Icy Flames

Chapter 6

It's finally Saturday, Leo couldn't still believe his sister ordered a gift for him, he was so excited. He drove to Delin Cassia's Garden and parked his car on the parking lot and entered through the back gate. Meanwhile Alita hailed a cab and went to the Garden. She entered through the front gate.
  Alita was mesmerized by beauty of the Garden, it was Filled with different flowers, Roses, Sunflower, Crotaloria, Cassia, Morning glories, Royal palm etc. Some of which had already blossomed. There was a huge fountain in the middle of the garden.The garden was a really good description of beautiful.This scenery was what she needed to make her day.

Alita walked slowly around the garden perceiving the scent of the flowers.

Leo walked and waited in the garden for hours still looking for the person who was going to deliver the package,but it seems like no one was in the garden.As he walked further,he saw a table with two chairs around it.It was a beautiful sight with rose petals all around the ground. He was impressed by the design and he thought of Alita. He hoped to take Alita on a romantic date when they were back together. He still held hope of he and Alita being together in the future. He walked closer to the table, he sat on one of the chairs and stared scrolling through his phone.

Alita had been walking for hours without seeing a single soul. She was finally relieved when she saw a man sitting on a chair. He looked like he was waiting for his date but she couldn't see his face. She walked up to the man.

"Hey, Mr."she said.
Leo turned recognizing her voice. Alita was shocked to see Leo, she was out of words.

"Alita ." Leo called out her name bringing her out of the state of shock.

"What an unpleasant surprise to see you." She said.

"And what a pleasant surprise to see you."Leo said.

Alita was fuming in anger with the way he kept smiling at her. After what happened at prom night, he should be ashamed of himself, and not be able to show his face to her again. She looked at the surrounding and saw it's beautifully designed for a romantic couple on a date. The thought finally hit her, maybe Leo made the arrangement.

"Why are you doing this?" She asked

"Doing what?" Leo said as he was confused by the question she asked.

"Arranging a romantic dinner for me." She said. Leo burst out laughing.

"Wow, Alita you really know how to pretend." Leo said . It was now Alita's turn to be confused.

"Pretend?"

"Okay, drop the drama. You arranged this romantic dinner in order to please me, so we can get back together. Right?" Leo asked. Having some hopes in his heart that Alita made the arrangement.

"You know I will never do that." She said

"Then why are you here?" Leo asked.

"To collect some stuff." She said and was about to leave when her foot hit a box under the chair. She bended down and carried the box and saw her name written on it. "Maybe the delivery man drop the box here to keep it safe."  She thought.

"What's that." Leo asked.

"A package for me." Alita said curtly not wanting to talk to him.

Leo checked under the  chair he was sitting on and saw a box. He quickly took the box out and saw his name on it. "Ah, finally I found the package." He said out loud. Alita flushed with embarrassment as the thought dawned on her that she had wrongly accused him. They both heard the gates closing. Both Leo and Alita ran towards the gate holding their package. But unfortunately for them, before they got to the gate, the gates were already closed.

"Oh My God, how am I going to get to the Hostel now?" She asked.

"Don't worry I will call for help." Leo said. He took out his phone from his pocket and tried to call one of his friend. But there was no reception. "Alita try using your phone." Leo said.

"Okay." Alita tried using her phone but the moment she turned it on, the phone showed a notification of low battery and went off again.

"No....." Alita shouted.

"What happened?" Leo asked with a worried look.

"My phone ran out of battery."

"Okay, let's try breaking the locks."

"With what?" She asked. Leo look around searching for an instrument to break the locks but found nothing. So he decided to use one of the chairs.

"Are you really going to use a chair to break the locks?" She asked immediately seeing Leo holding a chair.

"Yeah, do you have anything else we could use to break the locks?" He asked.

"No."

"So let me do what I'm able to do. Okay." He said, as he started using the chair to hit the locks. Alita sat down on the other chair , because she was tired of standing. Meanwhile as Leo continued hitting the locks, the chair broke into two halfs. Leo was tired so he walked back to Alita with the broken chair.

"Now you've broke the chair, did the locks open?" She asked

"No." Leo said with frustration.

"Let's just hope the gate man comes to open the gate." They were both silent after she said that. Leo was still there standing, his legs were tired. So he broke the silence.

"Alita, you've been sitting on the chair for some minutes. So it's my turn to sit down while you stand."Leo said.

"Well, you were the one who broke your chair, so it's not my fault you are standing." She said

"I did that in order to break the locks, so I should be the one sitting down."

"You can't force me to stand up."

"There's no need for that, I will sit on you instead." Leo said moving closer to sit on her but she got up immediately and Leo took the opportunity to sit on the chair. Alita was angry at him for tricking her. So she pushed him away.

"Ouch, that's hurts."

"Just sit on the floor."

"Okay, my love." Alita couldn't believe Leo just called her his love. She gave him the hottest glare she could muster and turned away.