Finding Miss Charming

Episode Two

I wake up out of bed having had a great night's sleep, ready to go talk to the girls this morning and select who to be going on the group date with.

Although I feel bad for having to choose some over others, I understand how this game works. I've got to do what's necessary to find the love that I'm searching for.

It's about eight in the morning now as I'm running my hands through my hair before tossing on my glasses. I've decided on wearing a white polo with a denim jacket, navy chino shorts, and a white pair of Vans. I've latched my watch onto my wrist before heading into the limo, hyping myself up.

"Are you always this energetic?" Stewart asks me with a wide smile as he messes with his nonexistent hair. "Always" I say in response with a smile of my own.

Once the limo halts to a stop the two of us make our way out of it and into the mansion.

Olive and Amara are wearing aprons and are just now preparing their plates as, I'm guessing they made breakfast for everyone else, the others are finishing up.

Those two are an interesting duo, but I like it.

"Good morning, girls, it's time for Hayden to select who she will be going on the group date with." Stewart informs them, stealing all of their attention from breakfast.

He looks to me and I nod curtly, before turning my attention to all of the beautiful girls in front of me.

"Alright. I've loved getting to know all of you, but there are some who have piqued my interest that I would really like to get to know further today. I'm going to choose... Olive, Hunter, Winter, Ferris, Mickie, and Mack." Although I wasn't sure who to pick for the last four at first, it came easier standing in front of everyone here.

I haven't gotten to have more conversations with Mack like the others, but from the moment I met her she struck me as someone who I would really gel with. Winter sparked an interest from me in our first two conversations, and Mickie just has this presence that can't be ignored. As for Ferris, I was just drawn to pick her, her name rolled of my tongue.

"Great choices. Well, you girls get ready for your date. The rest of you will stay here and be able to get to know one another better." Stewart informs everyone and subtly gestures for me to follow him out.

I look to all of the girls with a bright smile, to let even the ones that I didn't pick know that it's nothing to do with them. It's simply that I have to pick and choose precisely based on who I could see myself with right in this moment, who I want to get to know better.

Everyone here is beautiful and I can see potential in almost all of them. I look forward for what's to come.

***

The girls finish getting ready for today's group date and they're all being driven to my current location where we'll be doing our special activity for the day.

Today we're going to be bowling, and I'm honestly too excited for my own good.

I love bowling and I just find it to be something extremely exhilarating, despite that all there is to it is rolling a ball.

Winter, Olive, Ferris, Mickie, Mack, and Hunter all arrive and walk over to me with smiles plastered on their faces. Hunter is radiating excitement that rivals mine, though, and is practically hopping up and down with a cute grin.

"As you guys can probably tell, today we're going to be bowling! I'm super excited and I will warn you guys, I can get pretty competitive." I explain looking at each of them. Olive smiles at me before glancing at the lanes calculatingly.

I smile at seeing her focused expression before glancing over to where all of the bowling balls are located. "We should all go pick a ball from over there once we've gotten on our shoes, then we can go ahead and get started!"

We all do such, talking along the way, and everything seems to be going really nicely.

We decide to go in alphabetical order, having Ferris first, myself, Hunter, Mack, Mickie, and then Winter go accordingly.

Ferris rolls a solid gutter ball, causing everyone to break out into laughter as she turns to us with a pout. "Aw man, my secret's out. I suck at bowling."

I laugh some more at her words and she smiles at me seeming happy to have gotten a laugh out of me, I smile back warmly before standing up in preparation for my turn.

I grab my ball, and everyone cheers me on just before I roll the ball strategically. Everyone goes silent in anticipation as to see what happens and I knock all but one pin down.

"Darn it, I'll get it though." I proclaim, before doing so accordingly, achieving a spare.

I grin at everyone and all the girls, but Hunter, cheer as she just smirks at me, seeming ready to give me a run for my money.

Hunter stand up with a glimmer in her eye and selects a ball. She chooses an orange marble-like textured one and rolls it gracefully, effortlessly getting a strike, before turning around and winking at me.

My cheeks involuntarily flush and I turn away from everyone, not wanting to let any of them, especially Hunter, see how that affected me.

I look back over just in time to witness Mack knock down eight pins on her first roll, leaving the two farthest pins standing.

She pouts in the cutest manner, but I notice a confident look in her eyes. She turns back to face the pins and rolls the ball, knocking down the split pins perfectly.

It's official, I'm playing with bowling goddesses.

Everyone offers her cheers and a high five, including myself, but she grabs my hand and gives it a chaste kiss. The way she smiles at me so innocently tugs at my heartstrings and I'm aware I'm a dead woman.

There's too many amazing girls.

This is going to be a lot harder than I thought, and I already thought it was going to be extremely difficult.