The Tattoo Artist's Bouquet

K E I T H

The Blanket of Stars
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Lance and I converse, taking little sips of our drink once and a while, while wait for you food to come.

Our conversation flowed like a smooth river, and I was quite entertaining too.

Lance would, every once in a while, look up at the celling of the terrarium, his big blue eyes bright and hopefully as if imagining the roof would open up.

Soon enough, Shay came with a couple plates.

Lance had ordered a chicken pesto linguine. It was linguine noodles covered in a light green sauce all over it, sliced chicken breast sprayed over the mix, dried tomatoes on the top to finish it off.

Then Shay placed my plate onto the table. It was a miniature pizza but spread with tomato sauce and circles of mozzarella. Instead of the cheese covering the whole pizza there were white spot on the pizza where the mozzarella had melted and it had small basil leaves sprinkled at random.

Once both of our plates were placed on the table we made eye contact. Lance gave me a small smile.

When Shay left, we started to eat.

When we finished our food, we talked even more, while deciding on dessert. We decided on a coffee and chocolate tiramisu cake.

Lance and I laughed and talked for what seemed like hours,(but really, it was only 10 minutes, but we don't talk about that..) and each passing minute with Lance was amazing.

Then something clicked. I don't know what simulated it but everything just clicked into place. I looked intensely into the glowing blue eyes, until I started to notice him get nervous and wriggle around in the seat. But I didn't stop starting. I just knocked the intensity down a notch.

Then out of nowhere, a loud creaking came from the celling of the terrarium and we both looked up.

We could see the roof was opening and revealed a blanket of navy blue and stars littered all over, as in flicked there with paint.

It was beautiful.

Then I started at Lance while the rest of the roof opened up, and I saw light slowly take over Lance's face, his eyes glimmering even more as the starry night shone into his blue irises.

((Sorry this chapter was so short and late! Tests suck.. so does school.... anyways comment, vote (if you want... I mean... you don't have to.... but like.... XD) , and I hope you enjoyed, or are enjoying so far!))