Story Ten: Torrie's Date
It's Not That Bad
After moving the salad around her plate in a bored manner for many minutes, Torrie finally sat her fork down on her napkin. She smoothed her sequined, red dress with a nervous hand and looked at her date shyly. "Well," Torrie said as she fidgeted in her chair.
He looked up from his own salad. Setting his fork down, he fiddled with his tie, and then the coat of his dark blue suit. "Yeah," he said. He picked up his water and took a sip of it.
Torrie looked down at her salad. It was looking a little less appealing then she first thought when she received it. "So..." she started. She didn't know what to say. First, this was her first blind date and second she never liked being in nice, chic restaurants. She felt a little out of place. Then her date... at first she was a little surprised when he showed up, actually she was surprised that he was the one that she was set up with in the beginning.
"Not hungry?" he asked. He noticed that she was picking and staring at her salad again.
She shook her head softly. "I'm not a salad type of girl."
He raised his eyebrow at that. "Really? Usually girls order salad so they won't have to eat much in front of a man."
"Is that right?" Torrie asked. She was amazed he knew something like that about women. In her opinion, he looked like he rarely dated or could even get a date. "Well, you know this goes with the dinner... I didn't order it by itself."
"I know," he said with a smile, "that was my third shock of the night."
Torrie grinned. "What was the first and second?"
"Well, first was the surprise that you're my date and second is that the chicken that you order wasn't the most expensive thing on the menu."
A genuine laugh came from Torrie's mouth. "I was shocked too."
He smiled. She was starting to get comfortable around him. "At what?"
"First, at the fact that I'm in a restaurant like this... I don't really like places like this," she said quietly.
His eyebrows crossed in confusion. "Why?"
She shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know."
"So, what's the second shock?" he asked.
Torrie smiled shyly. "I never pictured myself going out with a Dudley."
He chuckled at that. "I never pictured myself going out with a diva."
Silence hung in the air after that comment. It was broken seconds later by the waiter, who had set their food down on the table.
"Sir?" he said getting the waiter's attention.
The waiter stopped and faced him and Torrie. "Yes... is everything alright?"
"Actually," he looked at Torrie and winked, "can we get some doggie bags?"
"Now?" the waiter asked. "If I did something wrong..."
"No, you didn't," Torrie said with a smile. "We have other plans and we just realized that if we want to make them, then we should leave now."
The waiter was satisfied with that answer. He went to the back of the restaurant got some doggie bags and the check. After paying the check and packing the food up, the two stood from the table and walked outside.
"Where are we going?" Torrie asked as he opened his car and let her in.
He walked around to the other side and got in. "It's a surprise," he said as he started the car up.
After driving for thirty minutes, Torrie squealed as she saw where they were headed. The bright lights made their destination more noticeable in the midnight sky and made her face light up.
"I can believe this!" Torrie squeaked happily.
He pulled up to the parking lot and parked the car. Torrie jumped out of the car before he had a chance to get out himself. He chuckled at that. "So you like it?" he asked her. They stood in front of a ticket booth as he paid for two unlimited riding wristbands.
"Of course!" Torrie said as he snapped her wristband on her. She grabbed his arm and dragged him to the first available ride.
After five rides, four fair games, three sticks of cotton candy, two ice cream cones, and a funnel cake Torrie and her date sat down in a small picnic area.
"I had a great time Torrie," he said with a smile. He grabbed her hand and lightly held it within his. "I almost thought this would be the worst date that I have even been on... because we are total opposites."
Torrie shook her head in agreement. "I had a great time too. And I thought this would become my worst date too... and in actuality it's one of the best." She smiled and slowly brought her lips to his.
"Torrie?" a woman's voice said causing her and her date jumped apart quickly before the kiss was made. They each possessed blushing, red faces.
"Hi Sara... Taker," Torrie said quickly.
Sara looked at Taker oddly. He shrugged his shoulder and walked away as Torrie's date followed him. "Wow," Sara said when they were a safe distance away. "I never thought you and Spike Dudley would ever be on date."
Torrie smiled shyly. "A blind date..."
"Really?"
She nodded slightly. "Believe it or not... it's not that bad... hanging with Spike and having fun."
Sara lifted her eyebrow in surprise. "More dates in the future?"
"I can definitely say yes!" Torrie said as she watched Spike and Undertaker talk jokingly with one another.