Flower Girl. (Chris Evans)

Chapter 5

FLOR.

"Tell me something you haven't told anyone" Chris says out of the blue.

"Hmm... well give me a subject before I'll embarrass myself."

He chuckles while shaking his head "there's no way you'll be able to do that, tell me anything, the first thing that comes to mind. I want to know everything."

"Everything is a lot for a first date" I bop his nose and he laughs.

"I've to agree with you on that but let's make a deal. Everyday we'll tell the other something about ourselves." He grabs my hand and starts playing with our fingers.

"I like the idea but are you planning to see me every day? You may get sick of me" I joke.

"I could never get sick of you, and I know that we won't see each other every day, we both have to work but we can text and call each other, in fact let's leave the fun facts for the time we're apart that'll give us something to talk about." I lean and place a kiss on his cheek.

"I love it." I intertwined our fingers "Aren't you scared that I may reveal your secrets?" he chuckles and kiss my hand.

"Trust works both ways, there's no way I could hope for you to open to me if I don't open myself, but if you want, we can sign an NDA."

"It may be better for your career so just think about it, I wouldn't get offended if we sign one."

"Fine, I'll think about it, but so far the answer is no." He sits up and I use his lap as a pillow. "Do you want to tell our friends we're dating?" He starts to play with my hair and I can tell he's a little fidgety.

"Do you?" He shrugs his shoulders, so I sit up and caress his cheek. "Let's keep it for us right now, we don't know where this will go, right now we're more than friends but we aren't in a relationship." He nods but I can see there's something he's not telling me. "What's going on in your head?"

He leans a little bit more into my hand "I know you're right, but I want you to know I won't be dating other people." I smile while nodding.

"Good to know and I want you to know I won't be either, we may not be in a relationship, but I guess we agree to be exclusive?" He nods and leans in to kiss me.

"It's getting late, maybe we should go" I nod and start to clean up so we can leave. "Can you stay over again tonight?"

"I'm sorry, but no, tomorrow is workday I have a meeting at 9 so it's better if I stay at my place."

"Okay... can I stay over at your place?" I turn to look at him and he has puppy eyes.

"Sure... Maybe you should go by yours first to get some clothes and I'll meet you at my place."

CHRIS.

"I'm gonna drop you off to your car and later I'll meet you at yours." We're almost back at the floral shop, the date was great, but I don't want it to end, it's weird, we've been friends for a while so conversation is easy, but her presence alone makes me feel at east, like she's my safe space, "am I been to bold for asking to stay over?"

"No, I get it, I don't want this to be over yet, and we both know that in workdays we'll have to be apart, so it makes sense to enjoy the time we have." I kiss her hand to let her know I feel the same but I'm parking the car and can't shake the feeling that it feels like the end of the night. "I'll text you my address, okay?"

"Yes, I'll text you as soon as I leave my place" she goes to open her door "no, please let me." I hop off my car and round it to help her out. "Safe and sound baby"

"Thank you for today, it was amazing" she starts to walk to her car and I'm right behind her to help her on, just when we reach it, she turns around.

"I'll see you soon" I lean in and kiss her before opening her door and close it after her, she waves her hand and grabs her phone, mine pings so I know she texted me her address, I get on my car and wave for her to go first so I can see her go.

I start the trip back to my place when my brother calls me.

*PHONE CALL*

Hey, are you at your place?

No, I'm out. What's up?

I have a surprise for you, when will you be at your house?

I'm on my way right now, but I have plans.

Well not anymore.

What is it, Scott?

Who are you meeting that has you so eager?

A friend. Is it important for you to meet me tonight?

Yes.

Fine, I'll change my plans.

*END OF PHONE CALL*

Fucking intuition.

I call Flor to let her know, and even though I know she's as disappointed as I am she tells me is fine and we'll see each other day. I arrive and go inside, if Scott leaves at a reasonable hour, I may still have a chance to sleep next to Flor.

Less than half an hour later I hear Scott march into my house, but it doesn't sound like he's alone. Soon I'm being attack by my dog.

"Hey Bubba!!!" I'm trying to get him off me, but he's too excited and I have to admit I've miss him. "Dodge, down! Stop buddy!"

"Dodger down" now he listens.

Great, mom's here. Now I won't be able to leave.

I stand up so I can greet them "Hey mom, hey Scott, what's going on?"

"Well, your brother told me how lonely you've been and Dodger really missed you so I decided to bring him to you, and I can also stay for a few days so if you need me to, I can take him back home with me."

I pull a face even though I don't want to be rude "Days?" she raises her eyebrow at me "I meant, Dodge can stay until I go back, I can use the company, you're also welcome to stay as long as you like."

"Well, I'm leaving" Scott says, did he literally just brought them here and is gonna leave?

"Why so soon?"

"They've been with me all afternoon since you wouldn't pick up your phone."

"I was out of reach." I didn't have signal so it's not that I didn't pick it up, it didn't ring.

"Where were you?" mom asks me, and by her face I can tell she knows somethings up.

"I was hiking."

"By yourself?" I roll my eyes, it's not like I'm a child.

"No mom, I was with a friend."

"Lady friend?" I know she knows the answer just by the tone she's using.

"Yes" at this Scott gets excited.

"The same friend that you were gonna see tonight?"

Damn it, Scott.

"Weren't you leaving?" I'm trying to drop the subject.

"Leave your brother Scott, come on, I'll walk you to the door." Yeap, there's no way I'm getting out of that conversation with my mother.

"Fine, I'll leave. Goodnight Chris, goodnight mom. Bye Dodge." He may be mad, but he's not ready to know what's going on. We walk him to the door to say our goodbyes and as soon as the door is close my mom turns to me.

"Tell me everything"

And it's the end of the night.