Finding Yourself

chapter 7

"Pepperoni pizza." I said waving the menu infront of the waiters face. He was wearing a black tux and looked disgustingly snobby.

Harry raised his eyebrows, after he had just ordered a fancy chicken thing I couldn't even say the name of.

"Really? Miss, we have a lovely-" The waiter said, pointing towards the menu.

"She said she wants pizza, she'll get pizza." Harry glared at him.

Harry was rather intimidating and the waiter fumbled with the menus.

"Yes sir." He stammered and walked away.

I grinned at Harry and he leaned closer to me and looked into my eyes.

"You're gorgeous, Melanie, I hope you don't let anyone tell you different." My insides melted as he smiled at me.

"When I asked you on this date, you said you had a boyfriend but not anymore." He started.

"Yeah, I did." I said taking a sip of my drink.

"What happened?"

I didn't really come on a date with Harry to talk about my ex boyfriend but I guess I didn't mind telling him.

"Well, me and Jack were friends pretty much all of our lives before we started dating. He asked me out and I was really happy, I guess. We dated for 2 years."

"Did he upset you?" Harry asked.

"No, he never did anything wrong to me. He was kind and sweet the whole time I'd known him. I did love him... I mean, I still do but not in the right way. I love him as you would love a family member or a bestfriend, ya know, I care for him that way. I fell out of love with him in the 'boyfriend' kind of way a long time before we broke up, I just never had the heart to tell him. I tried to love him properly again but I couldn't. When I finally broke it off with him, he was really hurt... which I did expect but he hasn't spoken to me since. I'm not really too bothered because if that's how he wants to deal with it and be happy then whatever but I'd still be here for him if he ever needed me. I think I'm the last person he'd ever run to for advice but ya know." I shrugged and smiled.

"When did you split up?"

Jeeez is this 21 questions about my ex boyfriend?

"About a month ago." I shrugged. "But as I said, I fell out of love with him long before then, so it feels longer for me... that sounds mean huh?" I looked down at my knotted fingers.

"No Melanie, things like that happen I guess. You're just finding yourself." He said smiling.

I took another sip of my drink and nodded in thought. "When was your last girlfriend then?"

"About a year ago. I was with this girl but we argued a lot and she was... demanding, to say the least... so I called it off with her. I haven't really dated anyone since."

"Why not?" I quizzed.

"I guess I've never found anyone interesting enough for me to date." He shrugged.

"You think I'm interesting?" I laughed. "Harry, I'm just the blonde girl who works in the coffee shop, everyone knows that."

"You're much more than that!"

"Okay, I'm just the blonde girl who works in the coffee shop that threw coffee all over you when we first met."

He laughed and leaned back in his chair. "See, you're not even aware of how precious you are." He said and his eyes sparkled.