City Lights

Chapter 14

Arthur was wearing a black polo shirt, which complimented his sporty built.
He had paired it up with denim jeans and had left his hair all messed up, in the bed head kind of sexy way.
I sighed.
I wish my hair worked like that too.

He had complimented me at least thrice till now and it hadn't even been half an hour since the date had started.

Arthur had planned for us to go to the little coffee shop next to the street.
What he didn't knew was the fact that it was the same coffee shop I worked in.

I didn't really mind except for those awkward glances with Mrs Reed , I mean cmon, she is my employer after all.

Mrs Reed was also one of those people in my life who'd continuously tried to hook me up, whether it be with jace or Michael,her own sons who'd gone out to study overseas.

I just don't get why everyone wanted to hook me up I mean I'm pretty epic single as well.

We were enjoying the peace there, I didn't really have much to talk to about Arthur, but he seemed to have been continuously looking at me from the past 10 minutes, assessing my every single move.
It was quite unnerving actually.

We'd both ordered for ourselves.
He was having black coffee and Guess what I was having?

Yep, if you guessed chocolate you were right. My cup of lukewarm hot chocolate in my hand.

Several minutes passed between us when I heard Arthur chuckle and I looked over at him ,his eyes dancing with amusement.

"What's so funny?" I said, raising my brows.

"You've got a chocolate mustache" he said and chuckled again at my expression.

I quickly wiped my mouth with the back of my hand and shook my head.
Talk about embarrassing.
"What is it with girls and chocolate?" He asked , still looking at me.
I just shrugged and said "what's up with guys and black coffee?"

"Touché" he said and we went back to the complete environment of silence surrounding us. It would've been calming in a sort of way if he wasn't staring at me non stop.

It had passed quite a few minutes between us when he started a round of 20 questions.
They were all pretty basic, favorite color, favorite artist, hobbies, birthday and all sorts of other crap and I actually had fun whenever he'd tell me more about his own life but that was until he went to the topic of my family and started asking questions that made my heartbeat shoot up.

"What about your family?" He asked , his voice full of curiosity.

"Uhhh..what about them?" I asked.
It was hard to realize that I probably no longer had a family. It was broken the day she left us, leaving us into this void of dread and misery.

"How many people are there in your family?"

"Um just me , my mum and my dad." I said, my voice was considerably low from before.

"Hmm" he seemed to be thinking something deeply and I raised my eyebrows.

What was there to think about in that?

"That must be why you're always so quite and shy. You're probably always used to being alone and by yourself." He said.

"Congratulations on earning yourself a degree on my life." I said and rolled my eyes at him and he chuckled again.

"C'mon , lets get outta here. I wanna take you somewhere." he said and paid for our order. I started to protest but he just shook his head and said that he'll let me pay for our next date.

Next date...? I thought silently.
I wasn't sure how to break it to Arthur that I wasn't really up to do this dating thing and all I mean this evening has been going amazing so far and he had been perfect but I didn't really had any feelings for him and I sure as hell wasn't going to lead him on.

I was about to politely tell that this had to be our last date when he grabbed my hand and started walking out the shop.

He opened the door for me and ushered me inside his car and made me tie a cloth on my eyes.

Supposedly the place was a surprise and if you don't know me , let me tell you that I'm a hella impatient person.

"Oh c'mon just tell me"I groaned out probably the 6th time and he chuckled at me again.

It seems to me that I was a great source of amusement for Arthur. every time I groaned or huffed, he would just chuckle at me or laugh.

"We're almost there sweetheart, I promise it's going to be worth it." he said and went back to driving the car.

Robbers by 1975 was playing in the background and if not anything else, I had to say that Arthur seemed to be having a good choice of music.

The car suddenly came to a halt and I started to get nervous.
What if Arthur had brought me out here to kill me?

Crazy stupid ideas started jumping around in my mind and as I almost jumped out of my skin when I felt the warmth of his hands against coldness of my own.

"Chill, you'll love it I promise." His voice sounding low and husky and I just nodded my head.

He had his hand at the low of my back, guiding me to wherever he wanted to take me, the weight of the blindfold increasing with each step I took.
I could hear the quiet chirping of a bird somewhere.

Where in the hell in New York can one hear anything other than the traffic? I wondered

It must've been a few seconds when Arthur removed his hand from my back, the warmth immediately dissolving into the coldness of my body and as I felt the blindfold taken off me I couldn't help but look at awe at was what in front of me.

Wow.

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