Just a Walk in the Park

You wake up to feel Darren's warm hand stroking your arm which makes you smile, Darren must have seen that as he starts stroking your cheek,

'Good morning,' Darren says gently,

You finally let your eyes flutter open to see that Darren is only lying a few inches away from you,

'Hi there.' You say with a huge grin on your face as you play with his hair,

'How are you feeling?' he asks as you try to remember what happened last night,

'I feel great, I didn't drink that much last night!' you say with a smirk, 'how about you?'

Darren smiles at you, 'I always feel perfect when I'm with you.'

You can feel your cheeks beginning to turn red so you grab a pillow and throw it in Darren's direction,

'You're so cheesy!' you say laughing,

'I know but it doesn't stop you from blushing,' he says as you try to crawl under the covers to hide your face, 'Which I think is adorable so don't try and hide it!' Darren says as he grabs you into a tight hug.

You look up to him and smirk, 'My plan last night worked then.'

'I wouldn't say it worked…' Darren says with a laugh,

'Oh really? I must've been at a different party then because from what I recall you were all over me.. trying to kiss me whenever you could!' you say grinning up at him.

'Fine, fine but I think I won in the end.' Darren grins at you,

'How so?' you ask now confused,

'Well I got to kiss you in the end didn't I?' this makes you laugh remembering last night, 'And I enjoyed last night! I know you've never really done anything like this so I didn't want to push you… I want you to know you can trust me and last night I felt like you did.' He looks away slightly as you see his cheeks turn red.

'Darren… I know I can trust you, of course I trust you and honestly I loved last night… I just love you.' You say with a smile as you caress his cheek until he looks to you,

'I love you too.' Darren replies and leans in for a kiss,

'Do you really want to do that?' he just looks at you confused, 'Morning breath!' you finally say.

'(Y/N), when are you going to learn that I don't care about that… I think you're perfect.. even with morning breath.' He replies which takes your breath away as he leans in to kiss you.

You both get up and you realise you don't have change of clothes so you get changed from the baggy t-shirt and sweats Darren gave you last night and just put your dress back on but Darren comes over and gives you his Michigan hoodie,

'Are you sure?' you ask wondering if it's important to him,

'Of course,' he says as he puts it on over your head and kisses you on the nose.

You snuggle into the hoodie as it smells exactly like Darren,

It's so intoxicating,

You think as you cuddle into it and rush downstairs to see Darren already making breakfast,

'Try not to burn anything.' You shout over to him as you walk into the lounge to find Joey sat there,

'Hey there.' You say,

'Oh hi,' Joey says with a smirk,

'What are you smiling at?' you ask,

'Oh nothing.. I just knew you and Darren would get together in the end.. you two are perfect!' he replies as you sit down on the couch,

'Oh yeah.. sorry about running out on you the other day… everything's fine now! Actually I was wondering… I wanted to surprise Darren with something but I don't know what because he's been working so much lately and he kinda needs a break, any ideas?' you ask trying to formulate a plan,

'Hmmm… I know, he's been missing the Starkid's a lot recently because of his Glee schedule… maybe we could get them to come down and give him a surprise ambush somewhen?' joey suggests,

'Oh my god! That's perfect and I know just the thing to do..' you say as you see Darren's almost done with the food,

'Here's my number we'll talk later!' Joey says just as Darren walks through with a tray full of toast.

You pick up a piece of toast and study it,

'Are you sure these are okay? I could smell burning in there!' you tease,

'Yeah, yeah' Darren says as he sits between you and Joey.

You spend the rest of the morning talking with Darren and Joey and you find out all of the Starkid secrets and all about Darren's time at Michigan Uni when he had the afro. You see how much of a bromance Joey and Darren have between them and it makes you smile at the way they joke around with each other,

'So… what do you want to do today?' Darren asks you,

'Hmmm… how about a movie night?' you ask excited,

'That sounds awesome!' Darren answers already looking through his dvd collection,

'I best go home and get ready then.. I need to find all of my favourite films!' you say as Darren leaves to get his keys. You turn to Joey,

'I'll text you later.' You say as you leave with Darren.

The car ride to yours was fun as usual, you make fun of Darren's road rage and so he tries to tickle you, once you get to yours you give Darren a quick kiss goodbye as he calls to you,

'I'll be looking forward to seeing you later!'

You just smile and open your door.

You find you have a stack of mail and you flick through and find an odd one so you decide to open it. It was a letter,

To Whatever your name is!

If I were you I'd be really careful from now on!

Don't get your hopes up because Darren will never love you, it's always been me and always will be.

You're probably just some wannabe who dreams about Darren in your sleep, he'll never fall for you.

Watch your back from now on and be prepared for your life to get ruined!

Love Kirsty x

You fall to the floor as a million questions run through your head,

How did she know where I live? What am I supposed to do and what does she mean watch your back? I can't tell Darren he'll freak out!

You decide to look online and see that although you now have an 'army' of people who support you and Darren there's also a large number of people who still hate your guts including Kirsty who's trying to stir things up again.

To get your mind off things you play your guitar and add some more to your songs. After a while you realise you should've text Joey,

You: So how are we going to do this Operation: Starkid Ambush thing? ;)

Joey: Well we're all free in a couple of days?

You: Okay that's perfect I have an idea! :)

You spend the rest of the afternoon sorting the surprise out with Joey when you realise the time,

I should be getting to Darren's!

You think as you grab your stuff and head out.

You knock on Darren's door to find a very excited Darren waiting behind it,

'So I bought some of my favourite films with me.' and before you finish your sentence Darren's already grabbed the bag and is looking through them all,

'Do you approve of them?' you say with a huge grin on your face,

'These are perfect!' he says as he leads you to the lounge where you find a huge pile of Darren's DVD's are scattered all over the floor,

'You don't expect us to watch all of these do you? You ask mind blown by how may movies he has and the majority of them are Disney, of course,

'Well I didn't know which ones we wanted to watch so I just got them all out.' Darren replies thinking he was being really logical, you just laugh at him as you look through all his films to find one you both absolutely love… Aladdin!

Darren puts the movie in and snuggles down next to you on the sofa as you rest your head on his shoulder and watch the movie. You love the warmth of Darren's body and you sink into his side more as Darren puts his arm around you. Right at this moment you feel like everything is perfect and nothing will ever upset you because Darren's right there protecting you.

By the time you get through your 6th movie you find that Darren's fallen asleep you watch him for a little while, he seems so peaceful and his sleeping face is too adorable. As you sit there you start thinking about earlier and you get the letter out from your pocket and start reading it over and over, you feel the tears welling up in your eyes and you accidentally jog your foot on the table causing all the dvd's to come crashing down.

You feel Darren stirring so you try to hide your face away but it's too late,

'(Y/N), what's wrong? What happened?' he says with lots of worry in his eyes,

'I found this in my mail today…' you manage to get out as you pass it to him.

Darren reads it and his eyes change from worried to angry and you're afraid of what he might do next,

I knew this would happen!

You think as Darren looks to you and instead of getting worked up he just grabs you in a tight embrace,

'(Y/N)… I'm not going to let anything happen to you, okay?' he says as he soothes you, 'I can't you're too important to me!'

'I don't.. I don't know how she knew where I lived… this is just going to get worse Darren. There's nothing you can do.' You say looking up to him.

Darren just strokes you cheeks to get rid of your tears and says, '(Y/N), everything's going to be okay… I'm going to stop this once and for all!'