Can't help falling in love with you

■●Date? part 2●■

I close up the studio and hop in my car and start driving to central park.

Once I arrive I walk around until I see Stephan. I sneakily ran up to him and stranded on the tops of my shoes to close his eyes. "Guess who" I said in his ear." Whoever could it be. They must be quit small cuz I'm being pulled down" he says and I can feel a smile form on his face. I stop covering his eyes and playfully slap him on the arm. " I am not that short okay I'm 5'4 the average height of a woman" I say "Well I'm 6'0 so to me your short" "By like six inches "I say "Six inches are still six inches" he said with the grin and it took me a second to figure out what he was talking about. "You are such a child" I say finally realizing what he meant. "I know, now come on let's go" he says grabbing my hand. It felt right. Our fingers just interlocked and the warmth from his hand in my hand felt right.

"Reservation for Stephan Trent" He says while looking at me. "Right this way sir" the waiter said while taking us to our table. Thank god Chris or my dad don't come near this area a lot.

"So this is a date" I say as I but my hand on my cheek. "If you insist I accept your offer" he says putting his hand on top of mine. That took me by surprise and I think he noticed because he cleared his throat and removed his hand.

"Will that be all" the waiter said after taking our order "Yes thank you" we both say. We look at each other and just have a small laugh.

The whole time we were eating we got to know each other even more. Once we were done with our food we had a small argument on who was gonna pay in the end I won, as I should have. When we got out there was music playing near by and we went to see what it was about. It was a small concert by some band that does covers and we stayed listening them for what felt like forever maybe like 4 hours. In was now around 6:30 and the sun was starting to set then the song Stand by me by Ben E. King.

"May I have this dance" I hear Stephan say " Of course" I say with a smile and we started to dance to the song. This felt right but wrong at the same time. Then I see Stephan start to lean in. "I'm sorry I cant" i say leaning away, he just stares at me. I was about to walk away but he grabbed my hand again turned me to face him and he hugged me and I just melted in the hug. I forgot about all my worries and just wanted to stay in this moment. "I'm sorry I came on to strong" he says to me and I just hug him tighter.

At some point we let go. "Hey let's go to my studio I want to do something" I say as I take his hand. We had taken different cars but we arrived at the studio. I walked in and pushed him up the stairs. I take out a canvas and start sketching. "What are you doing?" Stephan asked me with a small laugh at the end I just shush him. About 20 minute later I was done with the sketch and stephan was just laying down on the couch taking a nap. I told him this might take a while so he sat down on the couch and fell asleep. I go get my paint and start painting. About three hours later I was done it was now around 10pm.

"Hey wake up sleepy head" I say trying to wake him up. After like five minutes of shaking him he finally wakes up. "What time is it" He asks right now his voice should so deep and calm. "Look" I say showing him the painting. It was on a 64x64 canvas. "This is amazing" he says with a smile. "Its how we met".

The painting is of a taxi and two people going for it at the same time. They were the only people with color the rest was black and white.

"I want you to have it" I say " I cant take this it's to good. "I insist" I say while putting my signature and the date on it. He finally agreed to take in after 10 minutes of going back and forth. "Its getting late I should go back home their probably wondering where I'm at" I say with a sad smile. I don't want to leave it felt right it just being me and Stephan, he makes me actually laugh and smile not that fake smile thing I always have to do but I have to get back to my reality. I can't stay in this dream any longer , I have to wake up.

We say goodbye while he puts the painting in his car and we hug. A hug I wish could last forever. After what felt like an eternity we had to let go and go our separate ways.

I put up to my house and park my car ,everyone is probably asleep by now. So I quietly walk up to my room to find my brother sitting on my bed. "Hey" I say quietly, my parents are most likely asleep. "Who was that guy" He says nonchalantly. "What"

《Oh shit he know. Fuck he knows. He can't know how can he. Was he spying on me. When did he see us. Is he going to tell dad. What's he going to do. Fuck.》

All of these thoughts where going through my mind. "The guy at the park" he says looking at me. "I dont know what your talking about Lucian" I say acting like I don't know anything. "Don't play dumb with me Gigi if dad finds out he will murder you" he says in a really serious tone "I don't know what your talking about" " I won't tell him because your my sister and I don't want nothing to happen to you but you have to stop this before you get caught. So please stop." He says sounding worried and with pleading eyes. "I don't know what your talking about but I will be ok, thank you though" I say with a smile. He just leaves the room.

"What the fuck am I doing" I say to myself.