I stumbled back in shock. As I took a step back, I felt myself falling . A strong arm pulled me upward, up into a chiseled chest. Damn! How could anyone's body feel so muscled? He softly held my arm and gazed into my eyes. After a full minute of just gazing in la-la land, he cleared his throat and dropped my arm.
"I'm Luke," he said in a sweet voice. He held out his hand, which I gladly shook and replied with my name.
"My name's Anabelle", I said as calmly as I can muster.
"So do you live around here?" he asked.
"Um yeah, I actually have lived here since I was five, so this is basically my home." I said as cooly took a swig of my just purchased water.
"So, is this your daughter?" he said gesturing at my little sister.
At the sound of that, I spewed what water was in my mouth onto the front of his jacket. "Oh I'm so sorry! I never meant to do that!' He threw up his hands and grabbed some napkins that were in the stroller's cupholder. I hurriedly set my water down and grabbed more napkins from the stroller's bottom storage area and shoved it at him.
"Um no, this is actually my little sister Carson," I replied. At the sound of her name, Carson cooed happily.
His face instanty reddened, which made him look cuter than he already was. "My apologies. So, do you live around here, because I just moved here and I was wondering if someone could show me and my brothers around town?"
He gestured at his two brothers that looked up from their phones at that moment. Woah! They were twins! They both had brown hair that was swooped up into a style that suited them both. Luke himself had lighter brown hair that was styled to the side.I mentally imagined running my fingers through it. It looked so soft and...
"Are you checking me out?" Luke asked breaking my thoughts. Oh shoot! I just meet this hot guy and I already got caught checking him out?!
"I was not!" I replied as I tried to play it off cool.
"Yeah whatever," he joked.
"Anyways! The one in the blue shirt is Brent, and the other is Trent," they both politely waved and I waved back.
"So will you be able to find time to show us around?" he asked returning his attention back to me.
"Well," I said pretending like I was going through my mental calender. "I guess I could maybe free up a little bit of space."
"Okay, well I'm going to go pay for this... and you free up that busy schedule of yours! See you around?" he asked holding up a jug of milk.
"Umm.. okay... see you around!" I replied carefully turning around and slowly walking out of the store, hoping to not knock anything else down.
I reached my car and pulled out my car keys out of my purse and unloaded my purchased goods into the backseat, along with strapping Carson into her carseat. As I was turning the key into the ignition, and shutting my door, I heard footsteps quickly running towards me.
"Anabelle! Wait up!" He appeared at my car door, and leaned in through the open window, propping his arms on the car door. "I was wondering if i can get your number, you know, to call you to set up a time for the tour."
"Oh sure!" I happily replied. he was getting my number? ahhhh!
He handed me his phone and I quickly typed in my digits. I scrolled up to the top and saw that something was already filled into the name slot. "Anna Banana," it read. I know it was dorky but he already had a nickname for me? I added an opened banana and a monkey emoji after my name. I returned his phone to him and he smirked at the icons I added.
"Okay, well I'll text you about that tour!" he told me as he walked away.
"Oh! and sorry about your jacket!" I yelled. "That's okay! I have to wash it anyways!" he yelled back.
As I drove out of the parking lot, I couldn't help but gleefully smile to myself.∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞
Okay, so sorry about the reeeaalllyy slow updates! I just don't know if I should continue this book! I mean, I have aTON of great ideas for it! I kinda rewrote this chapter so if you haven't read the updated version, please read it? don't forget to comment! Have a great day and happy reading!
