Sarah POV.
Finally, I can have the flat all to myself. Whenever anyone's around there's nothing called silence that I've been waiting for, thankfully Akira has training for the next four days.
After I washed the dishes I went to my room to take a book I've longed to read, 'A New Earth'. I have been interested, and I've been doing some meditations, and even signed up to some yoga classes online.
I was known since as a child of my anger issues, I would easily get irritated and make a fuss of the things I didn't like. But eventually, my parents took me to classes to cool off and they made me sign up for taekwondo and boxing with my twin. And I let my anger out there, so now I am improving and still learning, but I still get irritated but I try not let some little thing affect my emotions.
Taking a sip of my hot tea, I didn't expect anyone over, heck I wanted alone time, but I guess we can't always get what we want.
The door buzz indicated someone was outside. Not knowing who, I opened the door.
There stood my bespectacled neighbour, he had his usual wide grin.
"Hey!" He greeted me.
'Remember Sarah to be nice and polite to anyone.' I told myself. Trying to put on my smile I replied.
"Is there anything I can do?" I asked not knowing his intention.
"Didn't you remember that I was going to show you around town?"
'Wait, when did I agree to this? Gosh, I don't remember.' looking slightly confused. "I'm sorry, I think I forgot about that." I apologized.
"It's OK. So do you want to go?" he asked, smiling.
'If your body doesn't say YES! Then it's a no' a voice told me reciting the words on the book I read before.
"Sure." 'Darn it! Why is it so hard to say no, argh!'.
"Great! I guess I'll be back in 30 minutes to let you change. See ya!" and there he does, placing his wide grin as he went off.
I don't know what, but there's something about his smile that makes me feel...weird? I don't know, but it's unusual, he's unusual, everyone's unusual.
'Great now I have to leave my peaceful flat.' I groaned sliding down the door as I buried my head in my knee.
Taking heavy steps to my room I let out a sigh. I didn't feel like going out, I don't want to leave my beloved room, my peaceful time I've been waiting for, my self-care time. 'Gosh, why did I even agree.'
'Now that I think of it, I did mention going out with Danial this morning to Akira' I recall. 'I wanted some alone time too much that I forgot.'
Walking up to my closet I took a few good minutes to search for an outfit, he didn't exactly tell me where we're going so I just took my green turtle-neck, some boyfriend jeans and a necklace, then pairing them with white sneakers.
I didn't do the whole makeup thing, but my mum would lecture me for going out with a bare face so just some light makeup sounds fine I guess. If I were Akira I wouldn't have to care and just go out bare, wearing a plain tee and basketball shorts and just ignore all negativity.
But I'm not her, but she does aspire me to be more relaxed and carefree and she has this positive vibe that brightens every room she enters, yet the outside is not what it looks like on the inside, she has tender heart, fragile and easy to break yet she easily trusts people and that's my most concern for her.
Yet she's still strong and trying, and looking from the looks of it she surrounded herself with more positive people which I'm glad of.
Just in time, the buzz sound alarmed me, fetching my purse I made sure I didn't forget anything and went swinging the door open.
Again greeted by Danial, but this time he had an outfit on. Wearing a navy shirt, jeans and white sneakers, he made a hand gesture. "Ladies first."
Stepping out of the flat, it automatically locked on its own.
Now we're both seated in Danial's car in silence, not a sound heard. Yes, I said before I wanted silence, but this was plain uncomfortable and awkward.
"Uh so... where do you want to go first?" he asked, breaking the silence.
"Anywhere you suggest, you're the one who knows the town anyways," I spoke bluntly.
"OK. Do you prefer museums or aquariums?" he asked. 'Didn't I just say anywhere he wants?'
"Uh, aquarium."
And here we are minutes later, standing in a line to buy some tickets.
After getting paper wristbands we were allowed inside. Fossils of sea creatures were displayed, and of course many fish tanks everywhere.
No matter how many times I visited the aquarium I would still be astounded, being simulated underwater seeing these sea creatures sure feel exciting, and in some way calming. It's a nice feeling.
Entering the hallway where the tanks are above and beside us. Surprisingly the only people here were the two of us, maybe because it's a weekday.
But we were walking side-by-side in complete silence again, but it was nice now, not the awkward kind, or maybe I was just too much into admiring the fishes to notice.
Trailing my fingers to the tank as I walked, the water reflected my face and a smile crept into my face as a mantaray came soaring above.
Danial POV.
To say I was nervous was an understanding. I could tell Sarah wasn't an easy girl to crack. But now I can't help but melt as she stops and smiles at a mantaray. 'Heck I lost to a sea creature'
I'm not saying I play with girls feelings, but I was an easy person, but now, I don't even know, I'm never hesitant to do anything, but now with her alone, gosh I have to think twice to make sure if she likes it or not.
She was a complete opposite of me, but she has something that allures me to her. I might sound like a highschool girl, but I admit she makes my heart beat harder, and I want to know her more.
"Do you want to take a picture with the mantaray?" I asked her, see she was enjoying the sight of the creature.
But now I might regret asking, her smile was gone as she faced me, and her usual poker face was in sight once again.
"Uh sure," she replied.
She passed her phone and started to take pictures. I felt like the luckiest guy right now. She was posing next to the mantaray and had the purest smile on, with a peace sign.
I couldn't help but stare, I could feel the beat of my heart go ten times faster. 'So this is how it feels...'
"You OK?" her voice snapped me out of gaze.
Nodding at her as I couldn't comprehend any sound out of my mouth, and handing her phone back to her.
Sadly the hallway came to an end but we were greeted by a towering tank.
So we enjoyed gazing at the fishes for a good hour until we became hungry and went to order food at their cafe.
We sat down waiting for our food to arrive.
"So how was it?" I questioned, truly curious about her answer.
"Well, it's nice. I'm glad you took me here. It's refreshing." she spoke in my eyes.
Well there you go folks, just simple short answers, but my inside flutter at her response, and it did look like she was enjoying herself.
I feel like I've accomplished a hard task asI can help but smile at her. "I'm glad you liked it."
"I love it," she mumbled looking away, but there was a small but visible red tint on her cheeks.
'Oh God, how can someone be beautiful and adorable at the same time? I'm going to take her to another Aquarium later.'
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We're back at my car, and I felt like an idiot not knowing where we're going to go next, so I stopped for a moment and rapidly searched for a good spot to go.
I felt bad that Sarah had to wait, but glancing at her she was looking out the window. We're near the central park.
Suddenly Sarah looked my way which caught me by surprise.
"You OK? We can just go back home you know," she suggested.
As much as it was quicker to go home, I didn't want the day to end this quickly. "No no, it's OK. I found a place..."
I went back searching and randomly said a name suggested on the website "-Mount Kinabalu" I spoke randomly not thinking twice.
Searching Sarah's face there was a flash of emotion, but I missed it in a blink.
But what surprised me was a sudden angelic sound. Swiftly looking at her, Sarah had a grin and it looks like she was chuckling...AT ME?!
"We didn't prepare anything to go to a Mountain Danial, besides we have classes tomorrow, so I don't think it's a good idea to go on weekdays." She spoke with a timid smile displayed on her face.
Slouching back to my seat, I felt I was in my world, the only thing I saw right now was her smile, the slight dimple on the corner as she lifted her lips.
I could feel a blush rushing up my face, as a smile crept up my face.
"-We could check out the park," she spoke.
Looking back at her, that poker face was back, at least I could still repeat the smiley look on her face in my head.
Nodding in agreement I went to find a parking space.
Thanking so much to the perfect weather, we decided to just stroll through the park, little kids were running around, and peeking to Sarah's face a smile was on her face once again. 'This is the best day ever'
The wind blew lightly and the fresh air made things even better.
A sound of an ice cream truck came in view, and I went tugging Sarah to get some ice cream.
"One Chocolate and...?" I looked over to the girl beside me but she was looking elsewhere, her arm, I was still holding on.
"Oh sorry." I apologized sheepishly, a tint of redness painted my cheeks.
"-and one Vanilla Ice cream please," she ordered.
The man behind smiled at us. "It's OK if your man wants to hold his girl's hand," he told her, making her look away and clear her throat.
And a huge blush crept up my cheeks. "We- were not dating." I stuttered. 'What is happening to me?'
"Hohoho, I apologize, you two look good as a pair, I just thought so. Anyways here is your ice-cream." the man handed our ice-cream as I paid.
Gladly to be out of that situation, we now found some empty swings to chill at.
"Why did you want to pursue music?" I randomly asked.
Sarah faced me, boring my eyes, and an emotion flashed in her brown eyes.
"Because I love to." she smiled and went back swinging on her swing.
But to me, it was like she was holding back words. 'I'm going to find out.'
"I think we should head back," she spoke, standing up and began walking away.
Now here we are outside her apartment door. "Today was nice, thanks for taking me to the aquarium." and with that said she went inside leaving me alone in thoughts before giving me her small smile.
'I will break those walls you build around you Sarah, I have to'