It was lunch time now and Troy asked me to go to lunch with him. We decided to go to a little diner near the school that 'has the best food in town' or so he says. After a short walk we finally got there. We enter the diner and Troy decides that we should sit near the window, why, no freaking clue. A blond, and rather peppy, waitress comes to our table.
"Welcome to the Standard Diner (A/N real, not made up), my name is Brittany and I will be you waitress today". She puts the menu on the table. "Do you guys want anything to drink?"
"I'll have a Coke, please" says Troy while looking at his menu.
"I'll have a Diet Coke, please" I say as I pick up my menu.
"Coming right up" says Brittany as she leaves.
I look up at Troy and can't help but stare at him while he looks through the menu, which by the way, he knows by heart, he told me that when we were walking to the diner. He looks up and sees me staring at him, I become totally embarrassed by what just happened, but he just simply smile and keeps looking at his menu.
"Seen anything good so far" he asks wiggling his eyebrows.
"Now that you mentioned it yes, yes I did" I say smiling at him.
"Oh really, and may I ask what is it that you find so good" he asks looking deep into my eyes, smiling like only he could.
"Well..." I start as I lick my lips. "The..."
"Here are your drinks" says Brittany as she puts the drinks on the table." Are you guys ready to order?" she asks smiling.
"I'll have the Manhattan Seafood Chowder" says Troy handing her the menu.
"And I'll have the Standard Mac & Cheese with smoked salmon and New Mexico green chili" I say also handing her the menu.
"Will that be all" she asks us.
"That'll do for now" says Troy.
"Okay then your order will be ready in 15 minute "she says as she leaves.
"So, what do want to do while the order gets here" ask Troy.
"Let's play 20 questions" I tell him smiling.
"Alright you start" says Troy also smiling.
"Why did you pick this place for us to eat?"
"Because my friends and I have been coming here since we were young, it's sort of our chill spot and my friend's brother is the owner so I get a discount" he says laughing.
"Oh, I see" I says laughing" that's cool though that you and your friends have been coming here for so long"
"Yeah" says Troy smiling."Why did you move here though, I mean out of everywhere, why little old Albuquerque?" he asks me.
"Well because I grew up here, just on the west side. Also, I barely saw my mom when I lived in Boston, so I decided to move back"
"You lived here before. How come I never saw you?"Troy asks me, curiosity written all over his face.
"I was home-schooled and I rarely went out of the house, especially to the East Side. But you must have known my brother though Andre Montez, people used to call him Andy. He was captain of West High basketball team.
"Wait Andy Montez was your brother."Troy says shocked, people tend to get like that whenever I say that.
"Yep" I tell him smiling.
"But he was a trouble maker and a bully and you're anything but. "He says still shocked.
"Yeah I know, but that was his way of dealing with his problems. Not anymore though you'd be surprised at how much he changed." I tell him thinking about my brother's change.
"Wow that guy used to hate me so much. I don't know what I ever did to him. I think we got in like two fights in high school." he says thinking back to when he was younger."But how come I never saw you at his games."
"He didn't want any boy near me, so because of him I didn't get a boyfriend 'til 11Th grade because he had the guys threaten" I say thinking back at how overprotective my brother was and still is. Troy starts laughing hysterically.
"He did that, god I feel bad for you." he says still laughing.
"That's not funny he still is like that. How am I ever going to get marry if my brother scares away every man that even thinks about coming my way?" I tell him seriously.
"I think your exaggerating, I mean you're 26 years old." he says.
"Then you go and explain that to my 28 years old brother who acts worse than my father would have." I tell him.
"Wait he still lives here" he asks me.
"Well, he just moved, him and his wife my niece live in my mom's house since she barely uses it cuz' she's always working."I tell him.
"Wow he got married and has a daughter. That's way more then what I've done since we graduated "he says totally flabbergasted.
"Yeah he got married five years ago. His wife is so nice, and her name is Cinthia and his daughter is three years old and her name is Cindy and she is adorable and a little mischievous just like her father." I tell him laughing." Here is their family picture" I take out my wallet from my bag and showed him the picture.
"Did you guys lived together "Troy asks me when he sees that I was in the picture with them.
"Yeah, I used to babysit their daughter because I only had to go to college on Mondays and Fridays when I was doing my masters degree and I didn't have to live alone. But, now I do and it sucks." I tell him and he just laughs.
"Here's you guys food, enjoy it" she says before leaving.
"Wow those 15 minutes went by flying "says Troy.
"Yeah they did, and we only got to two questions" I tell him.
"Well we'll have plenty of time to get to know each other better, don't you think" he says smiling.
"Yeah we will, won't we" I tell him smiling also.
"In the mean time why don't we enjoy our food cuz I for one am hungry." he says laughing.
"Yeah let's cuz' this smells delicious" I tell him licking my lips. We chat between bites and have a good time before we had to leave back to the school since lunch was almost over.
Sorry it took me so long to write but I was on vacay when I wrote the first chapter and I just got home a few days ago and had to shopping and start getting things ready because school's about to start and had to go to the cheer-leading tryouts, which BTW I made the team. Thank you to all of my readers for their reviews. I loved that you guys liked my story. This is a short chapter. It was going to be longer but I felt bad that I made you guys wait so much so I left it short. I promise to write more often. Also a special thanks to LiveInLove. Her comment really helped make this chapter possible and the ones to come! BTW guys please review and tell me what you think.
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