Genevieve Carter grew up with three older brothers on her family's farm. You could say she isn't the most feminine girl out there. She's always hard at work on the farm or wrestling with her brothers. Genevieve thought she never needed a man in her...
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We were a few hours into the road trip and had made three stops to get gas and use the bathroom. We still had two more hours left and I felt a tiny bit bad that Oliver was still driving, but apparently not bad enough because I had drifted off into a nice nap. Or so I thought. I began to have a nightmare of Oliver's father capturing me and practically torturing me. I didn't like this one bit but I just couldn't wake up. Suddenly my eyes flew open and I sat up straight as I was breathing real heavy. I looked around and the car wasn't moving, we had pulled off the side of the road. I felt something in my hands and looked down. I looked up at Oliver who had his hands in mine, he looked really worried.
"It's okay Gen, it was only a nightmare." I nodded slightly.
"How long was I out for..?" I asked a little weakly.
"About an hour or so. You started to toss and turn and sweat, I figured it was a nightmare." I nodded again. "Do you want to talk about it..?" he asked gently.
"No... I'm okay now." that answer didn't seem to convince him. "I promise I'm okay now Ollie, you don't need to worry about me."
"Okay, okay." he let my hands go and suddenly I wanted to tell him I wasn't okay just so I could hold his hands again. He got us back on the road and I sat back against the seat.
"Before we arrive at my place I want to take you to my favorite restaurant." I looked over at him.
"Really? What's it called?"
"The Silver Garden."
"Wow, sounds fancy." I looked back at the road.
"Just wait until you see what it looks like." he chuckled softly. And just like that, I felt relaxed again. I turned on the music and we both sang our hearts out the entire last hour of our drive. Oliver pulled up to a very fancy looking building. I could hear my wallet screaming at me to not go in there. Oliver appeared on the other side of my car window, I didn't even know he got out of the car. He opened the door and smiled, I could feel heat crawling up my neck as I looked at his smile. He held his hand out and I took it as he helped me out of the car. Only, he didn't let go of my hand once I was out of the car, he started walking towards the restaurant and followed behind him.
We walked in and the breath was almost knocked out of me as I looked around. The entire restaurant looked like a huge garden picnic at night time.
"Ollie... it's gorgeous."
"I told you." He gave me a little smile and the heat moved to my face. A waitress came up to Oliver.
"Oliver, it's nice to see you. Your usual spot?"
"It's nice to see you too Brooke and yes please." She nodded with a pleasant smile and started walking with Oliver behind her. He pulled me along as I took in my surroundings. I felt a little speechless with how beautiful it was here. I took my seat across from Oliver and the waitress laid down two menus. I picked up the menu and looked it over, my eyes landed on the prices and the wind definitely got knocked out of me this time.
