievable thing happened. I heard my phone, it started ringing and I immediately pulled away. It was Oscar calling. Until now I had not felt any guilt about this. I honestly didn't know what to say to him so I just let it go to voicemail for now. I looked over at Dan and he understood. What was just about to happen shouldn't have happened. I was still in a relationship. It was just wrong. No matter how much we both wanted it, we couldn't, not until the thing with Oscar and I ended. I knew I had to talk to him about this, but just for this moment I chose not to think about it.