Butterfly Who Forgot To Fly...

Ch-13 Holiday Day-Part 2

Anastasia's P.O.V
I'm still in pyjamas and a teeshirt which is torn from my shoulders and I look the ugliest I can look. Now, it's not like I am poor and stuff, but the teeshirt is very comfy. Yet, here I am on a Holiday Day trip with Harry to god knows where! But I'm not going to lie I'm excited!
"Harry I look ugly, don't I?" I asked seriously.
"Yep!" He replied glancing towards me.
"Seriously? I expected you to make me feel better by telling 'No, I think you look okay' at least! Not straight-forward my telling me how ugly I look!" I hissed.
"You want me to butter everything now Anna? Okay, you look good. Fine?" He chuckled.
"Nooooo!" I said emphasising all the O's.
He simply shook his head and turned towards the window looking at the trees passing by.
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Hand in hand, we walk toward the waterfall. I monitor the pressure of my hand carefully. One minute, I feel like I'm not gripping hard enough, and the next, I'm squeezing too hard. I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver to understand it completely.
"So..." I latch on to the last logical thought I remember. "The waterfall."
"The waterfall; has always been my favourite since I moved here," he says, nodding. "It hasn't changed, few people then; few people now. So I keep coming back here."
"You don't like being crowded? I mean famous" I say.
"No, not that I don't like being famous. It's just that, it gets to your head sometimes."
We walk along the edge of the waterfall on a narrow path that leads to the rocks at the bottom of the fall. I've never noticed such a type of fall before- it blended in with the rock wall. But Harry seems to know it well.
I don't want to ruin the moment, but I have to go to pee.
"Harry?" I say.
"Yeah?" He furrows his eyebrows looking at me.
"Umm..like..do you know, umm.. uh.." Ugh! How do I tell him that I really really have to go to pee without being awkward! Dang, urinary bladder! You'd to find only this moment!
"What happened Anna? Are you okay?"
"Uh..yep. Definitely. It's just that, like..ineedtopee." I say as fast as I can, covering my face with both my hands.
And all I hear after that is his laughter filling my ears. Oh my god! I embarrassed myself big time.
"You need to.." He's laughing so hard now he can't even complete his sentence, his cheeks flushed, "need to..need to PEE???!"
And he starts laughing louder and I am about to get up and leave, because hell I've embarrassed myself big time. But then he stops laughing and holds my hand stopping me from my elbow and speaks with the most sincere and serious stone.
"Anastasia," he runs my cheek with his other hand, while I am stood still trying to process his sudden serious tone, "I..I..I want to tell you that..that..the washroom is down towards the left" he speaks pointing at a small ice cream shop, and he runs. He runs laughing leaving me struck, trying to process what just happened. By the time I process the shit that just happened to me, he's already running inside the shop.
"Harry you..IDIOT!" I yell before running back towards him.

Harry's P.O.V
I'm in the ice cream shop right now, waiting for Anastasia to be back from the washroom. What I did to her was so childish oh my god! But, her expression, she was so serious trying to process what just happened was so adorable! I'm still giggling to myself remembering the incident and there's this old couple looking at me as if I'm a lunatic. Meanwhile I see Anastasia making her way back from the washroom glaring at me.
"Darling..did you find the washroom?" I mock at with the same serious tone, I had faked earlier.
"Of course Harry dear, I did find the washroom. You know what else I found there?"
I look at her squinting my eyebrows trying to guess what she's talking about.
"Your brain" she says with the most sarcastic tone she can manage.
I glare back at her.
"Anyways what have you ordered?" She says opening the menu, lying in front of her.
"Chocolate ice cream and a strawberry milkshake" I reply.
"That's good. But, what have you ordered for yourself?" She chuckles replying back.
"Ha ha very funny," I reply glaring back at her, "It's for both of us".
She places the menu back on the table, as she see's the older couple approaching towards us. The older couple look at her with sympathy in their eyes and say,
"Poor girl, she has no clothes. Look, she is even wearing a torn teeshirt!" The old lady hugs her and then hands me fifty dollars, she then says, "Darling, I'm so glad you've taken into feeding homeless. Karma will bless you. Buy her some proper clothes with these."
And then she leaves, leaving Anastasia still staring at the spot where the couple was standing, her jaw dropped.

Anastasia's P.O.V
What just happened?
He laughs, a deep laugh that sounds like it came from deep inside him, and he touches his fingers to his temple.
"Poor Anastasia, has no clothes. Aww" he coos.
"Stop it Harry!",she says, "This was supposed to be a fun, Holiday Day and since the time I've come with you I've embarrassed myself already uncountable number of times!"
He smiles at me. "Yes, that was supposed to be fun, and I'm failing to understand how you do not see fun here!" He says laughing harder.
Look at the nerves of this boy, some lady has just called me homeless and he's here laughing about it!
Who laughs at their girlfriend like that? Idiot!
"Girlfriend?!," he laughs harder, "I do!"
Not girl-girlfriend I mean! I mean girl-friend. Wait, did I say that out loud!
"Yes you did!" He says laughing so hard that he has to hold his tummy with his hands.
Ugh! Idiot, I hate him!
"Aww, but I don't hate you!"
Wait did I say that loud too?!
"Yes you did!" He falls on the floor laughing.
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It's six-o-clock to be exact right now and we're driving back. I'm so tired! So is Harry, but I asked him if I could drive. He doesn't know it, but I asked for that because he was so tired and I wanted him to rest a bit. But, that's not what I told him, I told him that I really love driving in the evenings and late nights so I wanted to drive. I'm so glad that Harry gave me this surprise today, I really am. Even though I was in my most ugliest outfit and even though I embarrassed myself uncountable times, but the trip to that fall was amazing. And it was more amazing because he took me to a place which is close to his heart and I like it when people share their hidden secret parts with me. It's like they trust me and that feeling of being trusted is amazing.
"Anastasia," Harry mumbles, his eyes partly closed, his lips moving against the blanket around him.
"Hmmm?"
"Thanks for coming."
"You're welcome Harry, thanks for inviting". I smile as I increase the speed from 40 to 60 miles as we head towards the highway back home.
After 3 hour drive back home we arrive and Harry is still sleeping on the passenger seat. I don't want to wake him up, so I think I'll have to lift him up. May God bless me with the power require to carry this baby-human giraffe to his room.
With my one hand supporting his spine and the other below his knees I pick him up in one swift motion and boy, baby giraffe sleeps like a koala, because he doesn't wake up and cuddles further into me. He's so cute! But so heavy too! I'll have to hurry up or we both will fall.
I slowly carry him into the house through the living room up to his bedroom near the stairs and lay him down. I feel like iron-woman right now.
"Goodnight Harry," I whisper in his ears, tucking his curls gently, "I hope you sleep with angels singing to you."
I'm too tired to climb the stairs up to my room so I think I'll just sleep here. But not on the same bed of course, we don't know each other that well. So I sleep quietly on the couch beside the bed.
"Goodnight Anastasia, I don't need angels singing to me as one is already sleeping in the same room as me."
I think I hear Harry speak, but could be just my imagination. I'm too tired to think.

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