Lovers' Maehem

Chapter 45

Maeve

October 16, 2180

7:56pm

I slip on a floor length royal blue dress with a slit down my chest, and silver straps that form a cool open design on my back, along with silver sandal heels and some jewelry. I put on some mascara and lip gloss along with the promise ring-necklace from Griffin. I have no idea what we are doing, but I have to say I'm excited. This is the first time my mind has been able to drift from my family in days, though I think that's the point.

"All ready," Griffin says grinning at my outfit. I nod and 'crutch' my way to the elevator and down to the limo Griffin ordered for us. I smile,

"You know this is way too over the top," I tell him as he pours me some champagne and flashes a mischievous smile.

"This is just the start of it," he whispers as the limo drives for a good 25 minutes to... well I'm not sure. Griffin gets out of the limo first, just to hold the door open for me. I've missed all this romantic stuff. I gather my surroundings, a dock with all the fancy yachts and cruise ships that dock in Miami.

"Oh you didn't," I laugh, smiling uncontrollably. Griffin knows me too well, and the fact he rented a yacht... "God I love you," I say to him as he helps me up onto one of the romantically lit yachts nearby. The candles and fairy lights and roses make my heart flutter, and as soon as we get seated a waiter dressed all fancy comes out pouring us more champagne and placing a basket of bread.

"Ze chef will be out in several minutes to discuss today's courses," he says in a heavy

italian accent. Griffin and I continue making small talk - mainly me gushing over this until the chef, an old italian man comes out, with nothing but a notepad.

"Hello, my name is Frank, and I am your chef today," he says kissing my hands. "For our appetizer we have a caesar salad with our homemade caesar dressing and bread crumbs. For the main course we have a sauteed steak with fried potatoes, and finally a caramel creme brulee for dessert. Does this sound good?" he asks. I nod and give him a warm smile,

"That sounds absolutely perfect," with that the waiter immediately comes out with caesar salad, which I have to say is somehow better than any other salad I've ever had. "So where'd you get the idea to do all of this?" I ask Griffin as we wait for the main course.

"You seemed really stressed and focused on the whole mission stuff and I thought maybe you could use a nice romantic dinner, and night out," he says, "plus Lucas told me about this food company and I had to try it." He winks at me and I grin ear to ear. Everything seems too perfect right now. I want to freeze this moment and keep it forever, but I know very well soon enough we'll be onto the mission tomorrow night and capturing Indie. The perfect moment will soon be gone, so I have to enjoy it while I can.

The rest of the night goes by quickly, and as we come closer to the dock, Griffin hands me a small bag with a bathing suit, and we go for a night swim in the ocean. When we get back into the limo, sopping wet, our nice clothes ruffled in a bag, I have to say I don't even care about the useless dry cleaning we are going to have to pay for. Tonight was so fun, and Griffin planned it out perfectly. We have some of the caesar dressing, and creme brulee stuffed into the bag, as well as a small blue rock Griffin grabbed from the bottom of the ocean during the swim.

"Thank you," I say kissing Griffin on the cheek as we settle into bed at the end of the night. "Tonight was perfect. After all the Blake stuff is over we're going to have to do it again." I bite my lip, smiling at Griffin, the lights turned off so I can barely see the sparkle in his deep, ocean blue eyes.