Chapter 61 - Alex & Sam Second Date

Alex and Sam leave Lena's penthouse, entering the building's lobby, after walking out of the elevator. As the two women walk together, they both nervously glance at one another, clearly each feeling the jitters of one of the beginning dates of a relationship. However, as Sam looks at Alex, she offers her hand to the oldest Danvers sister, her heart beating incredibly fast. What Sam does not know is that Alex's heart is beating just as fast, and when Alex's sees the offered hand from Sam, her heart beat quickens even more.

"Shall we?" Sam asks, smiling.

S..sure." Alex replies, nervously, taking Sam's hand. Alex thinks this is all very weird and strange, but not in a bad way. Alex feels like a teenager again, when she first started dating, all nervous and not knowing what to do, and being self-conscious about herself. The truth is, Alex feels that way currently because not only is Sam the first woman she will be dating, but simply because it is Sam. Alex truly thinks Sam is wonderful, and her heart seems to agree, acting accordingly. Unlike some other people, Alex does not care even in the slightest that Sam has an 12-year-old daughter. In fact, Sam having a daughter might just be a positive for Alex, as she adores Ruby. This is all on top of Alex finding Sam incredibly attractive, beautiful, funny and intelligent. In Alex's mind Sam is the whole package, and she just desperately doesn't want to screw this up.

As for Sam, she is similarly nervous, just like Alex, but for slightly different reasons. While Alex is mostly nervous because of how much she likes Sam, and the fact that Sam is going to be the first woman she dates, Sam isn't nervous for either of those two reasons. Of course, Sam really likes Alex, and finds her sexy, gorgeous, and just very attractive all round, with Alex's fitness routine and her being a secret government agent being a big turn on. But unlike Alex currently, Sam is more confident in herself, and reassured that she is just as attractive as the redhead. Then also, Sam does not have the issue of this being her first date with another woman, because it is not, Sam has dated several women over the years, obviously with most of them being complete failures. Sam for her part is just nervous because she hasn't been on a date in a while, in about 18 months really, and even prior to that, her dating life was rather scarce. It is just very difficult for a bisexual woman, who only dates women, to not only find a woman to date who is okay with the fact that she has a daughter, but to find one who also can fit dates around her schedule. The issue really is ever since Ruby was born, she has been Sam's prime focus, as she should be, but this has meant that she has had to work her dating life around her daughter. Thankfully, while Lena was still living in Metropolis, she was an excellent choice as a babysitter, while she went out on dates, but since Lena moved to National City, almost 9 months ago, Sam didn't have anyone she could get to babysit Ruby at a moment's notice. All of this just means that Sam feels incredibly nervous for the simple reason of her not having had a date in a while. Sam really doesn't want to screw this up, just like Alex, as she feels that she could have something truly special with the redhead.

The two women walk out of Lena's penthouse building, out into the night's cool evening air. Alex is very curious as to where Sam will be taking her, as the brunette has not been forthcoming at all in regards to the details of the date, all Alex got to go on was to wear something nice, but not too fancy.

"So, are you going to tell me where we are going now?" Alex asks, as she looks at Sam, gathering her nerves, as she doesn't want to be a nervous mess the whole date. Alex knows if she remains nervous throughout the date, then things certainly won't go well.

Sam looks at Alex, a smirk on her face.

"No, you will just have to wait and see." Sam replies.

Alex smirks back at Sam and playfully rolls her eyes. "Alright, so if you won't tell me where we are going. Are you going to tell me how we are going to get there? You told me to either walk here to Lena's, or get an Uber, and I see you didn't drive either." Alex says.

"How perceptive of you Miss Danvers. I see you are putting all that secret government agent training to good use. You would make an excellent spy." Sam teases.

Alex looks at Sam, and then moves significantly closer, only leaving a few inches of space between them, their faces very close.

"You know, I COULD, use my 'secret agent training', to get you to tell me where we are going. I am very good at getting information out of people, even only using my finger at times." Alex says, suggestively.

Alex for her part expects Sam to be flustered, or a bit taken back by this slightly playfully aggressive approach she is taking, but to Sam's credit, she is not phased even in the slightest.

"Perhaps you can use your fingers on me later. We should go on our date first now though." Sam replies, playing it very cool.

Upon hearing this, Alex's eyes go wide, and she immediately moves away from Sam, flustered.

Sam chuckles, noticing Alex's reaction.

"I guess your interrogation skills may need some work after all." Sam smirks.

Alex composes herself, taking a moment to take a deep breath.

"Or maybe beautiful women just fluster me." Alex smiles.

Sam breaks out into a big smile after hearing that compliment from Alex.

"Well, you do know how to make me blush." Sam smiles.

Alex smiles back at Sam as the two women walk down the street, hand in hand.

"Anyway, back to your question; I thought we would walk to our first location of our date, it's not too far." Sam explains.

"Our first locations? So, there is going to be multiple places?" Alex asks, intrigued.

Sam chuckles once more.

"I see you picked up on that. Maybe you are good at getting information out of beautiful women after all." Sam smiles.

Alex laughs.

"Maybe." Alex says.

Sam and Alex continue to walk down the street for a few minutes, still holding hands, in comfortable silence. However, as they move closer and closer to more busy parts of National City, which happen to be located in areas with a high number of restaurants, it becomes difficult for the two women to continue to hold hands, so they part.

"So," Alex begins, wanting to talk with Sam now that they are not holding hands, just to keep up some sort of connection, "I hope you don't mind me asking, and you can tell me you are not comfortable answering if you want, and I won't mind at all, but.... uhh Ruby's father... how is... who is... when did.... ughhh."

Sam chuckles.

"You are cute when you're flustered." Sam smirks.

Alex looks at Sam and rolls her eyes.

"God, I'm coming off like Kara right now." Alex moans, rubbing her face. Sam laughs again, even louder. However, after a few moments, Sam's laughs die down, and she turns back to look at Alex.

"I understand what you are asking Alex, and I'm happy to tell you." Sam smiles.

"Okay." Alex nods.

"I know I have mentioned before that I was in high school when I got pregnant." Sam begins.

Alex nods again, remembering Sam mentioning as much when they first met at the cabin over Christmas all those months ago.

"I would like to say that the person who.... is Ruby's father.... was my boyfriend.... or even someone I liked.... but they weren't." Sam explains, "The truth is, a bunch of us from my school year were at a party, and there was alcohol, even though we were very underage, I was 15 at the time. Anyway, at that point in my life I was one of the 'popular' girls at my school, and if I'm being honest we were mean. I wouldn't say we were quite Mean Girls plastics mean, but we were getting there."