Not a Cinderella story but close

Chapter 6/ The date

 Me and Fenix don't talk for a couple of days and I drive myself to school. I don't know what's up with them. All I did was encourage them to ask out their crush! It's Friday morning and I need my best friend because I'm freaking out and I miss them. I park in the parking lot and look for Fenix's car like I've done every morning for the past few days. Nothing. Dang it where are they!?

 I go through school thinking of my date I have tonight and my best friend's absence. Me and East have been talking everyday in study hall and I hate to say it, but I think I'm really falling for her. "Can't wait for our date tonight" I text her. "Me too!!", with a smiley face, she replies. Well it's 3:15 schools out. As I walk to my car I see Fenix. They must have arrived late. That's really unlike them. I walk up to their car "Hey" I say a little quietly. "Hey" they reply a little preoccupied with the door. "What is it?" I say a little louder looking at their door handle. "It's the durn door handle, it won't budge" they say as they pull the door handle again. 

"Hold on I got this" I say and try to move their hand away. "Oh it's you!" Fenix says as they lift their head up to look at me, backing away and letting go of the door handle. "Yeah it's me" I say, taking a step towards the door. "What are you doing?" Fenix says as they see me pull on the door handle. "Trying to help, what does it look like I'm doing?" I replied. "I um I got it" Fenix says as they move my hand off the door handle. "But.." They interrupt me "Hey um sorry I haven't been calling and stuff" "That's fine, but are you ok?" I ask with concern.

 "Do you think that we can hang out later?" they ask. "Yeah sure...wait I have the date tonight with East, sorry" I say and try to put my hand on their arm. "Oh it's fine" Fenix says as they back away finally getting the door open. "Hey why don't you help me choose an outfit?" I say with a smile. "Yeah ok, shopping or your closet?" Fenix says looking somber. "Old Navy!" I say smiling with relief. "Yeah ok let's go" Fenix says guestering to their car.. "Hold on, I need to drive my car back to my house" I say walking toward my car. "Ok I'll meet you there." Fenix says and then we both get in our cars and drive off. I drive back to the house and tell mom where I'm going. 

"Oh crap I'm so stupid" I say to myself. I call Fenix and they say that they're already on their way. You're probably wondering why I haven't asked them what's up. Well I don't want to prod and if something big was going on then they'd tell me. Fenix pulls up. "Get in stupid" They say with a laugh and a tone of affection. We catch up with each other while we ride to the Old Navy. They said that they were studying a lot and their parents have been on their butt about their grades. Also that they've been talking to a new friend. "Who is it?" I ask. 

"You'll find out soon enough" Fenix says with a smile. "We're here" Fenix says as we arrive at the Old Navy. "Okay so what are we thinking jeans and a jean jacket?" Fenix says opening the front door for me. "You just read my mind" I say with a smile. It's nice to have my friend back. After twenty or so tries we finally get the right outfit. It's a faded jean jacket, a white t-shirt, jeans and doc martens to match. 

"You look amazing," Fenix says as we both look at my reflection in the mirror. I can't stop smiling. "It's missing something," I say. "I know just the thing" Fenix says and goes to grab something from the make-up counter. They come back with a lipstick that looks black. They put it on my lips (it is black) "Now it's perfect" Fenix says, giving me a playful shove with their shoulder. 

"Yes it does" I say looking at the time on my phone and putting on a pair of blue gummy bear earrings. "Oh crap I have thirty minutes until my date can you drive me?" I say with a pleading look. "Fine," Fenix says, rolling their eyes and smiling. We both walk back and get in the car after we pay for everything. Then we are on our way to Sweet Frog. We arrive and I thank Fenix. They wave goodbye and then drive off and I look for East. 

She's sitting near the door at an outside table. She's wearing a long flowy skirt with flowers, a new jean jacket, and a black t-shirt. Her hair is in box braids which really bring out her eyes. She looks so stunning that I'm literally stunned for a minute like I literally stand there, hands wrapped around my jean jacket's sides for a second. She sees me and gets up from the table. "Hey" she says with a smile. "Hey" I say and reply with a smile of my own. 

'We should head inside to fix our yogurts," she says. I hold the door open for her. We walk to the back of the Sweet Frog and start pushing down the levers after we put the plastic gloves on. Then we start making our yogurts. When we're done we hand them to the person at the contour for the toppings. They have a hair net and plastic gloves on. Also jeans and a red T-shirt. They also have tiny braids weaved into a bun. I think that they're black, but they could be hispanic, they have really beautiful dark skin though. 

 "Hi" East says as she hands them her yogurt. "What toppings would you like?" They reply with. "Kit kats, marshmallows and chocolate sprinkles. With whipped cream please." she says as the person puts the toppings on her yogurt. She weighs hers and pays for it and heads outside to our table. "Hi, can I ask you a question?" I ask the person. "Sure" they say as they put their hands on the toppings bar edge. "What are your preferred pronouns? I look at their name tag. Jimmy?" I ask. 

"He/they, why do you ask?" He says, giving me a weird look. "No reason" I say smiling and then Jimmy puts my toppings on and I pay for my yogurt. Before I head outside Jimmy asks me "What are YOUR preferred pronouns?" "She/her" I say smiling. Then I head outside and sit at our table. She got cheesecake and cherry pie flavor. While I got vanilla and cotton candy flavor. We each got whipped cream. I got gummy worms and a cherry for my toppings. The table has these gray chairs with open weaves, but they're metal. 

We sit, talk and eat. Enjoying each others' company. We even talk about how nice Jimmy is. After we're done eating we throw our trash away, but not before we head inside and give Jimmy a big tip. They thank us and then we head outside again. "Hey I know that this isn't cool of me, but I didn't bring my car so can you drive me back to my house?" I say realizing I have no other ride. As an answer she kisses me and then says "Yes". I grab her hand and we walk to her car. 

We ride to my house. "I'm sorry you have to drop me off here, but you know how my parents are" I say, not wanting to let go of her hand. "It's ok" She says squeezing my hand. I kissed her for a long time and finally said "Goodnight". I get out of the car and walk down the block towards my house. What I didn't know was that someone started to remember more than I did.