Wild Eyes (E. Olsen)

Damn Boyfriend

I took a sip of my drink as I start racking my brain up for 21 questions to ask this beautiful lady, aka Elizabeth Olsen. 

"Hmm, let's start easy, what's an ideal weekend for you?" 

"Ouu! I like that, um, I would have to say, Saturday would be a stay-in-cozy lazy day. I would love to just stay in my loungewear all day, have some home-cooked meals, maybe bake, binge watch a TV show, read a few chapters, and then Sunday I would love to garden all day and then end the weekend with a nice bath." She smiles shyly and I agree along with her. 

Lizzie then asks me her first question, "What do you think about when you're by yourself?" 

"Oh man, you're digging real deep already, huh?" I joke with her and she simply nods and replies, "I want to actually get to know you." 

"Well usually being by myself without doing anything can be very dangerous. My mind can sometimes think way too loud and way too much and that's why it's rare for me not to be doing anything. But usually, I'm thinking about life, my future, where I'm at now. In general, I just reflect on my life and then I start thinking about the things that I could've done or responded to better. It's a mess in my brain trust me." I joke in the end, call it my coping mechanism, I joke and laugh at my problems to make sure I don't get sucked into it.

"I'm sure it's a beautiful mess. I'd love to know more of what goes on in your beautiful brain Alycia." I look back at her trying to read her facial expression, I'm not sure what I was hoping to see but it definitely wasn't the genuine curiosity and sincerity. 

"It'll be your lucky day if you use your questions wisely Lizzie." She smiles at the nickname as she then takes a sip from her drink. 

"Alright, What's the most spontaneous thing you've done lately?" 

"Actually my boyfriend, Robbie, took me to the beach and there was a cliff that you can jump from and I am a person who hates adrenaline rushes right? But for some reason, I was like, let's go jump. He was so surprised but he went along with it and we ended up jumping off the cliff into the water." She laughs at her own story which made me chuckle but I'm not going to lie and say that my full attention was on her story. 

Her mentioning she had a boyfriend kind of took me by surprise. I'm not sure why, I mean is it really surprising that she, Elizabeth Olsen, isn't single? No. Not a surprise at all. But I must say, I'm a little disappointed. I was sorta hoping she was single, ugh that sounds awful of me. She's happy plus I don't even know the woman, I can at least be her friend. I'll take that over nothing any day now. 

"So Alycia, I obviously just mentioned that I am in a relationship. So I think it's only fair, are you?" I can tell she hesitated with her question, probably thinking she's stepping over the line but I honestly don't mind at all. Nothing to hide here. 

"Nope, I'm very very single." I laugh and she looks a little taken back by my response. 

"Wait, for real? You're single?" She asks not believing what I had just said. 

I laugh at her confused look, "yes, I'm very single. Why? Is that too hard to believe?" 

"Well yeah, kinda. I mean you're Alycia Debnam Carey, how can you be single? I'm so sure there's a line of men waiting to get a chance with such a beauty as yourself." she states in disbelief. 

"Bold of you to assume I'm straight," I tell her with a playful smirk which made her drop her jaw a tiny bit. 

"Oh, I-I-I I didn't, I didn't mean to assume. Damn, I, I'm sorry," she stutters her response which made me laugh shaking my head at her. "Don't worry, you're good, you're okay." She gives me an apologetic smile. 

"Well to answer that, I guess my standards are high and I'm just waiting for the right person to come along. I'm not really one to get involved with someone just to 'try it out.' I have to feel something deeply for the person and I guess there hasn't been that person yet. Which I'm totally okay with." I explain why I'm currently still single and lonely, "plus trust issues are my issue so." I chuckled slightly making her frown a little in return. 

"Got your heart broken?" 

"Something like that. More like shattered." 

"Well, whoever broke your heart was dumb. How could they? It's obviously their lost," she says trying to bring back the cheerful mood in the air from earlier.

I laugh, "well she's engaged at the moment so I don't think she cares." 

~

2 hours later and we're still sitting in the garden completely immersed in each other's lives. Our glasses have been empty for the last 2 hours and none of us cared enough to get refills. Our heels have been discarded on the grass within the first hour with our legs folded on the chair as we got comfortable. 

We're currently laughing at a story that she had just shared about her college days when MK walked up to us, "there y'all at! we've been looking for you two." 

"Sorry, we started with 21 questions but we both kinda got lost in the conversation," I explain smiling up at her. 

"I can tell, it's been 2 hours since we last saw you two," she chuckles sitting on the chair in front of us.

"Oh my gosh really? I guess we lost track of time." Lizzie smiles at me, ugh her smile. That smile can light up the entire room. 

"By the way, Robbie called me asking if you were still here. I guess he was texting you in the 2 hours y'all spent talking and haven't heard anything back." MK informs Lizzie, damn, boyfriend again. I said I didn't care, but I would prefer not to hear about him either. 

"Oh shoot! I have my phone in do not disturb. My bad." Lizzie takes out her phone to message Robbie back I'm assuming. 

I divert my attention to MK and start up a conversation. I have a feeling that my hang-out session with Lizzie is over now anyway. My prediction was soon proven when she excuses herself to call Robbie which MK and I nodded to in response. 

I put my heels back on and I check the time deciding that I should probably go look for Scarlett and see when she wants to head back home. I continue my conversation with MK for 10 minutes before deciding that Lizzie wasn't ending her call with Robbie anytime soon. 

I tell MK to let Lizzie know that I had fun getting to know her and to also tell her I said goodbye. I excuse myself from MK and head back inside to look for Scarlett. Once I found Scar we decided to head out since it's already past midnight. I look around the room to check if Lizzie is back from her phone but unfortunately she was nowhere to be seen so I took my leave and followed Scar to the car.