The Single Father

The Date

Justin's p.o.v
As I sat in my car making sure I looked presentable for work today, I grabbed my keys and iced latte and headed to the doors of the entrance. I had to go back home and put on clothes that looked good enough to show up at a fancy high end work complex.

Once I got in the building and said a little greeting to Helen (Chaz's mom) who works as the receptionist, taking in all our calls and important stuff I went ahead and opened up my office.

After I got inside I saw all the stacks of paperwork I had to do, so I just got started right away. as I kept trying to focus Ariana was the only thing on my mind, so I went ahead and just called her to ask if she wanted to go out for dinner later on tonight.

The longer I kept hearing that ring over the speaker the more anxious I got. "Hello?" I heard her beautiful soft voice say sending chills through my spines

"Justin are you there?" She said and that's when I had realized that I didn't even greet her back.

"Uhh yeah yeah I'm here, am I bothering you right now because it's not really that important." I said nervously while scratching my neck.

"Umm no actually it's just recess did you want to talk to Ella or....." She said confusion in her tone.

"No actually I had a question for you?" I said making it sound like a question than a statement, damn what is happening to me, I'm so whipped right now,

"Oh alright then, shoot...." Ok here goes nothing

"I was kind of like wondering if you wanted to go out to dinner with me tonight?" I said sounding more confident than before.

There was a long pause on the other line but finally she spoke up

"Actually yeah, sure why not...what time were we looking at." She replied

I was so relieved she said yes, thank god

"Um..... How about seven?" I asked

"That sounds lovely, babe." She giggled, Wait did she just call me babe damn and I thought I was too forward
"Alright see you later..... Darling "I added shortly after,
laughing at the nickname she mumbled a quick 'ok'
then hung up. Great I have a date with a Beauty

7:00 time
I had just brought Ella over to my parents house which was quite a while away so they could watch Ella for me over the night and bring her to school in the morning,
Therefore I was running late and I just had to buy roses for Ariana.

When I pulled into the parking lot of this fancy Italian restaurant called "jimmy's" I had told Ariana I was going to be a little late and she was perfectly fine with that, which took a big relief off my shoulder.
As I walked through the doors I had readjusted my tie and walked over to Ariana who was looking at her phone, but soon was standing up acknowledging my presence.