Taylor adjusted her baby blue top and fidgeted with the hemline of her denim skirt. She wanted to look nice for Chad, so she had decided to put on a touch of lip-gloss. She ran a hand through her curly hair and smiled; satisfied with the way she looked.
Meanwhile, Chad stood at the front porch of Taylor's house, and somehow, he felt slightly nervous. He pressed the doorbell and Mr McKessie opened the door. He recognized Chad as the boy who took Taylor to the after party.
"Ah…Chad Danforth isn't it?"
"Yeah. Uh..good to see you sir. I'm here to pick up Taylor," said Chad.
"Yes, come in and have a drink while you wait." Mr McKessie motioned for him to come inside.
Taylor heard Chad and her Dad talking downstairs. With one last check in the mirror, she grabbed her purse and went downstairs. Typically, Chad and her father were talking about basketball.
"Hey Chad," she said. Chad turned and almost spilt his drink when he saw her. She looked beautiful.
"Hey, you look great!" he said. She blushed slightly and thanked him.
"Have her home before 11, not a minute later!" said Mr McKessie.
"Yeah, sure Mr McKessie," said Chad.
"Bye Dad." Taylor kissed her Dad on the cheek and left with Chad.
"So, where are we going?" Taylor asked as Chad opened the car door for her.
"You'll see," he smiled as he slid into the driver's seat beside her.
They kept driving till they reached Dome, a nice restaurant that had always been Taylor's favorite as it was also near the beach. They were seated in a corner of the restaurant away from the other customer's.
"So? What do you think?" asked Chad after they had placed their orders.
"About what?"
"This place for our date."
"Honestly, I'm impressed a lunkhead basketballer like you could actually think of a place like this to bring a girl to," she replied, smiling at him.
"Well, I'll take that as a compliment." Chad grinned.
"Do you usually take all those cheerleaders to places like this too?" Taylor asked.
"Well…no. They usually want to go to places like pizza parlors or somewhere obvious where we can be seen by others." Chad replied.
"Cheerleaders…" Taylor shook her head and muttered.
"Hey! I don't only date cheerleaders you know!"
"Really? Well name a girl you've dated that isn't a cheerleader."
"Um…well…uh…"
"Ha! Told you!"
"Well sorry to burst your bubble miss know-it-all, but there is a girl I've dated who isn't a cheerleader." Chad said smugly.
"Who?"
"You…."
Taylor pretended to look away to hide her smile. Secretly, she was glad that she was the only girl Chad dated outside the circle of jocks and cheerleaders.
After dinner, they decided to take a walk on the beach. Taylor walked with her slippers in one hand, her feet near the water, so that when the tide came up, it would wash over them. She loved that feeling. Chad just walked beside her, occasionally glancing at her and marveling at how beautiful she looked with the sea breeze whipping her hair.
"So tell me, is there anything else you do besides school work?" asked Chad.
Taylor shot him at look. "For your information, I do have a life outside of school. I bake."
"You bake? You're kidding right? How come no one ever spoke about your baking?"
"Just didn't want to steal the limelight from Zeke." Taylor winked at him. "Anyway, I don't bake often. There are only two occasions where you can find me baking. Either when I'm really happy, or when I'm really sad."
"Why's that?"
"Cause, when you're happy and you bake, all that happiness just goes into that baking and it always turns out great. And when you're sad, the baking will make you feel better."
Chad nodded and they walked in silence for a while.
"So how about you? What else do you do besides basketball?"
"Well…basketball's basically my whole life…"
"There goes that glimmer of hope for lunkhead basketballers such as yourself." Taylor giggled.
"You're never gonna stop calling me that are you?" Chad grinned.
"Nope. You'll always be my lunkhead basketballer." Taylor replied.
Chad grabbed her hand and pulled her close.
"Just as long as I'm always yours…" he whispered. He leaned in and Taylor held her breath, waiting for their lips to finally meet. Just then, there was a drop of water, and another. Rain started pouring down.
"Oh my goodness!" Taylor and Chad started laughing.
Grabbing Taylor's hand, Chad said, "Come on!"
The both of them ran back to Chad's car. The ride back to Taylor's house was silent as they were both still thinking of what could have happened back at the beach. Would they have kissed if it hadn't rained?
When they finally reached Taylor's house, they ran for her porch, not wanting to get even wetter in the rain.
"Well…what a way to end a date huh," said Chad, pointing out at the rain.
"Yeah well, it was fun anyway. Thanks." Taylor smiled.
They both stood there in awkward silence for a moment, not knowing what they should do. Should they finish what happened on the beach just now? Taylor hastily kissed Chad on the cheek to end the awkward moment.
"Well goodnight. See you in school on Monday." She opened the door and quickly closed it behind her, leaning her back on it for a while.
Chad stood outside grinning, his hand on his cheek where Taylor had kissed him. It was good enough…for now.
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