Hey Readers! I had noticed in the first chapter, there was a "blank" when Hazel was meeting Sawyer. Well, it was supposed to be her father or " ". I'm really sorry, it irritated me a lot, if it showed up for you, leave it in your review! Also, feel free to say what you want to add or change! PM, or review it. I hope you enjoy this chapter!

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Chapter 3: Kind of like a Date?

Hazel had decided on something casual, although she hadn't known why she wanted to choose what she wanted to wear to the Waffle House… Anyway, she had decided on a summer-ish kind of dress, it has floral patterns and ends below her knees, and some purple sneakers. She had also left a note for her dad that said:

Gonna eat Waffle House w/ Sawyer –HAZEL

Luckily Waffle House wasn't that far away from the aquarium, and she only took two minutes to walk there. Hazel spotted Sawyer focused on his phone, and she yells, "Sawyer!" Oops. That was a little loud. Everyone out of their cars, kept staring at Hazel. She blushes in embarrassment, and walked over to Sawyer. "Let's eat." Sawyer says. Hazel nods and says,
"Yeah."

Sawyer sits down on one side of the table, and Hazel sits on the other. The waitress hands them two menus, and Hazel quickly spots the menu having huge letters of "Saturday Night: Two People = Free Meal!" If only I could get a free meal for one, she thought. Sawyer looks at the menu, and Hazel just can't help but look at him, focusing at the menu. The waitress clears her throat a little, and Hazel slightly jumps. Oh! She looks through the menu frantically, and finds interest in the waffles topped with whipped cream, and berries. The waitress then asks, "What do you want to order?" Sawyer doesn't speak, but Hazel gets it. He meant her to go first. "Oh, uh…the waffles topped with whip cream and berries?" she says, a little embarrassed that she hadn't known that Sawyer meant for her to go first. Sawyer quickly tells his order after that, and the waitress nods her head and says, "Excellent choice." Hazel smiles, and the waitress collects their menus. Sawyer taps his fingers on the table, while Hazel quietly checks her bag. "Um…" Sawyer quietly mumbles. "…" "Uh…" Hazel quietly says to herself. The waiter immediately came back with their orders, and Hazel was caught by surprise. They came back real fast, she thought. Sawyer thanks the waiter, and the waiter just nods. Hazel starts to eat her waffles, while thinking, Sawyer is so kind.

"So…" Hazel says while walking along Sawyer. "Want to go somewhere else?" Hazel finishes her sentence. Sawyer nods and says,"Yeah. The mall? It's right ahead, anyway." Hazel does kind-of-a excited girl squeal, and almost yells into Sawyer's ear. "Yes! Yes! YES!" Sawyer didn't know why Hazel is so excited to go the mall now, but they walk there anyway. "Sawyer," Hazel starts grabbing his arm. "Hurry! Hurry!" Sawyer laughs and says, "Why are you so excited?" Then, Hazel crosses her arms like a little girl begging for a toy, and violently points to the fish store. "You want a fish? That is what you want?" Sawyer asks confused. "No!" Hazel yells, sort of loud, just not as loud as she did in the parking lot of Waffle House. Sawyer looks to where she was pointing again, and see she had meant the swimsuit/ ocean toys store. "Oh." Sawyer mumbles, kind of embarrassed but laughing at the same time. Hazel excitedly walks into the store, and as always Sawyer trailing slowly behind her. Hazel looks around at the toys area, and sees all sorts of swim mats. Pink, purple, white, black, green, yellow, and blue! She grabs the blue, and white mat. Hazel remembers that Winter needs a new pool noodle, and at least a couple of them. Not your usual teenager girl gets that excited about ocean toys! She then grabs about five of the pool noodles, and realizes she can't carry them all on her own. "Sawyer!" she yells to him, although he isn't that far away. "Yeah?" he replies. "Carry these for me!" she yells, again. Sawyer slowly approaches Hazel, and when he is front of her, Hazel stuffs all the toys onto his face. "You're going to buy all of these toys?" he yells over the mats and pool noodles. "Of course I am!" Hazel yells, while looking at rubber duckies. This one, no, this one, but I also like this one…, she thought, looking at the duckies. When she is done with choosing the rubber duckies, she picks out one water gun for Hope, since the old one is getting kind of well, old. Sawyer almost carries everything Hazel gets, but Hazel isn't done. "Checkout time!" she tells Sawyer. "Ah, um, okay." Sawyer says, while some of the noodles are slipping. They both head to the checkout, where a nice man at the counter is seeing the two teenagers carrying huge amount of ocean toys. "Uh…okay." the guy at the counter tells himself. Sawyer accidentally lets go of one pool noodle, and everything came tumbling down his arm like an avalanche. "Sorry…" Sawyer tells the guy at the counter. "Uh, it's okay." He tells Sawyer. Hazel still looks very happy, and hands the guy at the counter her credit card. (More likely her dad's.) He then takes the credit card, and scans it through. Hazel sees Sawyer picking up all the toys he dropped, while Hazel has no problem carrying all of her toys that she is holding. "Let's go, Sawyer." The guy at the counter thinks to himself, that's strange. We make more profit on our swimsuits. Sawyer manages to grab all of the toys he dropped, and finally catches up to Hazel. He checks his watch, 2:56PM. He almost had a panic attack, and then yells to Hazel, "Hazel! It's 2:56! We got to head back to the aquarium!" Hazel checks her own watch, and then yells back to Sawyer, "Run!" They both respond, and run back.

Hazel drops all the toys by the edge of the dolphin pool, luckily nothing drops in. Sawyer was right behind Hazel, and does the same. Winter sees them both, and tweets. "I'm…so...Tired…from running!" Hazel tells Sawyer, barely being able to speak. "Me...too. Sawyer tells Hazel. Hazel checks her watch and its 3:14PM. I better hope my dad will lay it easy on me, he hates it when I'm late- "Where were you guys?" her father yelled to Sawyer and Hazel. Oops.

Author's Note: Did you guys enjoy the chapter? Feel free to tell me what you want to add or change to the fanfiction. See you in the next chapter!

-DolphinTale123