-August 25, 2012-
"Taylor!" I yelled to my sister who was in the adjacent room.
"What!" She yelled back.
"I need help!" I said.
"With what?" She asked, walking into my room.
"What should I wear?" I asked, turning around from where I was searching through my closet.
"For what?" She said, sitting on my bed with a confused expression.
"My date," I said. "Remember, I told you that guy from my science class asked me out."
"Oh yeah, the cute nerd right?" She asked.
"Yeah," I said.
"Where are you going?" Taylor asked.
"I don't know, he said he was going to make reservations somewhere nice," I said.
"Do you even like this guy?" Taylor asked amusedly, sensing my bored tone.
"Meh, but I felt bad saying no so I figured after tonight I don't have to go out with him again," I said.
"Why didn't you just say no in the first place?" Taylor laughed.
"Because he was so nervous and I would've felt so bad if I said no," I said, flopping onto my bed next to my sister.
"You're too nice," Taylor said, laughing at me.
"Shut up," I said, covering my face with my hand.
"Just wear the black skirt with a random shirt," Taylor told me.
"Which shirt?" I asked.
"Or just wear the black dress," she suggested.
"I'm just going to do that," I said.
"When is he picking you up?" Taylor asked as I got up from my bed.
"In an hour," I said, grabbing the black dress off its hanger.
"Nice," she said. Only then did I notice my sister's bowl of straight cookie dough that she was eating.
"What is that?" I asked, looking into her bowl.
"Cookie dough," Taylor said nonchalantly.
"Why are you eating cookie dough?" I asked.
"Why not?" She shrugged. "Do you want some?"
"Yes," I said, opening my mouth. Taylor took a spoonful of cookie dough and dropped it in my mouth. "Oh my god, this is so good."
"I know right," Taylor giggled. "Karlie gave me the recipe."
"Thank God for Karlie Kloss," I said, walking into my bathroom.
I took a quick shower and dried my hair before lightly curling it. I put my contacts in and applied my makeup before finally putting on my black dress. I grabbed a small, black shoulder purse and slipped it onto my shoulder. I sat on my bed and put on a pair of black heels before standing back up and making my way downstairs.
"What time is it?" I asked Taylor, who was sitting at the counter scrolling through her phone.
"Almost 7," she answered plainly.
"What are you doing tonight?" I asked her, sitting down at the counter and pulling out my phone.
"Watching Netflix with the cats," Taylor replied, picking her head up from her phone.
"Jealous," I muttered.
"Just make the date quick then come home and join us," Taylor told me.
"I'll try," I said as our buzzer went off.
"Good luck," Taylor said as I went to let my date up.
"Come on up," I said, pressing the button to transfer my voice to the buzzer downstairs.
There was a knock on our door a few minutes later and I opened the door.
"Hey Arthur," I smiled.
"Wow, you have a lot of security guards," the nerdy guy said.
"Yeah, well, we don't want anyone to kill us so," I joked.
Arthur looked at me with a scared expression, making me laugh.
"I was kidding," I clarified.
"Oh," Arthur said, adjusting his glasses. "Uh, y-you look really pretty."
"Thanks," I said. "Shall we go?"
"Uh, yeah," Arthur nodded.
"Okay, bye Taylor!" I yelled into the apartment.
"Have fun, Kait!" Taylor yelled, the subtle sarcasm evident in her voice.
I shut the door behind me as I followed Arthur to his car that was waiting outside. He opened my door for me and I muttered a quick 'thanks' before he quickly got into the driver's side.
"So, where are we going?" I asked as he pulled into the street.
"Um, a French restaurant on Prince Street if that's okay? Do you like French food? If you don't we can go somewhere else, I mean, I just figured some people like French, but it's fine if you don't; like I said, we can go somewhere else-"
"Arthur," I said, stopping his rambling. "French is fine. What's the place called?"
"Little Prince," Arthur replied.
"Oh, my best friend works there," I laughed.
"Oh, cool," Arthur laughed awkwardly.
We pulled up to the restaurant and Arthur parked on the street. We walked inside and were led to a table in the corner. The hostess handed us our menus and I took mine and looked through it.
"This place is kind of expensive," I said.
"Oh, don't worry, I'm paying," Arthur said. "I just got my first paycheck at my new job."
"Where do you work?" I asked.
"Um, I work at the aquarium," he said. "I take care of the seahorses."
"Seahorses? Cool," I said.
"Yeah, they're super cool," he said. "They actually don't have teeth or stomachs, and food passes through their digestive systems so quickly, they have to be eating like all the time in order to stay alive."
"Wow," I said. This guy is even weirder than I thought.
"Yeah and they're one of the few species in the world that have the males give birth," he said.
"Ew," I said quietly, looking down at my menu.
"Hi, I'm Toby and I'll be your waiter for this evening," I heard someone say. I look up to see my best friend staring down at me with a smirk playing on his face.
"Hey, Toby," I said, smiling up at him.
"Hey, Kaitlyn, what are you doing here?" He asked, playing dumb. I had told him about this date last week and he knows how weird Arthur is since Toby has a class with him.
"This is Arthur, my date," I said with a fake smile.
"Hey, Arthur, I'm Toby, Kaitlyn's best friend," Toby smiled at the smaller, nerdy boy who was sitting in front of me.
"H-Hi," Arthur stuttered, obviously intimidated by Toby, who has the physique of a football player.
"So, anything to drink?" Toby asked Arthur.
"Um, y-yeah, I'll take a coke," Arthur stammered.
"Okay, and Kait? Shirley Temple?" Toby asked knowingly.
"You know me too well, Tobes," I laughed.
"True," Toby laughed. "Alright, well, I'll get those drinks out as soon as possible."
"Thanks, Toby," I said as he walked away.
"Wow, how do you know him?" Arthur asked.
"We actually went to school together in Nashville," I said. "We've been friends since 5th grade."
"I didn't know you were from Nashville," Arthur said.
"Yeah, well I was born in Pennsylvania, but we moved to Nashville when I was ten," I explained.
"That's cool, I went to Pennsylvania once to go to Lake Erie and study the seahorses there," Arthur said.
Again with the seahorses?
"Oh, well I lived on the other side of Pennsylvania from the lake but that's cool," I said.
"The seahorses there were so awesome," Arthur said as I internally groaned. "There were huge populations of them and we actually got to watch one give birth."
This is going to be a long night.
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"This was fun, maybe we can do it again next week," Arthur said as we walked to my apartment.
"Yeah, we'll see," I told him.
"Great, well I'll see you later Kaitlyn," he said, leaning towards me.
"Yeah, bye, Arthur," I said, slipping into the apartment before he tried to kiss me.
Once I closed the door, I shuddered from disgust. I walked into the living room where, as promised, Taylor was watching Law and Order SVU with the cats.
"Hey," I said, taking my shoes off and laying down on the couch next to her.
"How was it?" Taylor asked, pausing the show.
"Awful," I said, stroking Meredith's fur as she came over and sat on my stomach.
"What happened?" Taylor asked, propping her elbow on the couch to sit up and face me.
"Well, for starters, he took me to the restaurant that Toby works at and Toby was our waiter. Plus, he was super intimidated by Toby which made him even more awkward than he already was," I explained.
"Well that's not that bad," Taylor said.
"You haven't heard the worst part," I said. "He talked about seahorses the entire time."
"Seahorses?" Taylor asked.
"Yes, seahorses, and he explained to me how they give birth," I said, disgusted at the memory.
"Ew," Taylor said, crinkling her nose.
"I know right," I said.
"Okay, enough about your trashy date," Taylor said. "Go change so we can watch Netflix."
"Alright," I said.
AN: Sorry for the short chapter!