Joost And me

In love

I woke up dazed with a hangover.
I was sure, my hair stood on end and if I could smell myself, I could definitely smell the alcohol I consumed yesterday.

I really had to slow down a bit, the past few days have been hectic... full of drugs and alcohol. My stomach and head couldn't cope anymore.

I thought about how many drinks I had last night and what time I got home last night. Suddenly I startle and I sit up in my bed.

"NOOOOO" I scream, grabbing my own hair in frustration. I suddenly got my memories back from last night because I wanted to find out how many drinks I had.

I touched my lips and thought about the moment that Joost and my lips touched each other.

Still recovering, I picked up my phone and saw a DM from Joost.
Huh?? Oh yes, I also sent him a message.
I read his message carefully, he said something about what I wanted to do tomorrow, so apparently today.

What do I want to do?
Half an hour had already passed and I had already checked off all the options in my head, from going out for dinner to having a drink.
I came up with a super crazy idea, but somehow I knew that Joost might like it.

Only I hoped he wouldn't find an amusement park childish. Since we are both over twenty and actually have no business being there.

The walk from my bed to the wardrobe was long enough. But once I got in the shower I felt my brain melting from the hangover I had. When I had gotten dressed, I quickly walked to the living room to take an aspirin with the glass of water that was there.

In the meantime I had already sent Joost a DM to say that I had decided on what the plan would be today. And an hour later he was at my door, the doorbell rang and I waited about 30 seconds before opening the door, otherwise he might think I was waiting for him behind the door.

"Hey, Joost."

He stood with his back to the door, I could smell the cigarette he was smoking and also his perfume.
When he heard my voice he turned around with a lot of cracking noises, then I saw what he had in his hand... A bunch of red roses with a white rose in the middle.

"Look, for you." He smiled and his eyes immediately started twinkling again.

"Oh, wow they are beautiful." I was completely amazed by this loving gesture.

"Do they smell a bit nice too?" He handed me the roses and at the same time he leaned over and gave me a kiss on the cheek.

I put my nose in the bouquet and when I looked up I saw what Joost was wearing.
A nice black suit with a white shirt underneath, his hair was neatly gelled and he had on light brown transparent sunglasses.

"Yes, do you like what you see? I told you, next time I see you, I'll look a little better for you." He narrowed both eyes and before I knew it he was walking past me and into my house.

"Joost? What are you going to do?" I asked, I guess he didn't hear me because he had already walked down my hallway.

"Come, Mara."

I quickly rushed after him, not because he wasn't allowed to be in my house... But because my house was such a horrible mess that I was afraid he would immediately have a different image of me.

"Joost." "If I knew you were coming in, I would have cleaned up."

He was laughing with his hand over his mouth, half shocked and looking at me with a sideways glance.

"Sorry.." I said embarrassed.
"No, it doesn't matter. I'm like that too." He lowered his hand to gesture "Don't worry."

"Do you want something to drink? Just sit on the couch."

Joost sat down obediently on the couch and looked around as he did so.
I placed the roses on the counter and immediately grabbed a large white porcelain vase from the top kitchen cupboard. When I filled the vase with water, Joost said he wanted water too so I grabbed him a glass.

I had neatly placed the roses in the vase and placed them on my coffee table, with my other hand I placed Joost's glass of water in front of him on the table.

"Nice huh?" I asked.
"They are certainly beautiful, I had them put together with love, so you can be sure that they will last longer than a week."

"What kind of theory is that?" I sat down next to him on my couch.
"A Theory of Love." he replied.

"Oh so what we have now is love?" I pointed at him and me and burst out laughing.

"Yes! What else do you want to call it?" He laughed a little uncertainly.

"Hmm, I don't know yet, but I really like you!" I rested my head on his shoulder and looked at him.

"Yes, do you like me a lot?" "I like you a little too." He chuckled softly and looked around.

"What a lively interior you have Mara, everything has so much color!"

"I love art, so I tried to incorporate colors from my favorite painting into my furniture." I lifted my head from his shoulder again and looked around with him.

"What is your favorite painting then?"

"The Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh." I moved my head up and down.

"Oh that's why you have shades of blue and yellow in your house." Very nice, very creative."  He looked at me with his sweet eyes and then he pushed me over on the couch, so that I lay with my upper body and my legs were still on the floor.

With furrowed eyebrows I said:
"Well, what did I do to deserve this?"

"You look so cuddly in that red dress of yours that I had to push you away from me." He giggled to himself.

"I'm afraid we're both too over-dressed for what I had in mind as a plan." I said smiling and a little embarrassed.

"What did you have in mind then?" He also looked towards me with a frown.

"An amusement park." I mumbled unintelligibly.

"A what??, I don't understand you."

"An amusement park." I started laughing and saw Joost's face light up.

"I think that's a really nice idea!, but if I had known this earlier I would have come in my normal clothes."

"Sorry."

"No, that's okay, let's do it next time?" Joost said.

"That's good, but I'm very relieved that you don't think it's a crazy idea!" I let out a relieved sigh.

"Why, aren't we all secretly still children somewhere? I love having fun all day long." He placed his hand on my thigh and gave me a reassuring pat.

"What do you want to do now Mara?"

"There is LIVE Jazz music somewhere in the center tonight, do you like that?"

"Yes, I like that, I like it even more when I can spend my time with you." He then squeezed my leg.

I jumped from the couch and he looked a little surprised.
"Shall we go then?" I pointed my thumb at the front door and showed my teeth smiling.

Joost stood and quickly drank his water.
"Come." He said while setting his glass down on my counter.