Never Fall in Love

Chapter 5

How the hell did he get here? Did he take a cab or a bus. We are like 5 minutes away from each other in a car.

"Um Theo." I said. I wasn't going to ask, but I needed to know.

"Yeah." He said calmly as if there was nothing missing.

"Yeah, uh, where is your car?" I asked him, while gesturing to the drive way.

"Oh it's still at Publix." I looked at him like he was an idiot. "I walked here. I'm gonna get it tomorrow morning."

"What?!" I said as if he was a mad man. What the hell was he thinking walking here. That's like a 30 minute walk. "You are the most insane human being that I have ever met. Well besides my mom, but that's a whole other story." I started to laugh and he joined in.

"She can't be that bad." He said unbelievingly, but I assured him that she was.

We both laughed at my joke and he leaned down since he was WAY taller than me and he wrapped his arms around me. He gave me a hug which was unexpected, but it wasn't like it was a romantic hug or anything just a friendly one. It was nice. He started to walk down my driveway.

"Where are you going?" I called out to him. He just turned back with his arms out to the side of him.

"I'm going home." he called while turning back around. I started to run down to the end of the driveway where he was at.

"Hold on." I said as I jumped right in front of him. He looked confused to as why I stopped him. "Let me take you to get your car, and if not, then let me take you home." I told him.

"No, that's alright. You don't have to do that." He assured me.

"Please, I want to." I said nodding my head toward my car. I started to walk and he followed right beside me.

I ran into the house to grab my keys off the granite countertop, which was the exact place I set them down last night. I came back outside and pressed the unlock button. I set my hand on the door handle, which was cold and wet from the rain that had happened a few hours past. Theo opened his door and was putting his legs in the car, about to sit down. I got in and closed the door. I put the key in the engine and started the car. I went to go play the radio, but Theo was thinking the same thing and we touched hands. We both moved our hands and said "sorry" at the same time. We started to chuckle awkwardly.

The car that was filled with silence soon ended with the joyous sound of Green Day's "Static Age". That definitely broke the ice. I mean we were jamming. I was tapping along with the music on my steering wheel and singing to the top of my lungs, which was my ugly voice and I think I scared Theo a little bit. But he joined in. He was head banging along to the beat and he then started to ugly sing as well, I might add. It was so much fun and we were laughing our asses off.

I pull into the Publix parking lot a few minutes later and parked my car right next to his, thank God it's after hours and no one is here. I grab the keys out of the ignition and pull the door handle to push it open. But to my surprise before I can do so, Theo was standing there holding the door open for me. What a gentleman!

"Why thank you kind sir." I giggled as he bowed to respond.

"My Lady." He said in a British accent. He smirked at me and he held his hand out in my direction.

I unbuckled myself and took a hold of his hand to help myself up. He looked down at me with a twinkle in his eyes. I turned beet red in a matter of seconds. I looked down and tried to hide it. He chuckled at me and lifted my chin up so I would look into those gorgeous green eyes of his.