"You're ethereal. I feel like I'm in a movie." Harry quietly says as he draws shapes in the palm of my hand.
"All movies come to an end."
or
where two strangers unexpectedly fall in love.
|mature content maybe|
read authors note at the end pls he looked cute in the gif so I decided to share ++
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"Will that be one, two, or three scoops?"
The older man ponders the question while I try my hardest to keep my customer service smile plastered on my face. Even though he's the only one in here, it should not take this long to order ice cream. Hell, no one should be ordering ice cream it's winter right now, but I guess the delicious treat is good enough for any season.
"Make that one." He smiles a toothless grin and I shake the annoyance off before completing his order.
Once I'm done I begin wiping the counters off to reduce the amount of time for cleaning. My coworker, Carmen, comes from the back room and greets me.
"Hey, I just remembered you never texted me when you made it home last night. I thought you were murdered or something but I forgot to call cause my boyfriend came over to murder this pus–"
"Carmen!" I cut her off to stop her from finishing that sentence. We both burst into a fit of laughter before we eventually calm down.
I dab a tear from my eye, careful not to mess up my mascara. "Well, it's ok cause I texted someone else."
Carmen tugs at her curly afro and a loud gasp falls from her mouth. I roll my eyes at her reaction and am thankful no one else is in the store besides the two of us.
"London, you didn't tell me you had a man. What does he look like? Is he nice to his mama? That's the real question." She pushes her round glasses up her button nose as she questions me.
I bite my lip at the thought of Harry. "I'm gonna go off in a rant really quick, you ok with that?"
Carmen quickly nods her head and clasps her hands together and jumps up and down in excitement.
"He's so fine. When I say fine, I mean fine fine. He's tall, fit, clean, and so sweet. I know he's sweet because the man gave me his gloves because I didn't have any, right? So I take them and they were huge–"
"You know what they say about big hands?"
"Carmen, please."
Carmen zips her lips and pretends to lock it before giving me a thumbs up. I snort at her childish actions and continue.
"He also gave me his seat on the subway, which he didn't have to. So, somehow we exchanged numbers and I only texted him once to let him know I got home safe since he really wanted me to. I think I did too much, do you think I did too much? Oh god, what if he thinks I did too much." I start to over analyze everything I did last night, replaying the events over and over again.
Carmen grabs ahold of my shoulders and pulls me closer to her.
"Hey, earth to London! Snap out of it, you did fine for someone who hasn't had any male interactions since the beginning of mankind." Carmen let's me go and she encourages me to take a deep breath and exhale.
