Oliver took her by the hand and brought her by the hand up the road of Central park. "Where are we going?" She asked as beautiful pink dress swished around her knees and he tugged her further along.
He shook his head and put his finger to his lips. "You'll see," He said as he took them up Central Park West away from their room at Trump International which overlooked Central Park and into the American Museum of Natural History. "This is where we're going," He told her. She raised an eyebrow at him and looked at her watch.
"It's eight thirty, Ollie. They're closed." She said looking into his face. He wanted to see the museum. They would have to see it tomorrow or the next day and she started tugging to go see if they could make a show. Maybe Rock of Ages. It was the type of musical that dudes wouldn't be scared to see.
Oliver unlocked the door and smiled to her. "Not if you have friends." He told her with the widest grin she thought she'd ever seen on him. He took her hand once again and led her inside.
"Are you sure it's okay for us to be here?" She asked him as she looked around at they walked through the hall of small mammals into the north american mammals and down to the right.
He nodded to her and took her past memorial hall up to the Heilbrunn Cosmic walkway. She wasn't sure what they were doing here, but she knew that it was going to be something spectacular. Just seeing all of the lights in the place was amazing. She would have been content with just that. But there was something special to all of this. They walked up the third floor where the planetarium was and she was awed by it.
It wasn't like they didn't have stars in Starling. "So you brought me to a planetarium?" She asked him with a grin. As she looked up at all of the constellations. There was so much to look at. So much she didn't get to appreciate on a regular basis.
He took her by the waist and the atmosphere changed. There was romantic music and the ambient noise went down. "I wanted to dance underneath the stars with you. And here, no one will interrupt us." He told her as he put his forehead on hers.
"That's actually pretty romantic," She told him as she blushed. They swayed to the rhythm of the beat and got lost in it as they craned their neck to look at the star show. A shooting star went across their heads and she smiled to him. "Make a wish," She told him.
He shook his head. "I don't have to. My biggest wish already came true." He told her as he kissed her fingers.
"Oh yeah?" She asked him. "What was that?"
He looked her straight in the eye and never wavered from this full eye contact, "To come back to you." He told her in all seriousness.
"Well, I still have to wish," She told him and she closed her eyes and thought real hard about the wish she wanted to make and then she opened her eyes and looked down at their clasped hands and smiled.
His eyes made a jumpy sort of moment, "So what did you wish for?" He asked her.
She shook her head. "I can't tell you or else it won't come true," She told him. "And I have a feeling this one is going to," She told him with a smirk.
He laughed a little. It was a silly tradition which he had played into way too much on the island. "You know, I can give you the world, all you have to do is ask," He told her as they danced a little more underneath the stars that twinkled for them.
She shook her head. "That's not what I want, Ollie. We're together, but I'm still my own person," She said as she bonked her head on his. She lifted her head to rub where she bumped and gave him a chagrined smile. "I just want us to be happy. And besides what I was asking for doesn't have to cost very much money."
He danced her till the song was up and stopped. He looked at her and smiled, "More dancing or do you wanna do something else?" He asked.
She took him the hand and ran down the cosmic walkway down to the first floor where they went out and she pointed at the park. "Do you remember watching Manhattan? When we fifteen with that English teacher who just needed to feel elitist?" She asked him as she thought about the whole thing.
He remembered that teacher. He hated Oliver because he thought he was lazy. And he thought Laurel was too overeager for a girl. "Yeah, I remember." He told her as he laughed out a smile.
"I want to go over the bridge. Bow Bridge." She told him as she skipped along inside. He walked along side her with his hands in his pockets and thought about how different this girl was from the one he left all those years ago. Even two years ago. How serious she was about everything.
But this girl in the here and now, she was different. She was spritely almost. As they encountered the bow bridge she took his hand in hers and they meandered across hand in hand. He stopped in the middle and looked up. "Even better than the planetarium," He told her as he looked down and gave her a toothy smile.
She nodded happily, "Yeah, it is," She sighed in a dreamy voice.
Just as they were about to walk away he saw another shooting star, "Make a wish," He whispered. He watched her clasp her hands and eyes tight as she thought of her wish. And then she opened her eyes and took his hand. "You want to tell me what you wished for?"
"Nope," She shook her head and laughed. "That one's special. But I'll tell you about the one at the planetarium, yeah?" She asked. He nodded, anxious to hear what she had to say. "I wished that we could go have Breakfast at Tiffany's tomorrow."
He grinned, ever the romantic that one. "Next you're gonna tell me that if we go to Rome, you want to have gelato on the steps and ride a vespa," He told her with a wink.
"I think you can handle gelato and a vespa," She told him with a smirk.
