Chapter 3: Dinner Gone Wrong
At home, Calleigh dressed and got ready. She wore her beautiful white fleer dress that reached to her knee, a pair of thin strap silver heels, silver bangles and she wore her hair in curly curls. She finished off the look with a glittery silver purse and sat in her living room, at 7:45pm, waiting on Eric. 17 minutes later, she heard a knock on her door. She got up, opened the door and saw Eric standing in front of her wearing a black tux, holding a black box in his left hand and a bouquet of tulips, her favourite, in his right hand.
"Hi Cal, you look gorgeous."
"Hey, you look handsome yourself. And you're on time."
He glimpse at his watch, "Yeah I am. Oh and this is for you" giving her the flowers and giving her a kiss on the cheek.
"I love them, Eric. Thank you." Then he opened the box, he still had in his hand and took out a diamond necklace with an emerald in the center of the pendant. Putting it around her neck, he said,
"This necklace matches your eyes."
"Aww, Thanks Eric." With that she gave him a hug and then they went to his car, hand in hand. He took her to a Fancy restaurant. Eric stepped out of the car, went over to the passenger side and opened the door for Calleigh. They both walked in the restaurant, holding hands, and sat at a table for two. A waiter approached them with menus for them and poured water into their glasses and left till they were ready to order.
"So what you're going to order?" asked Eric
"Hmmmmh, I think I would just take number 20, the saute vegetables and shrimp. What about you?"
"I will have the number 43, steak with a side of mash potato and mushroom sauce."
"Nice choice." She said with a smirk.
"So, have you decided about our relationship?" he said waiting for her response
"If I didn't make my decision, do think I would be here with you?" she said smiling at him
"So it's official. We are together. But Horatio or anyone else should know about it."
As she was taking a sip of her water, another waiter, from behind her, accidently knocked her elbow and her water spilled on her dress.
"Oh I'm so so sorry, ma'me. It was an honest mistake." said the waiter, frantically trying to help her clean her dress.
"It's ok. Don't worry. It's ok." said Calleigh. The waiter left and the end of her dress was wet.
"Eric, I'll be right back. I have to go to the washroom and dry this up." She said, getting up from her seat. "If the waiter comes, tell him I want the number 20." Then she left for the wash room. She took a few sheets of paper towel from the counter and tried to dry up the water. She even stood under the hand dryer to dry up the water faster.
Meanwhile, Eric had already told the waiter his and Calleigh's order and was just waiting for her to get back. All of a sudden, a woman came up to him. His ex-girlfriend, Veronica.
"Eric, is that you?" said Veronica, all surprised.
"Veronica. What are you doing here!" He did not sound so happy to see her. Veronica was always so obcessed with him till it went out of control, thus the reason why he broke up with her 3 years ago.
"So why a handsome chap like you, sitting here by yourself" she said sitting down on Calleigh's seat, opposite Eric.
"I'm not here by myself. I'm here with a colleague of mine" he hesitated on that last sentence, not wanting her to find out he has a girlfriend or else she would get jealous and make a scene. Seductively, she held his hands and said,
"So You're single?" He ignored her. "You know I'm still in love with you?" Then suddenly she inched up and kissed him.
At the same time, Calleigh came out the washroom, with her head looking down to her purse. As she rose her head, she was in shock to see a girl kissing Eric. Her eyes began to tear up. She walked up to the table and the two broke their kiss.
"I knew this was too good to be true!" she stormed out the restaurant, with tears flowing down her cheeks.
"Calleigh WAIT!" he called out to her. But she just ignored him.
"Who is Calleigh! Is she your girlfriend!" shouted Veronica with a jealous rage in her voice
Eric got up to run after Calleigh but was pulled back down by Veronica who kept him braced to his seat.
Calleigh stood by a bus stop sign, pouring out her tears into her cupped hands. She was once again heartbroken. The man she loved for years who finally admitted his love for her, has now broken her heart. When a bus stopped in front of her, she hopped in and went home. Eric finally broke free from Veronica and ran outside to catch up with Calleigh but when he reach outside, she was gone. He took out his phone from his pocket and tried to call her cell phone, but it kept ringing but no answer. Calleigh always answers her phone but for her not to answer it, at least once, meant that she was really upset.
Eric ran back inside the restaurant, went to the waiter, who took their order, to cancel it. Then he ran back out and hopped in his car. He tried calling her again but she just won't pick it up. He tried calling her house phone but he could have done was leave countless voice messages. Eric drove past her house and went home disappointed.