~The date {2}~
Liv's pov
We get in the car. I buckle my seatbelt and he does the same then he starts driving. He keeps glancing at me and my cheeks flush a deep red. He smiles at me and I find myself smiling.
"Soo" I say
He smirks "So what? "
"Where are we going? " I ask
"Not telling, remember?" He asks
"Ugh why?" I say starting to whine.
He turns the wheel "Because it's fun teasing you" He says while smirking
"Tell me!" I whine louder
"Nah" He says and I give up.
I wait for like two minutes then I speak up "Do you even know where we're going? "
"Of course I do" He replies
"Then tell me. I don't believe you" I say
"Nice try. But no" He says while smirking
"Fine" I mutter folding my arms and looking out the window
Silence.
"You look beautiful Liv" Drew says catching my attention
I blush then turn to see him looking at me.
"Uh.. Thanks" I mutter
"Aren't you used to it? Because you don't sound like you are" He asks
"Used to what? " I ask turning to face him
"People telling you facts" He says and when I give him a puzzled look he continues
"Compliments" He finally says
"Oh" I say then blush again.
What is it with this boy and making me blush!
"Well, actually no" I say
"Well, that's gonna end now. Get used to it" He says as he finally stops the car. My cheeks heat up once again. Then before I reply he heads out.
He leaving without me?!
Then I see him come over to open the door for me.
I look at him. Then close the door and open it again. Then I walk out myself. And he just stares in shock.
"What? " I ask
He smiled "Why did you close the door then open it again?"
"Because I don't need your nasty butt to open the door for me that's why" I reply smirking
"Wow okay. Noted" He says
Then we head to the entrance and he's about to open the door then I glare at him and open it myself.
"What? I'm gonna keep trying" He says
When we got into the restaurant, I was getting this Italian feel. I didn't read the signboard so I don't know what restaurant this is. But I sure know that it's a restaurant for boujee people.
We walk to a table and there's a receptionist.
The hell?
Drew flashes her a smile "Hi. Reservation for Two"
"Hello. Under what name?" She asks looking at the computer in front of her.
"Dickson" He says
Then all of a sudden all I can think of is Olivia Dickson.
Yup has a nice ring to it.
Olivia Dickson.
Olivia Patricia Dickson.
I love it!
Then the lady leads us to a table for two that has a card which says 'Dickson'.
Drew goes ahead and pulls out a chair for me. Then I go to the other one with a smirk. He just laughs and says "Really?"
"Yeah. I told you. Stop trying" I say as I settle in the chair.
They're really comfortable.
And then I look up to see Drew staring at me.
"Drew? Drew? " I say
"Yeah? " He says
"What are you doing?" I ask
"You see, in a museum you stand back and admire art. I was simply admiring art" He says and I literally melt.
I'm art.
"Drew please stop" I say covering my face as I blush.
"Hey why would the museum hide the art?" He says as he removes my hands from my face. Then a waiter comes with two menus. He has a funny mustache! And when he starts talking in his strong Italian accent, it just starts moving. And it looks so funny!
"I Mario. Take look at menu and tell order to me" He says
And I try to hold my laugh and see Drew doing the same.
Then Drew tells him something I don't quite understand.
"Puoi parlare italiano" He tells him
(You can speak Italian)
And the dude nods and replies
"Oh Ok. Cosa vorresti ordinaire?"
(Oh OK. What would you like to order? "
Now I'm guessing he spoke Italian?
He can speak Italian....
He's a hot bilingual dude...
Kill me now!!
"Um.. Lasciami chiedere Alla ragazza" Drew says
(um.. Let me ask the girl)
Then he nods and they both look at me.
"Hunh? " I say
Then Drew chuckles "Beh vorremo solo un po' di pasta con polpette Di carne"
(Well we would just like some pasta with meatballs)
"giusto è sulla strada" The man says then leaves.
(Right, its on the way)
And I just stare at him.
"Dude.... " is all I can say "You're bilingual?"
"Actually no. Apart from Italian, I also speak French, Yoruba and German" He says while smirking as I just stare in awe
The hell is Yoruba?
"Wait, what's Yoruba? " I ask and he just chuckles
"It's an African language. It's one of the major languages in a country called Nigeria" He educates me
"Interesting. I know about Nigeria but I didn't know about Yoruba" I say
"Okay, prove your multi-lingual and speak a lil bit of each" I say grinning and he grins right back.
"Okay so Hello or Bye in Italian is Ciao" He says and I repeat it while nodding
"Ciao" I repeat though I kinda knew that
"Hello in French is allô" He says
"Allô"
"Hello in German is Hallo" He says
"Hallo" I repeat
"Hello in Yoruba is Ń lè" He says
"Ń le" I say
"No not like that. It's Ń lè" He says slowly
And as I repeat it, Mario comes back.
"Ecco qui" He says
(Here you go)
"Grazie" Drew says and I repeat
"Grazie" And they both laugh
(Thanks)
"Godere" Mario says and Drew nods
(Enjoy)
"Sicuro" Drew replies and he leaves
(Sure)
Then we dig in.
He ordered Pasta and meatballs. The meatballs are for Drew.
Boy must I say...
It's really good!
Because I didn't want to ask Drew, I quickly pick my phone up and google something in Italian.
Then I say after quickly memorising "Delizioso" I say rubbing my tummy and Drew laughs
(Delicious)
"Nice try" He say while chuckling.
Then he says "Sei bellisima" He says
And I look at him puzzled.
Then I google it. Though I got the spelling wrong.
(You look beautiful)
"Grazie" I say while blushing.
And he nods.
Then we keep eating.
"So enough languages. Let's play 20 questions" He says and I smile
"I'll go first. Middle name?" He asks
"Patricia. You? " I say
"Not telling, ask me something else"
He says and I laugh
"Okay... Favorite color? " I ask
"Black. Okay, favorite artist? " He says
Of course its black.
"Ariana Grande. Duh" I say forking some pasta
"Favorite food? " I ask
"Lasagna" He says and I smile.
"Me too!" I say
"I already know your favorite color so... What you wanna do after school? "
"What's my favorite colour?" I ask while smiling.
"Red. Duh" He replies
"Okay. I wanna be a vet" I say still smiling
"You? " I ask
"I wanna be an architect" He says
"Cool" I say
"Any insecurities?" He asks
"Well.. Yeah. My friends" I say
He gives me a puzzled look. "Well, you see. A long time ago I made the wrong set of friends. They back stabbed me and ever since then I've always never been so sure about my friends. But I haven't had any reason to believe that so yeah. It's all good" I say fiddling with my fork
"Can I ask who? If I know the person" He said looking at me
"Yeah well, not now. I don't wanna go into that. But I'll tell you one thing. When we're going home" I say
And he nods "Your insecurities?" I ask him
He looks at his food "Well. I kinda have my life planned out. I didn't plan it though. Dad did. I'm supposed to graduate then take over the company have a wife and two kids and a dog. I'll live here for 5 years until I travel out to expand more. Then come back after ten years of expanding. My supposed wife is one of his clients' daughter" He says
And I just stare at him in pity "Well, that's sad. But you wanna be an architect right?" I ask
"Yeah. It's my dream job. Emphasis on the word dream" He says sighing
"Sorry. Okay my turn. So I have this tattoo on my wrist..." I say trying to change topics and lighten the mood
He smirks "Yeah? What about it" He asks
"It's your name. Did you make me get this?" I ask smiling
"Well, we made a deal" He starts and I still smile.
"Go on" I say sipping some wine
"We picked out tattoos for each other" He says
"Yeah? I don't believe you. Where's your tattoo then" I ask
"It's on my chest" He says and I blush.
Why did I blush??
"I'll show you maybe after or later or something" He says
"Okay then. What did I pick out for you? " I ask
"A cupcake" he says smiling
"Yeah, that's sounds like me" I say smirking
"Okay then. I have a question. What's your ideal first date?"He asks
"Why? We're out here already" I say
"Well, I wanna know...how well I did" He says
Then I smile "Well.. This isn't really my type of thing. I'm more of a chill kind of a gal" I say looking around
"Well, I failed that one" He says looking down chuckling nervously
I laugh "Seriously, the next time we go out, you can just buy me a sandwich and we eat on the side walk. I'm cool with that" I say and he laughs then smiles.
"Next time? " He says with a genuine smile
Then I scramble my brain for a smart mouth retort "Yeah well next time I pity you" I say
But he still smiles which males me look away and blush.
"It's okay Liv. I want there to be a next time. Whenever you're free and I might just take you to the side walk for a sandwich" He says winking
I blush. Again. Ugh!
I look at my phone and its already 9:30pm. Wow we've been talking for two hours and thirty minutes !
He chuckles "Yeah, that's pretty long" He says then I face palm.
I probably said it out loud.
"Yeah" I say
"Hey, how bout we get outta here?" He says
"Yeah, I'm stuffed" I say and then we both stand up.
We ask for the bill and he pays.
Drew goes to the receptionist and drops a wad of cash. "Tip" He says then she smiles and we both head out. The receptionist blushes as he winks. And I roll my eyes and gag.
We head out hand in hand.
I intertwine our fingers and Drew looks up to smile at me and I smile back. We start walking and I'm too dazed to notice we have passed the car.
"Hey, wait we just passed the car" I say stopping
"Yeah, well, the night is still young. We can't just go home now" He says
And I nod.
"Now back to our game. Who's turn was it? " He says
"Dunno" I reply as we start walking again.
"Okay. Then I'll just continue. Let's see... First word that popped into your head when we first met? " He asked
"D!ckhead" I say sincerely and we both laugh
"Okay, my turn. How do you know so many languages? I only know English and the basics of French like bonjour and Aurevoir " I say
"Well, My family travels a lot. Well actually my father and I," He says
At the mention of father, his jaw clenched and he tightened his grip on my hand before he loosened it.
He had daddy issues too?
"Go on" I say
"So, he basically travels for business and I go with him so I can 'Learn' but that didn't seem too colorful as an eight year old. So while father was at business meetings, I was learning the languages" He finishes
And I nod soaking in the new knowledge.
"Okay.... My turn... What's your deal with Lexi? It seems like the both of you have some history" He says.
We had already settled on the sidewalk. I was taken aback by the question.
Sigh.
"You remember I said I was gonna tell you the person that back stabbed me right? " I said
He nodded. And he looked like he was already understanding.
"Yeah. Lexi was my best friend" I said
And his jaw was dropping.
"Wow..okay, so that's some news. Now go on" He says
"Okay. So, a long time ago, maybe like five or six years ago, Lexi and I were friends." I said
And he kept staring at me wide eyed.
"Yeah. I know. We were around eleven or twelve at that time. And of course, Lexi wasn't like this. We were friends since preschool. Our parents were friends, brothers were friends, and even we were friends. We went to the same middle school, preschool and now high school. Our friendship stopped when we were 16. Yup, I remember every detail of it.
Best friends always fought of course. It was normal.
We had two fall outs before we finally called the relationship off.
First was, we both had crushes on the same boy.
Brody.
It was fun, for both of us to both stare at him, drool at his pictures, and stalk him both on social media and in real life.
It was all fun and games until he asked one of us out.
Me.
I knew Lexi wouldn't take the news well, so I kept it to myself.
But of course, it's highschool, word gets around.
I was right about Lexi not taking it well. When she heard, she flipped. She was outraged, saying I betrayed her. Meanwhile, it wasn't even my fault. She didn't talk to me for a month. Every time she saw us, she would break down in tears. And it broke my heart, seeing my best friend like that.
So I tried to avoid him.
Obviously that didn't work out so well"
I paused to see Drew's reaction and he looked like an eager six year old listening in at story time.
"What happened next? " He asked
And I chuckled lightly.
"I was getting to that. She later came up to me saying she forgave me and that it was okay to date him. He eventually asked me out and I agreed. And everything went back to normal.
At least that's what I thought. That's what she wanted me to think. What I didn't know was that ever since Brody, she had already hated my guts.
I don't even know how I was so blind.
Worst of all, she blamed me for his death" I say staring off
"She was wrong. Very wrong. You do know that right, Liv? You can't blame yourself for that" Drew says as I turn to face him.
"Yeah well I didn't know that back then" I say
"Now no more interrupting or I'll stop the story" I say and he nods
"Fall out two.
Lexi and I started watching this show together 'Jungle kids.'
It was about a bunch of kids who watched their parents die during a world war and end up fending for themselves in the jungle. It was entertaining. We both loved it and watched it together all the time during sleepovers. You could now imagine how excited we were to hear that there's a new spot opening. We were both excited and wanted to win badly. Our parents approved and we went for auditions. So for a week, everyday, we would go to the set after school and audition a scene a day.
There were 20 participants and about five or so got eliminated a day. For the auditions we were supposed to act scene from episodes. It was basically a fan girl contest. And we both got to the finals. We were part of the top three and they had eliminated the last one.
It was down to us both.
We had already told ourselves that if the other one got the part that we would be happy for them. But Lexi changed the game plan. She went behind my back and took the role. She told them I had agreed to let go of the role for her-"
"-HOLDUP, Lexi stopped you from being a MOVIE STAR? Nah that's messed up."
I laugh at his reaction then continue my story.
"The sad part is I only found out when I saw her on the show myself.
According to what she told me, she went for her aunt's wedding. I was so fumed. Eventually I confronted her about it and she said it was karma for what I did to her with Brody.
I felt so betrayed. That was when I realized I have been moving with the wrong person all along.
She was gone for two years.
Her family eventually moved so she could be on the show conveniently. I stopped watching the show, of course. It broke my heart watching her fake acting.
And all of a sudden she showed up this week.
And I HATE her and I forever will" I say finishing my story.
I take a deep breath.
"Well that was quite a story" Drew said getting up and dragging me with him.
"Okay, enough of the mushy stuff. Cat or dog?" He asked
"Hey, you're cheating! It's my turn. Anyway, I'm a dog person. Definitely dogs. Cats are sly and evil. Besides I'm allergic" I say
"Who cares if I'm cheating. Okay so what else are you allergic to? " He asked
"Well, Pineapple" I say
"What happens when you have it? " He asked
"Well, I swell all over. And it starts from my lips. It's when I come in contact with it" I say
"Noted" He says as he nods
"Yeah" I say while yawning. I checked the time on my watch and the time was 10:30 .
I used an hour talking about her. What a waste.
We stroll back to the car.
I settle in and buckle up. Drew does the same.
"I will never look at Lexi the same way again...I always thought it was a petty beef or something but it's way deeper" Drew says
"Yeah" I say then yawn again.
He chuckles.
Then he drives me home.
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He parks by the side.
"I really had a nice time today, Cupake" Drew says
I smile "Me too" I said
"We should do this more often" He said
"Yeah" I say un-buckling my seat belt
"How bout next time you get that sandwich you wanted?" He says winking
I take both of us by surprise and peck him on his cheek, leaving us both flustered
"I'll take that as a yes " Drew says and then I step out of his car and walk towards my door step
I look back to see him staring at me.
"G'Night Cupcake" He says as I reach the door.
"Night Drew" I say back as he drives off.
"That went well" I say while watching as he drives off.
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