"Ahh, typical Charlotte," he smiled, looking at me in, was that.... admiration? No, of course it wasn't.
"Well, what else would you expect from me?"
"Nothing less."
"Efferns," the lady who welcomed us said. We followed her to a table that was topped with a velvet, silk table cloth. That made my mouth water. Not the tablecloth, but the velvet part. I absolutely love red velvet cupcakes. Dang it, now I was craving sugar. And I definitely didn't need any more if that. Oh looky there, I totally started blabbing on about absolute nothingness again.
"Charlotte?" I heard Aiden call form a distance. I snapped out of my trance and looked into his perfect face.
"We both dazed off in the same hour," I observed.
"Yep." There was an awkward moment of silence before we said simultaneously, "Soooo," he chuckled while I just sat there not knowing what to do.
"Well, happy Valentine's day," he said pulling out something from behind him.
"What's that?" I asked, hoping its not what I thought it was.
"How about you take a look for yourself," he grinned. I unwillingly took the card and box of chocolates. I blushed. He was such an amazing, caring, considerate person, and what was I? Terrible. I hadn't gotten him one single thing. It just totally slipped my mind.
"Well, are you going to read it?" He asked, his smile faltering a little.
"Yeah, yeah, of course," I replied looking at the card. The front of it was a picture of Albert Einstein and the words, "I may not be as smart as this guy, but...." I opened the flap to see, "you're copper and tellurium" with the two symbols from the periodic table together spelling out the word CuTe. Dude, things just real. {I came up with this card, but it was inspired by a post on instagram so I'll put a picture of the inspiration in the sidebar}
"Awwwe," I couldn't help moaning. That was so romantic and just plain awesome. Then I remembered my stupidity was still hanging around in the air, "Ummm, I'm really sorry, I didn't get you anything. It was just I was busy with homework and stuff and catching up on Pretty Little Liars....even though I don't even watch that show." I just kept babbling on and on before Aiden leaned in closer. That made me shut up.
"It's okay," he said gently brushing his fingers against my cheek making the butterflies in my stomach, once against turn into gorillas. He rested his fingers under my chin and lifted my head up to make me stare into those mesmerizingly liquidy, warm, amazing, beautiful, captivating ocean-lined blue eyes of his. "You agreed to coming here with me and going to to the dance and that all that matters."
I gulped, Aiden was secretly torturing me. I wish I could just yell at him and tell him to stop messing with my emotions, but honestly I didn't want this moment to end.
After a couple of seconds of just staring into each others eyes I weakly replied with an, "Okay," before recoiling back to my seat. We then ordered our dinner and were soon finished. I shifted in my seat nervously but Aiden didn't seem to notice, as he tracked down our waiter and kindly asked her to bring the check. I just sat there looking anywhere but at him. But finally I couldn't take it and cracked an awful joke, and I seriously mean awful.
"Knock, knock," I said.
"Who's there?" Aiden said chuckling to himself.
"Doctor."
"Doctor who?"
"Dr.Who. Get it?" That. Was. Ridiculous. However, it did seem to get us talking again, until we were finally able to pay for our food and get back to his car.
"Hey, Charolette?" Aiden asked.
"Yes?" I said, dragging the word out.
"Would you mind if we didn't go to the dance?"
"Oh. Okay." Was all I said before slumping into my seat. Aiden must have just realized what he said was wrong somehow because he quickly interjected.
"Not that we're not going to do anything tonight I just have something better planned," he smiled mischievously, but still anxious to see what I would say.
I grinned back. "I'm up for that. Where are we going?"
"You'll see," he replied turning the key in the ignition and taking off down the road, "It'll be good, I promise."
Well, what's the worst that could happen?
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A/N: I was going to include the secret event but I wanted to do somewhat of a cliffhanger. Mwahahaha.
Chapter 8
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