Driving home I'm met with a surprise when I step out of the car. Mark, my best friend is waiting outside my apartment building. I walk over to him. "Hey, Mark. What are you doing here?" I ask him and he smiles at me. "I wanted to give you this, I was baking last night and I thought of you" He tells me as he hands me a box and I smile at him. "Oh, thank you" I tell him. "Anyway, I have to go. I have a date tonight" He says and before I could react and ask him about it he walks over to his car.

He does this on purpose because he knows how curious I am. Though I have known for some time that he has had a crush on some girl but I did not know he asked her out on a date. I'm going to have to learn everything tomorrow, I suppose. I lightly shake my head and walk up to my apartment and open it. putting the box down I open it to see that there are small sugar cookies in the shapes of a dancer which he has glazed to look like me.

When Mark and I first met he had gifted me sugar cookies like these which he had baked because he did not know how to talk to girls, and he was nervous, his mother had told him that no one can deny a cookie and when he offers one chatting is always following. He said that he saw one of the shows that I was in, and he loved how I danced. At that time I was not as good and I fell down on stage and twisted my ankle and his cookies actually made me feel much better and ever since we have been friends, best friends.

I eat some of the cookies before I put them in a plastic box, so they would not go bad and so the glaze would not smear if I were to put them in a bag. I sigh as I have nothing to do now but I have an idea for tonight. I came up with it at work, I want to thank Steel in some ways, so I came up with a good idea about how I could do just that and I hope that he will like it.

The hours pass and after I've eaten dinner I pick up my phone and dial his number. A couple of rings go by and nothing and I start to wonder if he will even answer at all. A pang forms in my heart that he has grown tired of me and doesn't want to be around me any longer. Yet I want him around me, and not just to drive away the darkness but to bring me light and happiness and make me forget all about the evil in the world. I need him because... I admit that I'm crushing on him... for now.

"Hello" He answers as if he has not looked who was calling him, though I do let out a sigh as he did answer me. "Hi, Steel. I was wonder... I mean if you're not busy that you could come here..." I trail off, finding myself so nervous that I'm biting the tips of my thumb. A bad habit I suppose but I'm shy and nervous just by talking to him on the phone. I'm not even sure what kind of a mess I'm going to be when we do meet. "Of course, Lila. I'm coming right away" He answers. "Stay on the line" He quickly adds.

I let out a giggle. Unlike last night when I had called him this time I'm not as afraid anymore. He is the reason for that and with him I don't need to feel afraid. A couple of minutes go by in silence and I'm not sure what to say or even if he will be listening, and I find the silence start to become comforting. Just listening to his breaths like I had done last night, I actually fell asleep by the sound of him breathing, they were so soft and smooth and lulled me to sleep.

Soon enough he does arrive at my door, and we hang up the phone. I smile when I see him, which seems to be something that I do a lot when I'm around him, yet I don't really mind. Looking at him I see that he is much better, so he must have gotten some sleep, I still feel guilty about it but I'm going to repay him for what he did last night and for how he helped me without even questioning it, he just did it. I want to show him that I will be there for him if he needs me.

"I was thinking that we'd actually go outside tonight. The weather isn't so cold" I tell him after some time. I don't know why I feel so anxious to be around him nor do I know why my heart is racing so badly but I have a feeling that this is all part of the crush that I have. I'm actually starting to like Steel in ways that I've only heard about but never felt and I think I like that. He nods his head. I take my keys, my wallet and some thick clothes to wear like a jacket to make sure I'm warm.

I'm not about to let him be cold so that he can give me his sweater or hoodie as he did last time, even when I did enjoy that and I still have his hoodie as he did not want it back. Told me it suited me better. "I know somewhere that we can go" I tell hi, but I'm not about to say anything else. I want it to be a surprise but as we are walking I find myself taking his hand and just holding it as we walk down the streets.