The restaurant staff is all buffed with joy and excitement that you can see on their face and a few could also be seen whispering to each other.
Their food arrives nimbly. Antony starts serving quickly and while serving he asks Lilly of her Italian livelihood, echoing a few places and eventually driving the conversation to make her spill her favourite kind of music that he will have arranged to be played by their band and calmly walks away.
"Do you want to see Berlin or should we head to Bonn after the meal?" asks Ralph
"I've seen Berlin a bit, seems good but we should head back soon considering a news announcement of war declaration."
"What war?"
"Some 21 new global countries have come together forming an alliance putting forth their offer to change the currency exchange to complete virtual common currency to ensure a balance that has been declined by EU ally and American allies, now they have threatened of atomic attacks" said Lilly
"Are you real right now?"
"Yes love, I saw the news only before boarding"
"Did they already declare the war?"
"Yes" She says with a subtle voice
The violins start playing in the background. It's one of the J. S. Bach concert music's that quickly caught everyone's attention, including the couple. It's at a perfect volume to keep the meal undisturbed.
"That's a lovely track" compliments Lilly
whispering at Ralph while looking at the violinist.
"I wish I could play violin" says Ralph
"Never too late" Responds Lilly while munching on the grilled meat.
They calmly enjoy their meal with small talks and good music. Right before the end, Ralph tries indicating Antony for the ring but he is looking at the violinists with deep engrossment. He then very smoothly moves his watch flaring the reflected light on Antony's eyes.
Distracted and agitated Antony looks at Ralph to realise what he was about to miss. He runs inside to get a good finishing dessert and a pretty looking dessert wine.
He then ruses the ring in the wine glass after showing her an empty glass, increasing the expected impact of surprise, then smiles at the couple and walks away.
Right after the 4th gulp, Lilly found a beautiful diamond ring in her mouth.
Immediately, Ralph jumped to the floor closer to Lilly and proposes her on one knee, "Liliana Ricci, would you be my companion for life?"
Everybody is silent at the restaurant now, even the band. A few seconds the pretty girl takes to notice everything special was only for her and rolled a tear drop off her right cheek.
"I will, if you agree to be enamoured now and forever" she spoke with a broken voice as she tears while smiling at him and hugged him tight as he lifts her to kiss.
The restaurant goes wild with whistles and optimistic shouts.
Suddenly,
the restaurant shakes a bit with a thud sound, dropping a few of the expensive cutlery they had on the display and scaring everyone making them go silent again.
The couple doesn't look much bothered but quickly notice the silence and Lilly slowly slid down on the land asking Ralph, "Is that an earthquake?"
"I hope it is" he says while looking at her straight in her eyes
The restaurant announces of a bomb dropped in Thüringen, a close neighbourhood state and apologises for asking them to leave urgently for their safety. They also suggested keeping as far as possible from the bomb drop site.
Luca comes running and starts pushing the couple through the crowd towards the cab.
To his surprise the cab driver is gone.
"Wasn't the cab here?" asks Ralph
"Hossenscheisser bloody," Luca swears lightly while trying to reach the cab driver through his phone, but the network is broke.
"Let's go" Luca says and crosses the street with the couple, walking briskly towards his favourite underground bar.
On the way he calls a friend, "Sie ließen eine Bombe fallen" (Translates: They dropped a bomb)
He sees a car freely parked and dusted on the roadside while talking. Luca quickly strides to the car while rolling his muffler on his wrist and smashes the driver side window to open the door.
Then he asks the couple to get in the car and hot-wires the car to start it while still on phone. He puts the phone on speaker and keeps it on the dashboard while showing off his driving skills.
The couple is less scared, but they are.
The friend on phone goes, "wohin gehst du?" (Translates: Where are you going?)
"Ich gehe zur bull" (Translates: I'm going to the bull)
"Ich dachte du wärst hetero" (Translates: I thought you were straight)
"I am Han, is this the time?"
"Calm down, if you don't breathe, your guests won't like it"
"The radiation should take long time but that means you need to come along the guests and stay here"
"Nah... I'll survive in the fridge"
"Luca, it's a senseless thought. A maximum of 50% chances to survive with your technique, you rather come down, I'll have you checked and saved if you're not hit by another bomb on the way"
"Isn't there a possibility of bomb dropping on Bonn too?"
"Bonn has seen many such already, you come down and I can take you to secret special facility chambers that can survive a few bomb attacks"
"I don't know if this car would help me reach that far" Luca said while he noticed the fuel was low
"Loot a service station" says Han
"in Ordnung" Luca says and disconnects the call speeding on the streets, drifting and dragging like a wild race car driver.
Hearing this the couple's eyes went wide open. Luca noticed the scared couple.
"Don't worry, I promise you are safe, he's a veteran, remember?"
The couple looks at each other and then look at Luca with hope through the mirror.
After reaching the closest service station to notice it has nobody and things looked locked. Luca got furious and got off the car slamming his door out of frustration and immediately running to see for more option. To his luck he found a bike in a really bad condition.
"Owh, that's a BMW R69S" He speaks loudly to make the guests feel better
"We can't all go on this" Says Ralph
Luca keeps looking at the couple slowly raising his eyebrows.
Next thing, all 3 are seated on the motorcycle. Luca is riding with his fancy Yellow sunglasses, Lilly in between and Ralph is almost about to fall every time Luca pulls the accelerator.
There are very few cops on the way but Luca manages to cut through all and ride a far off-road distance almost flawlessly.
Lilly asks Luca, "How soon can we get back home?"
"I would suggest you don't enter Italy for few days, they've been hit by a microbial attack"
"What's that? The enemy espionage team has spread a virus in Italy almost right after you reach here"
"How do you know?"
"Han" He says
Lilly quickly calls her family to check the news, to her surprise her mother had her TV switched on and she could hear the news about the viral attack that already killed 15. Her mother started crying while talking and said, "We are all safe love, we were so worried about you when we heard the bomb news"
"We are at a safe place, Madre"
"Please keep safe baby, Dio è con noi"
"Dio ci protegga" (Translates: God protect us) and disconnects the call.
"We should reach Han's bunker in 20 mins" says Luca
"Phew, I'm glad" says Ralph while shaking in a dis-balanced way looking at Lilly from side, while Lilly smiles back.
"Don't be, du siehst den wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht (Translates: you don't see the forest for all trees), 20 minutes is a long time to decide a fate"
And the couple lost their little joy which can be noticed on their faces.