coffee shop | emilio martinez

Chapter Eighteen

Rose's P.O.V.

We all walk out of the apartment, Emilio still having a frown on his face from losing the card game.

I slightly grab his warm hand, intertwining our hands and fingers together; a huge goofy smile instantly taking his whole face.

Briana turns around in front of us, giving us both a knowing smirk; and a face to tell her what had happened later. I keep in mind, later I must spill all the details to her about me and Emilio's date, as well ask her about her and Ivan.

We walk to my dream car, which happened to be Ivan's, his sleek white Tesla.

Ivan slips into the driver's seat, along with Briana in the front passengers seat.

I slid into the back passenger seat, behind Ivan, and Emilio right next to me. As if the space between us was too far apart from each other; he places his hand slightly on my thigh. Immediately sending butterflies into my stomach and electricity to pump through my system with my pounding heart.

He smiles in satisfaction, seeing the effect he has on me. I smirk, deciding to get him back slightly. I lean over him, placing my hand on his upper thigh, hearing him take a deep breath in, he groans as he leans back.

I quickly move back, giggling at his reaction, pretending nothing had happened; I look up to see Ivan and Briana deep in conversation. She busts out laughing at something Ivan had said. I take a good look at them, and think to myself. It's nice to finally see Briana happy with a guy, she deserves it.

Continuing getting lost in my thoughts, I look out, seeing the different cars zooming past us. I observe the different cars and people driving them, each of them having a story. I continue watching the cars, seeing one particular catch my eye.

I look to my left and see a familiar black truck driving beside us. I mean sure it could be a different truck, but I got the bad feeling all over again.

I shake my head slightly, forgetting about the incident earlier, probably just being too paranoid about everything.

I look ahead of us, to where Ivan was driving, to see we were almost to the casino.

Emilio keeps his hand on my leg throughout the whole ride there, the butterflies never leaving my stomach.

As Ivan finds a parking space and parks into it, he turns off the car, the doors automatically opening for all of us to step out.

Emilio meets me at the back of the car, wrapping an arm around my waist and pulling me closer to him. He then kisses my cheek softly and quickly, causing me to laugh.

"Okay love birds thats enough hurry on up!" I hear Briana call out to us, making us run up to her.

"She's just jealous." I whisper into Emilio's ear, slightly giggling, knowing very well she can hear me.

"Hey! I'm not jealous! I'm just super excited to go bowling and you guys are holding us back." she exclaims, flailing her arms everywhere dramatically as we walk into the casino. Immediately the smell of alcohol and cigarette smoke meets our noses, causing me to scrunch my face up in disgust.

If there is one thing I hated more than my lips being chapped, its the horrid smell of smoke and alcohol.

I quickly guide everyone to the bowling area, Emilio's hand still intertwined with mine as I start to see the doors leading to the bowling. A huge lit up sign reading Bowling in bright LED lights.

I excitedly make my way in, seeing that it was the time where they pull the big screens down, and play music, dimming the lights.

It's actually pretty cool and you can get pretty lit.