Once upon a high school summer

Chapter 6- The date awaites

Lola goes in the bathroom with her clean clothes in hand. I pushed the hotel door open I yell out to Lola I would meet her in the lobby.

"Ok, just stay there and I'll meet you down there in a moment."

As I walk down the hotel hallway on the 3rd floor I admire the red wallpaper I press the elevator button and wait for it to open and I notice a flower painting on the wall and I start annualizing it. The elevator doors make a bing sound then opens and startled me when a man walked out.

"Oh sorry" I say as I move out of the way of the man getting passed me.
I get into the elevator and press the lobby floor button. I enter the lobby and sit on the couch as I see the TV on. I can't really understand it since it is in Italian but it looks like the news.
About 5 minutes in to me watching the TV trying to understand it, then I feel a light pressure on my shoulder I look back and see Lolas hand on my shoulder.

"You ready?" Lola says as she looks at me with a smile. I nod my head and get up and we walk about the hotels front door.
"Where to first? Should we go- WAIT I want to see the flower guy! Isn't the flower shop place right here somewhere?" Lola has excited as she points toward the flower shops direction.
I sigh and start walking there, Lola following right behind me.

"They must be getting a flower delivery for the shop." I say while looking a truck filled with flowers unloading into the tiny store. My gaze turns to the delivery person handing Jack a bunch of flowers and then set them in front of the shops doors.
"Is that him?" Lola says

"Yep, that's Jack Ali the guy who help clean up my leg last night."
Lola then does  something all of a sudden that makes me almost drop dead then and there.

"Hey!" Lola yells as she walks over to him as he is signing something the delivery person hands him. "You are Jack right? You help my friend last night with her knee." I then slowly walk over to them. Meeting my eyes with Lolas and see her smirk then meeting my eyes with Jack.

"Oh yeah, I helped you last night when you tackled that thief. Is your knee feeling better?"
Jack says as he looks at me.

"Yeah I'm fine."

"A thief?!" Lola yells looking at me "you never said that you tacked a thief! You just said you helped someone and got hurt a little!"

"Yeah what happened was a woman got robbed, and then the thief went and knocked me down. I then ran after him and somehow got the woman's purse back. Then I returned it and Jack here helped me clean it and he gave me that flower from last night." I say looking  at her "it's just that."

"We will talk about this a bit more later" Lola says looking at me. "Thank you so much for helping her"

"No problem, hey do you guys stay in that hotel right next door? I saw you guys leave there."

"Yes we do" I say bluntly. Jack then gives me sweet smile and me and Lola wave goodbye and we walk away."

"You had a cute flower shop boy help you! You should get his phone number!" Lola says nudging me.

"With what phone? Mine broke plus we just met calm down we probably won't even see him again and I haven't dated since three years ago." I said as we walk around aimlessly.

"We can get your phone fixed but in the mean time use mine and you should start considering dating again I know you don't want to be hurt again but you still have to try sometime it's better late than never." Lola says looking at me like a big sister.

I then sigh and I put my hand in my pocket to get out her phone to search up a place to go to.
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It's been a long day, we went all over town and we ate lunch out but now it's 6pm now and we just got back to the hotel.

" I am exhausted, I just want to curl up into a ball and be surrounded in pillows and blanket and fall asleep." Lola says with a huff as she sits down on her bed taking her shoes off and throwing them by her bag.

"I know how that feels and I am starting getting hungry" I say looking at Lola as my stomach growls.

"Here toss my phone and I'll order some food, pizza sound good?" Lola asks

"It always does." I then toss the phone onto her bed. I then go into the bathroom and hear Lola asking me what I want on my half of the pizza as I put my long hair into two beads.

"I'll take pepperoni with green bell peppers and don't forget to order drinks and breadsticks!" I shout loud enough where she could hear me through the door.

"Alright it should be her in less then 20 minutes they are close to the hotel but they have to make it. I'll go pick it up in the lobby when it gets here."

I say that's fine as I leave the bathroom after breading my hair. I lay down on my bed and get cozy into my blankets as the air condition turns on. I am on my phone watching comedy specials, before I knew it the pizza was already here.

"I'm going to pick up the pizza I'll be back soon." Lola says as she leaves the room, I wave goodby to her and then I get up to go my bag and get some comfy PJ pants. Just before changing into then I realize something g was in my pocket and I pulled out a crumpled up peace of paper and open it and it has a phone number in it, and I remember the older lady at the store. I take a second and then sighed and walked over to Lolas bed and pick up her phone she left in the room. I type in the number that's on the paper into the phone and write a text saying:

"Hello this is Casey, I am the girl who helped you in the supermarket last night, I am currently using my friends phone since my broke recently but you can get a hold of me through this number. :)"

I reread the message and then hesitated a moment before sending it. I put the phone back and changed into the PJ bottoms and grabbed a blanket and sat on my bead eating for Lola to get back.

After a few minutes Lola can In with the pizza box with breadsticks on top in one hand and drinks in the other. She sat them on my bed and open it and the smell when through the air.