The Choices We Made [Hiatus]

Thursday 4:14 pm

Adalie has two shopping baskets and 2 handhelds, she's shopping's worst nightmare. She's strolling a cart, I'm strolling a cart, and James and Zachary have the two handhelds, she's the reason the mall has a 4 limit rule on carts and handhelds. "Ooh, graphic tees on sale!" and she's off into the world of shopping once again, "I'll go find some shoes!" I say, instead, I'm going to the makeup section and grab more concealer for my atrocious acne. I stroll over to concealers and look for my usual concealer, I look up and try and scramble to hide behind the shelf. It's him the young Leonardo DiCaprio from yesterday. He looks my way and I scramble to hide behind the counter next to the concealer shelf. I hear footsteps, no, no, no, no, no.

"Oh hey, window girl, right?" He's now standing over me and I see clearly the hint of gray in his bouncy hair. He offers me his hand and I take it, firm grip. Don't say it, "thanks.." I manage to say standing up. "So..why were you on the floor?" he asks intrigued, "Uh I dropped my bag..?" he nods as I realize I don't have a bag and the cart I was strolling around is still next to the concealer shelf. I feel my cheeks get hot, "so..what are you doing here?" I see his handheld of a bunch of makeup supplies, his cheeks go slightly red, did I misinterpret him? "For my mom and sister their makeup people and so I came here to stock up" I nod since I'm trying hard not to say anything dumb again. "Little secret by the way" he's leaning down and his head is looking at the concealers I have in my hand "use a darker tone if you want better results" he's speaking low but I hear the bass in his voice it's got me daydreaming again, those eyes looking at me as if they don't know what they just did to my insides "Thanks" I manage again.
"Zayne" I raise my eyebrow "my name's Zayne" he continues "Daia" I smile and his eyes widen but quickly go back to their beautiful slender shape. "If your concealer doesn't work..I'll buy you a new one" shit, my face is hot "no no it's fine I trust you" I'm trying to say more but I can't, he's so close. He straightens up again and smiles "I just want you to be confident in you, so if it doesn't work I'll buy you another one, deal?" I smile, he's got a good heart "Deal" he grabs a slip of paper and hands it to me "for emergencies only" he teases before walking off. I hold the slip of paper and look at it, his number?? Does he just carry it around? Was he waiting for me? How'd he know I was here? Is he one of those cocky men who you think are nice but are really- "D! Again with the sneaking off?" Adalie's walking towards me and I stuff the concealer in the cart "Sorry it was a dire emergency." I say and she laughs "you won't guess who I just saw" she says whispering to me "who?" Adalie seems like the type to gossip a lot by the way she acts but she has a good heart and a stubborn demeanor. In kindergarten some kid stuck glue in my hair and she was the first to yell at the kid for being "blindly belligerent" you would never see a kindergartener like her use such big words at her age. "Zara, she said everyone's invited to Travis' party tomorrow night and if we don't go I'm gonna scream" I roll my eyes and inhale, parties aren't necessarily my scene but Adalie may just kill everyone in the mall if we don't go. I exhale "Fine but im not staying the whole time" she knows me well by now so I hope she'll at least let me sneak out early "fair enough" she nudges me with her elbow and I smile "now come on and help me fit into those jeans" her expression went from warm to serious quick, I laugh and we walk to the dressing room.