Okay. This chapter is going to be scripted so you can fully experience what our two main characters are experiencing as well. Its going to be in Asa's POV only so I tried to write it as descriptive as possible and I hope you enjoy it🤗
Asanda | Colton
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Asanda's POV
An identical me reflected on the full length mirror I was facing and I stared at myself wondering if I overdid it and overdressed or something.
I was wearing a white summer dress and a navy blue thin figure belt complimented it and I paired it off with some cream three-inch block heels. It was chic and casual and yet I felt like I was beyond dressed, which was a ridiculous thought by itself.
A curly strand floated next to my eye when I attempted to bend down and smooth nonexistent wrinkles on my dress, I tucked it behind my ear, grateful that my unruly curly afro decided to corporate with me today by being brushable and I was able to tame it into a modest high bun.
I grabbed my purse, my phone, and my car keys from my bed and walked out feeling my heart thud in both nervousness and anticipation. I wished that Carly was with me today to give me a mini pep talk about meeting up with Colton because I was close to chickening out of the date we planned today, but she wasn't because she went to go visit her parents for the weekend so I had to give myself a pep talk.
This is only your boyfriend Asa, calm down
A boyfriend you haven't met nor seen before. My mind contradicted.
It will go well and we will have a great time together.
That might not even happen because you haven't even met yet, it might be awkward between both of you and the date might end up horribly.
This pep talk isn't helping at all, my mind and my heart are battling with each other, which isn't good at all and before my mind won over my heart and end up chickening out, I grabbed an apple from my miniature kitchen and walked out my door, straight into my car and driving off until I couldn't see my apartment building.
I typed in the location Colton sent me which was the Starbucks two towns away from where I lived, around an hour drive, and to keep myself amused until I arrived, I blasted the radio and sang loudly to songs to keep myself from my thoughts.
And about an hour and a half later I finally arrived at my destination because there was abrupt traffic on the way and I had to spend more time on the road.
Putting my beautiful car into park at Starbucks, I walked inside the coffee smelling cafè, my palms sweating and my heart threatening to beat out of my chest in nervousness, I felt like I was about to retch and bile rose out of my throat. I didn't understand why I was so afraid of having this date, this was Colton I was meeting up with, sweet, charming, goofy, weird Colton, not the president.
I went into the bathroom and splashed myself with cold water, ruining my makeup, and willing myself to snap out of it. After a few minutes of staring at myself, I redid my makeup and smiled at my reflection before walking away to go and order coffee.
Sipping my white mocha, I played Flappy Bird to keep myself from having another nervous breakdown. A ping on my phone signified there was a message and I opened it to see Colton's name on it and a voluntary smile popped on my face
Hey princess x
Hey Chicken x
You arrived ?
Yeah, I arrived five minutes ago
And you didn't tell me?
Here I was thinking that I'm early
Sorry, I'm just nervous. 😶
I didn't think about doing that
Don't be, princess
It'll be fine
I'll be there in the next five min
Okay
I'm sorry for holding you up babe
I love you xx
I love you too xx
See you in a few baby
I didn't reply, the reality of meeting up with Colton finally seeping in. After two and a half months of constant talking, this was the big reveal. I would finally get to see the man who stole my heart from me and took it from himself, I would finally see the guy who invaded my thoughts constantly and made my heart skip a beat whenever I thought about him. This was it, there is no backing out now because in a few minutes I would finally meet him.
The song 22 by Taylor Swift shrieked from my phone and I answered it, "Reeds, he is coming in a few minutes" I said quickly. "In fact in a few seconds Carly."
"Just calm down Asa," My best friend said from the other line. "This is the guy who finally brought you out of your shell after so long. Take deep breathes and calm down, it'll be fine. It's only Colton."
I listened to her words and took a deep breath, feeling myself only slightly relax, which was an upgrade for feeling like I could retch any second. "It's only Colton," I repeated after her.
"Yes, only him. You'll be fine okay" She assured with a calming tone and I nodded before I realized she couldn't see me.
"Yeah."
"Good, don't forget to tell me every detail when its over, I want to know everything." I rolled my eyes at that and smiled, it was just like Carly to want to know everything.
"Yeah yeah, whatever."
"Love you Asa, have fun!"
"Love you too Reeds"
Just as I hung up on Carly, my phone pinged again, indicating another message has come through.
I'm here baby, lift up pat the table three times so I know it's you since there are so many girls sitting alone xx
You're so weird 😒
I pat the table three times anyway and a pair of man hands gently covered my eyes and judged by the way my heart started furiously beating out of my ribcage, I had a pretty good guess who it was already.
The man removed his hands from my eyes and sat down on the empty seat beside me and as soon as we made eye contact, we had a clichè moment. My eyes drank up his fair-skinned face that had slightly dark freckles scattered over his nose, under his eyes, and on his cheeks, with a structured jawline that had a five o clock stubble on it, a slightly crooked nose, full lips, long eyelashes that I would kill for caressed his bright blue eyes that reminded me of warm summers, a clear blue sunny sky, and my favorite blueberry smoothie.
He was gorgeous. . .no, scratch that he was beautiful and cue all my insecurities coming back to me like a tidal wave. He looked like a Greek god, while I must look like a plain jane next to him.
"Hey, beautiful" His voice cut through my thoughts, sounded a tad bit different from the calls, with a bit of huskiness that made me internally swoon.
And suddenly, I felt like a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl with my first crush, my caramel light-skinned hand darted out to tuck my curly hair behind my ear shyly "Hi."
A million-megawatt smile appeared on his voice and perfect rows of white teeth gleamed back at me, "You . . . look even more beautiful in person. . . I'm Colton."
I wondered why he introduced himself to me when I already knew him when it occurred to me that he might be as nervous as I am for this date and that made me slightly relax. "Asanda," I said, humoring him.
For a few moments, it was silent and I internally panicked, hoping that this date wouldn't be as awkward and horrible as I feared and then he started talking. "I'm going to order something, do you want a refill?"
I answered yes and told him what I wanted and he walked to the counter to order, five minutes later he sat back down with two steaming cups of coffee and looked at me, "So. . ." He started, "What do you do?"
And that's when a full-fledged conversation started and with every second that ticked by, I felt like I got to know him all over again, with me falling even deeper in love with him even though I didn't think it was possible. My internal panic vanished and I was grateful that we didn't turn out to be the couple that could speak only on the phone and never face to face.
We never ran out of topics and our hot beverages ran cold because we had forgotten about them from talking so much. I laughed, he laughed, we both laughed and had the time of our lives and I was sad that this could be the end because I was still leaving for London the week after next on Wednesday but I pushed the thought to the back of my head and told myself to enjoy it right now.
"Seriously?" I snorted. He was telling me one of his stupid adventures he had with his twin brother that had me in tears.
He nodded, a smirk lighting up his face as he recounted his adventure, "He told me to get down and me being the stubborn ass that I am didn't listen and fell all the way down, breaking my arm."
"Serves you right for not listening."
"Hey, I was nine years old, whoever listens at that age anyway?"
"Everybody who doesn't want to die at the age of nine, you were a reckless child Chicken."
"Can't argue with that." He smirked, and a hand covered my own as he rubbed it gently, I could hear my heartbeat in my ears from how furious it was. "I'm so happy we could do this Princess, you make me so happy you know that?"
Just as I was about to answer him, he brought my hand straight to his chest and I felt his heartbeat increasing, "This is how happy you make me Asa, this heart speeds up, for you and only for you."
Tears gathered in my eyes as I thanked God that He had brought this man into my life. "You make me happy too Colton, so so happy," I whispered, wiping my eyes with my free hand.
He smiled and kissed my cheek, "Come on, I don't want to spend the rest of the day here, I've got someplace to show you."
We walked out of the cafè, hand in hand and I looked at my car in question when we just passed it. "Am I going to leave my car here?"
"Yeah, its a walking distance where we're going, you can easily come back for it when we're done."
"Okay."
An easy conversation flowed between us and his hand never abandoned my own at all until we got to our destination. We were at a park, however, it had little to no people at all, a picnic blanket was laid for both of us, which I thought was clichè but it was an extremely cute thought.
"I thought we could have a picnic, I'm sorry if it's too clichè but I couldn't think of anything else but if you think of something else then you're welcome to do it and I will gladly follow you. . ." His rambling was cute and I giggled.
"It's fine Colton, this is sweet," I assured him and he visibly sighed with relief and pat the space next to him.
"That's good then." Kissing my cheek, he laid a picnic basket full of food in front of us, "I brought food, and since I'm terrible at cooking and I didn't want to poison you on our first date, its all store-bought"
All kinds of sandwiches, some fruits, chocolate and a packet of marshmallows, A box of orange and grape juice was what was in the basket "Its the thought that counts." I told him giggling.
He grinned and I was momentarily rendered speechless at his smile lighting up his features, he really was beautiful. "I'm glad you think so, so I've got ham and cheese, PBJ, chicken and mayo, bacon, egg sandwich, choose your weapon"
"You're so weird," I told him for the millionth time, picking up a ham and cheese sandwich and taking a large bite into it.
"Thank goodness, you're not one of those girls that can't eat in front of others." He said staring at my way of eating with a smirk "I don't know why they do that."
"Beats me" I shrugged taking another big bite, I was really hungry because I last ate breakfast in the morning and it was about three pm now. "I'm really hungry if you haven't noticed."
"I have" He smirked "You eat like a man, talk about woman goals."
I slapped him on the shoulder for that but said nothing else. By this point, I was comfortable enough with him. We ate all of the food he brought and left nothing behind, when we were done we laid on our sides staring at each other.
"You are so beautiful, baby girl. Even more beautiful than I imagined you being." He caressed my cheek with his hand my eyes closed at the sensation with a small smile on my face before reality smacked me in the face and I opened my eyes feeling sad that this wouldn't last. "What's wrong princess?"
"I hate that this feeling wouldn't last," I said getting straight to the point "I love being here, with you but it isn't going to last because I'm leaving soon and you are . . ." I trailed off with a soft sob.
"Hey." His thumb went to wipe my tears away and at that moment, I felt embarrassed, I was crying on our first date that was perfect so far. Who does that? Me that's who, a girl who can't have control over her stupid emotions. "Come on babe, don't cry, please. Let's not think about what's gonna happen and let's focus on the now yeah? I'm not going, anywhere princess"
I nodded, feeling pathetic for ruining our first date with my stupid tears. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be." He smiled, wiping the last one of them, and then his eyes flickered to my lips which made me instinctively lick them, he scooted closer to me until our breaths mingled together and I could count his thick lashes.
"May I?" He whispered and I nodded again, afraid that I would break the moment by speaking. He looked into my eyes before his lips crashed onto my own, he hovered above me since we were still laid on the blanket. I released a small moan at the contact of his soft warm lips that still tasted of the orange juice he last drank. My arms wound around his neck and I pulled him to me, not caring that he was crushing me, all I wanted was to savor this moment, remember the taste of his lips, the delicious friction of my slightly chapped lips, and his soft warm lips.
The sound of the birds chirping and the trees rustling about all vanished as soon as his tongue invaded my mouth and I lost all sense of control and just let him consume me until all I could feel was him, my heart was beating furiously out of my chest to connect to his, which was beating just as fast. A groan left his lips when I slightly pulled on his hair, and I stored that sound in my memory, I never wanted to leave him, his kiss, as soon as he kissed me I knew that I was done for. I was addicted and I never wanted to come out of the high that was Colton.
Unfortunately we humans needed this cockblocker named oxygen so we had to pull away, but Colton didn't stop and peppered kisses from my chin to my neck and back again before he placed one final kiss on my lips and opened his eyes, forehead against mine, and holding his body weight with his arms as we held eye contact.
"Not bad for our first kiss." He breathed staring at me with those breathtaking blue eyes of his.
"Uh. . .yeah" I agreed, still slightly hazy and coming out of the high of the kiss.
He chuckled pecking my lips once more before lifting himself off of me. "You think I'm going anywhere after that? Think again baby girl, I'm not going anywhere."
I smiled at his words, biting my lip, still thinking about the mind-numbing, toe-curling kiss we just had. I wasn't letting go either after that.
He stood up and offered a hand for me which I took and he pulled me into his chest. "Princess, I love you, I love you as much as I love my right arm . . . We may have officially met a few hours ago but we've known each other for longer and have been through stuff together that we have overcome and still overcoming. . . I'm not letting you go, you'll have to drag me, kick me, fucking torture me before I think about leaving you, baby. This isn't temporary and it might be too fast for others but I don't care, all I care about is you."
Tears were streaming down my face at his words and I buried my head into his chest my heart swelling with love for him and gratitude for God for giving him to me. His arms wound around my shoulders and he tightly held me, kissing my hair repeatedly. This relationship might be going too fast but I didn't mind nor care, I was in love with him and that was it. And we might have a lot to talk about, some decisions to make and choices to take but being here, right now in Colton's arms I didn't have to think of anything else but his comfort and his love "I love you so much, Colton."
He pulled away and kissed my forehead, "I love you too Asanda, more than life itself. We'll get through this together babe, but for now how about we enjoy the rest of our date, yeah?"
"Yeah."
"That's my girl."
Oh ... my ... word
It's finished😭😭
After 99 other chapters, its finally finished and this is the longest book I've ever written and will ever write. . .
Thank you for sticking with me through all the bad chapters, the good ones, the funny ones, and the normal ones. Thank you so much. . .just thank you for the support that you've given me.
And thank you so much to my silent readers too, though silently reading in the background, you guys still supported me by reading SH.
I love every one of you very very much. ❤
I realized that I haven't fully tied the story together with what happens to Colton and his cancer, what happens when Asa goes to London for school but I did that so that you may think up of a proper ending for them that you would like because with my original ending you wouldn't have been happy with me and I don't want that so I decided with this neutral ending so that everybody is happy, including me😊
Thank you again for the support and the love you've given my story. I love you guys❤
And now I'm going to leave so that I can properly cry that I've finally finished my book
-Angel❤
Written: 18 - 19 June 2018
Published: 01 June 2020
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