A/N: To somehearts and SallyJetson, thank you guys so much for all your help and support!

To the reviewers, you guys are super duper awesome! Thank you so much for your reviews!

To the readers, hope you'll enjoy this one ;)

A/N 2: I showed my boyfriend chapter 12 the other day and he laughed out loud at the way I write Lindsay especially the line about the push-up bra. He was like, "I can't believe you're still hung up over the bra thing!" LOL!

A/N 3: All mistakes are mine and no one else's

Danny whistled when she finished telling her story. "I have to say…I didn't know you had it in you."

"Had what in me?" She cocked an eyebrow at him.

"To let yourself get swept away by some guy you barely know; at a frat party, of all places!"

She snorted at his remark. "Please. Take my word for it. No red blooded female with a healthy dose of estrogen would say 'no' to Derek. You should have seen him that night," said Lindsay with a dreamy smile on her face.

Danny felt like he was about to puke his guts out, but he ignored the temptation to do just that and prodded her for more details instead.

"So…what's next? You two went out, yadi yadi yada… he proposed and you squealed 'yes'?"

"Well…" She hesitated. "Not quite. I wish it was that simple," she huffed.

"What do you mean?" he asked with a grin on his face.

"I was seeing another guy when Derek asked me out," she said in one quick breath.

Danny gaped at her; mouth opened and eyes not blinking. "You're…you're kidding?" he sputtered.

She pursed her lips together and shook her head, feeling slightly annoyed. "Hey, I was young and he's Derek McKay!" she said defensively, as if that would justify everything.

"You cheated on your boyfriend," Danny said, plain and simple.

"No…but…"

"You cheated on your boyfriend," he said again but this time with a trace of amusement in his voice.

"Fine! Yes, I cheated on my boyfriend! I'm a slut! I'm a dirty little country slut! There, I said it! You happy? Can I continue with my story now?" she said exasperatedly.

She threw the pillow she was hugging at him when he laughed, and this time it smacked him right in the face.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's just that…Oh,man, you never cease to amaze me, Montana," he said between laughter.

She ignored him, as if he hadn't spoken. "As I was saying…" she said through gritted teeth, eyes narrowed to a thin line," I was seeing another guy at that time; Chris Dawson. He and I knew each other since we were kids and we dated since high school. You know the whole cliché, 'falling for the boy next door'? I guess that's one way to describe Chris and I. It was safe to say that our relationship was pretty serious."

"But…" he drawled and wiggled his eyebrows at her playfully.

"But…" She tucked her hair behind her ear and shrugged." He's Derek. He's Derek McKay."

Danny made a gagging sound and she kicked him, hard enough to make him winced.

"There was just something about him that I just couldn't resist. He and I…" she looked up, as if she was searching for the right word up on his ceiling.

Finding none, she chuckled. "We just had this chemistry, you know."

"Yeah, I know," Danny said softly.

She winced at her poor choice of words. She recalled Danny said the same thing to her at the precinct before she confessed to him about not being able to be in a relationship with him. She didn't tell him about Derek then. It just wasn't the right place or the right time.

She wanted to, though. She felt that she owed him an explanation but it was one of those things that you didn't know where and how to begin. She couldn't just come up to him and say, "Danny, I like you. A lot. Oh, by the way, did I tell you that I'm engage to be married?"

You could have told him months ago if you really had wanted to.

Oh, shut up. Shut up.

Admit it, Linds. You can't choose out of the two of them. Derek is your fiancé and Danny is…

Nothing. He's a friend. A colleague.

Oh yes, he is that. A sexy one too.

She glanced at Danny and gulped. Down, girl. Where's your self-control?

She flashed him a quick smile and whispered, "Sorry."

"Nah, it's okay. Go on."

"Yeah, so…" she cleared her throat before she continued. " I have no idea what possessed me to take up on his invitation. I love Chris very much, mind you, but I've always have a silly crush on Derek."

Danny leaned back on the couch and shouted, "Woohoo, you're such a girl!"

"Shut up," she snapped and reached forward to smack him on his head.

"To make long story short, I kept seeing Derek behind Chris's back for 2 months before I decided to break up with Chris. Trust me, it wasn't an easy choice to make. I loved them both. Chris was my very first boyfriend and I couldn't ask for a more perfect first love than him." Sadness crept in her voice.

"Did Derek knew about Chris?" he asked.

She nodded. "But he couldn't stay away anymore than I could."

"What happened next?"

TBC