Love Like In The Books

Chapter Nine

Sarah Green

There are these moments when you feel like the main character of your life. Like you want to take rides alone with the windows down your hair all over your face and just you and yourself.

Yeah,

Me too.

And i was now summoned by that urge to feel like the main character. So long gone was the boul of noodles by my bed side as I jumped off the bed. It was ten in the night and Arlo and Killian were still talking about the case they are handling right now.

Walking into the living room the lights are dull. Just the yellow lamp above the coffee table on which various papers were scattered around. And the guys were sprawled over the couch there hands supporting their heads as they talked. Killian saw me first as he was facing me. He watched my every single and tiny move as I walked over to the drawer by the wall beside Arlo's room and grabbed my car keys.

It didn't take long for Arlo either to miss the look of concentration on Killian's face as he looked over at me. "Where are you going right now?" He says as he turns over. I smile at him. As much as I love his protective nature it's sometimes annoying too. I wasn't a kid anymore.

"I'm just going for a drive and maybe get some ice cream on my way back." I shrugged I myself didn't know what I would do, but all I knew was that I'm gonna blast Taylor Swift and let the windows down. And hope to not get my car crashed because of the hair in my face.

"Be safe and get me one too." He replies before turning back as they start talking about the legal stuff.  I really at one point in my life thought that i wanted to do law. But as much as I love a good argue I can't complete it without a good cry either.

So I thought it was better to not make the judge more awkward with me balling my eyes out and yet cursing at the person I'm standing against.

Jeez that would be a sight I want to see.

Laughing at my own imagination I stroll down the building and into my car. Shuffling through my playlist I'm in deep trouble of what Taylor's song I should start my trip with. But just as I want to feel that adrenaline rushing through me as I drive I put on 'Out of the woods' before driving away.

Sliding the winds down I rested my arm against the bar as I let the cold night air wash all over me. I could practically feel the adrenaline rushing through my veins. As I speed up—giggling like a mad woman.

"BABY LIKE WE STOOD A CHANCE!"

I screamed at the top my lungs—these lyrics meaning a entire different scenario. I smiled to myself as I parked near a park. Jumping out of the car. The adrenaline was nowhere rushing out so I sprint into a run. This song always have me feeling so much and so intense that I ran, I just ran round and over again. It was just two rounds before my lungs felt like they were on fire and my ribs hurt like a bitch.

But i didn't point at my fucked physical health. Gasping like a dead man I stumble over the icecream truck I saw at the end of the park. I tried to even breathing—because I saw two men already standing there and eating.

But I knew I looked far away from being normal. Cause who just drives to a park only to run like a dog—mind you only making it to two rounds before stumbling on an ice-cream truck?

Yet trying to ignore the thoughts of my own sweet overthinking I gave the man behind the truck a small smile. And gave him my order. "One vanilla cup and one chocolate to go." Pulling out the cash I almost tore when shoving them into my pockets. Smoothing them out, well as much as I could I gave him.

"Basic is classic." The man beside me said in his thick Italian accent. And i turned to them, one looked a little older maybe in his thirties? With trimmed beard and dark brown hair. It was dark for me to clearly see his eye colour though. But it was the beside him that amazed me.

I had to supress the urge to take a pic of him and give him a face claim of one of my characters. His body was built well, but not too much. Just the perfect amount and the tank top he wore didn't help in hiding it either. But my! Oh my! His face.

He had a beautiful baby face, but my god he was so beautiful. I fanned myself internally. As I smiled at the two men confused who passed the comment before. So I just shrugged "it's better to be basic sometimes." The later one laughed as the one beside him gave me small smile.

"But why would you be basic? Why to be like everyone else?" The one with the beard ask. And I stopped thinking for a while before I came with an answer.

"Perhaps it better to be basic rather than being extravagant cause it comes at a cost not all of us are ready to pay." The man nodded before giving me one of his genuine smile.

"You seem like a thinker to me." The baby face commented with a smirk on his face. I laughed softly at his look. "Why? Thankyou." I said before training to take my cup of ice cream.

"By any chance can I get to know this thinker on a deeper level." He asked again with a flirty voice. I flushed but I didn't want to miss out either.

So I gave him a shy nod while my mind ran up with 101 scenarios of things we might end up doing. We both exchanged our insta profile—giving him my private account. We talked for a while more just roaming around the basic talks. Before I said my bye to them and took the chocolate cup for Arlo and walked back to my car.