This is so awesome thank you all sooo much
I was on vacation so it took we awhile to update sry, but I did spend like an hour on the beach thinking about some cute scenes so I'm pretty excited
any ways enough blabbing, I sound like Marshall lol
Chapter 4
Sydney couldn't remember the last time she smiled so much. She smiled in the parking lot, she smiled, through 3 songs on the radio, she smiled as she entered her apartment, and she smiled as she went to the fridge to get a bowl of coffe icecream. Most of the time when Syd brought out her icecream, it was because she was stressed or deppressed, but not this time. This was happy icecream.
She was still smiling as Francie came into the kitchen,
"Hey" Francie said, as she laid a stack of Martha Stewart Fall issues from the past 3 years on the counter.
"Hi" Syd said back and stuck her spoon into the bowl, "Want some?"
"Ha... coffe? I don't think so" she said and Syd laughed and put the spoon in her own mouth. She continued to eat her ice cream smiling to her self as Fran got a sharpie and began circling things in the magazine. When Syd had finished she put her bowl in the sink and sat back down on her stool.
"So, hows party planning coming?" she asked.
"Well I figured we should send the invitations out within the next coulpe of weeks, so we should go shopping mabey tuesday........look at you" Francie said suddently as she looked up at Syd.
"What?" Syd asked looking at her.
"You're like....., ha you got like a glow"
"What?" said she, laughing.
"No really you got this little glow........look at that" Francie was now smiling awestrucken at Sydney.
"I don't have a glow" and even as she said it she knew it couldn't be true, she could feel it.
"So, shopping tuesday, I'm in" she said trying to move the conversation along.
"Great, oh hey so did you find Danny?" Syd's smile faded and she suddently wished she had her ice cream back again.
"Oh... no he uhh,.... he wasn't home" she said stating down at her bracelet.
"Oh..... thats wierd... has he called you?" Syd shook her head
"Its ok though, I went ice skating for the first time in like forever years so"
"Thats cool" said Fran "Oh, I almost forgot the party planner people wanted me to call them back, they say I might get a discount sice I'm catering the party my self"
"Great" she said supportiveley as Fran stood up to go.
When she left syd put her head in her hand and closed her eyesas soon as she did this the image of Micheal scoring that goal the first time she saw him popped into her head, she smiled. He had been so kind, an sweet and they would go to a kings game together, just as friends of corse but she would get to know him.....
The telephone rang which awakened her from this trail of thought and also made her realize, that she had been half asleep. God I'm tired she thought as she reached grogily for the phone. As she answered it though she sounded hopefull, there was now another person who knew her number.
"Hello"
"Sydney?" she was dissapointed at the sound of the voice it had a very strong British Accent to it.
"Hi" she said not sounding as sweet as she usually did, when answeing a phone.
"Sydney, look I'm so sorry I can't come tonight"
"Yeah, I figured"
"I'm just do swampped with school work and everything I lost track of time"
"I understand" she said, now using a voice that she rarley used out side of the spy world. After a few seconds of awkward silence Danny asked.
"Hey did you pick up that book I asked you for?" this actually made her stare at the phone as if she hadn't heard it properley.
"What?"
"That school book, I left you a message...." Syd ney couldn't belive this he had just forgotten about a date and barley apologized and now he was asking her for the book he had left a message for?!?!
"Yeah Danny I did get the book" she harshly"Would you like me to drop it off for you?"
"Oh no, thanks" he said blind or deaf rather to the fact that she was really pissed off right now. "Oh hey how about we do something later and I can get the book from you then?" Syd took a deep breath to keep her self from using her "being interogated" voice and then rather cooly said"Yeah, ok I'll see you later then"
"bye" said Danny who left Sydney listening to the dead tone for the 3rd time that week.
"So I went to the grocerey store the other day, I thought I'd pick a few things up for the party there was a whole Isle filled with different types of candy corn, it was disgusting, seriously I almost gagged"
It was sunday morning and Syd was on her weekly jog through the park with Will. She laughed at his comment.
"So do you know what you're going as?" she asked him.
"Well despite the fact that I think its completeley ridiculous that she's making us wear costumes I actually picked one out, I'm going as Frankenstien" Syd laughed through her patterened breathing. "Real original I know" he said smiling
"How about you?" Syd thought for a moment,
"I might be Alice of Wonderland" as soon as she said this though, her thoughts jumped to Alice Williams, she felt a pang of emotion inside of her, was it jealousy?
"My mom gave me the book when I was a kid, so I"ve always had a soft spot for it" she panted she was getting out of breath, but she could she the bench where they usually took a break. "You ready?" she asked Will.
"Yeah" he said and at the same time they started sprinting, Syd like always eventually pushed a head and hit the bench about 7 seconds before Will.
"Good run" she said after about a minute of heavy breathing. She reached for her water bottle and took a long drink, then handed it to Will. "You too" he said and sipped from her bottle. "So you want to go mile more?" she asked him putting her leg up on the bench stretching it out, she often got tense after running.
"No actually I gotta go, I have to finish a story by 1' I'll see you later though" He said."Ok I'll see ya"
Sydey finished stretching, then pulled out her ipod and set it to shuffle songs, the soothing, yet strong sound of Kimberley Lockes 8th World Wonder started playing it wasn't exactly the best running song but Syd wanted a light jog. As the chorus started she passed another runner and the ear phone cords got tangled with his mini ipod armband, both of them were pulled back.
"Oh geez I'm so sorry" she said bending over to grab the white earplugs that had fallen. As she looked up the face of the man and beamed.
"Hi" he said beaming back.
"Micheal" she said she felt as the insides of her soumache was filling up with air.
"Hi, how are you" she paused her ipod and hooked it back on to her pants.
"Good, fine how bout you?"
"Great" she said. They were no longer in a LosAngeles park filled with hundreds of people it was just them, no dogs, no frissbees nothing just Sydney and Micheal.
"Do you wanna...." she knew exactly what he was going to ask because she had been thinking of the exact thing.
"sure" she said smiling.
"So no class today?" he asked her as their feet pounged along the park's cement path. "Nope I usually have work today, but they haven't called me in yet so I thought I'd get a jog in" It was so easy to talk to him and she also thought it was really sweet of him wanting to know about her school, Danny couldn't even remember wha times she had classand he had know her for over 3 months. Micheal had only known her for a little over 3 days.
"What about you're job, wouldn't they have you working today?"
"They do usually but my partners covering for me"
"Oh really, whats his name?" she asked easily.
"Eric" he replied he looked around at her and smiled, which made her smile which made her speed up.
"Hey, you're pretty fast" he said attempting to match her quicker pace.
"You sound suprised" she said sounding flirty.
"No... it's just" he was smiling but lost for words, this made her laugh.
"You thought because I was a banker that I wasn't athletic" she smiled she knew Micheal ment no harm by this which is why it made it a fun accusation.
"No I'm not suprised.... I was just saying...."
"I know" she said, at the same time they looked at eachother and once again that moment felt so wonderful, they both smiled and Syd thought she even saw him blush."
"I bet I could beat you to the fountain" he said.
"You're on" she said and sprined ahead.
"Hey" he said laughing syd giggled and sped up keeping a long fast stride.
He caught up quickly though and they just ended up running in step all the way to the fountain where they both hit the edge of the fountain at the same time.
They were both breathing hard and smiling at eachother, syd took a drink from her water bottle she could feel his eyes on her.
"Great run" she said her lips shinning from the cold water.
"Yeah, you too" Syd noticed how cute he looked his brow smomewhat sweating.
"Well I'm going this way he said pointing to the left"
"And I'm going that way she said pointing to her right"
"I'll see you later Syd....oh sorry I mean Sydney" She laughed
"You can call me Syd, everyone else does" but this wasn't true only people really close to her called her Syd like Will and Francie. Danny didn't really even call her Syd that much.
"Ok then" he said beaming "I'll see you aroun Syd"
"Yeah" she said her knees feeling weak, "yeah you too"
As he jogged off she watched him go just as he had watchd her go the night before. And as he jogged away he turned around, saw her watching him, and smiled at her. He then turned around and went back the way they came. She then realized that he had come all this way just to jog with her.
Oh god, thought Sydney there really is just something about his smile. She then put the earplugs of her ipod back in and unpaused it in time to hear, just as she watched him jog out of site.
Seven Days and Seven Nights of thunder,
Waters rising and I'm sinking under.
I think I fell in Love with the 8th World Wonder.