A few weeks had gone by since Jan apologized. We weren't friends now or something but we were friendly. Also because I was way to busy having more friends apart from Val.
Liza was finally getting used to the new environment and started to have a better sleep.
Val and I had decided to head to a cafe today for our weekly gossip date and since Liza was in the daycare we could talk for hours and hours without any disturbance. We were sitting down in a little booth in the back of the cafe and placed our order when I saw a familiar face entering through the door. Jan came in with a few other men following him. I saw the other men a few times walking through the apartment building but I didn't know they were friends of Jan. They sat down at diagonal from us.
"Just go talk to him and stop starring you freak." Val laughed at me pulling me back into reality. I didn't even notice my intense starring at Jan until she pointed it out. "I'm not starring and I definitely wont go talk to him. That would be embarrassing we haven't talked in weeks." The second part was actually true. When we saw each other we would only shoot a quick smile and maybe a quick "hello" before following the rest of our paths. To be honest I was a bit of sad about it. I mean sure I for sure don't have time to invest in another friendship but he seemed like a nice guy and every time I would see him it seemed like he wanted to start a conversation but most of the time I was in a hurry.
"It wouldn't be just go over there" she tried to encourage me. "It would and apart from that, I don't even have time to start a new friendship right now." I stated to finally get her off my back. "Stop telling that shit to yourself. He seems like a nice guy and added to that he is hot as fuck" I cracked a little smile at her comment because she wasn't exactly wrong. To be honest he was exactly my type but the last guy I went out with that was exactly my type, well...
"Stop that shit. What if he hears you?" "Bullshit he won't hear me. I was thinking to go talk to his friend over there." She pointed at the guy that was sitting next to Jan. He looked a bit smaller then the others and wasn't that bad looking either. Actually they all looked pretty good. "Well you should but I by definitely wont talk to Jan." She shrugged her shoulders and wandered off to the table of the boys.
She started to talk to him a bit before pointing at our table. I instantly tried to hide myself by turning my head the other direction. I was determined to not look back there until Val would come back.
"What are you hiding from?" I heard a voice next to me and I was sure it wasn't Val's voice. It was way to deep. I turned my head back to reveal Jan standing right in front of me. I jumped a little seeing him standing there. "Can I sit down here?" he asked me not waiting till I had answered his last question. After I nodded slightly he sat down next to me where Val used to sit. "Seems like our friends get along. " He nodded over to the table where Val was now sitting next to Bojan laughing flirtingly. "Seems like. Why did you come over here?" I looked at him. "Well first off she needed a spot to sit and second off because I wanted to talk to you." my heart skipped a little hearing him say he wanted to talk to me. "You have been avoiding me for the last few weeks although I just wanted to get to know you." he kept going. He wanted to get to know me? I felt a little bad for avoiding him now but I didn't have enough time so I couldn't start a new friendship right now. "Stop telling that shit to yourself" I heard Val's voice echoing in my head. I decided I would maybe just give it a shot.
"Well now we are here what do you want to know about me?" I saw a little smile forming on his lips after I said that. Why was he so happy? It looked like he already has some great friends so why does he want me to be his friend so bad? I just shook it off.
We started to talk for hours. In the meantime his friends and also Val came to sit with us. I found out he and his friends were a band and had represented Slovenia in Eurovision this year and since then had achieved some international recognition. I was pretty impressed by that and also a bit stunned because I moved back to Slovenia 5 years ago but haven't consciously heard a song of them yet. I made a mental note that I would do that when I got home.
"Girls it was so nice talking to you but we really have to get going now we have some Interviews. Maybe we could meet tonight on a few drinks?" The guy Val went to talk to earlier who later introduced himself as Bojan suggested. ""If I can find a babysitter of course." I smiled at him. "Great. I will text you everything then." he turned to Val before pulling her into a short but pretty tight goodbye hug. He placed his hands on her hips when she pulled away and whispered something into her ear before she wen over to the other guys hugging them goodbye.
"What was that?" I asked Val when the boys left. "I will text you everything then." I quoted Bojan. "And the fucking hug?"I looked at her pulling up my eyebrows. "He is so cute" is the only thing she managed to say before we both bursted out laughing like middle school girls who just got looked at by their crush. "And what did he whisper into your ear?" I said when we finally calmed down a bit. She imminently turned bright red and looked away wich onl made me burst out laughing once again.
After I picked up Liza from daycare I decided to go get some groceries and also some new wine. Back home I called up Zaria, my usual babysitter to ask if she was available tonight. Thankfully she was so I called up Val to tell her the news. Not 5 minutes after I hung up I got a screenshot of the text from Bojan saying where we would meet up.
At around 5pm Zaria came. "Hey sorry that its on such a short notice tonight." I greeted her. "Absolutely no problem." she gave me a warm smile. I told her on the phone to bring some clothes since I planed on sleeping at Val's place tonight to not wake Liza up when I got home. I showed her the spare bedroom and told her that I will be home at 1pm the latest tomorrow. Before leaving I gave Liza a little peck on her cheek and pulled Zaria into a little hug.
When Val opened the door she already had a glass of red wine in her Hand and a big smile o her lips. "So I brought a few dresses but I will look into your closet too because you have way better clothes than me." I announced walking into her little apartment with my sports bag in my hand filled with my clothes for tomorrow and tonight.
It took us about two and a half hours to get ready mainly because we had to pick out our outfits and we had to gossip of course. When we finished getting ready we were already a bit tipsy so we decided to both drink a glass of water before leaving to meet up with the boys.
Kris, the tallest out of the Band standing in the back of the club. getting closer I was able to make out Nace and Jure standing with him. "Hey you three where did you leave Bojan and Jan?" I asked the after hugging them. "They sent us getting beers." I heard Jan say behind me. I turned around to face him, feeling a huge smile forming on my lips. After giving the beers to the others he hugged me. I felt safe in his embrace. I dont know why but something about it felt so comforting and warm. I think we hugged pretty long because when I pulled out of his embrace and looked at the others the all shot me glances with their eyebrows pulled up. Well everyone except for Val and Bojan these two only had eyes for eachother. It was almosst like every thing was faded out when they were with each other it was kinda cute knowing that the had something special after knowing each other for not even a whole day yet. Maybe I would find something like that two...
"What do you want to drink?" Jan pulled me out of y thoughts. "I will go with a Piña Colada. Just get Val one, too. She looks a bit busy at the moment" I smiled at him before he wandered off to the bar for the second time.
