you shouldn't take old men seriously

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Since the first day that they'd met, Danny couldn't stand Viana. Danny wasn't normally so quick to hate people, but since she'd given him a knee between the legs before a "hello," he'd made a special exception. Since then, he'd lost track of how many times she'd socked him in the jaw, pistol whipped him, kicked him in the balls, or pushed him down the stairs. (Actually, he did remember the last one, it was only once.) When he'd complained to the Boss for the thousandth time, he'd just given Danny a pat on the back and said "She's only flirting with you!"

Now while any normal person would regard the Boss's statement as teasing in itself, Danny took it to heart. W-Was that really true?! All this time Danny thought Viana was just a hot-tempered bitch, was it really just her way of expressing her feelings? That had to be it! No one would act as crazy as she did otherwise. And that's when he decided: He'd be a man and ask her out.

The biggest problem was timing. He didn't want to ask her when her brother was there, but it wasn't often that the two of them were separated. So he did what any smart guy would do... and hid around a corner and waited for her to come out of her room.