Once the alarm finally stopped, Helena tossed the hand towel in Dylan’s direction before looking at her watch. She smiled warmly at Dylan then said, “I have to go.”

Dylan’s facial expression changed from warm smiles to a sad puppy dog look, “but we havent even watched the movie I rented”

Helena chuckled, “oh dont look at me like that.” and she stepped forward and reached for Dylan’s hands, “I have to open at The Planet tomorrow morning. Bright and early.”

At this point Helena and Dylan were close enough to kiss once again, but Dylan seemed too disappointed to notice and hung her head.

“oohh” smiled Helena as she lifted Dylan’s chin to look into her eyes, “I’m just kidding” she said playfully, biting her lip trying not to smile.

Dylan’s eyes lit up, “really?”

“really what? That I’m kidding? Of course I am, silly!” and she wrapped her arms around Dylan’s waist, “I’m the owner, I can go in whenever I want to.”

Dylan again lowered her head, this time out of semi-embarrassment as she tried to hide her smile.
“I think I just wanted to see your reaction” Helena said playfully.

“Did it meet your standards?” Dylan whispered as she took Helena’s hand and lead her into the living room without breaking eye contact.

As Helena was being lead into the living room, she couldn’t help but think about the thing she wanted to tell Dylan, the thing she was afraid to tell her and what it might mean if she did.

Dylan turned the movie on and the two laid on the couch together. Throughout the movie, the two kept tickling each other and distracting each other from the movie. At one point, Dylan propped herself up on one of her elbows to look at Helena and she couldn’t help but smile.

“Do you realize how in love with you I am, Helena?”

Helena smiled softly and she reached up to touch Dylan’s face.

“I’m sorry if I’m moving too fast, and I dont expect you to say it back because I know you’re being cautious and” she paused, “and you may not even feel the same, but I’m letting you how I feel and will put everything out on the table if I have to.”