Our First Date
“You look so beautiful,” Edward said Ashe Drew the seat backward for her to sit. She looked around noticing it was just them and it made her self-conscious.
“Are you okay? I’m sorry if booking the entire VIP floor came off too strong,” he just sincerely wanted to spend uninterrupted time with her. So he didn’t even think about how it would make her feel and just went ahead with it.
“It’s fine. The place I’d be beautiful,” she covered up with a smile, and he sighed in relief. Their food arrived and he smiled giving her the sign to eat. Their eating was quiet, with just a few glances amongst themselves, but nobody was saying anything.
“Do we get dessert now? Or we could talk?” He suggested with a smile on his lips and she nodded in agreement.
“This date was to get to know me right?” She chuckled, while he folded his lips.
“Do I make you nervous? Cause you do,” the last sentence came out as a whisper and she looked at him and chuckled.
“You’re asking if you make me nervous?” He nods.
“Well, you don’t. Cause you make me scared,” she said it more like he is supposed to know that.
“Well, how do I change that?” He stood up, asking in sincerity…
He dragged his chair, and halted in front of her, before sitting on it.
“You don’t. I guess it’s just the part of you I have seen and known fully wet,” she nodded her head saying to him, while she shrugged her shoulders.
“Do I make you scared this way?” He grabbed her seat and pulled it to himself, as their knee came in contact.
“I don’t think this is how we change that?” Her voice cracked a bit, while she cleared her throat resting her hand on her nerves while trying to look anywhere but his face.
“How about now?” He pulled her closer now, his legs wrapped around hers while she looked at him struck by that.
“You made it worse,” she gulped.
“Oh yeah,” he brought his face closer, staring at her, but gave him a stern look before speaking up.
“What would you like to know, that you don’t already know?” She puts it out.
“One thing no one else knows about you?”
“Wow, we’re diving deep straight ahead aren’t we?” She cleared her throat and thought for a while. “I need a long break, where I wouldn’t have to work for a year, just travel and get my bills paid,” she chuckled at her thoughts…
“You love to travel?” He asked.
“No, I wish to travel. I spend all my time working and catering for everyone that I missed out on seeing the world,” she confesses…
“Then marry me,” he said simply.
“What?” She laughed
“Marry me and not work a day in your life ever again,” he said sincerely and she looked at him like he was joking.
“You don’t joke about things like marriages,” she said… “But I’m not joking,” he responded truthfully, while she disputed his response.
“So tell me about you? What do you do? Who are you?” She questioned, smiling while she waited for his response.
“My name you already know,” she nods in agreement. “I would say from our meeting I take you to know I’m kinda into the dirty business,” she laughed…
“You mean gambling, clubs, an underworld mob into the Mafia,” she listed “Yeah I know that,” she tells him…
“You’re not scared?”
“Oh hell, I am. That’s why I said earlier that you scare me, but it’s all cool if you don’t Kill,” she added and gave a light smile, and Edward could feel his lungs dry up. It was as if life was sucked out of him. But he quickly covered it up with a smile…
“Right!” He smiled and grabbed the glass of water taking a sip from it…
“What was your childhood like?” she looked at him loose of words. She smacks her lips thinking of what to say.
“My childhood,” she breathed and stared at him.
“Well, like most childhoods. Fun, merry, fun again, happy, exciting, until things start to change,” her face became a bit dark thinking about it.
“What changed?”
“We grow up and we discover it wasn’t as happy and amazing as we thought it was. We see the truth behind the cover-up lies. And a lot of things begin to make sense,” she sighed and smiled at him…
“What was your childhood like?” She threw the question back to him, now fully gazing at him.
“Pretty much the same. Well even worse, cause I was sent out for fighting class at seven years old. I was thrown into this world at an early age, and I got to know the world wasn’t picture perfect like I thought it was,” he responded and smiled at her.
“We should definitely change that, we should give our children a picture perfect childhood,” she smiled at him…
“I like the sound of that, our children. So you want to have a child with me, Miss Maliah Hector,” he smiled at her, grabbing her hands and holding them into his.
“No, I didn’t mean that you know what I mean,” she defended immediately while using the other hand to hide the blush and embarrassment she felt…
“Oh. Kids,” I get you now…
“Well if you must know, I want to have kids with you,” he said and she looked at him shocked when she tried to pull her hands away from him.
“No kids with you,” she quickly defended, and he nodded his head pretending to agree with her.
“Once you’re done blushing, I would like to take you home,” he said to her, and she pulled her hands forcefully for him while he smiled. He stood from his seat and took her hands off her face staring at her.
“You look so beautiful when you smile,” she looked at him and didn’t know what to say as she was tongue-tied.
“What’s that?” She asked, staring at the box the waitress gave to them.
“Our dessert. I asked that they pack it up for us,” she nods in understanding.
“So shall we?” He asked, and she took his hands and walked to the parking lots.
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“So you enjoyed our first date?” He asked driving with one hand, while the other hand was close to her seat.
“I’ll rate it a solid eight,” I said and his face brightened hearing that.
“I guess we’ll get to ten next time,” he responded, smiling…
“Well, there’s no rush. We do have fifteen dates to go to after all,” I tell him calmly and he nods his head agreeing to her.
“You want to pick a place for our next date?” He questioned her.
“That would be so easy for you to know me. Why don’t you surprise me instead,” I tell him truthfully.
I rested my head on the window, staring at how beautiful it was during the nighttime while enjoying the peaceful ride. I could feel his face on me and when I turned around he was staring at me.
“Eyes on the road,” I push my hair backward, trying to hide the blush on my cheeks, he smiles at me and faces the road immediately.
We arrived at his Mansion, and he helped me out of the car and walked me up the stairs to my room.
“Thank you for dinner, and our date,” I said and he did a little now while I laughed.
“Is it cool if I invite you to a night event, kind of a ball event,” he said nervously…
“It is cool, so?” I smiled…
“Would you go to a ball with me?” He asked and she smiled.
“Yes, I would. I guess you got our second date planned already,” I told him…
“I hope I surprise you then,” he responded happily…
“Goodnight Maliah,”
“Goodnight Edward,”