London Fog ⭐

8 - It's A Date

It had been a few weeks since London and I hadn't really talked to Henry much, but I did know he was getting ready to go to work on the next season of the Tudors.

I was working in the back of the shop. Thanks to a huge tour bus getting broken down in town I was almost out of stock. I had 2 people working in the shop and I was in the back with my earbuds in just listening to music. As I was molding a vase Unchained Melody came on and I groaned.

"I swear to fucking god." I stopped moving the wheel and wiped my hands clean. Instead of turning the song I took a screen shot of the Spotify page and then a picture of what I was doing and sent them both to Henry.

DEZI: I'm cursed.

HENRY: 🤣🤣🤣🤣

DEZI: It's not funny! I was working and it played. How did it know?!

I didn't get an answer back, but a facetime and I saw him. He looked to be on set for his show.

"Hey." I answered.

"Hey, sorry I didn't feel like texting. I could use to see a friendly face and hear a friendly voice." Henry said and I laughed.

"So, you facetime me?" I asked and we both laughed as I set the phone up and I went back to working. Henry saw I went back to working.

🎵 Oh, my love, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time🎵

Henry sang and I gave him a dirty look.

"What were you talking about a friendly face and voice?" I asked and he laughed.

"I couldn't help it, I'm sorry." Henry said and I just shook my head.

"You ever get your box?" I asked and he nodded.

"Yeah, I forgot to tell you. I got it the day before I left. It's all beautiful Dezi." Henry said and I smiled.

"I do what I can." I said and he sighed. "So, I can tell you're on set, shouldn't you be working?" I asked and he laughed.

"No, I'm just faffing about at the moment." Henry said and I raised my eyebrow at him in confusion. "Right, you don't know our terms. Basically means doing a lot but doing nothing." Henry explained and I nodded.

"Ah...makes sense now." I said and we both gave a small laugh.

"You got anything new coming to the website? My mom's birthday is coming up." Henry said and I sighed.

"Hopefully some of these I'm doing now. You know I do custom orders too." I said and his face lit up.

"You do?" Henry asked and I nodded.

"Yeah, when you get have more time and my hands are messy with clay we can talk and I can sketch out something for you." I said and he smiled.

"You are amazing Dezi." Henry said and I hid my blush by looking down and just shrugged.

I heard someone call for him and I sighed.

"Gotta go?" I asked and he nodded.

"Yeah, sorry thought I would have more time." Henry said and I shook my head.

"No, go work. Have fun." I said and he chuckled and hung up. I sighed and went back into my trance of working. I wasn't paying attention to time or what was going on around me. It wasn't until someone came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder.

I screamed and flung my clay covered hands with one holding a clump of clay across someone's stomach and chest.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" I said and he chuckles and I grabbed him a clean towel, but I knew it wouldn't work.

"It's okay really, I shouldn't have snuck up on you. My fault." He said and I sighed.

"I feel horrible. I will pay for the dry cleaning or whatever. I'm so sorry." I said and he shook his head and put his hands on my shoulders to calm me down.

"Hey, seriously look at me..." He trailed off and I looked into his eyes. His eyes were dark brown but easy to get lost in. I took a couple of calming deep breaths. "Better?" He asked and I nodded.

"Yes, thank you." I said and he smiled. We walked back out to the store and I saw none of my workers and I sighed and looked at the clock.

"Wow, it was closing time and they just left....note to self, never hire high schoolers." I said and we both laughed.

"Yeah, I walked in as they were walking out. They said if I needed anything you were back here." He said and I groaned.

"Wow..." I said. I then sighed. "Is there something I can help you with?" I asked and he walked over to a shelf of new pots I had done that I had just put out that day. One I was going to just to send to Henry on a whim because it matched the ones he bought before so I quickly walked over and took one off the shelf.

"Sorry this one is claimed." I said and he smiled at me.

"I was actually wondering if you had something like the big one in a couple different sizes. Like a small and medium. This one would be the large." He said and I shook my head.

"No but I do custom pieces. I would be willing to make those for you." I said and he smiled.

"Really? That would be amazing." He said and grabbed the large pot and we walked behind the counter. I grabbed a customer order form.

"So everything the same just smaller replicas?" I asked and he nodded and I filled it all out.

"Okay name for the order?" I asked.

"Caleb Harrison." He said and I smiled.

"Nice to meet you Caleb, I'm Destiny." I said and he smiled.

"Destiny...I like it." He said. I smiled but rolled my eyes at his cheesiness. I finished filling out the form and handed his copy to him.

"They will be what I work on tomorrow. I got your number so I can call you when they are done." I said and he smiled.

"Perfect." Caleb said and I smiled. Caleb went to leave and then stopped.

"Destiny...?" He asked and I looked at him.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"Thanks for the clay to the clothes. Makes them look better." He said and I placed my face in my hands.

"I will still cover the dry cleaning." I said and he shook his head.

"Heck no. Hey you never know, maybe they become my pottery clothes if I ever get to join you..." Caleb said and I felt my face start to burn.

"You want to join me tomorrow?" I asked and was shocked at how forward that was.

"I would love to, what time?" He said.

"Noon?" I asked and he nodded.

"It's a date." He said and winked walking out. I followed him and locked the door.

I then stood there in shock.

"What the fuck just happened?!" I asked myself in shock.