The Meg (Jonas x reader)

Bonus Chapter - Vacation Part 2

"I didn't deserve it, but those letters meant so much to me Yn."
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You arrive at your destination, walking into a restaurant, but Jonas brings you through it, past everything inside and onto the beach on the outer side of the restaurant. On the beach there's a table set up for the two of you, with beautiful decorations around to give it a nice and romantic aesthetic.

"Wow." You breathe out in awe.

"You like it?" Jonas asks looking at your awestruck face.

"I love it, Jonas, it's beautiful." You tell him, turning your attention back at him.

"Come. Take a seat." Jonas pulls the chair back for you and pushes it in as you sit down, then gets to his own seat on the other side. You look out towards the ocean on your right, listening to the waves splashing. Then you turn toward the restaurant at your left, listening to the soft murmuring voices from people inside the restaurant and music playing in the background. A waiter comes with your already ordered food, and you start eating.

"Mmm. This is delicious." You after taking your first bite.

"It's their specialty apparently, Malik's wife's secret ingredient dish." He tells you.

"Malik's wife?"

"Yeah, apparently they bought the restaurant they had eaten at at their first date. She cooked here until she retired."

"Wow." You say and take another bite. Looking up at him, you see him staring at you. "What? Do i have something on my face?" You joke with a smile. He chuckles shaking his head.

"No. Just savouring this moment. I wish i could freeze it, stay here forever. I imagined taking you out so many times, but I was too coward to ask you." He tells you and you frown. "I was so in love with you, well I still am, it's just feels so unbelievable that we're actually here."

"You were in love with me before?" You ask, wanting to hear more of it. He looks down in a chuckle.

"Yes, very much."

"Why didn't you say anything?" You ask and he sighs.

"Our friendship was too important to me, and things were fine the way they were. I was scared of ruining it, if you didn't feel the same. And anyway i thought, why would someone like you ever fall for someone like me..." He answers, self doubt in his voice. A feeling you remember feeling yourself quite well.

"Someone like you?" You say with a raised brow looking at him, he looks back up from his food to your eyes. "Strong willed, brave, intelligent, hard-working, I can go on, and not to mention handsome. And the age, I'm pretty sure you'll outlive me." You say and he chuckles.

"No, I swear you have nine lives like a cat, with how many times you've been in a close to death situation." He tells you, making you scoff playfully.

"And you put yourself in those situations on purpose, still coming out of them with hardly a scratch on you." You roll your eyes with a laugh. He shakes his head laughing with you. "I was in love with you too back then, but i had the same thoughts you had about ruining our friendship, if you didn't feel the same. Or why would you fall for me, a childish reckless girl who just loves to get a reaction out of you, and because I knew the age difference might've been an issue for you, man i wish I hadn't joked so much about your age." You say with a chuckle, him chuckling with you. "I had finally decided I wanted to risk our friendship because I needed you to know, it felt wrong hiding how I really felt about you, I was gonna tell you but then everything happened and I just didn't find the time.. I'm sorry, maybe if I had just said it, without overthinking about telling you at a right time, maybe things would be different. I almost wrote it in a letter once." You say with a sigh.

"I didn't give you much opportunity to say anything, I was a mess." He tells you. "I didn't deserve it, but those letters meant so much to me Yn."

His hand reach over the table for yours, and you gladly give it. After you talk some more and are finished eating the dish, the chef comes to your table.

"Hello, you two. I am Savannah, your chef for tonight." The older woman tells you.

"Thank you Savannah, it was incredible." You tell her.

"Thank you dear. When Malik called to tell me about you two, I had to come and make our special dish myself, just for you two." She tells you, and both your eyes widened.

"You're Malik's wife?" Jonas asks. She nods with a smile. "Wow, thank you for coming out tonight." He tells her.

"No need to thank me darlings. It is my pleasure." She tells you. "Now, here are your desserts." She gestures to a waitress coming with two more plates.

"Thank you." You both say to the waiter as she puts the plates down. she smiles with a respectful nod.

"You're more than welcome. I should be the one thanking you both, my family lives close to the shore in China, so.. thank you. Have a nice evening Mr. Taylor and Miss Yln." She tells you, making Savannah whip her head to the waitress.

"You know them?" Savannah asks.

"Yes. I read the news." She tells her.

"The news?" Savannah asks. And you and Jonas share a look.

"That was fast." Jonas mumbles.

"Yeah, they are the ones that saved us from that big shark that attacked Sanya Bay in China." The waitress tells Savannah, and she gasps.

"What? Really?.. Wow." Savannah looks at you both in awe.

"Are your family safe?" Jonas then asks the waitress.

"Yes." She smiles. "Enjoy your dessert, Savannah is exceptional." She tells you and then walks back into the restaurant with Savannah.

"So.. ready for that?" You ask Jonas.

"No." He sighs. "Did they have to add pictures?"

"Don't worry." You tell him in reassurance. "And even if they didn't, they would've just search up the names and find picture other ways. Let's just hope they used some nice ones and not an old school picture or something." You try to joke to lighten the mood. He laughs.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I have no bad school pictures." He tells you, you snort and he laughs at that.

"I sure do, so i might be in trouble." You say.

"Oh, really?" He smirks.

"No." You look at him sternly. "I'm not showing you." He just laughs.

You talk some more and eat the dessert. As you both finish your glass of wine, you walk back into the restaurant to pay.

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