The Answer

We went to Chloe in Redmond that Friday night.  Actually, we were early for our reservation, so first we drove through Dutch Brothers and then sat in the WalMart parking lot and watched the sky change colors with the sunset.  Then we went to Chloe.  The restaurant was empty except for a table full of older ladies laughing and gossiping.  We were seated in the booth right next to them of course. 

Our table was the biggest one ever created.  Sitting across from each other, I had to stretch to reach Danny--we tried because I wasn't sure I could do it, but our hands could meet in the middle.  We ended up scooting to the other end and sitting at a right angle to each other so that we could hear each other over the booth next to us.  Our waitress had to practice her gymnastics moves to refill the water and hand us our food.  I felt almost bad...but then again, there were plenty of other tables they could have sat us at!

I looked very nice, if I do say so myself...well, and Danny said it too.  It was a special night so I had dressed up.  Danny had too.  It was fun to be talking again and we caught up on the last 9 and a half weeks over our meals.

We finished before the table next to us and headed back to my house.  Everyone had already gone to bed so we sat in the living room talking some more.  How do you bring the conversation around to, "So, what are we going to do now?"

I finally just told him the conclusion I had come to: I did want to date him again, if that was still what he wanted.  He did.  And so then we were dating again.

There were a lot of fun dates in the months ahead.  There were also some frustrating times of course as there are in any relationship.  We knew we weren't just dating frivolously.  We were dating to see if we were going to get married.  I was the wishy-washy of the two.  Sometimes I was a resounding, definite "YES!" and other times I was a, "I just don't know."  Danny always knew though.  That's why he had come back.  Why he had waited so patiently for me to come up with an answer.  And why he was waiting for just the right time to ask me to marry him...but that's another story.