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Chapter 13: Dinner

"What the fuck is all of this?"

The dinning table at my place was perfectly set, cutlery arranged on the table, food lined the middle of the table. There was ordered Chinese take outs. The guys stood at the head of the table, grinning at mine and Natalie's awestruck faces.

They hadn't cooked any food, but had been active enough to set the table and order the food. WITHOUT me and Natalie knowing or telling them. Clearly, they wanted it to be a surprise.

If two of the laziest asses of the century thought that it would be kind enough of them to do something like that for us, it's just more than a surprise.

It's surprise worth a heart attack.

"I knew you'd like it" Vincent said and asked us to sit down.

"Seriously?" Natalie looked too shook to say anything,"Are you sick Jared?"

He laughed,"no!" And pinched her cheek.

"How was shooting?" I asked both of them.

"Amazing! Vincent was incredible on his first shoot" Jared waved his fork at Vincent before landing it down on his 'celebratory' noodles.

"Apparently, my work called for a celebration" he smiled at me and Natalie.

"It did! I'll show ya'll the video" he said,"But there's something missing". Jared looked around my place until he spotted my Bluetooth speakers. He had been to my place so many times before, he knew it like the back of his hand. Then he got up and connected his phone. In a few more seconds,"Thinking out loud" by Ed Sheeran started blaring from the speaker. He brought the speaker to the dinning table and placed it in the middle.

"Why are you being so romantic today?" Natalie put her fork down and looked at a grinning Jared.

"I'm ecstatic, and in a mood to celebrate my new friend's amazing start" he paused for a moment and put his hand forward towards Natalie,"and love struck." He winked.

Natalie face instantly went pink. "May I have this dance?" He asked her and she stood up.

All of this set up seemed so cliché that it was difficult enough to admit that it was actually happening. Jared's behavior instantly put a smile on my face. Then I turned to see Vincent who's eyes had scrunched up in his smile. He looked at Natalie and Jared for a few seconds and then turned me. He extended his hand,"You wanna?"

For a split second all of this seemed so unreal, that I wanted to see something that would tell me that this was all a dream. For example, if I saw Vincent leaving right in front me, I would've thought that this happy moment was all a dream. But he didn't. He just looked at me with his blue eyes and waited for an answer.

Before my mind could've started analysing the situation at hand, I gave him my answer:

"Yes"

We stood up. Me in my loose pink T-shirt that read ,"Make me blush" (I got that t-shirt for free so I intended to wear it at home ONLY) and baggy black tracks. I definitely didn't look like someone ready for a dance. I looked homeless. Vincent on the other hand looked civilised enough for a dance. He sported a white T-shirt and gray pants.

"I'm thinking about how

People fall in love in mysterious ways

Maybe just a touch of a hand

Me, I fall in love with you

Every single day

I just wanna tell you I am..."

We swayed to song and I embarrassed myself a couple of times by stepping on Vincent's foot. I'm not a natural dancer, but Vincent is. And every time I stepped on his foot, I'd start getting my face pink, and he'd start laughing. Seeing him laugh, made me laugh too. I laughed at my own embarrassment, which got drowned in the happiness we liberated while laughing.

When we finally stopped laughing, he put his head again in the crook of my neck. Still not touching it, but keeping some distance. I shivered at the tension. He pulled his head back and smiled at me. The happiness in his eyes gone and replaced by what looked like sadness.

He turned to look away for a few seconds and started humming the song:

"So baby now,

Take me into your loving arms

Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

Place your head on my beating heart..."

When the song finally ended, we broke off. Natalie and Jared were hugging each other. Vincent cleared his throat. Then finally realizing that they were not the only ones in the room, they broke off. I and Vincent hid a small laugh behind our smiles.

Then we sat down for dinner once again.

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Now you know what the video attachment is :)