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TIME - Dinner Invitation

Chapter 10 - Dinner Invitation

Tana

It took me a minute or two to completely calm myself and regain my usual stature. With usual enthusiasm i barged through the front door shouting "Mom, i am back."

"Welcome home honey. How was your day?" Returned a voice from god knows which room. It was really difficult to locate the actual position of a person as these old stone walls gave a reverberating effect to our voices.

"It was great mom, how about you?" I lied, Hoping she wouldn't catch my lie.

From the room behind me opened a door and out came mom, she was dressed in a pink one piece, wearing her pink heels and showing off her brand new satte purse which we bought New York's Walmart sale. "How do i look?" She enquired.

"You look great. But what's the ocassion?" Honestly i thought there was a lot of pink on her but i didn't really wanna disappoint her so decided not to poke at it.

"I met this lady in the market today, when i went looking for a place for our café. She invited us to dinner tonight. Her place is just a couple of blocks from here."

"Oh mom not today. I don't want to go anywhere now. Can't we go any other time?"

"No. I promised her we will be there by 6:30. Now go get dressed quickly, she says she has a son about your age in same school maybe you can score a new friend there. We will here your first day experiences over dinner. Now be quick."

"Okay fine." I replied showing clear disinterest in the proposition.

Pulling myself up to my room i quickly put on the first thing my sight fell on in the wardrobe. Not today i just wanted to eat and sleep but now i would be bombarded with questions.

Amidst all this negativity there was a ray of hope that could fall in my favor though. Now since i couldn't avoid the dinner i hoped the guy to be really cute. I wouldn't mind going there for dinner everyday if that happens. Maybe I should put on better clothes, I wouldn't wanna create a ragged first impression on them. Undressing quickly i picked my favourite black dress. Curled my hair into a new look which suited my dress, and got out my new makeup kit which i had resisted using since last two months. Now was the time to seize this opportunity. Lets go tana.

Within lets say half hour i was ready to go walking down the staircase.

"Honey you look gorgeous. I really appreciate you taking that effort for me. You really look fabulous." Mom said clearly not expecting me to turn up so nicely after my earlier disinterest.

"Thank you mom. Lets move it then its almost 6:30." Trying my best to hide the real reason behind my newly generated enthusiasm.

"OK lets go." Mom gave the final nod as we stepped out of the door.

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Will tana really have her wish and expectation fulfilled? Will she meet her guy at the dinner?

Next chapter reveals it all....