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CHAPTER 7: It's Beautiful

"Sorry about my friends,"

"It's fine,"

"You're sure?"

"Don't worry about it,"

"Ok if you say so,"

It's at times like this that I wished I had better friends, or at least friends that didn't act like complete nutcases. Joey was by far the worst, I mean if she was going to blatantly flirt with Jamie she could at least do it when I wasn't around. Lia was a bit cold, but I wasn't surprised she acted like that when you first met her but Alex ... She was basically the FBI and detective agency in one person. She scrutinized and questioned, she practically interrogated him,

"I'm especially sorry for Alex," I said frowning as I revisited that moment

"She's the one with purple hair right," he asked "I've got to admit that it was kind of scary at first,"

"I can't believe she asked you for a-"

"It's fine," he interrupted "That part was kind of funny,"

I shook my head and tried to forget about the whole situation "So where are we going?" I asked trying to divert the subject topic

"It's a surprise," he said simply and walked on

Let it be noted that I am not a big fan of surprises, surprise parties, surprise tests, surprise gifts ... nope, not a big fan. It took five minutes of small talk to reach the restaurant and when we did get there I suddenly felt extremely underdressed. Jamie walked up to the door but the waiter standing outside stopped him

"I'm sorry sir, but the restaurant has reached full capacity," he said calmly

My eyes widened but Jamie shot me a reassuring look "Don't worry, I have reservations," he explained

"What are you listed as?"

"Um Jamie,"

The waiter looked over his list and frowned "I'm sorry but it appears that your reservation has been lost,"

"Lost? But that's impossible I just checked yesterday!" Jamie exclaimed

"Yes, well it happens sir I truly am sorry," the waiter said, a calm look still on his face

"Yeah well-"

"We'll be leaving thank you so much for your patience," I interjected dragging Jamie away slowly,

After we walked a few streets away Jamie sighed and turned to me "I'm sorry about that, I really did double check the reservation"

"Its fine," I said secretly relieved, I was not much of a fancy restaurant person, I preferred pizza over foie gras anyway.

"We can just split a pizza though right?" I asked

"Sure," he smiled.

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"Wait, wait, wait, he set the oven on fire? And then what?"

"Not the entire oven, just the one pizza and my mom was so pissed,"

"Ok so what happened after that?"

"My dad grabbed the fire extinguisher and sprayed the entire thing,"

"The entire thing?"

"Yup, we ended up having twinkies and granola bars,"

We were in a small pizza place sharing one and just talking about random things. Well, random things that were associated with pizza but on the whole still random

"Ok, your turn," I said "You tell me a pizza related story,"

Jamie was quiet for a moment "How about I tell you, if you go out with me again," he said

"Well," I started

"I'll bring you chocolate,"

"On every single date?"

He nodded.

"Deal," I smiled sticking out my hand

We split the bill (after some arguing) and left the restaurant as Jamie called an uber

"So, I meant to ask what your favorite type of chocolate is?" he asked

"Well it's either dark chocolate or M&M's" I replied

"You like dark chocolate?" he asked surprised

"Well yeah duh it's delicious," I said

"You have weird taste," he mused

"Excuse you I have excellent taste in fact-" I was cut off by the car horn blaring in front of us. I'm guessing that this was our uber.

We got in and sat down, me being ready to defend dark chocolate and dark chocolate lovers everywhere when the car stopped.

"Uh, this isn't our stop," I said looking at outside the window and onto the unfamiliar street,

"Yeah, I know but I want to show you something,"

"Show me what?"

"It's a surprise,"

When he said that I shot him a look

"No reservations involved, promise," he said smiling

I rolled my eyes but still chose to go with him down the street, into a building and up two flights of stairs until we were on a roof. At first I thought he was going to kill me, I mean there would be no witnesses. But then I realized that the roof was full of diamonds, on clear string dangling from different sections of the roof.

"Look up," Jamie voiced. And so I did. And it was beautiful. The sun was setting and a kaleidoscope of colours filled the sky and looking around me I realized that we were covered with it. Reflection, refraction, magic, call it what you want but the diamonds were hung up and the light was bouncing off them and it was... it was beautiful.

"It's beautiful," I whispered voicing out my thoughts

"Sure is," Jamie said from beside me.

We stayed like that, side by side watching the sun until it fully set and the diamonds tinkled and swayed in the breeze.

"Wow," I said

"Glad you enjoyed it," Jamie answered

We went back down the stairs and out of the door walking down the empty street enjoying the silence of the night, well until I broke it

"I should probably get going now," I said "I mean my mom gave me a curfew, which I'm already late for," I added in my head. Ten o'clock on the dot and if not I'm grounded, I don't know what she expected me to do that she had to give me a curfew that early. She and I both knew that my sex life was, wait who am I kidding I don't have a sex life.

"Yeah your mom seems pretty strict," he voiced

Yes, the woes of Jamaican parentage I thought bitterly although why should I be surprised. My mother used to tell me that if I stayed out after curfew, the black heart man would come and steal my organs. That definitely didn't cause nightmares.

"It's here," A voice said snapping me out of my thoughts

I looked in front of me to see a car, well an uber actually

"And this one will take me home right?" I asked elbowing him softly

"Yep don't worry, no more midnight surprises," he replied.

I smiled before getting into the car and after about ten minutes it was in front of my house

"So, this is me," I smiled

"Yeah I figured," Jamie answered

I said goodbye, wondering whether I should kiss him or not then I decided not. It was the first date after all so I simply smiled and waved and he did the same and then I walked up to my front door putting the key in the lock and opening the door. Hopefully, hopefully my mom was in a deep sleep and I could just slip upstairs and clean up without her noticing.

"What time do ya call this?" A voice asked

Damn hope.

"Sorry ma I uh lost track of time?" I said

Probably not my best choice of words.

She glared at me before herding me up the stairs cursing in Patois, it was the usual threats and reprimands before she finally ran out of steam and went to bed. I had a shower, completed all my nightly routine and fell into bed thinking about what might have happened if I had decided to kiss Jamie.

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Hiiii guys. Ok I know I have a terrible update schedule. But it is currently being fixed. Hopefully. Hope ya'll liked this chapter, if you did make sure to vote and comment, share your thoughts with me. Literally even if it's correcting my grammar I'll take it. If you didn't like the chapter ... well thanks for stopping bye. I'll try and update regularly but until then

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