Who We Were Before

Chapter 3

Aella

I don't know how long the speech has been going on, it could've been 20 minutes or an hour. I am just captivated by his voice, how smooth and deep it can be it sounds like expensive whiskey being poured over ice in a glass. I don't realize that he's long done with his speech and answering questions, that everyone's cleared out of the room. "Aella, Aella" Melanie shakes me out of my trance. I look and see that he's staring at me and I'm staring right back at him.
"Aella, go say hi or something instead of staring like a weirdo." I see that Professor Anderson is nowhere in the room, it's just me, him and Melanie. I get up and walk towards him.
"Uhmm, Aella I'm Just going to go wait outside for you, ok bye I'm leaving now." I watch as she waves at me awkwardly and heads out the room.
"And what is your name, bellissima?" He asks once he closes the couple of feet that was between us.

"My name's A-Aella, Aella Brennan." He tilts his head and smirks at me, gosh why did I have to stutter over my name, I didn't realize that standing this close to him I could smell his cologne, it smells like dark mint chocolate with a hint of his natural smell. Being this close to him makes my knees weak and my heart race.

"Well bellissima, why are you still here even though it's been" he checks his watch "7 minutes since the last person left this room excluding your friend." I rack my brain for an answer "uhmm, well I thought to ask y-." He shushes me mid sentence "How about this, have dinner with me tonight and you can ask me as many questions as you'd like." I gape at him wondering if I heard him correctly, why would this beautiful man ask me a boring plain Jane out on a date. Wait is it a date?
"You want me to go out with you as a date?" He chuckles at my question.
"Yes belissima as a date, what else would it be?" He asks
"I don't know, why would a man like you would want to go out with someone like me?" He just stares at me for long seconds then says "When I walked into this room and saw you for the first time, I knew that I had to get to know you. What better way to do that than over dinner? Hmm, so what do you say belissima, will you have dinner with me tonight?"

I stare at him dumbfounded "Yes I'll have dinner with you."

"Wonderful I'll pick you up at 7, give me your number." I give him my number then he takes my hand and places a kiss on top of it.

"Until tonight" I watch as he walks out the room.

Once I make it to the car I hear Melanie scream like a banshee as soon as I open the door. "Ahhhh, tell me everything! What did he say? What did you do?"
"Whoah, calm down with the questions. If you must know he asked me to dinner tonight and I said yes."
"Do you have an outfit for tonight? Do you?" I think of all the clothes in my closet and know I don't have a single thing that would be appropriate for tonight. I shake my head no.

"Well you're in luck, I'm skipping the rest of my classes today and you are too so we can go shopping and find you something sexy to wear for Lorenzo tonight." She wiggles her eyebrows when she says sexy. Wait a minute did she say skip classes?
"Melanie, you know I can't skip any more classes today, I missed my test today already." She pouts at me, I already know what's coming next. "Pretty pleeaase." she says with the biggest puppy eyes I've ever seen her do. I sigh "Alright but you owe me one".

"I won't owe you one if you're gonna be bouncing happily on his lap tonight, you're gonna thank me later."

"Melanie! don't say that."
She shrugs her shoulders nonchalantly "What? you know it's true."
"Let's go to that boutique in the mall, I know they've got alot of options" She says.
"Yeah, I was thinking the same."

As we drive to the mall I can't help but think if this is a mistake, like I barely know the guy what if he's just playing with me, duhh that's what this date is for so I can get to know him better and see if he's worth getting serious with.
We've arrived at the mall now and make our way towards the boutique. "What color would compliment my eyes?" She studies me "Hmmm, I'd have to say a light grey dress would make your eyes pop out more." I nod my head agreeing with her, after trying on a couple dresses we settled on one that was kinda backless with spaghetti straps that go over my shoulders and crosses at my back, it fit my figure nicely and it wasn't too tight. As for shoes I'll just wear the black toeless heels I have at home.

It's not till we arrive home that I see the time, "Shit! It's 5 I only have two hours to get ready." At this point I'm rushing to the shower, after I blow dry my hair and Melanie does my make up "So I'm gonna go for a more natural look, just some mascara here and just some lip gloss to make your lips shine." I straighten out my curls, making sure there's not a stray curl out of place.
Once I've got my dress on and my shoes on, I decide to put on a silver rose pendant necklace that Mom got me for christmas last year. I can't help but admire myself, I don't think I've ever looked this beautiful in my life. I hear my phone ping and check it.

Unknown number

It's Lorenzo I'm heading out now, what's your address

Wow, so demanding no please or a thank you, I quickly send him my address. It's about 30 minutes later when the doorbell rings.
"Aella!, your date is here!" Gosh why does Melanie have to be so loud I'm sure he's heard her through the door. I step out of my room and make my way towards the front of the door. I go to open the front door and that is when the breath is stolen from my lungs, he's wearing a black suit and a white button up on the inside with a few buttons undone so that I can see a few of his chest hairs peeking out, he's also wearing a gold chain. I can't help but rake my eyes up and down his body, God he makes my panties melt, that's when I see in his hand a single red rose.

"You look beautiful tonight, here a rose to signify your beauty." Before I can grab the rose Melanie grabs it quickly and shoves me out the door.
"Give me that, I'll put it in a vase, shoo shoo get out of here now, I won't be expecting you home till tommorrow morning." I gasp in horror "Melanie!", and Lorenzo he just chuckles "Your friend is a bit overbearing isn't she."

"She is but that's just her personality."

Lorenzo escorts me to his car and I can't help but stare in awe of what kind of car this man drives, I mean it makes sense a masculine car for a masculine man. He opens the door for me "Oh, thank you", he raises a brow "What you've never had a man open the door for you before?" I'm too embarassed to say no so I just get in. Once he starts the car up, it just purrs to life I have never thought that a car can sound sexy but this one can. The vibrations in the car is making that spot in between my legs tingle, God! why am I like this I hope I don't combust on his seat talk about an embarassing moment, after a couple minutes the vibrations have toned down a little and I start to feel a bit better. When I look over I see that he's looking at me and the expression on his face it's like he's deep in thought.

"So where are you taking me tonight?" He snaps out of his trance and just stares at me for a few more seconds with the same look. He finally says "It's a suprise bellisima." And then he reaches across the center console and grabs my hand, on our way there to whatever suprise awaits me all he does is just caresses my hand and every once in awhile he'd give me a soft look that I can't really decipher.