𝙵𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎

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𝙵𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎

"So you want to tell me who he is?" she asks without looking from the menu.
I look at the menu. I have no idea why I keep looking at the menu even though I always order the same thing, so I close it and look at my mom who has also put her menu on the table.
The waitress comes to us immediately, we give our order and she goes away again.
"He's really great." I start by telling you. "He's Canadian and an actor."
,,Do I know him?" she asks, sipping her glass of water.
I nod. "I watched his film so many times when I was a teenager." I'll give her a hint.
She thinks and then her eyes get a little bigger. "You mean the cute one from Shattered Glasses?"
I drink some of my water before answering. ,,Yes. Exactly that one." I say. "And I know that he, like Chris, is much older than me back then but... But that's how he is." I smile.
I think about how he worked with me on the book and how he kept writing to me about what could be better. Hayden just showed a general interest in me and listened to me tell him about my favorite books and why I enjoyed reading them.
He just wants to know everything about me and I want to know everything about him.
"Judging by your smile, he really makes you very happy and that's all that matters to me." She smiles and squeezes my hand gently.
The waitress came and brought us our plates and drinks as quickly as she came and left.
"We don't want to make it public yet. He has a daughter." Without me having to explain anything to my mother, she understands me.
"His name is Hayden, right?"
,,Yes." I smile.
"I remember how many times you watched his movie Shattered Glasses because you thought it was so cute. Or, when you watched his other films for hours, did you have another film that you liked watching so much, what was it called again?" She narrows her eyes a little and thinks.
,,Jumper." I mutter, putting a piece of chicken in my mouth.
,,Exactly." She points her fork at me and then she pecks the fork into her chicken and puts it in her mouth.
At home, I locked myself in my room to FaceTime with Hayden.
I turn on my laptop to see it better than on my iPhone.
Poppy has made herself comfortable on my lap and is sleeping. Hayden's face appears on my screen.
"Hello, sweet girl," he says, smiling.
"Hi." I smile.
"How was your day?" he asks.
He's lying on a bed and looks tired, he's topless and I want to lie next to him.
"He was beautiful. "I went shopping with my mom and then we went out to eat," I say. "And how was your day?" I ask and stroke Poppy's white fur.
"The first interview dragged on," he says. "And the second interview was just exhausting."
,,How come?" I ask.
"The interviewer kept asking the same question," he says.
I raise my eyebrow curiously.
"What my love life looks like," he says. "She saw a photo of the two of us, but she doesn't recognize you in the photo."
,,Oh." I'm just saying.
He strokes his hair. "I'm ready to go out in public if it's you, sweet girl," he says.

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