Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 12

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Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 12

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”You both know each other?” Lucy frowns looking at her friend and then the really cute stranger who helped her get the cabbage from the shelve which she was far away from because his shopping cart had blocked her, and who had also paid for two of her item.
”Well… yeah, we do” Darren chuckles.
”Sort off… wow Darren!” Annalise chuckles ”Small world huh?”
”Yeah, small world. You -you look great” He points to her .
She smiles tugging a stray hair behind her ear ”Thanks. You… look good and well”
”Yeah… time heals huh?”
”Yeah, time heals” She replies
”Er… hello, Lucy here… you both know each other..how?”


Annalise looks at her friend ”Er..Pffft!!” She scoffs ”We just know each other” She tries to give her an eye.
Lucy is frowning ”Just know each other how?”

”You know… know each other..”
”How?”

Annalise is giving her the eye, and pointing at a random red object, Lucy’s frown deepens not understanding. ”Why are you showing me red … how do you guys know each other Anna?”

Darren hides a smile,
”We ran into each other… you know, broken hearts… stuff” She grabs a V-shaped T-shirt and places it on her chest and is picking out a red stuffed teddy bear too, holding them together and then, she absentmindedly and obviously hit the condom rack. A condom drops. ”Oh silly me” she bends and picks it up, stylishly shows her friend all three items and then drops them back.. ”We met… you know”


Lucy c---s her head to the side ”Noooo i don’t know”

Annalise rolls her eyes, she turns to Darren who is still standing there, his smile secretly obviously… she smiles at him and then backs her friend, she pumps air into her mouth to the side, and used her tongue to hit the walls of the popped cheek with air, in and out as the cheeks inflates and then deflates.

Lucy’s eyes grows small as she is staring at her friend ”Are you okay Annalise, what are you doing with your mouth?”
Annalisa face-palms.

”Why can’t you just tell me how you both met… I am curious”

Now Darren laughs, they turn to him ”We met on Valentine’s day, one of those really awkward messed up situations and … erm..” he clears his throat throwing a look at Annalisa ”that’s it”


Lucy stares at him ”Okay, oh that’s nice, you both met in the day of lov— oh s--t!!! You are the dude whose’s girlfriend is a l£sb!an and wants to get all sex organs and…ohhhhh s--t you are the sexy cute stranger who got my girl to forget about that jerk for a night who left her to go marry his bimbo and you both…” She laughs continuing ”…got -it-on” she spanked an invisible a-s and gesticulated.. ”Oh..Ahh..yes yes… love me, love me, love me some harder!!!!”
Annalisa quickly clams her friend’s mouth with her hands ”Damnit girl, you didn’t have to be so graphic”

Darren laughs. Annalisa throws him an embarrassed look ”Sorry!”
”No… no problem” He replies her.

A few customers turn chuckling and then turns away.

Lucy is laughing and trying to talk ”Hmmddggshfuwhfegfjdgdfsdjjfhjffhfhh”

”What, I can’t hear nor understand what you are saying” Annalisa tells her friend as she frowns at her.

Lucy rolls her eyes and taps at Annalisa’s hand over her mouth,

”Oh… sorry” Annalisa drops her hand.
Lucy smiles, ”I said…you should have just told me you know, stylishly.”

”What in the heavens have I been saying or doing?”

”What… you are poor at giving signs girl” then she sidesteps Annalisa and goes to Darren, folding her arms and placing her fingers to her jaw as she taps them tentatively ”D--n, you are fine. Oh I am Lucy Baggins, Annalisa Penelope Bruce’s best of friend.” she gives him her hand, he takes it.
”Darren Bloom”

”Like Orlando Bloom, that man is a sexy fine man, I watched lord of the rings because of that clean elf man”

Darren laughs ”Nah. Just a different bloom” he stares at Annalisa. Lucy turns to look at Anna.

”Oh come over, maybe you both can continue where you left off the valentine vibe” she winks.

”Don’t be silly Luce” Annalisa shakes her head.

” Don’t be silly Luce’ ‘ Lucy mimics, then she pulls Darren by the hand ”Look, she my girl, you break her heart, I would cut off your balls and feed them to my cat”
Darren smiles ”Ohkay…we are not…even..er..whatever you mean by that. Just ran into an old friend not ..thinking towards that”

”Oh!!!”
”Hmm”
She smiles ”That’s fine”
”Don’t embarrass the man Lucy” Annalisa tells her

”Oh by God, not my intention” She smiles at Darren ”Any friend of Annalisa is my friend”
”Erm..I don’t want to be a bother but you lot are holding up the line with your valentine and sex talk”

They turn to see that they were actually stopping people from passing and heading to the cashier point .

”Oh, our bad!!” Lucy says grabbing her items, Annalisa follows, Darren grabs his as they exit the supermarket.

”Can I drop you off somewhere?” He walks in step with Annalisa.

”Er, we came in a ride” She points at their car as they walk towards it.
”But you can drop her off, my car is so full at the moment ” Lucy calls over her shoulders.
”Stop it Luce”

Lucy laughs opening her car and placing the items in it and then goes to the driver seat enters and smiles
Darren stops as Annalisa does and turns to him . ”Nice to see you Darren”
”You too Anna”

Maybe I should take her number , Darren thinks to himself.

Maybe I should give him my number , Annalisa thinks to herself.

They are staring at each other.

A minute passes. Two. Three. It was stretching.


Lucy clears her throat.

The look breaks.
”See you Darren”
”See you Annalisa”

She turns and enters the car, Lucy waves to him, he smiles at her as their car pulls away.
He stands there for a few seconds, turns enters his car and goes home.

”Maybe I should have just collected her number” he frowns slightly.

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”Dude is fine” Lucy turns into her street and then slows to a stop.
”You have said that like a hundred times already Luce”
”So he didn’t take your number?”
”He didn’t ask” They are walking into her house.

”You didn’t offer either”
”Er..was I supposed to?”
Lucy drops the items on her table top ”Well, if I wanted a guy to see me again or vice versa, and dude isn’t budging, I would offer”

”That’s you. He didn’t ask, I didn’t give him.”
”If he did would you have?”
”Er… dunno!”‘
Lucy grabs an apple, and then begins to eat it eyeing her friend ”You know, you should get back on that wagon. Two months almost three is a long time”

”Er, who is counting?”
”Me!”
”Right!”
”Come on, you literally shut guys down when they approach you, you don’t go out, nothing. Now we run into this fine a-s dude who… well, guys have already ‘done the do’… you don’t think there is something there?”

”Nope!! It was a one night stand girl… unplanned, happened. There is nothing there”

”He seems taken with you”
Annalisa laughs grabbing a knife and then takes the cabbage ”And you saw that in what, five minutes?”
Lucy shrugs as she watches her friend going about to make dinner .”I have eyes, I see”
”Right, He was just surprised to see me as I him. Big deal”

”Okay, if you say so.”
”I say so.”
Phone rings, Lucy grabs it ”Oh hi Tonia..” she listens and then she face-palms ”oh crap, I forgot. Yes yes I would speak to the vendor and it would be delivered. In fact I will pick it up myself and bring it. Sure thing, yes. Oh of course. Can I bring a friend along though?” She eyes Annalisa who frowns. ”Sure, of course. Are there going to be single ones running about?” she smiles. ”Ahh, excellent. See you Saturday Tonia, Bye!!”

”What was that about?” Annalisa had put on the gas and set pot on it, she throws him some vegetables and spices it up.
”Got some birthday gig to attend, plus I am bringing the cake from the Hailey’s over.”

”Whose?”
”Friend of a friend.”
”Ah… I am not going”
”I didn’t say anything”
”You are already planning something ”Annalisa places another pot with water, pours salt and oil and then covers it.

”Come’on. I wasn’t planning anything”
”Right. Where is your estranged boyfriend Lucy”

Lucy rolls her eyes ”Somewhere in a pub. who cares, we are done”
”You don’t seem bothered?”
”Nah, he has been loafing , and I need a better man. Besides, uncle rick is good for me”

”You mean daddy rick?’
”Same thing, but…he is too old”
”Yes, his grey extensions screams 56”
”He is 55”

”Dude come on”
Lucy laughs ”Heh!” she shrugs
”So you coming?”
‘No!!”

”What would you be doing at home anyways, you would be bothered stiff. A lonely girl all alone at home watching Netflix and eating flakes. You need to get back out there”

”A birthday party to get back out there, really?” She breaks the pasta sticks into the boiling pot of water and watches it soften, She grabs a spatula and steer the veg after throwing in some chicken flakes and corn-beef.

Lucy watches her ”Well…you meet people you mingle and stuff. Or unless you still hung on Daniel?”

”Eww, no never !” Annalisa’s face was a mask of horror. ”Haven’t thought about him in like ages”

”Good! Saturday by 3pm”
”Nooo Lucy I am not going”
Lucy is smiling. Right , she muses.
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