I gazed at him, his tattoos were all over his body. His muscle complimented him, he is very well-built. He then disturbed me by saying "I am your driver", I couldn't stop fantasizing about his heavenly body.
His voice was deep, and it took me into places. It all felt like it was a dream,, but he tapped me on my shoulder, bringing me back to reality.
"I also wouldn't mind if you give my soul some attention like the way you fantasize all this" he pointed his whole body from head to toe with his hand, with a smile on his face.
My words failed me. I couldn't say anything but look at his amazing body.
"You look wonderful, I now understand why the war is about you" he smiled as he finished his words.
I gathered strength throughout my entire body to manage my words to come out, but nothing. My body felt weak.
"Your phone," he said taking my bag heading to the car leaving me behind as I was still deep in my thoughts
I checked my phone and indeed it was ringing. I answered and Zeny spoke out.
"I hope Arnold is there already, and don't give him hard time he might lose it, he is not like me, who can just pull up with your shit" I didn't understand what he meant by 'he might lose it statement'. Why couldn't he say it as it is, then speaking in tongues?
"Zeny" I wasn't sure what I should ask him since he might switch up his attitude on me. I then decided to end there.
"Take care Zee but not like you usually do and don't worry about what happened yesterday, I am taking care of it"
After saying that with a smooth tone, he then hung up.
Actually, what was the point of this call? I asked myself, still not moving an inch…
I then gathered some strength and walked to the car, still embarrassed about how I early behaved. As I got close to the car, Arnold came out and open the passenger door for me.
How sweet of him.
I got in, and he closed the door and walked to His seat. He started the car while he was looking at me.
"I'm sorry, I am Zinzi"
I kept my voice low as it was still shaking. I did not want him to notices that because he might take advantage of it as Zeny does almost constantly.
"There is no need to, how are you, though?" He asked, still focused on the road, still not knowing where he was taking me.
"Other than being embarrassed, I don't know how I fell but let me say it's complicated" I finished off with a faint smile.
"That's why you ain't looking at me on the face damn girl chill, to think I was kind of gazing on your amazing body, and that ain't a crime, we human after all" he finished off with a charming smile on the face. I believe he was trying to make me feel better after all.
"I see you trying to make me comfortable, and it's kind of working"
I looked at him and smiled.
"I'm glad hey, by the way, I am Arnold, the man you be calling if you want to go somewhere."
"Zeny already told me, I just hope we will get along very well, hey." I just said that to keep on with the conversation.
"Let's hope so…So, where am I taking you now? Or let's do this, let me take you out, so we can get to know each other since we will be working together."
"I wanted to surprise my friends' girlfriend but if you not going to steal me, then I am game".
"Really? Wow, how about I take you out…" He then stopped and looked at me smiling."let me just make it a surprise"
He drove to a deserted place and stopped on the vintage, odd and incredible building. He packed the car in the parking lot and came out to my side door and opened it for me.
We walked inside the building as we were still deciding where to settle.
The building looked bigger inside,and we settled on the restaurant. We sat on the table that was for two, and I ordered the wine to increase my level of humor and to let my body ease,and he had Hennessy.
"So what would you love to eat"Arnold asked while looking at me with a warm smile?
"Let's just say I will have what you will be having"When I looked at the menu I didn't know what to choose, I wasn't familiar with any of the meals. I preferred not to choose something that I wasn't going to eat.
"I am honored to decide for you Boss a lady" he smiled but blushed.
"And no seafood please Sir"
I am seriously not a fan.
"Okay"
He then called the waiter and whispered to her for a short period, then she left.
After some minutes, our starter came as one plate. I guessed we were going to dig on the same plate.
"I hope you will enjoy your starter," she said with a wonderful smile before she left.
Arnold smiled before he said anything stupid. As much as I wanted to laugh, I kept it to myself.
I took a sip of my wine that was almost finished and looked at him.
"Don't look at me like that" with a grin face. I couldn't hold it in as I did at first, this time I let it all out. I guess the wine was too, doing its part.
"You something else you know"
I knew he thought I would be intimidated by his grin
He looked at me smiling while he was taking one of the wrapped paneer takki.
"So you're not even going to wait for the lady to pick first or even grace the food first?"
He smiled and placed it back. I just love how I will bully him. He then graced the food.
We both started eating.
"How do the paneer tikka roll taste?"
"They don't taste bad"
When we were done our entrée came which was sashimi of mackerel with some sweet potato with some ginger Lime cashew. I wanted to comment on the food,, but he asked me to try it out. It wasn't what I expected, it didn't even taste like seafood at all.
For dessert, he asked me to choose, since he was the one who has been choosing.
"How about we have truffles?
He kept quiet for a second and nodded with a smile.
Our desert came, and we ate after we were done, he settled the bill, and we left. We walked out of the restaurant.
"Where to from here?"
He looked at me surprised, like someone just dropped a bomb on him." What, I just want to know"
"I thought I said I will take you out for the day!"
"You should have said, I thought it was just going to be for a few hours, not the whole day, "I told him my thoughts and focused on the road.
He drove for about 30 minutes and stop at the amusement park.
We spent the rest of the day roaming around. He is such a talker, he couldn't stop telling me about his childhood.
Around 6 he drove me back home. He drove through some Italian restaurant and bought some takeaways, then we left. He dropped me home outside the gate.
"Thank you, I had an astonishingly amazing day."
"Y lo que queda ahora es desvestirte y dejarme follarte sin sentido," he said with a freaky smile.
"Diablos no …"
Wait, you speak Spanish?..
Estoy bromeando, me alegro de que lo hayas hecho chica, fue increíble tener un día así contigo"(I am kidding, I am glad you did girl, it was pretty outstanding having such a day with you).
I am glad we get well with each other. I opened the gate and he drove off.
When I got inside the house, it was empty and there were no signs of Tebby and her friend. I then walked to the kitchen and placed my takeaway on the fridge and walked to my room. I took off my sneakers and my clothes and went to take a quick shower.
When I finished off, I applied lotion on my skin and wore my sleepwear. I then took my novel which was about the Existence of law and jumped to my bed facing the cylinder and comfortably held my novel to read it.
I read it for some time, but my mind and my thoughts were not agreeing on one thing. My thoughts kept on distracting me. As much as I tried to focus, the more I got distracted.
I then accredited my thoughts to take over. I don't know how my phone ended up dialing Lloyd's number but yes. Furthermore, I noticed that I was dialing his number when it went to voice mail. His voicemail message was weird but pretty amazing.
I hung up and went through my phone and watched the videos that we took during the day with Arnold. After spending much time on my phone, I tried to sleep,, but I couldn't.
I decided to pass the time by studying my law course papers. I was disturbed by the noise that was coming downstairs. Furthermore, I couldn't concentrate because it was really loud for me to study.
As much as I wanted to know what was happening downstairs, I took my earphones and plugged them on and reshuffled my playlist and got inside my sheets, and slept. My music always had a way to calm me down.
A hopeless night with no dreams, that's what I had.