I rode my bike and while I tasted the sweet spring air, I saw a guy wearing a ¾ sleeved striped blue and black top, sneakers and a pair of jeans. As he stopped in front of me, I was curious why didn’t I feel anything? No fireworks no nothing. Hmmmmm…
He greeted me warmly. “Hey, quiet girl.”
We went biking around the park and we were talking actually talking. You might think I’m so immature, but that’s what you get when you are an anti-social like me. Exchanging information to someone else is fun, I realized that having friends wasn’t so hard it’s actually kind of enjoying. When we quickly stopped into a bench near the river bank, he told me to get my shoes off. He held my hand and he taught me how to walk with my eyes open. As we approach the water I saw a small boat just 5 meters away, too good the water shallow.
“I rented a boat for us.”
“Really? You must have put great effort on this.”
“Of course.”
I gotta say he’s romantic, we rode the boat and honestly I felt like we were at Venice with Mr. Banker and us on the gondola. The view was spectacular, the trees were laughing, the birds were whispering and the water was humming with the notes of a violin; It was so calm and peaceful but don’t think that we had physical contact I was at the other end of the boat, funny.
“You are very theatrical, I must say is this really the way you think of a romantic date?”
“Yes, you know Jay.” Stopped by my words
“My real name is Jerald Yra Crest, they call me Jaycee but I prefer Yra.”
“Okay, that’s a start. Well, Yra I have never met anyone like you a sensitive, you have that mysterious look in your eyes and you seem to so quiet but deep inside you have so many words that you want to let out but you can’t.”
“I’m an introvert and anti-social freak, okay? It’s my first time to go out with someone”
“You really need to get out of your comfort zone, are willing too?”
“Will that make me better person?”
“It will. So I am gonna challenge you into a bet, If you introduce yourself to 50 different people in this park you can do whatever you want and I will follow you without any hesitations. But if you can’t I can take you out on a second date.”
“You are killing me now. I can’t do that! “
“Well I haven’t said deal yet.”
“Uhm you just did.”
“You are a jerk do you know that?”
“I’m fully aware of it.”
I started at the play ground and of course he accompanied me I don’t know if he was dying of laughter inside or whatsoever but, what in a million years this activity is making me red as a tomato. I wouldn’t let myself alone so he decided to be right next to me the whole time. There was this Sandy Keller, Josh Dealer, Veronica Love, Cressida Valdez, Yolanda Perez, Marcus Shrike, Fidel Hirsch, and Ronny Greene. I forgot the names of the others but I didn’t make it to 50 I gave up by the 34th person named Dennis Shultz. I stopped I couldn’t take the humiliation anymore, other people does this stuff so well but why can’t I?
“You happy? I just embarrassed myself to the whole park.” With a low sounding voice.
“You can do it, you made it to 34 I couldn’t do that myself Yra but you did. You have potential you just don’t want anybody to see it.”
He’s glad though that I didn’t make it. -_-
“Where’s the next date? Eh?”
“Blasted you, you choose you won.”
He accompanied me to our house and while walking; again while I was with him I felt this strange tingly feeling on my spine. My weakness was him and he was sparkling like the world was in slow motion. I grew exhausted because we were such fools to walk our bikes home rather than to ride with it. He on his thoughts thought that it would be romantic; he’s really weird I can tell you. The sparkles never left his eyes as his voice was travelling my veins, what was those feeling called? Am I zinging with him? Then a light bulb grew in my mind, never does that.
He grabbed my hand and he made me ran, with the pleats of my dress swaying as my hair flowing I felt like I was inside a movie, but I’m not. We stopped at an oak tree and he held my hand, we had eye contact and as my face moved closer to his, my heart was beating like a drum, it’s weird I stood still and closed my eyes and when I opened my eyes again those charming green eyes was attached to my brain all these chemicals were rushing through my veins. But OUT OF NOWHERE, I stood back with my face looking so mesmerized and on my head it was going like, “STOP! IT’S TOO EARLY!”
I shouted at him with a resounding voice with my mouth saying “NO! This is not right at all, Raven we just met and this are all happening too fast.”
He looking shocked as well said, “I’m so sorry I don’t know what happened to me! Sorry Yra, I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to.”
“Let’s forget about all of this tomorrow we will wake up like nothing like this ever happened,” My voice was still frozen.
As we approached and decided to ride our bikes we didn’t said a word to each other at all, the silence of our voices was enough to make some deaf and as we were at the front of our house we bid goodbyes with just a wave showing no words at all.
I ate dinner normally but I went to sleep that night with Raven on thoughts, I just can’t help to think of the kiss that might have happened between us.
