Take me {Paul Zimmer}

Im falling for you<3

•April's POV•
After the movie Paul takes me to go eat. We go to IHOP and we find a booth. He looks over at me and says "I'm starting to think IHOP is our hit-up spot." He laughs and I chuckled. Wow I never noticed how we always do come to IHOP. The waitress comes and Paul's face goes pale, like he had seen a ghost. "Oh. Hi Paul." She scolded. "Hey." He responded really quickly not taking his eyes off of me. "You have a new girl now huh?" She looked at me in disgust. "Can you just take our order so we can leave?" He asks. "Ugh. Fine." She told him. "What the fuck can I get you guys?" She asked with a sarcastic smile. "Um... I would like a Swiss Mocha. Please." I said. "Ew. Okay." she said. She keeps giving me ugly looks. I wonder who the fuck is she!? Then I wonder How does she know Paul? "I will have a coffee. Thanks." He told her really fast. I look over at him and give him a questioning look. He looks over to her and grabs both my hands in his and tells me "you know you are the most beautiful person I have ever seen. I'm being honest right now I think I'm falling for you." The waitress groaned and walked away.

"What was her problem?" I asked Paul. "Oh. Well. S-she was my ex." He looked down. I just nod. Wow she's his ex? She's really pretty. She skinny too. She has bright blue eyes and dark red hair. She stunning. He'll never even think about dating me. What was I even thinking?

Melissa (our waitress) comes back with our drinks. "What do you want to eat?" She asked rolling her eyes and sighing. "I will have the chicken strips." I tell her. She gave me a questioning face. Then she turned to Paul and he ordered the same. "Wow you guys are a bunch of little kids." She told us. We just rolled our eyes and ignored her.

She left to go place the order and I got furious because she was telling Paul these rude things the entire time. I was getting annoyed for him. I squeezed his hands so he would look up at me. I gave him a small smile then he smiled too. "So about earlier, what I told you. It's true April. I have feelings for you. Deep feelings that I don't think I can get rid of." He looked into my eyes while saying this. I felt my heart just melt like ice on a picnic table in the Texas summer. Okay that felt weird but it was just like that. I can emotionally and physically feel myself falling for Paul and the weird thing is, I'm not scared of falling for him.

I didn't want to pry into the past but I wanted to know what happened between them. "So. What happened between you two?" I asked him curiously. "I mean no to pry in to the past but-" before I could finish he said, "Can we talk about this in the car? Not in a mean way but I just don't want to talk about it here." I nodded in agreement.

After we finished he payed. I offered to pay but he wouldn't let me. I hate relying on people. It makes me feel weak. So we headed into the car and he just started to cry. I felt bad asking about it. "Paul you don't have to tell me if you don't want to." I told him. I put a hand on his leg for comfort. "No. I want to. You should know." He replied. He let off a sigh and looked over to me. "Melissa and I dated for a year. I was truly in love with her. I would have done anything to make her smile. I thought she loved me too but I was wrong. One day Danny called me and said that he saw Melissa at the movies with another guy. I told him that it was probably her cousin. Then the next week he called me telling me he saw her at the movies again with another guy and that he was 100% sure it wasn't her cousin. So I went over to her house to ask her what was going on. And when she answered the door she was half naked and the guy she was cheating on me with was behind her. She gave me an ugly look and just broke my heart into a million pieces. I felt my heart break. And for a month I didn't eat much or talk to anyone. I didn't even talk to Danny. He would try to cheer me up. He bought me clothes, shoes, music, he even brought me 12 pizzas once. I just remember feeling so alone and worthless. So I moved to another school because stuff had gotten spread around and I was getting bullied everyday." That's all he said. I felt something roll down my cheek. I didn't even know I was crying. I gave him a tight hug. He pulled away and he still had his hands on my waist. He looked me in the eyes and every time he looked me in the eyes my heart melts. He grabbed my waist to pull me closer to him and he pressed his lips to mine. It was a gentle kiss. We then pulled way from the kiss both out of breath which made us both laugh. He grabbed my hand and held my hand the whole way home.

We go to my house and like always he opened my door for me and walked me to my house door. Before I tried opening it I threw my arms around his neck and connected our lips. We kissed for what seemed like hours which was just a few minutes. He pulled away and kissed my forehead. He told me goodnight and that he would text me when he got home. With the best night ever I opened the door and went to my room to take a shower and go to bed.

I laid in my bed just thinking about today. How hurt he was just telling me about him and Melissa. How he must have felt comfortable enough to cry in front of me and even tell me how he had felt. Knowing that he felt comfortable I felt so happy.

My phone buzzed and it was a text from Paul.
"Hey beautiful I had a great time tonight😍👌"
"Me too☺️"
"How about we go on a real date?"
"Sure"
"Friday?"
"Yea sounds good"
"Well I'm off to sleep now. I'm ready to dream about pizza.🍕😍"
"Lol okay night🌙"
I put my phone to charge and fell asleep. Now I'm just waiting for Friday.

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So what did you guys think about this chapter? How do you feel about Melissa? Well I have a really good plan that will be in the next chapter so keep reading and stay beautiful.👌💖