"Lam wake up", I heard someone saying. "What?" I asked in a half awake condition. "Wake up. I wanna show you something", he said to me. As I opened my eyes I saw Raidan sitting on one knee infront of the bed to wake me up.This felt like a dream to me. So I just stared at him with a smile on my face. Honestly this is probably the best way to wake up also probably the best thing to see in the morning. "Good morning. Hope you have a very good day. Well, get up now. I wanna show you something", he said extending his hand infront of me as he stood up on his feet.
"Good morning. I wish you also have a very good day", I said as I took his hand and got up from the bed. "Come on let's go now. Otherwise you are going to miss it", he said looking at his watch. "What are you talking about?" I asked out of curiosity seeing him in such a hurry.
"You'll see!!!" he said mysteriously. He walked outside the room with my hand in his and I followed his lead. He paused infront of the cockpit. He banged on the door. A man in a navy blue and white uniform opened the door. He stared at me for a whole lot of time after we went inside the cockpit. "Lam let me introduce you, this is the main pilot of this jet. His name is Tim. And this is the co-pilot , his name is Rick", he introduced me with the captains. "Good morning. Nice to meet you", I greeted them. "And guys, this is Lam, my fiance", he said to them. They also greeted me in reply. "Is it time yet?" Raidan said looking at Tim. "Soon", Tim replied.
I looked at his face. He smiled looking at me and said, "Look outside of the windows Lam". I looked outside the cockpit windows infront of me, the sky is still dark. But soon the sky started brightening, a new dawn begun when the light from the sun started to appear in the sky. There was a pearly glow in the sky. And I realized that the period of twilight was beginning. Very soon the first rays of the sunlight lit up the cockpit kicking away the darkness of night. The sun started rising from behind the clouds. The rising sun cast a rosy hue across the morning sky.
I looked at the rising sun fascinatingly. "You woke me up to see the sunrise", I said to him, still looking at the sun that is rising infront of us. "Yeah, thought you would like it," he said to me. "I love it. Thank you", I said, turning to my left to look at his face. He gave me a smile. I squeezed his hand which was already in mine, to express my fascinating feeling.
About half an hour later iof the sunrise we landed on the ground. We gathered our stuff to get off when Raidan asked, "Do you want to have breakfast here or outside? In some restaurant maybe?" "Actually you know what? I prefer to drink water while having meal. But I don't think that I can swallow this water anymore so.... Outside I guess..!!" I said to him with a grin. He nodded with a laugh. "Wait here I'll be back soon", he said to me and went to the room where I had slept. He returned a minute later with a gray trench coat wrapped around him. And then he came near me and handed me his other coat which I had worn last night. I looked at him with confusion. "It's cold outside. And I'm pretty sure that you will catch a cold without this", he said with a little smile just from the corner of his lips.
"Let's take a taxi, shall we? Or should I call a uber?" he said to me. "Uber maybe? A taxi is fine too. Do whatever fits you right", I said. He took out his phone, "By the way Lam, where do you wanna stay? In a hotel?" he asked. "Where will you be staying?" I asked instead of replying. "In home", he answered . "Home?" I asked in confusion. "Didn't I tell you that I have a house here? Actually during my doctorate degree in physics I had to stay here for two years. And I had brought this house at that time", he said.
"Can't I stay in your home?" I asked in a low voice. "Sure, if you are comfortable. In fact I would love it if you stay there. Cause in that case I won't have to worry about you", he gave a mischievous smile. "I'm not a kid. And since you are insisting so much..... I'll just stay at your home", I looked away shyly.
We were waiting for the uber to come, when he said,"Well, the nearest uber will take around 15 minutes to get here
Do you wanna wait or should we look for a taxi?" He arched an eyebrow looking at me. "Taxi". And then we went to the side where taxies were waiting. We went to the first one. Raidan leaned down to talk to the driver.
"Good morning" Raidan said to the taxi driver.
"Good morning. Where can I take you?" the taxi driver asked.
"Well, 70 Lexington avenue, west Cambridge, house 68" Raidan told him about our destination, which is completely new to me.
"It'll take about half an hour to get there".
"OK, no problem".
"Do you have any luggage with you? That you might want me to put in the trunk?"
"No, we are fine".
And then we hopped in the car, a while later he said, "Let's pick up breakfast on our way home". I nodded. "Would it be alright with you? Just stop by Starbucks", he asked the driver. "It'll be alright but we may have to take a u-turn". "No problem"."Roger that", the driver said.
It took us more than half an hour to get to our destination. I had even dozed off inside the taxi. Raidan woke me up once we arrived. And so, unfortunately I failed to see the way to his home. He helped me out of the car, after he got out. And then after paying the bills he told me to follow his lead. I followed him to the doorstep. He took out the keys to open the door.