Chapter 24: Our Own Always
Angelina's POV
"You brought me to see a horror movie on our first date?" I ask hoping I heard him wrong.
"Yes" He answers grinning.
"If this is your master plan of wooing me then you seriously need some help." I say. This guy has officially lost his mind.
"Don't be such a spoilsport, the date has just begun." He says still grinning.
After eating my lunch early, just so I could get ready for this date properly, I went through my whole wardrobe and picked out my green velvet dress which stops just above my knee in five minutes. No, I did not take one hour to find the perfect dress, I always get a gut feeling and am able to pick a dress in five minutes at the maximum and no boy is going to change that. I only ate my lunch early because I wanted to curl my hair.
At exactly 3 O' clock Jacob arrived at the front door with a bouquet of tulips in his hand. I couldn't believe he remembered they are my favorite and hugged him tightly. We were separated by a loud cough from my Dad which was followed by a half an hour long talk between Dad and him and me doing a lot of pacing inside my room and praying that Dad doesn't kill him. I am just exaggerating; I just wished Dad would actually like him. After that talk when we finally got privacy inside his car, we got a good look at each other and it involved a lot of staring, compliments and flirting. He decided to go with a white collared T-shirt, a cream colored shirt over it and dark jeans. The moment we had reached inside the car, he removed all of the buttons of his T-shirt exposing his collarbone.
After that point till now, each one of my questions went unanswered. What did he and Dad talk about? Where are we going? If he would at least give me a hint? The guy had his mouth sealed shut. But we did talk about our favorite songs after I gave up and stopped asking him questions. We just listened to each other's favorite songs and sang them out loud whenever they matched or we both knew them. Surprisingly his voice was actually pretty nice and since so is mine it felt really amazing and we had a lot of fun.
Around thirty to forty-five minutes later, I am not sure since I didn't exactly keep track of every single minute; we pulled into a huge movie theater. I thought even if it's an over-used idea, a romantic movie sounds good but this guy got us horror movie tickets that too on purpose! How do I know he got them on purpose? The tickets were already booked and the tickets for the romantic movie are still being sold. And maybe he knew I would try to making him refund the tickets or something, since he decided to tell me which movie we are seeing after we got our tickets checked and bought the food.
"Fine, we can't waste the tickets anyway." I relent.
When the movie begins and those ghost characters finally come on the screen, I start laughing hard. The makeup in this movie is much worse than usual and even the usual makes me laugh. Jacob looks at me in a disbelieving way like he can't figure out what I am made out of.
"Are you seriously laughing in a horror movie?"
"Why are you looking at me like that? The makeup is so horrible; they look like clowns and look at that body hanging upside down with that creepy smile. If you look in the way I am looking at it, the girl is just having a bad hair day and her baby sister most probably thought it would be fun to do her make up while she is sleeping. And while chasing her baby sister she most probably got her ankle stuck somewhere. And that cloth ghost may be the baby sister hiding from her elder sister." My explanation makes him burst out laughing getting us dirty looks from the other people. Even the girl sitting next to me stopped getting scared and was controlling her giggles.
"Only you" He says as his chuckles subside.
"Why? Were you expecting me to be so scared that I hold onto you tightly and jump whenever there is even the slightest of scares? And then were you going to act like my knight in shining armor and get me through the whole movie making me think you are so brave?" I ask teasing but when I see him scratching the back of his neck, I realize that was exactly what he was expecting. Shaking my head, I remove the armrest and then grab his arm and put it around my shoulders.
"It would have been easier in the romantic movie you know? Or you could have just asked me." I say softly.
"I didn't know if you would let me and I didn't want to get embarrassed after getting rejected." He confesses.
"Hey, I may tease you but I will never embarrass you. After all you are on a date with me and if you get embarrassed you are going to get me embarrassed too." That earns me the smile and laugh I wanted. After that we both start making fun of the movie and laugh much to everyone's dislike.
"Now that we have seen a horror movie in my style, where are we going?" I ask finishing the last of my coke.
"Are you hungry?" He asks throwing our waste when we pass by a dustbin.
"You have no idea; the popcorn did nothing to fill my poor baby." I answer pouting.
"That's good because I know a really good sushi shop." He says grinning.
"Now you have started to succeed in wooing me." I grab his arm to drag towards the car.
"It's just around the corner so we can walk." He says.
"The fact we aren't in a car doesn't mean we can't sing." I say, after a moment and a really good song comes into my mind.
"I love it when you call me señorita
I wish I could pretend I didn't need ya
But every touch is ooh la la la
It's true, la la la
Ooh, I should be running
Ooh, you keep me coming for ya"
I sing making him smile and continue after me.
"Land in Miami
The air was hot from summer rain
Sweat dripping off me
Before I even knew her name, la la la
It felt like ooh la la la
Yeah, no
Sapphire moonlight
We danced for hours in the sand
Tequila sunrise
Her body fit right in my hands, la la la
It felt like ooh la la la, yeah"
He hit all the notes so perfectly in his deep voice that it makes me want to swoon.
"I love it when you call me señorita
I wish I could pretend I didn't need ya
But every touch is ooh la la la
It's true, la la la
Ooh, I should be running
Ooh, you know I love it when you call me señorita
I wish it wasn't so damn hard to leave ya
But every touch is ooh la la la
It's true, la la la
Ooh, I should be running
Ooh, you keep me coming for ya"
We sing together just like in the original song and he holds my hand while we walk swaying our arms and at one point he even twirls me. We keep singing and get lost in the music so much that before we realize we had reached our destination. By the time we entered the shop we are laughing from giddiness and his hand is around my waist.
Everything was going perfect till a sushi refused to stay between my chopsticks and I really wanted to eat it.
"Why does this sushi have to keep falling down." I huff in annoyance. Jacob was just watching my battle with the sushi amusedly.
"Do something!" I exclaim. He bites his lip to stop himself from laughing making me get even more annoyed. I give him my death glare making him get a bit serious.
"Wait" He picks the sushi with his chopsticks and brings it near my mouth. I watch it for a moment, contemplating if I should give up and then begrudgingly eat it.
"You are too cute for your own good." He says letting out a laugh.
"I know I am amazing but don't compliment me so much, it may make me cocky." I joke but inside I was getting giddy.
"I think I can handle it." He says then says, "Aside from being sexy, what do you do for a living?"
"Stop" I say laughing.
"If you were a fruit, you'd be a 'fine-apple''
"Seriously stop!"
"Do you have a map? Because I keep getting lost in your eyes," I put my hand over his mouth just to shut him up.
"They were horrible! Where did you even find them?" I ask removing my hand when I am sure he won't go on a pick-up line spree again.
"Just here and there from Google, and they are meant to be silly." He shrugs and then looks at his watch then outside. "Are you done eating?"
"Yes" I answer confused looking at my empty plate.
"Cool, come on let's go on a walk across the beach."
After he pays the bill and we enter the beach, I realize why he was so eager to get out of the shop. The sun had just started to set resulting in red, pink, orange and blue spread across the sky.
"The sky looks so beautiful." I say looking at him.
"Just wait for a bit more, it's going to get even more beautiful." He says then offers his hand.
Holding hands we walk in silence enjoying the evening breeze hitting our bodies and the beautiful view in front of us.
That's till I stumble on a rock making me almost fall, but Jacob saves me.
"Are you okay?" He asks concerned.
"Yeah, I am okay." I reassure.
"Okay?" I don't know why he asked again.
"Okay" I confirm.
"OMG! Stop flirting with me!" He exclaims.
"Are you seriously quoting 'The Fault in our Stars', right now?" I ask laughing.
"What's the problem? Maybe we can figure out our own always." He shrugs.
"Or maybe we are just two normal teenagers who have a normal story and their story doesn't even matter. No one cares about our always." I say watching the sunset.
"We may be normal and our story may be normal but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter. Who cares about the others, our story is important to us. And even if our story is normal, I think it's pretty awesome and many people would agree with me." He says throwing the stone I almost tripped on, into the water. After that he stands beside me watching the view as well. He was right; it's as if the sun is dissolving into the water.
"And how do you know that?" I ask smiling but don't turn towards him.
"I just know" He says and I can hear the smile in his voice.
*****
"Bye" I say, when we get out of his car after we reach home.
"Where do you think you are going?" He tugs my hand making our chests collide and wraps his hands around me.
"I was going inside my home, as I should." I answer grinning.
"Oh, were you now?" He asks leaning in.
"Mmmhh" I say throwing my arms around his neck.
"Anne!" Ash's voice makes us step back abruptly, "Come inside" He says pointedly. Now he wants to be an over-protective brother again?
"I think maybe I should leave, I will call you later." Jacob says clearing his throat, but he couldn't hide the disappointment in his voice. I don't know what came over me, but one moment Jacob was turning around to leave and in the other moment, I was flipping off my twin and yanking Jacob's face to mine by his collar.
But the kiss, if could even call it that was really short since he didn't kiss me back and I pulled away embarrassed. But before I could even open my mouth, I was pulled into the most passionate kiss known to humans. His hands found their way back around my waist and he was holding me like he was scared that I am going to run away or most probably because my brother would separate us. Coming over my shock, when I actually start kissing him back, I even forget that my brother is standing yards away from us. We get so lost into the kiss and the feelings that were coarsening through our bodies that nothing mattered. I don't know about the fireworks and other things like that but what I can say surely is that, this kiss was the best one I had in my entire life.
When we finally pull back due to lack of breath, he lays his forehead on mine and just stares into my eyes and I do that right back finally admiring the beauty of those stormy eyes from up close.
"I have waited since like forever to do this." He finally says tucking my hair behind my ear.
"Me too" I say smiling.
"I know" He says smirking.
"How do you know that mister?" I ask, teasing him.
"I just know" His smirk turns into a wide grin.
"Are you implying what I think you are?" I ask astonished.
"Yup, maybe that can be our own always." He says winking and then goes towards his car whistling a song, which knowing him must be a song from the movie.
*****
Author's Note
Hello everyone 😄! How are you all?
So here is Anne and Jacob's First date!!!
They are so cute, I was internally squealing in the last part. I thought this is a masterpiece. Is my masterpiece actually a masterpiece?
Another thing, I had written it almost immediately after watching 'The Fault in our Stars'. The movie is so beautiful and it even inspired and helped me write this chapter.
And I watched 'The Kissing Booth 2' and it's so good that I can say it is a hundred times better than the original movie if that's even possible.
Back to the point, what are your views about the date?
P.S. - Yup, people like Anne exist. My mom and I laugh at horror movies.
I hope you all like the story so far and have a great day/night ahead 🙃!
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