"Are you ashamed of me? Why? Why don't you want anyone to know we are going on a date together?" I mustered up courage and asked him.
His forehead creases as his hands fell to his sides. He heaved a sigh and held both my hands in his. "The only reason I'm doing this is because I don't want anyone disturbing you. Once the whole of RAA finds out that you went on a date with the Andre Lombardi, everybody will start pestering around you like how paparazzies and the press would do to a celebrity and you wouldn't want that right?" He kisses my forehead. "I'm not and neither will I be able to be ashamed to say I'm going on a date with you."
"Really?" I looked up at him.
"Really." He smiled. "So you wanna walk to the location of our date or you want me to drive to there?"
"How far is the place?" I asked.
"It's like a seven minutes walk." He said to me after calculating the amount of time in his head.
"I'm too lazy. Drive." I said and walked to the car and entered.
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He suddenly stopped in front of a giant black gate with L in the middle.
They automatically opened and he drove in. "Andre where is this place?"
"It's kind of like a special place I come to think and calm down my anger." He said.
Everywhere my eyes landed were trees and bushes all clustered around.
He parked the car by a corner and we came out immediately.
"I need you to close your eyes for me." He said.
"Why?" I frowned.
"Because it's a surprise."
"Kill me and I'll come back in spirit form and haunt your dreams." I glared at him but he laughed it off.
I closed my eyes. "Wait...how am I supposed to see and walk?" I asked him.
Suddenly I felt a hand on my waist while another holding my hand. A husky voice whispered to my right ear. "I'll guide you." He said.
After some time, we stopped walking and he told me to open my eyes.
My eyes wander around the beautiful park with grasses and trees, bushes, troll bridges above small pools of water, flowers of many examples and types, all so beautiful.
In the middle was a picnic mat laid by the side of the lake. On the picnic mat was two picnic baskets.
"I made sure to order all your favorite food, both your favorite Mexican, Italian and also your favorite African delicacies. I remember when we were talking about food on Monday and you were calling all your favorite food. They all are stuck to my memory. Even your favorite drink and also I bought some strawberries 'cause I remember you saying how you're addicted to strawberries. Since I know you love food, I...decided to make our date mostly about food....your favourite food. I know it's not really big or fancy but-"
I cut him off. "I love it!....phewww.." I sighed in relief. "Here I was thinking that your gonna carry me to this fancy restaurant or something..boy am I happy you didn't." I smiled at him. "Everything is perfect, the scenery, the atmosphere, everything, just everything." I said as I held his hand and walked and sat on the mat. I opened the purple ribboned basket and brought out the first thing my hand touched.
It was a plate of Tomales. Damn! It's being weeks since my taste buds touched Tomales.
Oh I miss Abuela.
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Teen Fiction"You lied to me! And that sorry stunt at the Cafeteria during lunch last week was just to woe me then you could use and dump! Here I was thinking we could be something and-" I cut her off. I suddenly became annoyed. "What?" My mood changed immediate...
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