The next morning, Darcy wakes up in her bed with all of the same clothes on that she wore the night before. She slowly sits up. Her head is pounding wait, wait no that is someone pounding on her bedroom door. She slowly gets up. She puts her hands on her hands and she yells, “I am up! Please, stop pounding on the door!” She looks at her sleeves and makes a funny look. She thought, ‘This is not mine.’ She gets up and walks over to her mirror that hung above her dresser. She takes the coat off and sets it on the desk. She leans on her dresser and has her head hanging down. The bedroom door opened. She slowly turned her head to see her Dad come walking through the door. He is a tall person around about 6’3. He had the same eyes as Darcy had. But his hair was thinning and was gray and silver. He sat down on her bed. She turns around and continues to lean on her dresser and bends her neck down so she is looking at the floor. Her dad looks at her and then pats a spot next to him on the unmade bed. She walks over to him and sat down next to him and leaned her head on his arm. He moved his arm so Darcy can lie on his chest. He took his arm and wrapped his arm around Darcy.

Jay had fallen asleep in the van in the Ravine. Beer cans were all around him. His shirt was under his head for a pillow. His hair was sticking up. An awful hangover lingers over him. Everything was so foggy and unclear. He laid there in the darkness thinking, ‘What happened last night?’ Then a memory of them kissing and running away appeared into his head. ‘Was Darcy Edwards actually here at the Ravine or was that imagination. Did I really kiss her even though I am still in love with Alex? Where is my coat? What time is it?’ He laid there in the middle of the van on his back, when the van’s door slid open. He quickly shot up. He held up a hand up to hide the sun from his eyes while his other hand was behind him to support his body. He sat there thinking, ‘Why can’t people warn before they go to open the doors?’ At first he thought, ‘Damn another night I spent out here is this van, all alone and cold, and well this place is more of a home then my actually home.’ The person who had opened the was shaped as a girl at first he looked up and thought it was Alex but when the person got closer he saw that it was Amy. ‘Of course it was Amy. I mean who else would it have been?’

Darcy’s Dad whispers to her, “Pumpkin, what is wrong?” Darcy begins to cry a little. Her dad patted her on the back and said, “Its okay. What ever it is we will work it out. I promise.” Darcy sat up and looked at him. She got up and started back toward her dresser.

“No, I am fine. I am fine! All I need is to take a shower and need to go out for another walk.” Darcy said as she turned her head to look over her shoulder and but one a fake smile.

Amy crawls into the van in a long shirt and a short mini skirt and sat on Jay’s lap and said in a cool and sexy voice “Well good morning sunshine. I wondered when you were going to get up. So we could have a little fun?” She finished her suggestion by putting her left index tip in her mouth.

Jay looked up at her with total disgust. He sat there thinking, ‘Gross, first of all she needs to change her style badly and I know that I would never do anything with her again!’ Jay pushed her off and said in a harsh and rude voice, “Get off! I would never do anything with you ever again! What part of that do you not understand? I don’t want you Amy!” Amy had a face of how could you on. Then Jay took his shirt and unfolded it and put it on. He then got out of the van.

Darcy’s Dad got up and went over and hugged her. “Okay, but if you need any help please come to me and I will try to be as understanding as I can. I will try to help you out.” Then he let her go. He turned and walked to her door.

He turned back around so he could see Darcy. She was looking at him with her most angelic face as possible. “I will tell you if I am any trouble.”

Jay got into his Orange Honda Civic and started it up and took off out of the Ravine. He put in some rap music on and blasted it. He looked back through the rear view mirror and saw Amy throwing full and empty cans and bottles of beer at the back of his car. All he could think about was, ‘I hope I didn’t do anything with Darcy that I would regret in the future. What if I did how will Alex react? Duh of course she would blow me off because she told me and she was lesbian and that was it. Oh man I probably throw some nasty things last night.’

“Alright,” Darcy’s Dad said and he softly closed the door behind him. Darcy looked up and thought, ‘How was I going to tell my dad, that I was at the Ravine last night drinking. But he probably all ready knows because that coat is just full of the beer smells. Oh. Great now he will never trust me again. Just what I need is for him to hate me.’ She turned back at her dresser and thought as a few tears went down her cheeks.


Ring! R-r-ring! Darcy moaned. ‘Who is calling me now? No one calls me.’ She found her phone in Jay’s coat. She pulled it out and then it read, ‘Jay’. ‘Why is he calling me for? Oh he probably wants his coat back.’ She thought. She pressed the send button.

“Hello?” answered Darcy in an awkward and unsure voice. She walked into her closet to change into her yellow and blue fluffy robe.

“Hey Darcy, it’s me, Jay. I need to get my coat back.” he said as he pulled up in front of her house.

“Yeah, I know who this is.” she said as she walked out of her closet. She grabbed her nail polish remover and some cotton balls off a nearby desk. She sat herself on her bed. She fell silently for she was not sure what to say after last night.

Jay was silent. He kept thinking about everything that had happened last night between him and Darcy. He turned the car off and leaned on his steering wheel.

Darcy got up to turn the stereo on. Out of the corner of her eye she saw something orange. She walked over to the window. With her free hand she pushed a part of the curtain off to the side. She stood there and thought about all the events that had happened last night as she stared out the window to see an orange Honda Civic. She smiled and said “Coat what coat? I don’t know what coat you are talking about, Jay?”

Jay sat up and smiled and laughed and then said, “You know what coat I am talking about. The one I gave to you so you could stay warm. The one that you ran off with last night after our well you know.”

Darcy walked over to her bed and sat down and began to remove her toenail polish. “Oh that coat. How about, I meet you somewhere to give it back to you.” Darcy negotiated with a wicked smile on her face.

“What I am right out of your house! Why can’t you just give it to me now?” Jay questioned Darcy. Jay sat there and tried to figure out what which room is hers.

“No, I am not decent to come out and give it to you!” Darcy answered back with a cute little giggle. She loved this arguing back and forth but she didn’t want Jay to know it.

“Okay then how about I go up to your window and close my eyes and you can give me my coat through the window.” Jay wondered who was having fantasies of seeing Darcy naked.

“Fine, my window is the first one on the left hand corner. Once you reach it I want you to turn around and close your eyes and tap the window three times.” Darcy said to him in a calm but commanding voice.

“Okay.” answered Jay. He hung up and then opened the car door. He got out and then closed it and looked at Darcy’s house. That wasn’t much different then his. He felt some relieve off of his chest. He walked to the window that Darcy told him.

Darcy was leaning against the wall next to the window. She had put a pair of blue sunglasses on. She held the coat close and she smelled it to get one last good smell of him. Then she had heard three knocks. She couldn’t hear anything but her heart beating. She pulled the curtains to a side and then opened the window. Jay bent down and leaned on the window sill. Darcy put the coat through the window and then she leaned on the window sill as Jay put the coat on. Darcy motioned him to come closer with her right index finger. Jay stood there with a little smile on his face and he kept thinking, ‘I wonder what is going on through her mind right now.’ Jay leaned in close to Darcy. Darcy leaned over to him and kissed him on the lips.

She leaned back and whispered, “Thanks, Jay for everything.”

Jay just looked at her and then said, “yeah you too.” Then Jay walked away from the window. Darcy watched him as he walked to the car and then drove away.

Fade out