A/N: So here's the next chapter for this story. I really hope you'll like it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Read & Review. This chapter has been edited. I added a preview at the bottom. :)
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Another Chance: The date
I was walking down stairs. I have no idea what he was planning. I walked down stairs smiling at him. He was smiling his signature smile. He was just...Freddie. He wasn't trying to dress up like someone else nor was he trying to impress me with bringing lots and lots of flower.
"Hello dork!" I said smiling
"Bully" He said handing me three pieces of roses and a box of chocolate. I grabbed it and smiled as I raised my eyebrow.
"You are not going to ask me to carry this the whole date are you?" I said lifting both items.
"No! Of course not. You can leave it here and then just take it later." He said defending himself. I nodded and placed the roses and chocolates on the counter top.
"C'mon?" I asked.
"Yeah!" He said. He smiled and looked at my hands and before I even had the time to react he placed his hands in mine holding it firmly as if he never wanted to let it go. Although he was holding my hands securely, I never felt uncomfortable by it. I feel complete? Secured? Yeah... I feel secured. So instead of following my first instinct which was to let go of his hands, I did the other way around, I held it tighter and I can see him smiling from the corner of my eyes. He looked into my eyes those piercing brown eyes looking into my soul. Okay that just sounded weird, even in my head.
"So?" I asked
"Where'd you want to go?" He asked.
"I thought you planned the date"
"I did. I just want to make sure you don't want to go somewhere else." He said smiling.
"Actually, I want to go to Paris, meet a guy named Philip and make you hate Disney land" I said with a smile.
"Ha-ha-ha." He replied sarcastically while I laughed, still not letting go of his hands. "I missed you" He said after laughing with me. He gave me a polite smile. I smiled back but didn't reply to his remark. What if this night didn't work out? I don't want to take the risks. He nodded knowing what that smile went.
"Of course! You don't want to take the risk, right?" He asked. I nodded
"So what are we going to do?" I asked excitedly.
"We are going to do something we haven't done in a while" He smirked
"Make out?" I teased
"Well, I would love that but that's impossible at the moment. Am I right?" He said chuckling. I released a small laugh and nodded. He then dragged me to somewhere familiar. I smirked at the memory.
"Of all the places, you picked this one?" I asked smilling. "You must have loved that day" I continued.
"I've always loved that day." He said replying with a smile "But haven't you noticed? There are no people at the rink" He said scrunched up his eyebrows. Either he's confused or pretending to be confused or he wants me to guess why there are no people there. I gave him a confused look. He smiled. NO WAY...
"You rented the whole ice skating rink?" I replied shouting. What? I think it's awesome and sweet that he did that. He nodded smiling.
"Where'd you get the money?" I asked
"Long story short, I borrowed from my dad plus the money I saved for the past few years." He smirked. "And I know how much you love ice skating and how much you hate it when someone gets in your way while doing it. Probably the reason why you were banned from most of the ice skating rinks in Seattle" He continued. I chuckled
"Well, what are we waiting for? Come on! Let's skate." I thought I saw him hesitated but I shrugged it off. Maybe it was just my imagination. I went to the guy who gives the skating shoes. I asked him for the shoes that would fit me and Freddie. Once we got the shoes I dragged him to one of the benches to change our shoes. It was then I saw Freddie still not changing his shoe.
"Uhmm. Freddie? Why aren't you changing?" I asked.
"Promise me you won't laugh." He said hesitating
"No promises" I teased
"Sam!" He begged
"Okay fine, I won't laugh" I said smiling innocently. He sighed.
"I don't know how to skate" He looked down in embarrassment. Truthfully, there was nothing to be embarrassed about but taking your date in an ice skating rink to skate while you don't know how is pretty funny on my book. I bit my lip trying not to laugh.
"You promised not to laugh!" He said.
"I said I won't. I didn't promise not to" I said laughing a bit. "No wonder you never wanted to have a date on the rink." I continued
"But you got to admit, laughing at other's ice skating is pretty funny" He said.
"Which makes you a hypocrite" I said laughing. He rolled his eyes.
"You made me do it!" He said defending himself
"C'mon, Fredward. Get in those skates and I'll teach you how to skate" I said smiling at him.
Three hours passed by. Half of the time was spent laughing at Freddie for falling and the other half was spent on me teaching him. It was a fun time and I wouldn't deny that. We we're stop by the guard saying our time is up and Freddie just paid for three hour reservation.
"I totally forgot about that" He said from the ground. His hand behind him was touching the ice. He laughed. I gave him a hand which he gladly took.
"Are we going home now?" I asked. I honestly didn't want to go home so I was expecting him to say something other than the dreaded answer.
"Nope" He smirked. I mentally sighed in relief. "I have one last surprise for you" He said.
"Surprise me" I replied.
He led me to the rooftop of the Bushwell plaza which was surprisingly nice. I was impressed with the view and all. There was a dinner setup in the middle of it. I knew this would happen, Cliché dinner. Of course this is Freddie. What do you expect? I don't mind having a cliché date. It's good once in a while. You know, the feeling of romantic thingy.
"You set this up?" I asked looking at him
"Yeah" He said shyly.
"It's nice" I said. His eyes widened.
"You actually liked it? You actually like a cliché dinner like this?" He looked at me as if he had seen a ghost or worse, his mother's underwear. I laughed mentally at the comparison.
"Well yeah, It's good once in a while" I said. He then led me to my seat. He then went to his seat and we started to eat. The food had this familiar taste and instantly I knew it was Fredward Benson's cooking. I swear this guy can cook. After eating he asked what seemed like an odd question at first.
"Do you want to dance?" I raised my eyebrow. First, there's no stereo or any music sources around and second, well, I don't know what's second. I just want to explain something in bullet form.
"But there's no music" I replied. He raised his index finger and revealed the speakers hiding underneath the table cloth. I laughed. He showed me his iPod and plugged it in.
"Now, do you want to dance?" He said smirking. I nodded. He led me to the "dance floor" and we started a slow dance. He then started leaning down. I wasn't doing anything. I was frozen. I wasn't sure if I should be doing this. If I should be kissing him but there was no time to think. He pulled me into a passionate kiss. Our lips were moving in sync. I was carried away. I felt like I was flying then suddenly there was this feeling, the feeling that this wasn't right, that I wasn't the right girl for him, and that what I did before was wrong. I shouldn't have been asking for the old us. It was about improving the new us. I realized that the problem wasn't him. The problem was me. I stopped kissing him.
"Freddie" I said leaning my forehead unto his. My breath was panting and so was his. "I'm sorry" I continued as my breath stabled.
"What do you mean?" He said moving his face away from me.
"I'm sorry for what I've put you through. I'm sorry for being stupid. I'm sorry for just realizing that the problem wasn't us but me. I'm sorry for just saying sorry every time I commit mistakes. I'm sorry" I said with tears falling down my face. He hugged me.
"It's okay Sam" He said patting my back. "It's okay" He said with his calm voice.
"Freddie. I'm leaving" I don't know why I said that. The idea just came in my mind and I instantly knew I had to do it.
"You mean like leaving?" he asked. I nodded.
"Why?" he said coldly.
"Because I need to find me. Freddie, I love you. I really do but I can't love you without thinking, wondering, that maybe if I was better, if I took this chance to find myself then maybe I can love you with the whole me, the true me, the me that you've loved not so long time ago." I said. He nodded with sad eyes. I kissed his forehead and left.
The first kiss stole the breath form my lips, why did the last one tear us apart?-kids in love. THE MAINE.
So yeah. Here's the chapter. Oh and there is a little shout out for musicfreak291's story, ije t'aime. I love that story. One of the best ones I've every read in . :)
Now I know, some of you may have heard the problem our country's facing right now. On behalf of all the Filipinos out there, I would like to raise my voice and apologize to our friends in Hong Kong, China, and Korea. It wasn't our fault. We couldn't control Mendoza from doing it. We were nervous too. We were even praying for the safety of your countrymen. We know that this event might change your view about us but please, don't stereotype us. Not all of us are like that sick bastards, Mendoza. The situation was out of control and we're so sorry. I just hope you would understand us. So for all the racist, LAY OFF, it's not like we wanted it to happen and for those who understand and hopes for the betterment of our country, THANK YOU.
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