long distance

e l e v e n

"what are you gonna wear? it's valentine's day you should wear red" dixie says
"i have a red dress i might wear but i don't know where we're going" i tell her.
"wear a dress, trust me"
"did you plan everything" i ask
"look, vin might seem like he is good with girls but the kid has no idea what he's doing"
i laugh as i search through my suitcase and finally pull out a dress.
"that's so cute, you have to wear it" she says
"i probably will"

i slip the dress on to see if i like how it fits, luckily i do and take it off before starting hair and makup. i wanted to keep everything natural except for the bold red lip to match my dress but it's valentine's day it makes sense.

"ready to go?" vinnie pops his head in my room, he had on a cute red suit jacket, white undershirt and red slacks, he also had a flower on his pocket.
"is that a boutonneire" i ask
"yeah, michael just put it on and i thought it looked sick so i'm keeping it"
"people might think were going to prom" i laugh
"i'm sure people will be too busy looking at you though" he says
"stop" i whisper and he smirks.
"i'll meet you downstairs alright?"
"yeah"

he stated walking away then i heard cheers i assume they though he looked as good as i did, i mean have you seen the boy? he looks like he was sent from heaven.

dixie grabbed white heels from my closet and brought them over to me.
"are you doing anything tonight?" i ask her
"no, noah and i are celebrating tomorrow he had a long shoot today then meetings after so i told him we shouldn't do anything"
"aw dix"
"i don't mind, more hours of sleep for me"
"yeah... oh wait do you have it" i ask her
"what? oh! yeah it's in my closet"
"oh perfect, thank you again"
"yeah, i can set it up while you're gone if you want" she offers
"no i can't make you do that"
"i have nothing else to do, and plus i am fully on the vrielle ship" she says
"vrielle? that sounds so bad" i laugh
"it's either that or brinnie"
"both are equally gross" i say
"yeah, alright i'll shut up and you need to go downstairs" she says

i head downstairs with dixie, vinnie alex and kouvr were standing at the door, my hopes is that they were coming with us, i had a feeling it would be kinda awkward if it was just the two of us.
"ready to go, alex and kouvr are gonna come, there plans got cancelled last minute i hope that's okay"
"yeah no that's perfect"
dixie took a few pictures and sent them to vinnie and i.
"home by eleven mister hacker" dixie calls out as we leave the house.

vinnie drove the two of us while alex and kouvr drove in a different car, they were one of the cutest couples i had seen, and never seemed to be unhappy with each other.

"so we're going to boa but there's probably gonna be paparazzi there and they might ask questions about us" he says
"what will you say?"
"no they'll probably ask you, fletcher most asks girls when there's a relationship" he uses air quotes on the word relationship.
"then what do you want me to say, i don't know what we are vin"
"i guess we're just trying to figure it out, but if we say that people will make stuff up"
"can i just say we're friends? would that like make you mad or sad or anything?"
"no of course not, if that's what you're comfortable with saying then say that"
"okay"

a few minutes later we pulled up to a giant restaurant with a big sign said boa steakhouse.
vinnie gets out of his side and before i can open my door he does it for me, taking my hand helping me out.
"does tonight turn you into a gentleman?"
"i guess so"
we meet alex and kouvr at there car which was further away but alex had to do a few things on his phone before we could go in. 

"vinnie how are you man?"  some guy with a camera asks
"i'm good how are you?" he says
"good good, is this your valentine?" he asks then looks at me.
vinnie laughs and shakes his head no.
"alright brielle how are you" he asks
"i'm good" i smile
"so there's rumors you guys are dating what's up with that?"
"no we're just friends" i tell him
"oh okay okay, where are you from? how did you and vinnie even hear about each other"

i look at him wondering if we should act silly
explain i drunk texted him.
"i'm from vancouver and how me and vinnie met,"
"she just popped up on my explore page and she looked dope so i messaged her and we got to talking and asked if she wanted to collab at hype house" vinnie says before i could answer.
"that's cool, alright i'll let you guys go eat. have a good night" he says
"you too" we both say and walk into the restaurant.

alex and kouvr come to sit with us after they had talked to the hollywood fix guy.
"what are you looking at" kouvr asks as i scan through the menu.
"lobster mac n cheese maybe?"
"that's what i usually get, it's pretty good"
"yeah i'll probably go with that"
"me too"
"well while you guys stick to your kids menu, i will be getting a surf and turf" alex says
"i think i'll do the same"

once we order we start having random conversations to pass time.
"so, you're on a date and it's valentine's
day" kouvr smirks
i look at vinnie and he laughs, it was kinda weird us being here today.
"yeah" i say
"we're figuring it out, don't worry" he tells kouvr.
when the food comes we all begin eating, when i tell you this was the best mac n cheese i've ever had i mean it.

dix

dix
all set up but it's kinda
a funny story

you
wdym

dix
you'll see when you're home

you
dixie

dix
no it's good

"you ready to go?" vinnie asks once him and alex split the check, kouvr and i both told them we could pay our parts but they insisted.
"yeah"
we leave the table and head out of the restaurant saying thank you to the hostess, we go back out to the cars avoiding all paparazzi questions.
"so tell me have you made up you mind about the fight yet?" i ask him once we reach his car
"yeah, i talked to bryce and i think i'm gonna do it. i'll make good money win or lose"
"that's good, i think it will be fun"
"it won't be for a few months so i guess you're gonna have to fly back down"
"i guess i can make it work"