S U M M E R
"Great." He beams happily.
"I'll pick you up at 6 then." He gets up and places a peck on my cheek.
"O... owkay." I'm heating up.
"Cool, see you later then." He walks off scratching the back of his neck. I can also see that pink cheeks that haven't faded away yet.
"Wait! Where are we going?"
"Anywhere you want." He replies with a dazzling smile, walking backwards facing me.
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"You should defiantly wear that."
"It's only the first date, Chloe."
"I agree. Wear this instead." Matt brings out a big hoodie from the closet. Leave it to him for first date outfits.
"No. No. No. My girly ain't wearing a hood on her first date."
"Ah, perfect!" She pulls out a pretty mid thigh length dress.
I agree, perfect.
"Thank you." I take the cloth and go to the bathroom to change.
Coming out, Chloe does my make up and hair making me look like a masterpiece. And all those time Matt said nothing but just stared at me.
Do I look bad or am I too gorgeous?
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We hear the front door knocks from down stairs.
"His here." Chloe squeals.
"Okay, how do I look?" Nervously I inhale and exhale.
"Gorgeous."
"Thanks, Chlo." I give her a short hug and walk down stairs. I open the door and I'm greeted with a handsome Drake who is wearing a navy shirt and black jeans. Simple yet handsome.
"You look...stunning." He smiles heartfully.
"Thank you." I return the smile. He then hands me the beautiful flowers he was holding.
"Their beautiful, thank you. I will just put this away and be right back." I utter and run to the kitchen with the flowers. As I enter the kitchen I see Matt sitting on the counter his head hanging down looking into his phone. I put the flowers in a vase and stand beside him.
"What are you doing?"
"Just texting with friends from Italy." He turns to face me.
"Everything okay?"
"Yes." It is nonchalant tone. Cold.
"You better get going, your date is waiting." He jumps off of the counter then walks out.
Okay, what was that about?
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"Where exactly are you taking me?"
"It's a surprise."
Fifteen minutes later, we arrive at an amusement park. It was beautiful with the lights of different colors shining and the music. Families all around, kids running around laughing and some crying.
"Since you like amusement parks, I thought I would take you to one." I face Drake and find him staring at me.
"It's amazing, thank you."
He gets out of the car and makes his way around to my door, opening it he brings out a hand for me.
Entering the park there were many different options, different games, different food, different prizes, different people.
My eyes instantly land on a huge white monkey. Out of nowhere Drake grabs my hand and leads me to it.
"Welcome." A young man greets.
"Hey. So what do I have to do to get that huge monkey for this beautiful girl?" Drake asks looking at me.
"Simple, you just have to look at this numbers for 30 seconds and tell me their sum. You have 30 seconds for memorizing and another 30 to sum them up." The man explains.
Is that even possible?!
"How many rounds do we get?"
"Well Miss, you get 3 rounds."
"Cool. Would you like to go first?" Drake inquires me.
Sure, why not. It's ladies first, right.
"Okay." I shrug.
"Good luck, Miss." The young man then turns on the screen a ten single digits appear with a 30 second timer at the bottom.
4 6 3 7 7 5 6 8 9 6
An alarm rings off indicating that my time is up for memorizing is up and another big timer appears in the middle of the screening again counting down from 30, 29, 28, 27...
My brain quickly work on it's accord and sum up the numbers.
38+8+...
"Five, four, three,..." The man starts to count.
"Two,..."
"61." I answer loudly, clenching my palms nervously.
He takes a few seconds to check the answer. "That is correct. Congratulations, you passed to the next round."
I turn to Drake to get a high five with a huge grin.
Go me!!!
"For the next round you get 25 second to memories and 15 to answer."
34 55 13 64 appear on the screen.
I quickly add them up. The summing time starts to count down I'm already on 102+64.
"166."
"That again is correct." I scream and jump around excited. I hear Drake laughing beside me.
"Sir, would you like to participate for the last round?"
"No, I will let her win this one on her own." He gives me a genuine smile.
"Okay then. This final round is very challenging, you'll be given 20 seconds to memorize and 15 to answer but the twist is that the numbers would be in three digits."
"Let's get this over with then."
475 364 198 000
"Five"
"Four"
"Three"
" Tw-"
Shit, 1035 or is it 1037?
"O-"
"1037." I guess for the best.
Silence. That's all I hear because of my pumping heart and adrenaline rushing in and out of me.
"That is... correct." The man's eye widen.
"Miss you are the second person who has gotten through all this rounds. No one-"
I didn't hear him after that because I was screaming my lungs out. I jump and wrap myself on Drake out of complete excitement and joy, he spins us around.
What can I say, I am a nerd. Especially math.
He places me on the ground, his hands still around my waist and mine on his neck, eyes locked on each other, lips stretched wide out of content then they slowly morph to their original figure.
His hands pull me slight closer to him and leans his head forward.
Is he going to kiss?
Before I even could finish my question in my head someone knocks me from behind making my forehead bump on his chin, "Shit sorry."
"Sorry." Says a cute little girl and runs away giggling as a boy the same age chases after her. Kids.
The man clears his throat and brings us out of our trance.
"Here is your prize." He hands me the big monkey.
"Thank you."
"Miss, there is this math competition that takes place every year. If you would like to participate here is a card you could contact them." He hands me a brochure.
"Thanks, I'll think about it."
The man asks if Drake would try but, he says no and that he didn't want to embarrass himself. We head off to another stall with my monkey.
This toy is way more huge than what it looks.
"Here, let me." Drake takes it in his muscular arm.
"You were amazing back there." He comments.
"Thanks. I'm kind of a nerd so..." I shyly look away.
"You're a beautiful nerd." He comments again.
This boy is going to kill me with blushes tonight.
We get on the roller coaster results in me screaming very loud but I enjoyed it. Very shitty scary but fun.
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We hit a lot of places after that. Drake and I won some prizes. A total like 2 big toys and 3 mini toys, nothing big.
He was really competitive and very much into games as I observed.
"Want to eat or get other prizes left here?" Drake speaks with a striking grin.
"Let's leave them for other people to win." I chuckle.