One of those nights - s.m.

1 - How we met

Thank god it's Friday! It's 5pm and I could finally go home from high school. I was walking down that street with the dark little alley between two abandoned houses. I was not paying attention, as suddenly a man with a black hoodie approached from behind and attacked me. He held his hands in front of my eyes and mouth. I tried to defend myself as he carried me deeper into the dark alley, but I didn't succeed. I thought it was over and he's going to rape me, but then, all of a sudden, I heard a beating and the guy in the hoodie let go of me. I immediately turned around and I saw a guy (I must say he was very handsome) beating up the guy who tried to kidnap me.

As the handsome was done beating him up, he looked at me and smiled widely. I stepped forward and hugged him tightly. I started crying, I don't know if it was sadness or happiness; "Thank you so much, you're my life saver!", I said quietly into his chest and he embraced me, too. I noticed that he was so tall, I guessed 6 ft 2.

It was strange, because I didn't think: 'omg I'm hugging a stranger, I shouldn't be hugging him', I already felt comfortable around him. As we let go of each other, I took my purse and we walked back to the street.

"I'm so glad I could help!", he said still smiling.

His voice was fucking cute. And I didn't even know his name.

"Seriously, I can't thank you enough! What do I owe you?", I asked.

"I'm actually new to this city and I just saw this Italian restaurant over there; is it good?", he said.

"I've never eaten there; we should try it out!"

"I'd like to have a dinner with a beautiful girl there", he answered.

"If that's all... Let's go!", I said while thinking: "wait. Did he just call me beautiful??"