Be My First [COMPLETED]

The Date

Chapter 6
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At Last! 14th..  Seriously I've waited for this so long...  After all it's my very first date and that also with Gary,  my first crush

I got up early after my beauty sleep and prepared to get dressed up fast..
I'm wearing a red dress with net sleeves..  It has two layers..  The first layer is of simple red cloth and then there is a layer of net over the cloth. It's a bit above my knees in length.  Since I've medium length of hazelnut hair.. .. I'm wearing small rose studs which are red in colour. And also I am wearing a pair of black stilettos... 
I guess I'm looking great...  Well now I need to move....

Gary had asked me to meet him near "Café and more"..  I'm heading that way...  Polly and Jessica had taken the responsibility of choosing my dress and all the accessories.  Ha.  Friends...  Rowena and Ashley were telling me what to do and what not to do..  Ashley has had love even earlier so I took her advice..  And Rowena had started to like three people..   so she was over excited about all these things... 

Well it took me fifteen minutes to reach the café..  When I reached there,  I found the shop empty.  I could see only one or two customers.  The shop was all lit with golden lights and candles..  Since it was Valentines Day,  they had all sorts of heart cushions hanging...  It was looking cute..  Just as I was exploring the shop decorations someone called me "Hi!  Rachel.."

I knew it was Gary...

" I knew you would turn up.. " he said with a smile escaping his lips...

" You look stunning" I said..

  Really he looked stunning..  He was wearing light coffee coloured jeans with black shirt..  No tie.. First two buttons of his shirt were open.  The shirt was tucked in...  Well polished and a bit pointed shoes..  Ahh!  Awesome... GOD,  the temperature has risen!! Is it global warming?? ( It's his hot bod silly!!)

"I had to match your beauty " he said...  So cheesy...  Well after he said it,  him and I entered the café..  He opened the door for me..  It was such a romantic environment....  Just as we both entered,  rose petals began to shower on both of us. Oh god..  He has arranged a lot of surprises I assumed..  Then he handed me a bunch of red roses...  " For you Ms. Rose Dawson"..  Well he knew Titanic was my favourite film.. " thank you Mr.  Jack Dawson.",  i replied... I accepted them and we went on to our table...  It was all candlelit. The lights were dimmed to the least..  He pulled out the chair for me.. 

So Gentlemanly..  Then he sat across the small round table in front of me. I placed the roses in a well decorated flower vase. We then ordered some coffee. 

I could recognise one of the customers..  It was Jack..  A very naughty friend of Gary who has many relationships... But he is of a very sweet personality...  Well then I could also see Rorita sitting opposite him...  And I figured out that they were just helping Gary to get it all good... You Know,  helping friend to get his first date all right...

Nevertheless,  I came back to looking at Gary.. He seemed very nervous about my answer...  After the coffee arrived we started to have it as if we had nothing to eat for years...  Seriously we both were nervous about this evening...  We were laughing at the "coffee moustaches"  that we had after every sip...  We laughed out and clicked cute selfies...  Though I believe in living the moment to the fullest till I can,  rather than spending time on taking selfies,  I just went on to capture those moments I dreamt of.

We had great fun. It didn't at all seem we were dating. And then after paying the bill ( which we paid 50-50),  as we were walking out,  suddenly a violin started to play in the background. It took me by surprise. I turned back to see what the matter was  and found Gary standing at a distance. There were candle lights everywhere. Then came the glitter,  rose and small paper hearts shower all together . I felt so special.. Every heart had  " I love you"  written on it.. I just stood still  as if someone spelled some magic on me..  I stood still,  totally. .  And then Gary slowly walked up to me,  held my hand and kneeled down. " Now I say it again,  Rachel ,  I love you a lot. It's you who I care more specially. And it's important to know if you feel the same for me too. WILL You be MY VALENTINE?.? "

It all looked like a fantasy.  As we stood there for five seconds in silence,  a spark of fire started to light on the floor just behind Gary..  I was scared. And then a trail of fire went on to burn until it had taken the shape of a closed heart. Me and Gary just in centre of the heart,  standing on the floor.

Tears came to my eyes,  I can't explain why. But I just felt so special. Gary stood up and as soon as he did so I hugged him tightly. He hugged me back. I felt so loved. So taken care of. So important. So special. And then I said those words I've been meaning to tell him for months. Those words that would make all this fantasy be real. Those four little words

"I loved you forever "

I did it. I said it. I said my own four words. My Words that I never thought I would get a chance to ever say. I was so mesmerised with all of it. The whole evening was magical. He was so magical. So surreal.

Then as the lights were put on once,  I and Gary came back to our positions from the hugging posture.. We went out hand in hand...  He offered me a drive in his Black Jaguar...  I stepped in..  It was a totally silent drive..  I reached my home too fast..  I didn't want the drive to end so fast... 

Gary opened the door for me.. .
I stepped out and thanked him for making the evening remarkable...

He replied with a smile " Well if Jack didn't help, I couldn't have pulled this off this good." I giggled. But i just got so excited I kinda snorted. I quickly stopped realising I just ruined my impression. I looked up at him and he went like " Oh... My..." as he laughed too hard and snorted too! And that made the two of us, snorting, chuckling like two drunk teens.

It was good five minutes after which we stopped laughing. He looked at me. I looked at him. And we just looked into each others eyes.

" well.... I had a lovely evening." he said.
"me too" I replied taking in a deep breath. " so..." he trailed off as he came closer. " so?" I teased him realising maybe we'll kiss now. " Good night I guess." he said holding my hand. " yeah. A good good night" I replied ready to kiss. And then he kissed me on the forehead. And it felt so innocent and pure and so good. I got into his car and looked at me one last time and he drove away.
It was the best 14th Feb I ever had.....

(given I never had a boyfriend though one time me and my best friends had this crazy singles party. Well it's a story for another day)

Thank you Gary,  for making it special............

After Gary left,  I waited outside my house for at least ten seconds trying to control myself from smiling...  I was always thinking about Gary....   GOD....  It was him only in my brain...  It was him all around me...  It was him and only him....

Ashley called me up a while later.
I described everything to her...  The decoration,  our entry together,  the fun,  the proposal ,  my answer and lastly the silent drive...  It took me an hour to tell her everything... 

After listening to everything she was like " however charming he can be, I'm still your top priority". I assured her that she was and we went on babbling for like an hour and then we hung up. I was too overwhelmed to sleep. Too overwhelmed to do anything actually. I just hopped into my PJs and pulled the covers and dozed off listening to my playlist.