february 3rd,
9:30pm,
hotel lobby
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"group A!" a random teacher calls. "that's us." leilani says to matt and he nods, moving to that group.
the group was leilani, matt, emma, chris, valerie, nick, two other girls candice and bella, and two other guys called james and noah.
"split up in groups of 2 please." the teacher says and group A does just that. "okay, our activity for today is—" the teacher looks on a paper.
"you're gonna walk somewhere, you can choose where yourself, and then you're gonna choose one to be blind and then the person who's not blind has to direct the blind person back to the hotel." the teacher says.
"on the way to your chosen place, you can go in small shops and buy souvenirs or something I don't care. just arrive whole and alive at around 8pm." the teacher says before leaving.
"let's go." leilani smiles at matt. "guys, we're splitting up." matt speaks to valerie, nick, chris and emma who were planning on staying with each other.
"okay, have fun guys." valerie says and leilani smiles before leaving. they walk out the hotel and are now left on the streets in paris.
"let's just walk somewhere random. we'll find out way back." leilani starts walking.
"I'm gonna need to find our way back, also directing you to the hotel." matt mutters. "oh no I'm not going blind." leilani shakes her head.
"yes you are." matt says and starts saying something else do that leilani couldn't even begin discussing.
"you're making me blind so can we at least visit some stores?" leilani asks and matt nods. "duhh." matt says and leilani smiles.
"let's go in this one." matt snatches leilani's hand and pulls her in a small store, filled with souvenirs.
"look at this." matt smiles, leilani tien to him to see him wearing a childish pair of sunglasses. "matt put that down." leilani laughs.
"damn, okay mom." matt mumbles as he puts them back where he found them. "I want this." leilani mutters to herself, holding a little pink eiffel tower.
she puts it back down with a sigh and continues walking. quick as a cat, matt grabs the pink eiffel tower along with a silver one for him, and goes to the register.
he buys it and puts it in his pocket before walking out and seeing leilani just looking at some souvenirs.
"wanna continue?" matt asks and leilani nods. they continue walking side to side before leilani feels something slip in her hand.
she looks down to see matt has grabbed her hand. she looks behind her but doesn't see anyone from their school, which means...
matt was choosing to do this.
leilani's stomach fills with butterflies as they continue walking through the romantic streets of paris until they eventually end up on a piazza.
(I researched 10 minutes to find this word. I hate being a dutch english writer on some parts)
"wanna start going back from here? it's already 1 and we have to be back in 3 hours. we walked for 3 hours so that's gotta work." matt says and leilani nods.
"I don't have anything to put over my eyes." leilani says. "my hand— duh. what else?" matt says with sass.
"okay, sassy bitch." leilani laughs and so does matt. "I'm scared." leilani smiles. "why? you don't trust me?" matt asks.
"no not like that. I don't trust the people on the street and I don't trust not seeing." leilani confesses.
"it'll be okay, alright. I'll be careful." matt smiles and leilani gives in, "okay." leilani speaks and matt smiles.
leilani turns so her back is facing matt and matt puts his right arm around her shoulder and covers her eyes with his right hand.
his left hand moves to his WAIST and he gets a little closer so that leilani could feel his hot breath in her neck.
she blushes and gets butterflies immediately.
"is this okay for you?" matt asks, to make sure if leilani's comfortable with this. "oh yeah totally." leilani answers and matt nods.
matt starts walking and leilani can't see shit. all she can focus on right now, is matt's hand on her waist and his other hand over her eyes.
she totally zones out as matt directs her back to the hotel, putting her full trust in matt like she's never done for anyone before.
"are we there yet?" leilani asks since it feels like they've been walking for hours.
"not quite." matt says and leilani groans. a little bit earlier, matt had replaced his hand with the hat he was wearing because his hand was falling asleep.
"oh wait we're here." matt says and leilani sighs relieved. matt puts his hat leilani was wearing on right and leilani sees that they in fact were in the hotel lobby.
leilani refuses to turn around since matt's hand was resting on her hip and it was the best feeling she had ever felt.
"oh yeah I got you this." matt digs in his pocket and leilani eventually turns around, but shockingly that didn't stop matt and he just kept his hand on her hip, but now the other one.
matt pulls out the two eiffel towers and hands them to leilani. she smiles and grabs the pink one.
"you bought this for me?" leilani smiles and matt nods. "and this one for me. now we're matching." matt smiles and they both blush.
"thanks." leilani smiles, wrapping her arms around matt's neck and hugging him. matt wraps his arms around her waist and they both smile.
"take it as a birthday present. you do think I forgot, huh? happy birthday, leila." matt smiles and leilani pulls back.
"thank you." she smiles softly. "you wanna do something for your birthday tonight?" matt asks.
"I do but I think I'm gonna enjoy some alone time. emma and valerie are going to some party they got invited to and I'd love to get some rest." leilani says and matt nods.
"yeah I heard something about that. nick and chris are gonna go to that too." matt says and leilani nods.
"okay, I'll see you tomorrow." leilani smiles. "yeah. good night." matt smiles and leilani leaves to her hotel room.
she walks in and changed into her pyjamas. she looks out the window for a while before sighing and grabbing her phone.
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leilani picks up her phone and answers matt's call. she holds the phone to her ear and speaks, "hey." she says.
"hi. why do you wanna call?" matt asks. "I don't know. looks like I don't like spending my birthday alone." leilani shrugs.
"which I already knew since I've been doing it my whole life." she mumbles. "c'mon don't say that." matt says.
"let's gossip." matt smiles and leilani giggles.
after about two hours of calling, one thing led to another and they started talking about funny stuff and gossiping, but are now in more serious territory.
"are you sure we're being smart with the whole no kissing stuff? people are starting to look at us." matt asks.
"yes matt, I'm sure." leilani speaks and a knock echoes through leilani's hotel room.
she stands up and goes to the door. she opens it and the person at the door speaks, "are you really sure?" matt asks.
"I'll call you back." leilani mumbles before hanging up and slipping her phone back in her pocket.
she moves closer to matt and wraps her arms around his neck. he wraps his arms around her waist and pulls her closer.
leilani leans in and gently presses a soft kiss on matt's lips. matt kisses back and smiles in the kiss as leilani deepens it.
after what felt like milliseconds, leilani pulls away. she smiles at matt because that man was BLUSHING.
"happy birthday." matt whispers and leilani smiles.
"you're blushing." leilani cups his face and looks in his ocean blue eyes. "stop oh my god did you actually just kiss me? I didn't think that'd work." matt smiles proud of himself.
"calm down, sweetie. it was a kiss." they both laugh at how sarcastic and unserious they were being.
"that was the craziest monica richard moment I've ever lived in." leilani stifles a laugh. "come in." leilani smiles.
"really? i don't think we're allowe—" matt gets cut off by leilani snatching him in her hotel room and closing the door.
"that's emma and valerie, act cool." leilani says. "why? they can't know we kissed?" matt smiles. "they can, matthew. just not now. I'll tell them later." leilani smiles and matt nods.
emma and valerie walk in, shockingly sober. "wait? you guys are sober?" leilani asks the second she sees their state.
"yup. there was noooo alcohol." emma sighs. "the party was lame." valerie groans.
"what the fuck are you doing here?" emma asks matt. "damn. guest polotity?" matt asks. "matt that's not even a word." leilani says.
"yeah and you just said titie." valerie laughs and leilani giggles. "don't gotta be polite to guests?" matt rewords.
"not if they're illegal in our room." emma shrugs. "yeah about that." leilani mumbles. "no, he's not staying over." emma deadpans.
"pleaseeee." leilani whines. "no. in fact, he's leaving right now." emma says.
"I think you gotta go." leilani smiles at matt and he groans. "awh. I was having so much fun here." matt winks at leilani and she blushes.
"he'll go." leilani stands up from her bed along with matt, and only then do emma and valerie see they're holding hands.
"bye." leilani smiles at matt. "see you tomorrow." matt smiles back before the closing of a door is heard.
"what the fuck happened while we were gone?" emma asks. "nothing!" leilani lies.
"you totally kissed." valerie mumbles. "no! why would you think that?" leilani asks.
"he had your lipgloss on his lips." valerie mumbles, leilani gets beet red, and emma gasps.
"you kissed?" emma gasps. "yeah." leilani mumbles. "oh my god you kissed?" valerie asks.
"you said you saw the lipgloss!" leilani says in a questioning tone. "bitch you're ready to go to bed. you're not wearing any lipgloss!" valerie says and leilani gasps.
"you sneaky little bitch." leilani giggles. "I don't care. you guys kissed." valerie shrugs.
"yes, we did. okay? when you guys were away." leilani confesses. "how was it? tell us everything." emma says.
leilani gets in her bed and starts explaining.
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THEY FINALLY KISSED
AFTER 37 FUCKING CHAPTERS