Ten Things We Did

Chapter 3

"So, for the movies tomorrow, can we see Allegiant?" Henri asked me at the lunch table. We had become really close over the past two weeks, and I was really happy about that.

She always got shy around me when she did something she thought was embarrassing, but I thought it was adorable. She was always careful of how much she ate and what she ate around me, and she never dressed 'lazy'. I felt like she thought she had to impress me, but everything about her was perfect on it's own.

"Sounds great to me! I'll pick you up at 5 for dinner and we can see the movie at 8:25?" I asked, I had already made a reservation at Katsuya Hollywood, one of the most expensive restaurants in all of LA. I was hoping that she would say yes.

"That sounds even better. I will be ready by 5, and we can go wherever you feel like driving." She said with a wink and a huge smile on her face. It was almost as if we both knew this would be a date, but neither of us wanted to say it or call it a date.

For the rest of the lunch period, we talked about my mom and how my dad left, and she talked about how her grandma became her legal guardian, which is why she moved schools. Her mother passed away 7 months ago to lung cancer and then her dad was killed in a drunk driving accident 4 months ago. She moved in with her grandmother in June, and now four months later in September, she was here with me.

"I'm so sorry about that. That is really awful. I can't tell you what I would do if my mom died." I said, tears secretly filling my eyes just at the very thought but I never let them escape my eyes.

"Don't worry about it. It happened, and I can't change that. I haven't told anyone since it has happened, only you." she said and I could hear her choke back tears. I pulled her into a hug, one that felt so amazing. She was wrapped so tightly around my body as hers began to cry. I set my head on her head and just pulled her closer. I felt like there was no way to get closer, but still I tried.

She looked up at me and giggled, "you smell really good." and with that, the moment was over. I just chuckled back and said "thank you, so do you princess."

She just stared at me. I just called her princess. What the hell is wrong with me? All I know how to do is take a perfect moment and make it awful. I can't believe I just called her princess.

"Princess?"

"I'm sorry. I just - I -"

"No, I love it." she said as she smiled really wide, the look of pure happiness on her face. I had never seen anyone look more beautiful with happiness on their face. She was pure perfection, and now, she was my princess. Not really mine, we aren't dating or anything, just my friend princess.

She grabbed my phone off the table and she scanned her thumb, I let her put it in when we hung out last Saturday and she let me put my thumb into her phone. She put her contact name as Princess with a queen emoji and a purple heart. After, she smiled at me, and slipped my phone in my back pocket for me.

I just smiled at her and took her phone out of her back pocket. She let out a small squeak as she grabbed her butt. She looked at me and I just winked. This was like a fairy tale girl in my life. I feel like I'm falling in love, but I don't know for sure.

I was trying to figure out what to set my name in her phone as. I looked down at her, I had no idea what to do. "Here let me see it."

I handed her back her phone and she typed in a name for me. She smiled really wide and bit her lip before she looked up at me and handed me her phone back. I looked in the messages and she put "My King" with a blue heart next to it. I smiled and looked down at her.

"Your King eh?" I said, I loved it, but I had to play it cool. I don't want her to think that I was in love with her or anything.

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