Made in Romania

Problems

     I am getting ready to go hang out with Lucas, it's not a date, we're just hanging out. He's super cute and nice, I want to get to know him better.
      For the outfit I go with a casual summer dress, because in Florida it's always extremely hot and I don't feel like wearing pants, my excuse for everything. A few minutes after, as I'm finishing my hair, which I straightened, I get a phone call, it's Lucas.

----call----
   "Hey Melody, are you ready, or do you need more time?"
   "Yeah I'm ready, I'll be down in five"
   "Sounds good, I'll be waiting" he says, and blows a kiss into the phone. Seriously is kissing people you don't know like normal? Because if it is, I'm not mad about it.
---hangs up---
     As I'm walking down the stairs I see Lucas and he smiles, and so do I. I'm walking towards Lucas when I hear someone call my name, the voice too familiar in its entirety, it was Daniel.
   "Where are you going dressed so hot?" He used that tone again, the one that is more irritating than his voice on its own.
   "Get off Daniel, I don't have to tell you what I do with who," I push past him and walk toward Lucas, but surprise! who grabs my arm? yup, Daniel. I seriously don't like him. I roll my eyes. "Don't you know that no means no" I try to loosen his grip on me but I fail, "You don't want to play this game Daniel, I'm telling you." He won't let go of my arm, I notice someone walking up to us. Lucas is standing behind me.
   "Dude get off her, she said no, have some respect," Lucas says, clearly annoyed.
   "Daniel get your grimy fingers of of me" I say, and he finally lets go.
   "So this is  your 'friend' huh? Come on Melody, you could do so much better than that" he says in an arrogant tone.
   "You wish you could be anything like him, at least he has respect for other people, unlike you," I say. Lucas moves toward Daniel.
   "Look, if you don't want to get yourself a problem bigger than the one you already have, I would suggest you stay away from her" Lucas says, in a confident tone. Daniel walks away.
   "Fuck you both!" He yells out.
   "Don't pay attention to him, he barks but doesn't bite" I say as Lucas and I walk toward his car and get in. On the way to the fro-yo place Lucas asks,
   "Who was that"
   "That right there is Daniel Springfield Johnson, the man-whore of the school" I say and he laughs.
   "Man-whore?"
   "Yes, all he does is try to get in girls pants, and he has already been with half the chicks in school, you know, the ones with no self-respect" I say and he looks at me and smiles. I continue, "but since I've never given him what he wants he just won't quit, he just won't take no for an answer" I say.
   "Sounds like you like to torment him" he says suggestively and wiggles his eyebrows, I playfully shove him, and we laugh.
   "I mean, it's funny to see how sexually frustrated he is and how excited he gets when he thinks I'm finally going to give him what he wants, but I never do" I say.
   "Oh you're so mean," he says in a playful tone, "to get rejected like that and be left all hot and bothered doesn't feel very nice" he says.
   "I see you've had experience" I wiggle my eyebrows and he laughs.
   "Maybe once or twice" he says and winks, I laugh.
     We finally pull up to the fro-yo place and we get out and go in.
   "Oh yeah I didn't have a chance to properly say hi, so hello" he says and kisses my cheek, I smile.
   "So is this like a thing Romanians do?"
   "What thing?" He asks, pretending to be confused but he is smiling.
   "Kissing people you don't know to greet them" I say. Smiling he says,
   "Not necessarily" he says.
   "Oh, alright"
   "If it makes you uncomfortable I can stop," he says.
   "No, no, you keep doing what you're doing, I don't mind," I say and I kiss him on the cheek. He winks, I smile, and we walk into the store.