PIPE DREAMS #1 THE TRIP

Day 4. (part 1)

The next morning, i opened my eyes and i found him standing in front of the hotel room's curtain, dressed up, looking outside from the balcony's door. I turned my whole body to the side of where he was but without leaving the bed. When did we wake up, got himself dressed up and i didn't realize anything? I was sitting there, staring at him. How many feelings do i have for him?! He rotated his body and he gazed at me. There wasn't any anger left on his facial characteristics from last night. He bent his head to the right, without losing me from his eyes.  

"I don't want us to be like this. I don't want us to fight", he said seriously.

"Me neither"

"I want us to leave", he said while pulling the curtain and looking outside again. 

"We had a really bad start here. Let's go somewhere else", he continued.

"And go where?"

"Somewhere else. Let's go to your holiday house. Don't you have a holiday house?"

My eyes got widened. I didn't expect at all to hear this coming out from his mouth. 

"To my holiday house?"

"Yes, let's go anywhere but here"

"We never go to the holiday house at this time of the year. We only go there during the summer. It will be very cold. The humidity levels will be really high. We won't be able to sleep there."

"Don't you have a heating system?"

"No", I thought of it a little bit. "We have an air condition."

"That is something. Blankets? Anything that we can use so that we don't freeze?"

"Yes. It happens sometimes, the house to be very cold even in the summer. So, we have."

"Are they warm enough?"

"I think so"

"You will turn on the air condition too, right?"

"Yes"

"The room will heat up. We will survive. Don't you think?"

I didn't know what to say. To say yes or no? Should i tell it to my parents? I don't feel well to say no to him. One side of me understands what he is saying, what he means and why he wants us to leave but my other side thinks that, how are you suggesting to go to someone else's house, without ever being there and without the other person to say it first. 

Nevermind, i don't know if that's a good idea. We might freeze to death. The house is turned off for so many months. Tables and chairs go inside before we leave and we take them out when we return. It will have dust. It will need a cleaning. It might not feel cozy enough. He is used to another life now. He might find it too small. It will be the first time that he will be in place that feels so mine. I hope there isn't anything there that i forgot to clear away before we left and he sees it and starts commenting and i feel like i want the earth to crack open and me to run and hide somewhere inside of her. 

I decided to make a phone call to my mom. I took my cellphone. I told him that i have to ask my mom first and then i will tell him what we will do and if it possible to do what he suggested, if we will go or not. I went to the bathroom. 

After i spoke with my mother on the phone, I found him sitting on the edge of the bed. 

"What did she say?", his words were full of curiosity. 

"It's okay. We can go."

"Alright", he said enthusiastically.

"I hope you don't regret this. The house isn't very big and i'm sure now you are used to another type of life. We don't even have a heating system. Are you sure you still want us to go there?"

"Yes, i'm sure. It would be an adventure."

"Yes, if there is something that i'm absolutely sure about, is that this trip would definitely be an adventure."

"Give me a second to make a phone call too now"

"We will make a stop first from my home here in Thessaloniki, okay?"

"Ok"

I knew that he had something in mind but nothing prepared me for what happened next. He actually called for a driver to come and get us from the hotel. Insane! I have to be mad that agreed to this insanity. 

We packed our things and left for my home before we headed to my holiday house.