Chapter 5: First Date
Paige's Pov-
"Come on Paige, just put it on!" Hanna said holding up a red dress she had bought and expected me to wear.
"No Hanna, that's just not something I'd wear." Said as I looked at the red dress Hanna had bought and the more I looked at it the more it felt like something Hanna would buy for herself.
"What would you wear? You work in your underwear and body glitter?" Hanna asked.
That was a low blow, even for Hanna. I sat down and looked down in the floor.
"Paige, I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that." Hanna said. She sounded sorry but I refused to make eye contact with her.
"Paige, you're an attractive woman and you can show some skin without people ogling you." Hanna said.
I still looked at the floor as I heard Hanna walk up to me.
"I didn't meant to hurt you I'm just trying to help." Hanna continued as she stood next to me.
"You're not a slut just because you work as a dancer. Not to mention that you took that job so your son would have a home to grow up in." Hanna said.
She was right, all I ever wanted was for Aaron to have a happy childhood.
"Most people who takes that kind of work just do it to piss off their families but you took that job because you'd do anything for Aaron." Hanna continued.
"I do want him to be happy." I said and then Hanna grabbed my wrist and dragged me out of her bedroom.
"Where are we going?" I asked and Hanna didn't answer she just dragged me to the living room where Aaron sat and played with his toy cars.
"Remember when he turned four, you wanted him to have the best day of his life so you worked a lot of overtimes just so he could have the best birthday ever." Hanna said and I felt a tear roll down my cheek as I remembered how happy Aaron was when he got to spend his birthday at the amusement park where Hanna and I brought him.
"You are a good person and a great mom." Hanna said as we walked back to Hanna's room letting Aaron play with his cars.
"You have given up so much for Aaron and you deserve to have a fun time with Emily." Hanna said and she held up the red dress for me to try on.
"Fine." I said and I undressed down to my underwear, I didn't minded that Hanna could see me, we were both women after all.
When I put on the red dress Hanna gasped. "It's like you're getting ready for prom." She said and I looked myself in the mirror, sure the dress did look nice but it felt like I was overdressed the date was just a dinner and a movie after all.
"Hanna, you don't think this might be too much?" I asked as I kept wondering how long Hanna had looked forward to put me in that that dress or any dress at all for that matter.
"It's all about making an impact, you'll want to wow Emily when she sees you." Hanna said.
"Now sit down and let me do your make up." Hanna said and I wasn't in the mood to start a fight with her. Emily was going to pick me up for the date and now she couldn't come soon enough.
Later:
I was looking impatiently at the clock, there were only minutes left from when Emily is going to show up.
Come on Em, don't let Hanna give me another make up check. I checked the time once again at this point I looked at the clock like it was about to hatch.
"Mommy, why are you looking at the clock? Aaron asked as she walked up to me holding a teddy bear in his arms.
"I'm waiting for a friend." I explained. I wasn't sure how I could explain that to Aaron since the only other grown up person he had seen me with was Hanna and he knew Hanna and I were friends.
"Now, Aaron." I said as I picked him up and placed him on my lap. "I not sure when I'm going to come home so you'll be here with Hanna." I explained to him.
Aaron looked up to me. "Now, you'll have to be a good boy and do what she tells you to. Do you think you can do that?" I asked and Aaron just nodded and smiled.
"Good boy." I said and lifted him off my lap and put him back on the floor. "Why don't you play for a while and Hanna will make you dinner." I said and Aaron giggled as he ran with his teddy bear.
After a few more minutes there was a knock on the door, I got up so quickly I almost tripped, I was used to wear high heels at work but I'd always have a pole to hold on to but now there was nothing and it felt like this was the first time I've ever walked in those things.
I got to the door and opened it to see something that could only be described as a goddess.
Emily was standing there in a black dress that showed of her long legs, her eyeliner made her big brown eyes pop and it almost looked like she sparkled.
"Sorry I'm late." Emily said.
"That's ok." I said as I noticed that Emily was wowed as she was very un-discreetly checking me out.
"So, are you ready?" I asked and Emily quickly snapped out of her almost daydreaming state and then Hanna walked up behind me and whispered "Told you so."
"Ok, so the dinner is in the freezer, just warm it in the microwave and kiss Aaron goodnight for me." I said to Hanna as I followed Emily to her car.
"So, what do you have planned?" Emily asked very curious and excited.
"Nothing too fancy, just a dinner and a movie." I said.
"Sounds good." Emily said sounding less excited.
Crap! Now Emily probably think I'm boring.
"I'm sorry, it's been a while since I've been on a date." I said.
"No, it's not that." Emily said. "It's just… I think I'm a bit overdressed." She said.
"Yeah, you might be, but you look very amazing." I said.
"Thank you." Emily said and she blushed slightly. "You look amazing too." She said.
"This really is Hanna's dress, she wouldn't stop complaining unless if I put it on." I said.
"You should keep it, it looks great on you." Emily said and now I felt myself starting to blush.
"So, do you live with friends or do you have your own place?" I asked.
"I got my own apartment." Emily said.
"Any roommates?" I asked.
"No, I live alone." Emily said. "How about you, do just you and Aaron live in there?" She asked.
"Well, Hana lives in the house as well, but she's just a roommate." I explained.
"That was a big place you had." Emily said.
"I know, I inherited it from my grandparents." I said.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Emily said and I saw her face drop.
"Don't worry, you couldn't have known. Besides I'm fine with talking about it." I said.
"Ok, I thought I offended you." Emily said as she nervously scratched the back of her head.
I didn't thought Emily was going to be nervous, she just didn't seemed like the nervous person. I really didn't minded that. It made it much easier for me to be myself.
"Don't worry you didn't. They left me the house so Aaron could have a happy childhood." I said thinking back to the day they told me that they had written that into their will.
"They must have been really kind people." Emily said.
"They were, the best two persons I ever knew." I said.
"What about your parents?" Emily asked.
I sigh on how much I hated my parents "That's… personal." I said.
As soon as I said that I saw a look of fear spread on Emily's face. "I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have asked." Emily said.
"It's ok, you didn't knew." I said to calm Emily down, this wasn't going well.
I pulled over at the restaurant I had made reservations on.
"Ok, here we are." I said and we both walked out of the car and walked into the restaurant.
We were escorted to our table and we got the menus as soon as we sat down.
"You know, I'm nervous too." I said.
"What do you mean?" Emily asked.
"In the car, you sounded nervous and it got awkward." I explained.
"You're right, I really think you're pretty and I'd like to know you better." Emily said. I was very happy to hear her saying that but after Emily had finished that sentence neither one of us said anything, there was just an awkward silence.
"Can I take your orders?" A waiter asked.
"Yes, I'll have a bottle of red wine and the catch of the day. What do you want?" I asked Emily.
"I'll just have the same." Emily said and the waiter came with two big bottles of red wine that he opened in front of us and once he had poured our glasses he finally left and Emily and I took a sip from our drinks.
"This is really good." Emily said.
"It really is." I said and I took another sip.
30 minutes later:
Emily and I had finished our bottles and we were both feeling the effect of the wine.
"I don't get it, why did he pour the wine in the glass? Does he think I can't do it myself?" Emily asked.
"Yeah, or maybe he thinks we'd drink straight from the bottle." I said and Emily giggled.
"You said 'straight' it's funny… because neither of us are." She said and I laughed as she said so.
I had no idea how it could have gone like this far, we had just drank a glass, maybe two and then we had no problem talking and then those drinks led to some more and now our bottles were empty.
"I really like this, we should do this more often." Emily said.
"You're right, I haven't been this happily drunk in years." I said.
We both laughed and then we heard someone clear their throat, we both looked up and there the waiter stood with our food.
"We're going to need two more of these." I said smiling sheepishly as I held up the two empty bottles.
The waiter just said "Very well." as he took the empty bottles and left our food.
"Look, we got food." Emily said, she was more effected by the wine than I was. When she started to eat she almost swallowed a fin, if I hadn't stopped her at the last second.
We kept enjoying our food and we also drank talked and laughed and the time seemed to just fly by.
"Excuse me, are you ladies done." A new waiter asked us.
"Relax, we're just letting the food settle." I said and patted my stomach.
"We're closing in ten minutes." The waiter then said." And when I looked at the clock I saw that he was right, Emily and I had been there for three hours and we had missed the movie altogether.
"Ok, put the bill on my card." I said as I reached down into a purse Hanna had made me borrow and took out my credit card.
The waiter accepted it and he returned a few minutes later.
"That was a bit unfair, I could have paid for half." Emily said.
"That's ok, I asked you out." I answered and when I got my credit card back we both walked out of the restaurant, we were both too drunk to drive ourselves home so I called Hanna and asked her to come over and pick us up.
As we waited Emily suddenly walked up behind me and rested her head on my shoulder as she held her hands on my waist.
"Paige, let's dance." She said and I grabbed her hands and we dance very strangely, we were both too drunk to know what we were doing, we just had fun.
I tried to spin Emily around but I tripped and broke a heel.
"Paige, are you ok?" Emily asked as she tried to help me up herself but when I took her hand she tripped and landed on top of me.
"Ouch." I said.
"I'm sorry." Emily said.
"You've been saying that too much." I said and then all I could focus on was Emily's lips, they were red from lipstick and the seemed soft, I wanted to know how they would feel against mine and Emily seemed to get the same idea, we both moved close to each other our lips were only inches apart.
"PAIGE MCCULLERS!" I didn't let you borrow my dress to get it dirty.
We looked up and saw Hanna standing there.
"I also broke a heel." I said and held up the part that had fallen of the shoe.
"How much have you two been drinking?" Hanna asked as she helped Emily to get up.
"We're not as think as you drunk we are." I said.
"That settles it. Give me the car key." Hanna said and Emily gave Hanna her keys.
Hanna got in the drivers place and Emily and I sat in the back.
"Emily, were do you live?" Hanna asked.
"In an apartment." Emily asked still very drunk.
"Where is that?" Hanna asked.
"On a street." Emily said.
"And, that street is where?" Hanna asked.
"Where I live… in an apartment" Emily said.
"Ok, you're spending the night at our place." Hanna said as she drove me home.
"You hear that Em, you'll get to see my house." I said and Emily squealed with excitement.
"Next time you go on a date, I'll make sure it 100 percent alcohol free." Hanna said annoyed, then everything just went dark.
