The Three Matchmakers
Chapter 6: The Date
Finally Saturday!! Audrey had be waiting all week for this day. Her date with Seymour!
Ding dong!
Audrey ran to the door. "Right on time" Chiffon and Ronnette were here to give her a make over… cover up the bruises of her past that adorned her face. She let her friends in and they immediately went into her bed room.
Ronnete noticed the anxious look in her friend's eye.
" What was Orin's reaction to the restraining order?" she asked
"Hard to tell, It was dark so I couldn't really make out his facial features. I hope he took it well. I guess we'll have to see."
Chiffon hugged her friend. "Don't you worry about Orin anymore honey. Let's focus on the moment at hand and get you ready for your date with Seymour."
The transformation did not take long and it didn't take long for Seymour to arrive.
Ding dong
Ronnette opened the door
"Hey, is Audrey ready yet?
Ronnette smiled. "Yeah she is." She stepped aside
Seymour was awestruck
"Audrey you look gorgeous"
Audrey blushed " Thank you, shall we go."
"Yes, let's" Seymour said extending his arm so Audrey could link her arm through it."
The two lovebirds walked out hand in hand with Ronnette and Chiffon in two. Chiffon, being the last one out shut the door behind her.
When they arrived at Smedericks Audrey and Seymour grabbed a table in the back by the jukebox.
"So, how did Orin take the news about the restraining order?" Seymour asked.
Audrey took a sip of her lemonade and glanced at the menu. " Not sure, Ronnette said it was hard to make out his face in the darkness? What do you feel like eating?"
"Why don't we get chicken fingers and fries to share?" Seymour suggested
"Sounds good to me."
The order came out as quickly as it was placed.
Seymour noticed that Audrey looked a bit distracted
"What's on your mind?" he asked her.
Audrey sighed. "I'm sorry I look so distracted.. It's just I'm still so worried about what Orin could do next. I am so worried he will break the restraining order."
"Do you really think Mr. Mushnik would let that happen?"
"No, but I honestly don't think Orin gives a damn what Mr. Mushnik thinks. He'll find some way around the restraining order I'll have a feeling."
Seymour's heart was breaking for Audrey all over again.
"Audrey, you have me now. We're together. You shouldn't be so worried about what happened in the past."
"I'm not. I'm over the past. I'm just so worried he's going to hurt the people that mean the most to me and I can't let that happen."
Seymour could see Audrey was starting to cry.
Seymour reached across the table and stroked her hair.
"Audrey, as I said me before me or the girls would never let anything bad happen to you and neither would Mr. Mushnik. We all care about you too deeply."
"I'm just so scared"
"Do you want to stay at my place tonight?"
"No the store is too much of a target. I don't feel safe there at night. I may ask the girls if I can stay at their place.
Seymour's blood level was reaching the boiling point. He was so mad at Orin for instilling so much fear in to Audrey. She didn't deserve to feel so anxious to stay at his apartment due to fear of Orin doing harm to either one of them. Oh, if he could only share a few words with him about how he felt.
"I love you Audrey.
"I love you too."
An Elvis Presley song came on the jukebox.
"Come on, let's dance. It will get your mind off of things. Seymour said.
Audrey did and they danced to that song and every song til their feet could not take it anymore.
On the way home something made them freeze in their tracks.
"Audrey, the store has been vandalized."
The front window was partially smashed in above the part where the glass was broken was a simply sentence of graffiti sprayed in orange spray-paint and made Audrey almost fall over with the fear she did not want to return.
"I will find some way to win you back. Orin"