I wake up and my TV is still on. I hurry to turn it off and check my phone to see if May has called at all. To my surprise she hasn't contacted me at all. Damn that hurt a lot. I went to go take a shower letting the hot water hit my muscles. That soft bed really makes me feel like I'm sleeping on the hardwood floor. After wrapping a towel around me, I get a knock on my door.
"Yes?" I say.
"There's a package downstairs for you honey!" My father yells.
"Oh Ok great." Who the hell is sending me packages?
I get dressed and go downstairs and sure enough there was a gold box sitting on the counter.
"Who's it from?" I ask.
"Anonymous" he shrugs. I take the package upstairs and sit it on my bed. After blow drying my hair, I sit to open it. Inside, underneath a pile of blue wrapping paper, is the most gorgeous blue dress I've ever seen in my life. It had lacey blue embroidery all around it and a slightly see through collar. Underneath there was a little card.
To: Kayla W.
Every pretty girl, has a pretty dress. So I bought the best dress I've ever seen, for the best girl I've ever met. (You're still really pretty BTW) -Dave F.
I was in complete shock.
Never has a guy ever gone to great lengths to go out and buy a dress for me to wear out with them. I couldn't even get my own friend to buy me chips! I layed the dress back in the box and set the card from Dave on my dresser so I can read it everyday.
I figured since today was Friday I might as well do something fancy and go get my nails done. I caught a bus to the strip mall a few miles down and found a little nail shop. I let them do blue acrylic and it turned out really pretty but my cuticles hurt like hell.
I felt like a little school girl thinking this but I wish I had Dave's number so I can thank him for everything that's he's done so far. He bought me a damn mattress! Anybody who buys me sleep, can win my heart any day.
Since I didn't have much to do, I went downstairs to do something with my father which is the main reason I was in Cleveland anyway!
"Hey dad" I wave. He is already awake, spinning some nasty clay stuff on a wheel.
"You like pottery?" He asks.
"Never tried it but it looks cool." I nodd.
"Come try it." He pats the cushion on the floor and I walk over to him.
He's spinning the wheel with the clay on it and pressing a pedal making it spin.
"Wanna make a mug?" He smiles.
"Of course!"
I mold the shape of the handle while he molds the mug seeing that he is a lot better at pottery than I am. We fire it in the oven which I didn't know you could do without a kiln. Afterwards we paint our names on it, mine in blue his in red which I learn is his favorite color. We let it air dry some more then we wrap it up and put it in the cabinet where all the "special" dishes are stored.
We talk a lot and get to know each other more and I learn that he calls himself the "Daddy of Mac-N-Cheese", that had me dead rolling. We talked more about what colleges I was interested in and we watched one of his favorite movies 'Finding Nemo' which I happened to love very much myself. I ended up falling asleep on the couch and woke up in the morning.
The couch sure did feel better than that bed. I quickly remembered that today is Saturday and I have a date with Dave. I ran upstairs to the shower and tried to scrub all the nasty off of me. I grinned so hard that my mouth started to burn as I slipped the pretty blue dress over my head. Surprisingly it fit really well and hugged me perfectly at the waist. I didn't have any fancy heels so I put on my white flats which seemed fancy enough since they were really clean. I brushed my teeth and threw a couple of sticks of gum into my purse. I had like 10 more minutes left until 6 and I was running around making sure I had deodorant and that I didn't have lip gloss on my teeth. I don't know if I should have put on makeup although I don't own any, maybe it would have been appropriate. I rush downstairs when there's a knock on the door. My dad opens the door and I see Dave standing on the porch in a dark blue suit and gym shoes. I laughed a little at his lack of dress shoes.
"Um sir I'm here to see her." Dave says pointing towards me blushing a little. I didn't realize I was walking down the steps all Cinderella-like so I almost tripped over my foot at the last step, real smooth Kayla, real smooth.
"Father I have a date with Dave tonight and I will be home arou-" Dave cut me off. I'm getting sick of him doing that.
"She will be home at 8:30 sharp." He says for me. We wave goodbye and walk towards his car. Its oddly silent and I begin to regret saying yes to the date.
"You look amazing in that dress tonight." Dave breaks the silence.
"Well you did pick it out." I say.
"I said you look amazing in that dress, not the dress looks amazing on you." He smirks.
"Oh um thanks." I stutter.
It goes silent again. I can feel all the tension in the air.
"So where are we going?" I decide to speak up a little.
"Its a surprise." He says.
"I don't like surprises." All the surprises that I've gotten in my lifetime had either been something I didn't like or somewhere I didn't want to be.
"Yet you're in the car with me going on a date when I never did tell you where we were going." He smirks again.
He had a point. Although I hated surprises, I had a feeling this would be a good one.
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