After driving around for a while I noticed that we pulled up to a Ice cream shop. I looked out the window at the place then looked over at Ethan.
"An Ice cream shop. . . Really?" I asked.
He looked at me through the corner of his eye. When I looked at him I notice that his neck and ears slowly turned red. I laughed at him on the inside but on the outside I just smiled and looked out the window. When he put the car in park I stepped out the car and walked to the doors. Him being the gentleman he is held the door open for me. . . sarcasm. He almost slammed the door in my face but he is a bad boy so it was expected.
When I caught up to him at the counter, I looked at all the different ice creams and instantly my eyes landed on my favorite ice cream ever. . . Cookie dough, yummy. From the corner of my eye, I could see Ethan looking at me like he was trying to figure me out. He must have figured out what I was looking at because he walked to the counter, bought two ice creams and came back to me.
"Here,I got you this ice cream cone. I saw you looking at this flavor over there so I thought you would like one." He explained as his ears and neck turned red again.
I smiled and took the cone from him. " Thanks, I guess." I looked at the cone then back at him.
"So what are we doing here anyway?" I asked him.
He looked at me from the corner of his eye and shrugged. "I don't know. I felt bad when I saw you walk outside and it started to rain. So I felt like getting you some ice cream and beg you to forgive me."
"Why what happened to 'I don't even like you' and all that shit you said to me before I left."
"I'm sorry I didn't mean any of that. I was irritated that Jasmine called me-"
"Don't even bring her into this. I don't want to hear her name. She is the reason that I don't have any friends in school and I just moved here. I wish I never moved here or met you or her or anyone here." By the time I finished my melt down was crying and Ethan was hugging me.
"Don't say that. Don't tell me that you wish you never met me. You can't tell me that you don't feel this attraction to me as well. I know you feel it and it's there because I feel it too."
"No. Don't do that. We both know that tomorrow you will deny it all and you wont go for a loner girl like me. It doesn't work that way. You're supposed to be with Jasmine not with me." I said shaking my head. I pushed Ethan away from me and walked out the store. I sat on the bench that was outside and I could hear him come out of the store and from the corner of my eye I could see him walk slowly to me.
I had my knees up on the bench with my arms wrapped around them and my head resting on them. It was the picture of a messed up life like mine. He was walking towards me like I was a wild animal.
"Hey, we all know that this isn't a movie where the popular girl gets the hot guy. This is real life and I promise that I will not deny everything and I will protect you in school because I don't know what this feeling is but I intend to figure it out. So, come on lets go back to my place so you can get out of those wet clothes and wash your face."
He pulled me up from the bench and to his car. We pulled out of the parking lot and onto the highway. I sigh and look out the window. Hopefully knowing that he is a bad boy he can keep the promises that he made to me.
