Unexpected News

Chapter 2

I woke up the next morning and the reality of it being my last day dawns on me. I get ready as I do usually for school. I meet both Tash and Zikiara. We get there and depart from each other as we don’t have first lesson together. We see each other on our fourth period, maths.  I never, have never and would never like. It’s not my strongest subject whatsoever. I endure an hour of maths with it seeming long as when you don’t enjoy something time seem to drag. School comes to end and I meet my friends. We decide they should come over to my house to get ready to go out. “I’ll see you girls in an hour and half then” I say. Tash smiles and nods and Zikiara respond with “yeah babes”. We all wave each other bye. I get home and see mum “honey dinner will be done in 10min” 

“I’m going out with Tash and Zikiara for dinner later on” 

“Oh ok then, I’ll leave your share for later in the evening” 

“Ok mum”. I head upstairs and undress from my school uniform. 

“Emily!” I hear my mum calling for me “ Tash and Zikiara are here”. I get downstairs and see them sitting down. As I get there they both turn their heads in my direction and stand up. “We’re going upstairs to get ready mom”. I let my mum know. “Come on girls” they both follow behind me. Once we get into my room Tash and Zikiara takeout their outfits and lay them on my bed. “Oooo is that what your wearing Tash” she nods while smiling and responds “ ikr doesn’t it look amazing”. “That will look banging on your figure”. I can see Tash blushing as she’s the type of person who don’t take compliments well. “Omg you guys stop hyping me up”. We all breakout with laughter afterwards. We all get dressed and do our makeup. Me and Zikiara are both wearing a tight fitting dress reaching just above the knees with laced up heels reaching the knees. On the other hand, Tash is wearing a sequenced, slim fitting play suit with clear heels as well. Zikiara offers to dial an Uber here. “It will get here in 7minutes” Zikiara days while hanging up the phone. Me and Tash nod in acknowledgment. “We look AMAZING” I squeal out. “We really do” Zikiara says. We all head downstairs and my mum an dad turn their heads in our direction and their eyes bulges from its socket. “Wow girls” mum says while dad is speechless. We simply thank her. “We’ve gotta go mum and dad our Uber is waiting outside” I say in a hurry. “Have fun girls!” both mum and dad shout as we get near the door to leave. 

We get to the restaurant and the building looks as if it’s a new build. The name of the restaurant stood boldly and illuminating on top of the restaurant just before we enter into the building. We had all researched restaurants days before our arrangement and had come across this particular one, which has five star ratings  and had great reviews. As we meter the first thing I notice is the setup. Each section of tables is in its on booth to somewhat give family and friends who have come together their privacy. There were barriers in between sectioned booths. The lighting gave it a romantic feel to the place as it lit the place with subtle purple lights giving it a dull look to it as well,  where as customers and the workers were able to see each other but not like ordinary lights that were harsh looking. We go in and a worker approaches us to take our names. Once he finds our names on the reservation list he leads us to our table. We silently thank him and he leaves, eyes lingering on me . Tash taps me on the shoulder. I turn around. “Did you see the way he looked at you. He’s got the hots for you” Tash says I roll my eyes at her “come on Tash he was not looking at me in any kind of way plus he’s doing his job”. She looks at me giving me a look she says “stop being in-denial”. I ignore her and we take a seat. I won’t lie though he was kind good looking not that I’m going to let Tash know about it though because I won’t behest the end of it. She’ll bug me to pursue it and I don’t have time to get involved with anyone anytime soon. Considering the fact that I’ll be leaving tomorrow off to a boarding school is also a reason to not pursue anything here. Our food is served to us not long after being seated by the same guy who ushered us to our seats. Tash and Zikiara both eye me and then look back to the guy. He takes a couple of swift glances at me and retrieves back to where he came from. “Hmmmm” Zikiara murmurs. “And you say he doesn’t have the hots for you” Tash continues. I reply even if he did guys I won’t be be entertaining it cause I don’t want to get into anything. I’m about to be sent off to a boarding school”. They both nod agreeing with me. 

We spend over 2 hours at the restaurant catching up, gossiping, making plans for when I come out of boarding school and sending their farewells to me as they won’t be able to see me off tomorrow as I’ll be leaving in the early morning. In a way this dinner was a farewell as it’s the last time I’ll be seeing them. The dinner comes to an end and we split the bill together. We make our move to leave when the guy who served us and ushered us called me over. I steal a quick glance with my girls and make my way over to him. I stare at him as I wait for him to open his mouth in which he does.

 “Hi I’ve been wanting to talk to you all night, I couldn’t keep my eyes off you.  I was wondering if you would like to go out with me someday when your free” I guess Tasha and Zikiara were right. Don’t know how I’m going to respond to this. 

“Thank you but ermmm I’ll be leaving this town tomorrow for a long while”

“Oh ok, that’s fine whenever you come back I’ll be willing to go spend sometime with you” I was taken aback by his response. I was expecting him to be like ok and go on about his day. 

“Well ok then” 

“Can I get your number then” I pass him my phone and he starts typing his number in my phone and then rings his phone from phone in order for him to get my number. He hands my phone back to me afterwards. 

“That’s that done. I’ll be expecting a call or text from you whenever your back in town” he smiles at me and doesn’t wait for a reply from me and walks off, which is a good because I don’t want to have to say yes because I honestly don’t know if I’ll even contact him. I walk back to Tasha and Zikiara. 

“What’s did I tell you girl” Tasha squeals in an ‘I told you so’ tone. She follows on in saying “what did he want?” 

“He wanted to go out with me but I said I could as I’ll be leaving town tomorrow for a long while. Then he said that’s ok he’ll wait for me and then asked for my number”. Both Tasha and Zikiara look at me with smirks on their faces.

“OMG even better than I thought. Girl he’s fine” Zikiara chimes in. After my friends are finished drooling over the guy and what happened I book an Uber to the restaurant, which said to be be arriving in 6 minutes. We wait inside the restaurant until I get notified that it is here, we heard outside.