The Assistant

CHAPTER 16: F*** This!!

《JAMES》

        It's been a few days since the Christmas party and now we were just waiting for the New Years party to come before we left back to New York.

       However, ever since that night of the Christmas party, Belle seems to be a bit distant and almost as if she is in a way, upset with me. Except, every time I have tried to ask what was wrong she has found a way to quickly change the subject.

        I have tried to give her a little bit of space, however, whatever is going on, I feel like she really needs to tell me so that we can talk about it and try and make things better. Because it isn't so much that I'm worried about any awkwardness happening once we return. I truly do care about her and if she's upset over something I did, I would like to know so that I can try and make things right.

        She is somebody I can not lose in my life. Again, not so much on a professional level as my personal assistant, as much as my girl. I love the way that she makes me feel.

       I had asked her mom about some advice on things that are romantic and things that Belle loves so that I can take her out and hopefully, she would open up and tell me what's going on.

        So I set up a nice little candlelight dinner for us tonight at one of her favorite restaurants in town by also renting out the place.

       It took some time for Belle's mom to convince her to get ready for the date.

      Which as soon as I saw Belle walk down the stairs towards me, she looked beautiful wearing a lavender knee high dress with black lace trim on the bottom of it.

        "You look beautiful." I tell her with a smile.

        "Thanks." She says with a small smile as well.

        Well, here it goes, I thought to myself. Hopefully this works.

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         After we pulled up in front of the restaurant, I got out, walked over to the side of the passenger side of the car and opened up her door and helped her out of the car before we headed inside.

         Once we were inside and while the door was slowly closing behind us, I noticed her stopping and looking at the table that had two candles on it and a waiter waiting for us to be seated.

          "Oh my god. You did this?" She asks me as she turns and looks at me.

         "Of course. I wanted to take you on a proper date." I tell her with a smile.

         "Thank you." She says to me with a little smile.

        I begin escorting her over to our table and pull out the chair for her as she takes a seat, then I take a seat across from her.

        Once seated, the waiter handed us our menus and poured us some wine while deciding what we wanted to have.

        We both luckily already knew what we wanted as I had taken a look at the menu and we had ordered what we wanted.

         Then after taking our order, the waiter had walked off and I looked at her and couldn't stop staring at her gorgeous face as the candlelight bounced off of it.

          "This is really nice. Thank you." She says with a slight smile.

          "You're welcome. I just thought that our first date should be special." I tell her.

          "Well, I really do like this. But, I'm surprised you did all this for me." She says in a bit of a sarcastic tone. 

          "What do you mean?" I ask her confused.