I contemplated on whether to wear the red or black maxi dress. Its been 6 months since Alex and I have been dating and I wanted to look 'red carpet worthy'. And besides I haven't been looking very sexy in these past six months, looking after Maya is not as easy as it seems, and now she's started to talk, pffft, my head can't take it, but I guess it is better than her crying all the time...
It was like she knew I was thinking about her because seconds later she walked in and came over to give me a big hug , I planted a soft kiss on her forehead . I propped her onto the bed, while I put on the black dress, my hair and make up was already done, so I couldn't help but grin at myself in the mirror. Maya dragged me into the living room and pushed me onto the couch, as she fixtated her body onto my lap, she started to wipe her nose on my front, I sighed.
It wasn't like I couldn't clean it off, I stood up to find I had been sitting on pizza, I guess I should go change?
My hand attached to the plastic barrister and I scurried down the stairs carrying Maya . I opened the door to find my friend Challey standing at the doorway.
"Hey, thanks so much for looking after her" I blurted whilst handing over Maya .
"Dude, you've said that to me like a hundred times already, chill, I owe you." she replied in a calm tone.
Now don't get me wrong I love Challey to bits but she wasn't exactly the most responsible person but she's stuck with me through thick and thin and to be fair, she was one of the only people who did so or didn't see me as some sort of charity case. I haven't had the most easiest of lives but at this moment I was happy and all I cared about was now, you know, all that live in the moment crap. I looked up at the clock to see it was 7:05, he was supposed to pick me up at 7:00. I propped myself on the windowsill and stared outside, wondering if he was going to turn up and if he was, what was holding him up. After 5 minutes of eternity, my ancient Nokia ( what did you expect a new dazzling iPhone 5C) started to vibrate, message popped up, it was from Alex.
I opened the text to read, 'I'm gonna be half an hour late, work hold up, dw I will make it up to you.' I
let out a sigh of relief, and went over to the kitchen to turn on the radio. I danced to the music while popping several mints in my mouth. Lets just say closing your eyes whilst dancing isn't the smartest of idea's. No, I wasn't sent a blessing, I didn't trip and hurt myself, I hit a stack of about seven plates and they all shattered to smithereens. Money is tight, after all I did work at a minimum wage job and my pride stopped me from asking people for money. I started to sweep up the mess when I heard the doorbell ring. I got up and walked swiftly to the door. To hear Challey chuckle.
"What" I questioned whilst turning
"Don't go all Taylor on me" she reply squeezing her words in between fits of giggles.
That joke was so crap, that I couldn't help but grin. I took a deep breathe and grabbed my clutch. I extended my hand to open the door. To see Alex in a sleek black tuxedo, with a finely ironed shirt and a cute bow tie. It was kind of sweet that he bothered to look nice for our date, to impress me? I really didn't deserve him. He looked me up and down and remarked
"You look hot"
hot, out of all things he could say, do I look like a temperature? Calm down he mean't it in a nice way. I plastered a smile on my face and replied
"Well, they don't call it global warming for no reason."
He smiled politely. Tension was forming fast. As we walked to the car he muttered something along the lines of 'is it real'.
"Fine sir you look dashing tonight" I thought aloud.
"Thanks" he replied, obviously didn't understand the meaning of roleplay.
Why was I feeling so negative, why now? Why was I picking at these little things, disecting them and overthinking it. I hopped into the car, and turned on the radio, I tilted my head so I could see out the window. Neither of us bothered to make smalltalk. After aabout 20 minutes of well, awkwardness, the car stopped. We both stepped out, and my eyes feast upon a glamorous international cuisine restaurant, with beautiful interior decorations, All the females looked like supermodels and I couldn't help but feel out of place. I tried to pull a face that may make the other females envy me but ( with my Apple/pear figure ) that obviously wasn't going to happen. I sucked in my cheeks, stood tall, stuck my but out and let my hands relax and gently sway to the rhythm of my steps. A waiter took us to a table and gave us a menu. I scanned the words on the menu dismissing the description in italics . Where were the burgers and chips, the nachos and guacomole, the cookies alongside the milk. The only thing on the menu that I knew of was caviar and quite frankly that was nasty. I decided to get matsuake, it sounded exotic. Whilst waiting for the food I felt a hand on my thigh. I looked down then up and smiled. And no, I wasn't getting horny, I smiled to be nice, but in actual fact I was really uncomfortable.
Alex made conversation which cancelled out any tension but I wasn't feeling anything tonight. The waiter came back and set a plate of mushrooms in front of me before turning to leave.
"Excuse me" the waiter turned around to face me as I proceeded to talk
"I didn't order this, I ordered matsutake" I complained. The waiter raised his eyebrows before saying
" Matsutake is a japenese mushroom, it says it in the description under the word" before shoving me the menu.
"Oh..." I quietly said before attempting to eat my meal, mushrooms*. I looked up to see Alex munching on a lobster with some sauce on the side. I really want to swap plates. I guess he caught me staring.
"Do you want some" he asked. Yes, I do.
"Nah, it's fine" I replied, ask me again please...
"Okay, I saw your dress in a windowsill of a shop, there was a black version right" I should've chose the black one.
"Yup" I muttered back. "Well it's great you chose the red one, because the black one, was as ugly as hell."
I burst out into fits of laughter, Alex was a posh boy when he used phrases like that, I might as well have put a vacuum in my mouth for all the air that was removed. One great conversation leads to another. Sometimes the best things in life are the things that are unexpected. My phone started to ring, I answered immediately when I saw Challey's name dancing across my screen.
"Hello, is everything ok"
"Come home now"
"Why, has something happened to Maya" I bit my lip , as fear ate at me
"Yeah, she just met her birth father." Challey replied her voice shaking before abruptly disconnecting.
Sorry about the wait. Anyways thanks for reading, and for the two votes xD (I think both were me) MINOR DETAILS!
