Love in the theater

Chapter 29

It was almost time to get to the restaurant and she was still in the bathroom.

"Babe, we need to go." he yelled from the bedroom.

"Yeah yeah I'm coming" she yelled back. He heard the bathroom door open.
"Is it okay?" she asked, looking down at what she was wearing.

He froze and stood there, just looking at her. She was wearing a long black low-cut dress, black heels and some simple jewels.

"Uhm okay maybe I should go change" she said, getting embarrassed, as she turned around and started walking back to the bathroom until he stopped her.

"Wait no no, why would you change?" he was confused.

"It didn't seem like you liked it" she said, feeling uncomfortable.

"What, no, I love it baby. I just didn't know what to say, I kind of froze because of your beauty" that made her laugh.

"God you're so cheesy but I love you so much" she said as she went to kiss his lips.

"It's true, you look beautiful" he was still amazed.

"Thank you baby" she smiled.

"Now I'll call for a cab, it will be easier." he said as he went to the phone.

"Let's walk, we could enjoy the beauty of New York at night together, what do you think?"

"You're right" he smiled "let's walk"

They grabbed their coat and immediately headed to the restaurant.

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As they were approaching his favorite restaurant, he could see the amazement on her face.

"Why is everything so fancy on that side of New York? I feel rich now" she said as she looked around.

"It would be great if living in the fancy side of New York meant rich, but well I'm kinda rich, I have you" he winked and she started laughing.

"Here we go, being corny again" she chuckled.

"That's how you like me" he said with a little smirk.

"Oh we're here, come on let's go" he said as he took her hand and they walked inside.

As they entered the gigantic place, a waiter came to them.

"Good evening, do you have a reservation?" he asked.

"Hi, yes I do, Putnam a table for two" he said.

"Follow me" the waiter said as he showed them their table.
"Here's the menu, I'll be back in a little while" he smiled and walked away.

"Is that some kind of hotel?" she asked, looking around.

"It is, that's where we came to celebrate after a good opening night, haven't been there in a while" he joked.

Loretta laughed as she started looking at the menu and immediately stopped, looking up at Oliver.

"Baby this is expensive" she whispered, showing him the prices.

"Loretta, stop looking at the prices and enjoy" he said as he put his hand on top of the prices so she couldn't see them anymore.
"Now choose something while my hand's there so you won't be affected by the price of it".

She sighed and looked at everything.
At the same moment the waiter came back.

"Have you chosen?" he asked.

"Uhm yes so I'll take the oyster thing with fries, oh and could you also bring us a bottle of red wine?" he asked.

"Of course" he said with a smile.

"And I'll take that salad with chicken on it" she said as she gave him the menu back.

"Can I ask you a question?" he asked after the waiter was gone.

"Of course, you can ask me anything" she said.

"Are you a rabbit?" he asked, making her laugh instantly.

"What?" she laughed "Why do you ask me that?" she was confused.

"The salad, that's only for rabbits" he said.

"Then I'm one" she chuckled.

They spent the rest of the night talking, laughing at Oliver's bad jokes, just enjoying time together.

"So you really don't want a dessert?" he asked as they were getting ready to leave the table and go pay.

"I'm already full so I'm fine" she said as she put her coat on.

"Okay then I'll go pay, wait for me right here" he said as he paid for their dinner and joined Loretta, leading her outside so they could start going back to the apartment.

As they were walking, Loretta could feel a pain in her stomack. The same pain that she had felt during their time at the restaurant but she hadn't wanted to tell him, not wanting him to worry. But the more they walked the more she was hurting, the pain kept growing and growing until it took her breath away and she couldn't walk anymore. She stopped walking and gasped as she couldn't keep herself up and started going down.

Oliver immediately stopped and turned around at the feeling of her hand leaving his, seeing her down on the floor, in pain.

"Loretta! What is it?" he immediately went down on the floor with her, getting very worried about her.

"I...don't know, I've been feeling a pain in my stomack since dinner but it wasn't hurting as bad as it is right now. I don't know what's happening." she said as tears were rolling down her cheeks.

"I'll bring you to the hospital, it's not far from here. Can I lift you up?" he asked, not wanting to do something she wouldn't want.

"I'm too heavy" she said, moaning at the pain.

"I doubt that" he said as he lifted her up, knowing that there wasn't time to talk and that they needed to get to the hospital as quickly as possible.

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He ran as fast as he could through the streets of New York and they quickly arrived to the hospital.

"Please someone help her" he screamed as he ran in.

"What's wrong sir?" a nurse asked as she ran to him.

"I don't know what's wrong with her, she's hurting really bad" he said, trying to explain it to her while not panicking.

"Okay put her down here, we'll go examine her" the nurse said as she pushed a bed next to Oliver. He immediately did as she said and followed Loretta as her bed was being pushed away. They brought her in a room where a doctor was already waiting.

"Miss, could you explain to me what's wrong exactly?" the doctor asked as he started to examine her.

"We were at the restaurant with my boyfriend and as we were eating I started feeling a pain in my stomach and it got worse" she tried to explain as the pain was still there and tears kept streaming.

"I see, I need to do a scanner and a bloodtest, let's go" he said as the nurse started pushing her bed out of the room. "sir it would be better for you, and for her of course, to wait here, it won't be very long. We'll give her something to relax so when we'll bring her back she'll probably be asleep" he said, as he walked out.

Oliver sat there, helpless. Wondering how their wonderful time together had turned into this.

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Hey! I hope you still like the story, I kinda feel like I'm repeating myself or that it's getting boring 😅