i did everything except what i was supposed to do today lol so here's a chapter surprise. i haven't edited sorry!
i hope you enjoy x
fun fact the car part on the hill really happened one time lmao it was super funny and super awkward especially when you're on a date
I haven't been back to yoga since the last time which was about a week ago. I'm not too sure from where or from who but I contracted gastro. It's been going around these days so I wasn't entirely surprised when I came down with it. It's been horrible. But on the bright side, Harper allowed me to miss yoga. How lucky am I that she allowed me to? That girl is so hilarious actually.
I refused to leave the house or see anyone so I stuck to speaking to people on my phone the entire time. Thank God for Harper and Mitchie for keeping me entertained. Harper and I have made up and apologised for our awkward morning the other day. My mom took care of the shopping for me although I hardly even ate. She also got me a few medicines to help boost my body. She was the only person I allowed into my house.
During the time that I was trying to recover from this damn gastro, I had more than enough time to think about everything and anything from why I decided on a place that the bathroom is so far away from my bedroom to previous conversations. I've thought about what Mitchie has said the other day quite a lot. "Perhaps there are deeper issues to this than you know." She had a point. I mean, there's clearly something else that's beneath what is being shown. Or, perhaps, it's just how things are and there's nothing more to it. Also over this past week I have learnt that my own thoughts tire me.
Yesterday was the first day that I started to feel remotely better. Today, I'm feeling great. Well, as great as a person can feel who has been indoors for about a week. So I decided that tonight I should do something. I really didn't feel like doing something too crazy because I was still wary of my stomach so I settled for dinner with Mitchie. I invited Harper too but she said she was busy. Shame, the girl had a family dinner.
I was probably supposed to stay home and allow my body to fully recover but I hated sitting around and thinking. I love doing nothing, its the best thing in the world. I hate unnecessary thinking though.
Mitchie and I decided on having a pizza night at some new pizzeria that opened up down town about a month or two ago. We agreed that I would fetch her because her car is in for a service because she's such a skilled driver that she reversed into a tree that she claimed to have never seen. Please let me tell you that this was the biggest fucking tree.
"Alex?" Mitchie said as she waved a hand in front of my face. I blinked a few times before I smiled at her. "You zoned out I think..." She giggled.
"Yeah, sorry, I was just thinking about your lame excuse about never seeing the tree."
"Oh my God. Again? Alex! I really never saw that tree!" She moaned as I started laughing.
"Mitch, honey, that tree is the most overgrown thing I've ever seen. Let's just face the fact that you're horrible behind the wheel." I stated, half seriously. She let out a laugh as she rolled her eyes.
"Fine. If this will get you to let it go..."
"Well done, Mitchie. I'm proud of you. The first step is acceptance." I winked as she flipped me off. "Really? In the middle of a restaurant?" I asked with a smirk, gesturing to her hand.
"Shut up." She laughed. "What pizza do you want?"
We decided on our pizza toppings and ordered only one glass of red wine each. I was driving so I took it slow and had one glass. I told her that she could order more than one because she wouldn't be driving but she insisted that it would be rude of her to drink when I'm not and that we should be sharing moments like that with one another. She's so cute. After our dinner, we just carried on sitting in the dimly lit pizzeria until it was just about empty; there were only three tables taken which included ours.
"Whoa! It's already 11:30!" I said as I glanced at my phone for the first time that night. We both got up.
"Seriously?" She asked, surprised. I nodded my head as I held the door to the restaurant for her. "Damn, time really does fly when you're having fun."
I smirked at her. "I'm glad you had fun tonight." I said as I nudged her gently as we walked across the parking lot to my car. "I really enjoyed myself as well." She shot me the biggest smile.
"Thank you for this. And for letting me pay the bill." She winked as I let out a soft chuckle.
"Yeah yeah." I said as we both got into the car. "Hey, do you need to get home anytime soon?" I asked.
"Well, I don't have anything planned for later or early tomorrow morning so no, I think I'm alright." She smiled. "What's up?"
"Okay great, I want to show you something." I said as we made our way out of the parking lot in the car.
The beginning of the drive there was filled with Mitch asking me where we were going. I had told her that it wouldn't be as cool if I had to tell her where we were going. She then accepted the fact that I was 'kidnapping her' and that she wished she had ordered more wine. I just continued driving while I laughed my head off and purposefully turned the music louder to get her to shut up.
"If you don't shut up, I'll seriously kidnap you one day." I spoke loudly over the music.
The rest of the drive there was filled with talking, laughing and singing. She's really such an easy person to be around. Sometimes it's hard to find a person that understands your sense of human and vice versa. We understand each other in almost every way actually. It's fucking awesome.
I decided on driving her to one of the best places to go to at night. It's a spot that you drive up to, park, hop out of your car and just gaze at the amazing view around you. It's one of the spots where you can basically see the entire city.
As I drove into a gravel patch on the side of the hill's road so we could park, we drove up behind another car that was already parked. As soon as we were behind them and my car's lights were shining into the back of their car, we noticed that the car had actually been...rocking. I saw an arm and then the tip of a head moving above the backseats in the back window. Well, the car stopped moving. Mitch and I glanced at one another, trying to hold in our laughter. I quickly shut the car off, including its lights.
"Well, that was awkward...Shame, poor people were interrupted." I said as Mitchie burst out laughing.
"Where the hell did you bring me, Alex?" She asked me through her laughter.
"Come on." I said, smiling.
The only light there was were the twinkly street and house lights in the distance, and the natural light from the moon. I gently grabbed Mitchie's hand and lead her over to a wooden bench, away from both cars. The temperature had dropped drastically compared to the temperature felt when we left the restaurant. Up here, there was a slight breeze too.
"Holy shit, this is stunning!" Mitchie exclaimed as she gazed around. "Oh my God, is that the mall there?" She asked, excitedly.
I smiled. "Yeah, there's the mall." I said as I point in the direction of it. "Somewhere there, that's where I stay." I said as I pointed in a different direction before I pointed in another, "and somewhere there should be about where you live I think." As I was pointing to all these various directions, I glanced at Mitch next to me and couldn't help but smile even more. She had this adorable concentrated look on her face while the corners of her eyes scrunched up as she looked towards where I was pointing. "Pretty cool, huh?"
"It is! It's beautiful here." She turned to me and smiled before she shut her eyes and scrunched her face as a cold breeze came.
I giggled. "Fuck, it's so cold!" I said as I wrapped my arms around myself. "Please remind me to put a blanket in my car, like, a blanket right now would be perfect."
"Yeah, poor kidnapping skills." She muttered jokingly as she also wrapped her arms around herself.
I laughed. "I'm sorry! I only thought of this place last minute!" I said.
"No, God shut up, I was just kidding!" She said as she wrapped her arms around me to hug me.
"Yeah, keep me warm you horrible person." I said as I pretended to be hurt by what she said.
She giggled as her arms tightened around me. "Lex, seriously, it's perfect here. Thank you."
I just sat there and smiled. This is the first time in a while that I've felt genuinely extremely happy. I haven't known this girl for a very long time but she makes me...happy, and I'm so glad that we met.
Still sitting close to one another, practically snuggling on this bench, she started talking about some boy that liked her so much during high school but she just wasn't interested and he just never seemed to get the point or something like that. I kinda stopped listening as I zoned out again and looked at her face that was illuminated from the moonlight. I couldn't get over how beautiful she was.
"...wait are you even listening?"
"What? Yeah, of course." I said as I snapped out of my thoughts.
"Yeah?" She smirked at me and I nodded. Crap. No I wasn't exactly listening. "Okay anyways, as I was sayi- -"
Without even thinking, I interrupted her and I pressed my lips against hers. I felt her breathe into the kiss as she was stopped midway through a word. She kissed me back. It was a simple kiss but it was amazing.
After that, her story completely disappeared as we just enjoyed one another's company and cracked jokes here and there. She also at some point pulled out her phone and decided to take a photo of us together. I closed my eyes and stuck my tongue right out whereas she closed her eyes too but smiled so big that she practically showed her entire set of teeth. I guess we were on the same page thinking the phone's flash was going to be bright. Eyes closed and weird faces, either way I liked the photo. She uploaded it to her Instagram account before sending it to me as I had asked for it.
We kissed again when I dropped her off at her house. We also agreed on doing something again soon which made my heart smile. I enjoyed her company and I'm starting to really like this girl.