A New Kind of Science / Holtzbert

Date Night Pt. 1

The plan was for Erin and Jillian to go home and get ready before meeting back up at the station. It didn't take the blonde too long to decide what she wanted to wear as she only owned one dress. It was pretty form-fitting, scarlet red, and made her super uncomfortable. But she wore it anyways, as her goal was to both shock and impress Erin as best as she could. The real question was what she would do with her hair. She had it up in its usual style when she looked in the mirror and she tilted her head to the side, unsure if it fit the dress that stopped mid-thigh. 

Suddenly, she remembered that Erin is the one who knows about her long hair. With a bit of dread and anxiety, she reached up to the back of her head to take out her bobby pins. Her locks fell passed her shoulders and she gave her mane a small shake before flipping a chunk of it with her hand. She fussed with it for a moment before deciding that Gilbert was to see her natural hair at some point if tonight worked out at all anyways, so she might as well just leave it the way it was. 

After staring at herself a bit longer in the full body mirror, she went to her messy living room to grab a pair of shoes. She felt it hard to breathe for a moment as she realized she didn't own a girly pair of shoes that would complete her ensemble. She stared at the six pairs of boots she owned and wondered if any of them would look semi-okay. After about half a minute, she shrugged her shoulders and just threw a pair on before going back to her room and seeing how they looked. They were black and old, and she never tied this pair. The laces were short and left to hang at the sides of her ankles as the tongue of the boots were folded over the top of her feet. Before deciding on wearing them, she grabbed her dark leather jacket from her cluttered bedroom floor and put it on over her shoulders. It worked. Well...at least it worked for her and she did one more annoyed hair flip before grabbing her small duffel bag filled with supplies for tonight's plans and she left the apartment. 

Erin's preparation was different, however, and she changed her outfit about seven times before finally deciding on a simple grey dress with long sleeves. The skirt stopped at her knees and she put her hair in an effortless, but extremely cute, side ponytail. She did her make as simple as possible, remembering that Holtzmann liked it that way and she wore her most comfortable pair of beige business heels. She hadn't a clue what the date plans were, but she decided to trust Jillian this afternoon when she said that she had the best ideas and she would choose one of them by the time they met up tonight. Gilbert was a bit annoyed that Jillian didn't give her any clues or at least tell her one of the ideas so she had a hint on what they'd be doing, but she shrugged it off and grabbed her purse, heading for the door.

Little did either of them know that Abby and Patty had secretly schemed to show up at the station that night as well just to get a look at the two before their date. They both arrived about five minutes earlier than Holtz and Erin's meet up time. As they stood and waited, they talked about the couple and Abby asked Patricia all kinds of tiresome questions about why she hadn't noticed the flirting between the two. Tolan internally rolled her eyes at the stout woman while laughing at the fact that she was missing another picture that included herself. 

Finally, a cab pulled up and they clapped for Erin when she stepped out of the yellow vehicle. "Hey, hey. Lookin' good." Patty exclaimed as she and Abby both walked closer to the woman on the sidewalk. 

"Cute!" Abigail added.

"What are you guys doing here?" The blushing physicist wondered aloud. 

"We came to wish you guys good luck." Abby reached up and grabbed a strand of her friend's hair from her ponytail. She pulled it down before stepping back and getting a better look at the whole outfit. She nodded with a grin and Erin couldn't help but roll her eyes with modest embarrassment.

It wasn't long before a second cab arrived and Patty and Abby walked over to the car to open the door. Erin stayed back, waiting for her date to get out and she couldn't help but chuckle at Patty and Abby's oo's and ahh's as they opened the cab door. The other two blocked her vision of the blonde and she tried her best to look around them. 

"Oh my!" Abby exclaimed after getting a better look at Holtzmann. Finally, Erin was able to see her and she asked herself how she didn't pass out right then and there. The brunette looked at the woman from head to toe, then from toe to head and the strongest case of butterflies she had ever felt built up in her stomach.  She wanted to laugh at Abby as she ran circles around Holtzmann in awe. "Oh my God, oh my God! You look wonderful, Holtzy!" The woman in glasses continued to circle her as the pale engineer blushed.

Patty's eyes were wide the second she stepped out of the cab. "Damn, girl!" She and Abby followed her over to Erin. 

"Hey." Jill hardly spoke.

"Hey." Gilbert couldn't stop smiling and she suddenly looked to Patty to the right of her. 

"Oh, uh...We'll leave you two alone now." Tolan grabbed Abigail's arm. "We're gonna go get some chinese." They started to head away from them, backwards.

"Where are you going?" Abby asked, clearly not wanting to leave yet. 

"It's a surprise." Holtzmann answered, looking down at the sidewalk.

"Okay, well you two have fun." Patty pulled Abby harder.

Abby tried to resist her, but failed and she was eventually forced to turn around, walking down the street with Patricia. "Kay, bye." Erin awkwardly waved after their back were already turned. "That's...emmmmbarrassing." She snapped her fingers before clapping her hands together, then repeating the action a few more times. She looked down at Holtzy's shoes and was shocked at how much it actually went with the outfit. "So, uh...what's the bag for?" She reached for the strap on Jill's shoulder, then quickly pulled her hand away.

"You'll see." After Holtz's response, Erin slowly nodded and looked down the street at their friends moving further and further from them. She saw Abby constantly looking back at them and she began to bite her bottom lip. "You, umm..." Holtzmann began to speak again, causing Gilbert to look back to her. "That's a very pretty dress and hair." The peculiar woman scowled at herself for saying it in such a strange way, but she hoped she got her point across.

"Thank-thank you." Erin's hands were begin to sweat and she folded them in front of her, fiddling with her thumbs. "There, umm..." She couldn't help but stare at Jill's hair before looking down at the bright red dress. It was a moment before she could even finish and she closed her eyes before speaking. "...there are no words to describe how you, umm..."

"Thanks." Holtzmann interrupted her, realizing she was having a hard time speaking. 

"Yeah." Erin nervously nodded with haste, internally thanking the blonde for knowing what she meant. She chuckled and looked back down at the duffel bag. "So, uh...are we going?" She hoped that didn't sound rude.

"Yes. We may go!" Holtzmann turned and headed back to the cab. Erin followed her and they got in, heading out for their first date.