Silly and Tingly

Georgie and Dante

July 2009

Part Six

Georgie slowly came awake to find herself curled against Dante, who was lightly snoring. She sat up, noticing the room was much darker then when they fell asleep, and then gazed at him for a moment.

A shaft of moonlight cut across the room.

It was that quiet moment when she realized just how much faith she was putting in him. She was trusting him with her heart and it scared her to death. For nearly two years she swore she wanted to do that with a man more than anything....she wanted just what she had right now....but now that it was here she wasn’t sure how to handle it.

It shocked her how badly she ached to have faith in him and believe in him. She did that at Coney Island and then she lost all that trust and now, nearly three months later, it was growing inside of her again. This time it wasn’t like their first date. It wasn’t a quick rush of emotion. It came slower and more steady.

And hopefully would be more lasting.

Georgie slipped from the bed. She walked over to the desk and lifted a pen out of a coffee cup he had there that was holding them. The cup said “I survived the Cyclone and all I got was this lousy mug,” a reference to the rollercoaster on Coney Island.

She jotted him a quick note and then slipped back on her shoes before she left. As she walked into the hallway she took one last long look at him, then closed the door.

Standing there she remembered what it felt like to walk on the beach with him just after sunrise. He had found a stick and used it to make a huge heart. Then he put Georgie inside the heart. Using hands motions he had pantomimed: You’re in my heart.

At the time she found him to be so overdramatic, silly and adorable. Now she knew he was all that and more. Heroic. Brave. Needy. Eager. Ambitious. Smart. Confident. Sweet. Since he came to town he made her feel like the only woman in the world who he was interested in.

Having someone like Dante want her was enough to make her heart soar in her chest and a smile curve her lips. But having not just someone like him but actually him want her was amazing.

And that is why it hurt so bad when he didn’t call her for those seven weeks. But now that time was over and they were living in this time. Georgie headed to the bathroom to wash her face before she went home. When she looked in the mirror she saw how filled with lightness and love her eyes were.

It was a look she hadn’t seen on her face in more than three years. It felt really good to be getting back to a place in her life where she knew who the man she belonged next to was, without a shadow of a doubt.

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Dante woke up alone. He quickly propped himself up in bed and looked around the room and then eased back down, groaning loudly at the ache in his side, after he realized Georgie was gone.

He let out a short breath as he gazed at the ceiling. Georgie was really getting to him and he didn’t know what to think about it. When she used to act like she didn’t want him around he had the chase to concentrate on but now that she was being more real with him he had to look at the real emotion in her eyes and coursing through his body. It was looking at that emotion that left him laying there stunned.

They were still so new that anything could happen between them.

They could fall apart tomorrow or last a lifetime. He didn’t want them to end tomorrow but he wasn’t sure he was ready to start a love of a lifetime either.

He just knew he couldn’t imagine going back to a Georgie-less existence. She had told him her mother was an Aztec princess. Georgie didn’t act like a princess though. She acted like a woman who wasn’t perfect and out of a fairytale but was so much better because of that. She was flawed, scared, gun shy, strong, brave, incredible brainy and funny.

He liked hanging out with her. She was like a buddy and a chick he wanted to sleep with all rolled it one. And that was pretty cool.

He could get real used to having her around. So used to it he didn’t think he wanted to go back to Bensonhurst when his job was over.

Like Georgie told him already, long distance just don’t work that well.

He knew he could be faithful, cause he never had the urge to cheat on anyone before, and he believed she could be too (just because she made it easy to believe in her) but he didn’t want them to sit around missing each other and spend nights on the phone telling each other how their days went.

Nope. Not him and his baby cakes. They needed to be in the same city and be hanging around together. They had lots more memories to make after all.

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“Long time no kiss,” Dante said as Georgie pulled opened the door of her apartment at around nine that night.

She gave him a little smile. “As I remember you telling me-”

“Oh no, the stern tone. I hate the stern tone.”

“The doctor said you that you needed rest, rest and more rest and fluids to stay hydrated. Since you don’t live here and you won’t be sleeping here-”

“Darn.”

“Did you come all the way across town for water?”

He held up a brown paper bag he was holding. “For ice cream. Does a little Rocky Road buy my cover charge for coming in the door of your place?”

“Only because its Rocky Road. It if was anything else I’d leave you in the hallway,” she teased, as he walked inside.

After she closed the door he walked into the kitchen, opened the bag and pulled out the ice cream. Georgie came in and got out some bowls.

She asked “Want to eat in the living room? I was in the middle of watching Ace of Cakes.”

“A dude decorating cake? You would think they’d take away his man card for that.”

She raised an eyebrow and Dante backtracked by saying “But if that’s his life calling then I say follow your bliss!”She smiled as she fixed two bowls of ice cream for them.

Dante went on “You do know that Nancy Grace is on right now, don’t ya?”

She made a scrunched up face. “You like to watch news shows filled with crime and then spend all day living the real thing? Sounds like my Dad.”

He started to tickle her. “Are you calling me old and boring? Huh?”

She laughed and tried to get away. “If the old and boring shoe fits!”

He pulled her close to him and their laughter died away. The moment grew quietly intense. He brushed her hair away from her face and murmured out her name “Georgie.”

Their lips met and they began to give each other short, sensual kisses as the ice cream melted away in the bowls. As they kissed Georgie realized that Dante wasn’t just starting to get into her heart.

He was already in and she was loving the fact that he hadn’t given up on them when she told him to.

(I had no choice but to hear you. You stated your case, time and time again.

I thought about it.

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You treat me like I’m a princess. I’m not used to liking that.

You ask how my day was.

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You’ve already won me over, in spite of me. So don’t be surprised if I fall, head over feet.

Don’t be surprised if I love you, for all that you are. I couldn’t help it.

Its all your fault!

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Your love is thick and it swallowed me whole. You’re so much braver than I gave you credit for.

That’s not lip service.

-

You’ve already won me over, in spite of me. So don’t be surprised if I fall, head over feet.

Don’t be surprised if I love you, for all that you are. I couldn’t help it.

It’s all your fault.

-

You are the bearer of unconditional things. You held your breath and the door for me.

Thanks for your patience.

-

You’re the best listener I’ve ever met. You’re my best friend. Best friend with benefits.

What took me so long?

-

I’ve never felt this healthy before. I’ve never wanted something rational.

I am aware now. I am aware now.

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You’ve already won me over, in spite of me. So don’t be surprised if I fall head over feet.

Don’t be surprised if I love you, for all that you are. I couldn’t help it.

It’s all your fault.) (Alanis Morissette)

THE END

Note- Once again that is just the end of this particular story about Gante. You probably have noticed that these stories don’t follow a particular plot (meaning they are not about one certain event like the reveal of Dante to be a Fed or the reveal he is Sonny’s son or Frisco coming to town or Mac learning Dante is a Fed). They are instead just Georgie and Dante living day by day as they fall for each other.

Hopefully the muse will come back and I can write more to keep taking this couple forward in their love. If the muse doesn’t come back I thank you for diving into my Dante and Georgie universe set against the background of present day Port Charles.