Can love happen when you are unwilling to love again?
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"Okay it's like this, he and I thought it would be a good idea to make it a double date kind of vacation, so he is bringing his closest friend to meet you." She cringed like if she was w...
Turns out that the restaurant was actually a café. It was cozy and cute fancy looking at the same time. I spotted my friends seated in a two sofa table, my space obviously next to Leo. I sat down and Leo slid a glass of Ice Americano my way. Just what I wanted. "You remembered, thank you!"
He smiled at me shyly and took a sip of his own cup coffee. The waiter came back and we ordered our food. Lunch was fun, N is hilarious. Sometime after our meal the waiter came back. "Are you tourist?"
The waiter asked us with a sly look on his face. We looked at each other and nodded, he smiled. "My name is Ken, may I offer you the house mission?"
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"What is this about?" I think N was short on patience.
"Okay as you may not be familiar people come around to this particular café to participate in a café mission. We give out prizes to the people that complete these missions and normally the prizes are entrances to shows or touristic places around the island. Would you be interested?"
"We have nothing planned for this evening anyway...can we?" Pye was giving us the puss in boots face.
"Why not!" I said, we had nothing else to do."
"Choose two numbers from up on that wall." He spoke directly to Leo who he had closest.
"6 and 20."
"6 is the Mystic Botanical Garden, a very romantic place for couples and your mission according to number 20 is to take a couple picture in either the maze or the floating bridge. We will not give you a map, but you have to find your own way the garden and find these locations, take the picture and bring it back to me in less than 12 hours."
"What' s the prize?"
"The couple that finds it gets a free couple spa treatment at our islands famous hot springs."
"What' s the catch?" I am always suspicious.
"Clever lady...The picture theme of the picture that you have to portray is intimacy. The prize only applies to the couple that brings in the picture first, as in twoof you not four. Do you take the challenge?" Panic mode on full alert that means that if Leo and I find the place first we are going to have to go to the spa together. I can' t do that. I looked at Pye square in the eyes, telling her no mentally and all she did was smile at me and say.
"Yes!" Before I knew it, the waiter placed some bands on our wrists and started the timer. On our way to the place to start our mission, N suggested we play a game of 5 questions. The game consisted in writing on a piece of paper 5 questions you wanted answered by your date. So this is it! I thought that the place would be a lot smaller but that would make our mission too easy. The botanical garden really were something out of a fantasy. We parted ways with Pye and N and headed in opposite directions. Leo was walking quietly beside me, we had already exchanged questions with each other. I really didn' t want to do either the picture or the questions but the former was definitely the worst in my book. I could not do that with Leo, it would let my feelings show. So I decided to waste some time. We had been walking around for like 20 minutes when I grabbed him by his arm.
