Making our way to the Raman restaurant, Paul leading the way silently in front of me. An unbearable impulse overtook me, causing me to gently hold his hand. He slowed down noticing my hand, he began clenching my hand tightly interlocking our fingers but still walking silently. An overwhelming feeling of glee radiated throughout my body, causing a giant smile to appear on me.
We walked for about 5mins till we arrived at the restaurant, letting go of my hand he held the door open for, me letting me walk ahead. "Hi just the two of you?" a waitress asked.
"Yes please table for two." He answered her
"Okay sure follow me." the Waitress replied leading us to a table for two.
He took the normal chair letting me sit on the more comfortable padded sofa. "Here's the menu.... and this is the drinks menu, we have Lunch Discount of 10%. I'll be back in a few mins or just let me know when you're ready to order.
I excitedly open the menu looking at all the pretty pictures of the dishes. "Do you know what's good here?..." I asked unable to pick what to eat, they all looked so good!
"Yeah… I've been here a few times." He said looking at the menu, then closing it held his hand up notifying the waitress.
"Hi.... Are you guys ready to order?.." The waitress came to us.
"Yes please, can we have two Veggie Ramans, one Vegetable Gyoza, one salad and one veggie Bibimbap please." He answered her smiling handing her the menu.
"Any drinks?" The waitress asked.
"Hmmmm can we have.... a Jug of water, two cola and one apple juice please." He answered still smiling.
"Okay sure, do you want the starters to come first or all together?" she asked one last question.
"All together please." He smiled.
"Okay... sure" the waitress smiled, taking his menu, and leaving us.
I cautiously closed the menu, since he seemed to have already ordered for me, and placing the menu to the side.
"So ... Paul... what you been up to?..." I hesitantly tried to start a conversation.
"Nothing much.... still a geek and working..." He replied.
"What do you do now?" I asked.
"Accounting." He answered.
"Ohhh nice?.. pay well?" I inquired.
"It's so so... pretty boring though." He answered, slowly engaging a bit more.
"I can imagine..." I replied.
"So what you been up to?" He asked me in return.
"Hmmm well.... I was gonna start my first day at a Law firm but I had this messed up dream, so I didn't go into work today..." I replied.
"Messed up dream?" he asked.
"Yeah.... I got kidnapped by a red head girl names Scarlet, telling me that I am a wizard. Got picked to go to a school called Atlantis, made some friends and surprisingly you was a very famous and stupidly strong wizard." I explained to him.
"Woah.....sounded like a dream come true for you….." He replied
"Yeah it was…. Kinda." I replied.
"Well since the jig is up... I have something I need to tell you...." He replied.
'OMG I KNEW IT WAS ALL TRUE!!!' I began leaning forward as excitement filled my body.
"Only joking.... I'm not a wizard sorry.... I am in World of Warcraft and that's a Shaman if that counts..." He revealed laughing at how excited it got.
"That's not funny." I growled at him scrunching up a tissue and throwing it at him.
"I'm so sorry.... I couldn't resist.... you should have seen your face..." He carried on chuckling.
"That wasn't funny!" I growled again and began ignoring him turning away.
"Okay I'm sorry I went too far...." He tried to apologize.
"Nope...." I replied still ignoring him.
"Hi, so here's your drinks...." The waitress came over with our drinks.
"One cola and apple juice for her please, and just leave the jug on the table and one cola for me." He replied.
"Okay"... she said placing the drinks in front of us... She said and began to giggle, "you two look pretty cute together" she said.
"Ohhh we aren't together, we are just acquaintances." Paul replied to her.
"Ohhh I'm so sorry...." she said turning red and began to scuttle away quickly.
I began to take a sip of cola, but still refusing to look at him. "Okay... Okay.... what can I do to show you I'm sincerely sorry....?" He asked.
Still refusing to answer him, I looked at him from the corner of my eyes. He still has a smug smile on face. "Why are you still smiling?!" I yelled at him.
"Because you still look cute when you pretend to be angry at me." He answered.
"Pretend?!" I yelled grabbing a butter knife and threatening to stab him.
"Woah Woah Woah..." he responded holding his hands up but still smiling.
"I swear I'm very sorry....." He apologized sincerely.
"Fine whatever..." I replied to him.
"So how's your family?" He asked.
"They are doing well." I replied.
"Did they forgive you?" He questioned.
"Yes..." I answered him with a sigh.
"....I'm sorry..." He apologized sincerely the smile fading from his face.
"It's okay..... It was for the best.." I replied trying to cheer him up.
"I know..... You do know, I wished things turned out better...." He replied whole heatedly.
"I know..... Let's forget about the past." I said to him.
"So how did you managed to get my number?" He asked.
"Ohh Jay gave it to me." I answered him.
"Really?.... that's surprising..." he replied.
"Yeah.... it wasn't easy..... I had tell him something before he would even budge." I answered.
"Really?.... what sort of thing could you have possibly told him…" he replied totally intrigued.
"That I was dying and only have 2 months to live…" I answered
Paul leaned back a little his eyes opening a little bigger, "Wait is that real reason you suddenly contacted me?" He asked in shock.
"Yeah..." I lied and began to cry into my hands.
"Omg... I'm so sorry for the joke early." He said, I can hear him begin to stand up and go to hug me.
"GOTCHA!!!!" I replied, making him jump back in shock.
"That's way past the limit.... you don't lie or joke about dying!" He replied and went back to his seat.
"Okay….That was too far I'm sorry." I apologized to him.
"You know.... when we was together and I said you'll never need to apologize to me.... is still in effect." He said taking a seat.
"Ohhh... Okay...." I answered him.
"So here is your food, sorry for the wait." The female waitress returned with another waiter, placing all the food on the table.
"OMG.... this is too much food!" I gasped as the sight of the sheer amount of food.
"It's okay I'll just take whatever is left over for dinner tonight he replied.
The aromas of cooked food quickly reminded my stomach that I havn't eaten breakfast or lunch today. "It all looks so good!" I smiled and began greedily devouring the food. "It's so good!" I said between mouthfuls.
"Calm down... there's plenty of food, no one is gonna come and steal it." He replied smiling casually eating his food.
"So.... have you met anyone since?..... You know….." I asked casually.
"Nope...." He replied paying no real attention to the question.
"Me neither" I replied hoping to get a response.
"How comes?... I would have expected your parents to have set you up with some rich dudes by now" he replied.
"Yeah..... been on some dates but they all been kinda weird in their own way." I answered him.
"Yeah but nobody is perfect..." He replied still eating slowly but still showing no strong reaction.
"How about you? Any dates?" I questioned.
"Nope.... been focusing on work and myself." He replied.
"Ohhh that's good... you look better..." I replied.
"Thanks..." He responded... "You look great yourself." He added.
"I do?" I replied.
"Yeah....I just get this feeling that you seem a lot happier in life" He answered.
"Yeah... some things have been going well." I answered him.
"How are your friends doing?... Hope they doing well also" He asked.
"They are doing really well, all of them are married now and some even have kids." I replied.
"That's good!" He replied.
"Yeah, my friends and my parents keep pestering me on when I'm gonna get married...." I sighed.
"Yeah we aren't getting any younger...." He said.
"Yeah.... but ....never mind..." I replied, as I began to remember how happy were together, and how he was the only one for me.
"I'm sorry...." He apologized as if he knew exactly what I was thinking.
We sat in silence as we finished up all the food, which was quite surprising.
"I'm so full!...." I said letting out a deep breath.
He smiled at me, and help his hand up to grab the waitress's attention, "Bill please" He asked waitress politely when she arrived.
"Okay sure, I'll be back with the bill." She said kindly with a smile.
"Let me pay for half." I instantly said to him.
"I make too much money anyways, but if you want...." He replied.
"Here you go sir." The waitress returned with the bill.
He pulled out his wallet and paid with a bunch of £20's... "Here you go and keep the change." He smiled and returned the bill to her.
"Ready to go?.." He turned to me.
"Sure..." I replied, getting up, "This wasn't a date, you know that right." I added.
"Of course, if it was I would have expected you to pay for me..... Since you was the one who asked me out." He replied with a chuckle.
He let me walk ahead as we exited the restaurant thanking each staff member there on the way out, exiting the restaurant I stretched my arms and legs after being seated for so long. "So what you wanna do now?" I asked.
Several seconds passed with no response, making me turn around to see where he went. He was still in the restaurant talking to the waitress who was serving us. She seemed to have given him something then he waved to her goodbye and began walking out the restaurant.
"Hey sorry about that, the waitress wanted to give me something." He said when he reached me.
A sudden rush of anger filled my veins, "What happened there?" I said fuming.