Dinner Out
Chloe and the rest of her "family" walked into the Chinese restaurant that Saturday. It was one of the Mason's favorite places, The Paper Lantern. Chloe had never had Chinese food so this would be a new experience. The reason why they sat in this red lit Chinese restaurant was the annual, well since tonight, family dinner out. The reason the dinner thing started was due to the fact that Chloe had hauled herself up in her room for the past day.
She was attempting to learn how to use her semi-new armor skill, but her foster parents had took that as a sign of isolating herself to plan world domination. Chloe twirled a fork around her noodles as her "family" talked about life and laughed. She wasn't really hungry and her armor skill was pretty much getting no where.
"Chloe is something wrong?" Her foster mother asked. She shrugged. "Are you feeling ill?" She placed her hand on the girl's forehead. Chloe jerked away. The lights hanging around the perimeter of the room flickered.
"I'm fine." Chloe told her and went back to twirling her noodles. She looked up and sighed feeling a heavy feeling in her stomach. Chloe saw as several Oriental waitresses hurried around to other tables.
Than she saw something she didn't expect. A tall bus boy with his hair tied back carrying a tray of glasses looking her way. She recognized him. It was Warren Peace. Her stomach dropped and she felt her fingers tingle.
"I have to get out." She told her foster mother holding her stomach. The woman looked at her and turned to her other daughter to tell her to get out. As soon as she could, Chloe ran for the bathroom.
She went into a stall and sank to the floor. Warren was here and he had seen her. She felt a pain in her stomach. She held it and breathed. It was no use. A small green force field formed around her body coming from her amulet. The bathroom stall door bent as the force field hummed around her.
"Chloe?" A raspy voice asked as the door to the bathroom opened. The force field vanished from around her. She soon realized that she was crying and quickly wiped her face.
"Go away!" She cried. "This is the girls' room." She heard Warren's heavy boots came over to the door. The bent door was creaked open and broke from its hinges. Chloe wiped the tears from her eyes to see Warren holding the unhinged door.
"Are you okay?" Warren asked completely concerned as he dropped the broken door. Chloe burst into tears and threw her arms around Warren. Her heart dropped as she realized what she was doing, but she didn't care. Every molecule in her body told her this was right. It shouldn't have been. He should have let go of her, but he hugged back.
"It's okay." He told her as she continued to cry some more. "I'm here. Everything is going to be okay." And for the first time in her life Chloe really believed that.
