What If?

"We have 4 options"

He was smiling. Red, curly hair, Brown eyes, facial hair, even eyebrows, He was far more attractive on the phone. Yes, he looked like his pictures but....cuter. I couldn't stop staring at him, how could someone like me get someone like him?. Suddenly, his deep, raspy voice spoke.

"Well at least you're not a catfish" he chuckles.

 "Yeah, sorry to disappoint if I did" I say, he shakes his head and giggles, "Dammit, i'm kinda into the catfish thing". I shake my head, smiling. 

"So....how's your day been beautiful?" Jacob asks.

 "Nothing super important, I just worked at my second job tonight" I respond back, trying to look cute...but it's really not working. 

"Ah, well I just arrived here in Jax about 2 hours ago, by chance...are you free tonight?" He asks, and I just froze, slowly tilting the screen so he doesn't see my face turn tomato red.  

Dude I just met you!....But I really wanna meet you......how would I get away with it?....Is this even a good idea?!  I think to myself as thoughts swirl in my head. 

 "I am but I doubt I can hang out....it's already almost midnight and I have work early in the morning" I say as I watched his mouth turn from a grin to a frown. 

"Oh okay, well maybe you could spend the night at one of your friends house?" Jacob offers, his suggestion can work and I do think I could get away with it but honestly I'm just super tired and I just met him, for all I know he could be some crazy guy out to get girls. 

"Um..I don't know, I'll have to see if my schedule isn't too hectic. I'm sorry haha" I say and he runs his hand through his hair and looks back at me, I can see the disappointment in his big, honey brown eyes.

  "Alright...this probably won't work but just hear me out okay?" I smile and nod and he proceeds.  "So we have 4 options here and I'll start from the most realistic one to the last one that will most likely not happen, but it's up to you so here we go. The first one is that I pick you up in the next 30 minutes, we drive around, go get some waffle house, talk and I take you back home when you're ready. The second option, is we do all of what I said but if I'm lucky enough, I'll steal a kiss from that beautiful face of yours.  The third one is that we do all of that, I take you back to my hotel room and we cuddle, I take you back home after. The 4th one is we do all of that but we do more than kissing and cuddling and you end up spending the night". 

I think about all the options, thoughts swirling all around in my head like bumblebees..thinking about everything that could  happen. I do want to hang out with him...but the part of me that is actually responsible and likes to do the 'right' thing is getting the best of me. 

 "So, which one out of all of those...do you like the most?" He asks and all I could think about was a small solution to all of this. 

"Would tomorrow work by chance?" I ask him and his face shot up with hope, like a sad little kid getting handed ice cream. 

"Yes!, yes it would. Oh but wait...don't you have work?" He asks and then reality hits and I'm struck again. Well I could just hang out with him tomorrow night when I get off of work, I'll just say I'll be staying with a friend...I think inside my head before speaking. 

"Um well I can try and see if tomorrow night can work? I don't get off til 11p.m at the movies but sometimes they send me home early if there's extra people" I mention, then his face lit up with happiness and excitement again. 

"That works! Oh my God! I can't wait to see you!" He says, there's no way he can be this sweet ..I think but I brush it off and look at him..."Alrighty then, tomorrow night" I tell him. 

 "Tomorrow night" He repeats. 

We ended up talking about anything and everything that night, what was crazy was it just all felt natural and calm when I talked to him, it felt nice to be able to have a conversation with someone without them making a sexual remark every 15 minutes. He talked about his military career and I talked about being in the program to enlisting, music and our opinions of how we think of art and different forms of it came up...it was amazing.  Soon, 11:30 p.m turned into 3:30 a.m and I realized that I had work in the morning.

 "Soooo as much as I would love to keep talking to you.... I have work at 9 in the morning haha, I think it's best that I hit the sack" I tell Jacob.

 "Alrighty love, I'll text you in the morning then?" He says and I nod my head and smile. 

 "Goodnight beautiful" He says and blows a kiss into the phone...and with that, I ended the call. I set my alarm and snuggled into my warm, soft comforter falling into a blissful, deep sleep where all I could dream about was him.