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The girls and I decided to have some girl time and talk gossip and the drama going on in our lives. We got pedicures done this morning since we got manicures last week for the new school year. Now it's lunchtime and we were craving Frank's milkshakes.
"I can't believe you live next to Mr. Mendes," Paris sighs as we walk into Frank's.
"Yeah I'm so jealous, you get to see Mr. hottie 24/7," Rose adds before we sit at our usual booth.
"Girls it's not that big of a deal. I didn't even know he was my neighbor until last night." I told them almost everything about what happened at dinner last night but not all of it. We order our food and some milkshakes before continuing our girl talk.
"So are you going out with Eli tonight?" Paris changes the subject.
"I texted him last night so we could move our date for tonight and he says he wants to take me to his favorite place."
"Wow that sounds intimate," Rose's eyebrows rise slightly and her lips almost agape.
"Really? You think?" I'm so nervous about tonight I haven't really dated anyone let alone go to their favorite place.
"Don't freak the poor girl out," Paris says. "Look Eli really likes you and you like him, just be yourself and everything will be fine," She tells me before sipping her chocolate milkshake.
"C' mon that's the most cliché advice," Rose sighs. "Ezra told me that Eli wants you to ask to be his girlfriend. I don't know if that's supposed to be tonight but I bet my five dollars it is. If you want to be with Eli then there's nothing to worry about, if your heart belongs to someone else then get ready to break someone's heart." Wow, Eli wants to be my boyfriend, we haven't even gone on an actual date yet.
"Why would you say my heart belongs to someone else?" I ask quite confused since I've only been talking about Eli for the past few months.
"Well, there's a sexy and single man living next door to you," Paris hints with a smirk.
"For the last time, I'm not going to have some affair with my teacher." Ever since he's got here all they joke about is sleeping with Mr. Mendes.
"You say that now," Rose teases. I shake my head before finishing my cheeseburger. After lunch, the girls come over to my place and we watch some movies in my room before my date. They were more focused on Shawn since he was mowing his lawn shirtless.
"Goddamn he makes manual labor so sexy," Paris smirks.
"I know, I just want to—"
"Don't finish that sentence," I interrupt Rose knowing it will be something too inappropriate to hear about your teacher.
"I'd love to keep watching Mr. sexy but I gotta go do some errands for my mom," Rose says.
"And she's my ride so I'll be leaving too. See you on Monday. Tell us everything about your date with Eli."
"I will." They rush downstairs and I watch them from my window giving school girl waves to Shawn before getting into Rose's Jeep. I chuckle at their desperation then go take a shower and get ready for my date in that's in 2 hours. As I finish my hair, my mom slightly knocks on my door before she comes into my room.
"Honey, your dad and I are going out tonight for dinner and your brother is sleeping over at a friends house, will you be alright by yourself?"
"Yes, I'm going out too," I tell her with a smile.
"With that Eli boy," she grins, she met Eli briefly when he came over for a project last year. She thought he was kind and polite regardless of what he's appearance said.
"Yes with Eli."
"Good I was thinking you weren't going to see him because of last night. Don't stay out too long." She kisses my forehead and goes downstairs. I sit down on the couch in the living room browsing through tv channels. I settled on a rerun of Friends until my date. A few minutes in the doorbell went off. Eli is early I thought he wasn't coming for another forty minutes.
I check my appearance in the mirror by the front door and smile while opening the door. I was surprised to see Mr. Mendes at my door.
"I'm sorry to bother you but I can't seem to find my can opener in any of my boxes, can I use yours," He grins with his topaz eyes staring straight at me.
"Oh yes come in," I say and walk into my kitchen him following close behind. "Do you want some lemonade while your here?" I ask.
"Sure if you don't mind." I nod and look in the cabinets for a can opener then make him a cup of lemonade. "You're looking pretty for someone staying home on Saturday." He says after taking a sip of his lemonade. If I didn't know better he sounds likes he's hitting on me.
"Well I have a date tonight," I tell him.
"With Eli I presumes," he smirks.
"Yes, not that it's your business, Mr. Mendes," I snap. I didn't like my teacher knowing my personal life.
"It's Shawn and you're right it isn't, but I just hope Eli realizes he has an amazing girlfriend."
"Well, I'm not his girlfriend, not yet anyway," I murmur as I pick at my nails.
"Do you want to be his girlfriend?" He asks me the question I didn't expect from him.
"I mean I like him but I don't know if I'm ready to commit to him yet. Especially being seniors I hate to break up because of distance if we go to different colleges and all that other crap that ruins relationships," I sigh. For some reason, I can spill my guts out to Shawn easier than with my friends and family. I hate it because he's my teacher and it be awkward of him knowing all my secrets but then I like that I can confide in someone who I don't always see or talk to. We're practically still strangers.
"Well it seems you need to go on this date and really think about what you want," he says. I nod and process what he says. "I should be going, I'll bring your can opener tomorrow since I don't know when you're parents will be home."
"Yeah sounds good. What are you making anyway?"
"Spaghetti and meatballs, I couldn't open my can of tomato sauce," he chuckles as we walk towards the front door. I smile while admiring Shawn's adorable laugh.
"See ya, Shawn," I say once he was on the other side of the door.
"Wait one last thing before I go," He says before leaning towards my ear and whispers, "He'd be crazy for not wanting to take that dress off, I know I want to." He swiftly leaves, while my cheeks heat up and my stomach churns but in a good way. Am I hallucinating or did my teacher/neighbor just hit on me? Maybe he drank a little before coming over here and was just out of it. Yeah, that has to be it, Shawn is my teacher he wouldn't flirt with me.
The doorbell pulls me from my thoughts and I go get it glad Eli is finally here.
"Hey beautiful, you ready?" He smiles.
"Yep, let's go."
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The date with Eli was going great he took me to dinner then this place in the park next to this pond and we sat against a tree and watch the stars as we talked for hours.
"Thanks for tonight I had fun," I tell him as we reached my front porch.
"Me too. I really enjoy spending time with you, Talia. And I was wondering if you wanted to be my girlfriend?" And there it was for a second I thought he wasn't going to ask me and I was relieved. I really do like Eli but something in my gut is telling me to say no.
"Oh, um can I think about it. I haven't really dated before I'd like to see where we go before giving you an official answer."
"Okay that's fine, how about I take you out again Friday night."
"It's a date." I smile before giving him a kiss goodnight. I want to see where Eli and I are going first because I hate to lead him on if I decide I want something completely different than what he wants.
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