It was Saturday. Melinda went to Andrea's house for a coffee.
"So… Tell me what's going on" Andrea said.
"Well, I got registered on that new community."
"And?"
"And nothing…"
"C'mon… I can see that there's more!"
"There's this guy, Jim, he's amazing. His eyes…"
"Did you meet him??"
"Nope, not yet…"
"Not yet? Are you planning on meeting him? Melinda… He's a stranger. He could be a murderer."
"Yes, I'm planning on meeting him and you're talking nuts. He's nice and cute and…"
"And you know this from a picture in the internet?" Andrea interrupted her.
"Not from the picture… From the messages. You would say the same if you'd read them."
"No, I wouldn't."
"Well, let's change the subject… How's your love life?"
"I met someone the other day…"
"Really? WOW, tell me everything."
"He's a fire boy…"
"That's great. You know, Jimmy is a paramedic."
"Yeah, sure" she said sarcastically. "Anyway, his name is Will and we'll have a dinner date this Tuesday."
"Cool. Listen Andrea, I gotta go now."
"Okay, bye" the hugged each other.
"Bye."
Melinda went home and immediately switched on her laptop. Her heart pounded like hell… There was a new message.

Dear Mel,
What does your boss do? Why don't you just quit? What kind of store would you like to open?
WOW… Wednesday's great. I'll be off work the whole day! Why don't we meet at Grandview's Town Square at 2pm? I'll have a rose with me. So you'll know who I am :)
I'm looking forward to Wednesday.
Love, Jim

'Yay, on Wednesday I'll meet my dream boy' Melinda thought. She couldn't really believe that a man like Jim would like to meet her.
The next days were passing by very slowly without anything special to happen. Jim had a plan how to surprise Melinda on their date.

On Wednesday Melinda searched a matching dress for her date with Jim but didn't find one. She searched for 30 minutes until she decided to wear a black vintage dress. Melinda packed her bag and left. She went to the Town Square. When she arrived she got off the car and sat down on a bench. 5 minutes later a guy with blonde hair and brown eyes sat down next to her. He had a rose in his hand.
"Melinda?" the guy asked.
"Yeah" Melinda answered confused.
"Jim. Jim Clancy. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"You are Jim?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
"You don't look like your picture on the community…"
"Yeah, it's a kind of self-defense."
"Why?"
"I mean look at me… I'm pretty easy on the eyes, aren't I?"
"Sure." Melinda felt like a little girl. She didn't have any feelings about Jim anymore. He just wasn't the way he was in those messages.
"C'mon, let's go."
"Where do you want to go?"
"That's a surprise… You'll love it."
"Okay, let's go." They stood up and left.
Just at this moment the real Jim arrived at Town Square. He saw the amazing woman from the crash side going away with some weird guy. Suddenly he knew that this woman was his date, Melinda. He knew it because the guy had a rose in his hand. Jim followed them. They went through streets until they arrived at Grandview's 5 stars hotel.
'Maybe they have lunch in the restaurant?' he thought.
Then he saw them going to the reception. It seemed like they were ordering a room.
'What do they want in a hotel room? That's strange… They don't know each other, do they?! I didn't think that Melinda would do something like that. She seemed so shy…' he thought.