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Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Thirteen - Tallia

Friday, 13th November 2020

KRYSTALLIA

We arrived at the restaurant and he parked the car before getting out. I got out myself and he came and held my hand before closing the door for me. He locked the car and led me up the stairs towards the entrance.

"Fancy," I said, looking around the one-story building. He let go of my hand to hold my waist and leaned in, "Yeah? Wait till you see the inside."

I raised an eyebrow and let him lead me in. We stopped at a reception desk and the woman looked up, "Good evening, do you have a reservation?"

She batted her eyelashes at him and I lightly elbowed Zach at his side, just lightly. He looked down and I nudged my head towards the woman. He got the memo and winked at me before looking back at her.

"Kingston for two," he stated, emphasizing on 'two' and pulling me closer. The receptionist flickered her eyes to me and I stared back, accepting any sort of challenges she wanted to throw at me.

She broke eye contact and typed something into the computer. She printed something out and clicked a pen, not bothering to look at me, "What's your name, miss?"

"Krystallia Estrada."

She looked like she stopped breathing as the information entered her ears and went around her brain. She slowly turned her head to me, "Do you...have some sort of confirmation to prove?"

I pulled out my CEO badge I carry in my wallet and showed her. She wrote something down before handing the badge back to me. She tore something and gave it to a waiter standing beside her.

"This waiter will bring you to your table, Miss Estrada and Mr. Kingston."

"Thank you," I smiled and Zach and I followed the waiter down a staircase. It was dimly lit and I put my arm around Zach's waist, "You know, if you wanted to murder me, you could've chosen a better place."

He smiled down at me, "Who says I want to murder you?"

"Well..."

I cut myself off when we arrived at the bottom of the stairs. It was an underwater restaurant.

"Oh, my god," I didn't even hear the words leave my mouth. Zach led me to the table the waiter was standing next to and pulled out my chair for me. I thanked him and he kissed my temple before sitting opposite me.

I looked at the sea life swimming around in awe. I felt Zach grab my hand and rubbed his thumb over the back, "Do you like it?"

I nodded, "Definitely."

He smiled and kissed my knuckles, "I'm glad."

The waiter brought our menus over and left us for a bit.

"How'd you find out about this place?" I asked, looking over the food they had.

"You mentioned before that you wanted to come to an underwater restaurant, so I searched for one and the reviews for this one were pretty great."

"You remember that?" I lowered the menu to look at him. He was already staring at me with a smile, "I remember everything that comes out of that pretty lips of yours."

I returned him a small smile as the waiter walked over to us with a notepad, "Good evening, my name is John, I'll be your waiter tonight. Are you ready to order?"

Zach gestured for me to go first and I pointed at an item on the menu, "The fried seafood platter, please."

"Alright, and to drink?"