The Alpha’s mate.

Chapter three

“Ohhh! You speak french?” She said to Derek.

Derek answered Leslie with a “yes”. He told her he took french lessons when he was in high school.

Leslie ordered for a plate of salad while Derek ordered for some lamb chops with the famous french wine “Château de Paris”.

It took less than four minutes before their orders was brought to them. Derek noticed that there was no meat in Leslie’s plate and so he asked why she didn’t want to have any meat. Leslie was a vegeterian so she explained that to Derek and he perfectly understood. They started to dig in and Derek knew how to treat a lady and he just knew the perfect time to pour wine into Leslie’s glass cup.

“You are quite the very hairy type and it seems you are not a fan of cutting your nails.” Leslie said to Derek which made him to hide his hands under the table.

“I am so sorry if you are irritated by it” Derek apologized to her.

“Ohhhh no! Not at all, I am not irritated by it. I actually like the hairy hands and I was kinda curious to know why you don’t cut your nails” Leslie replied and it immediately made Derek to feel better.

“I think being hairy and having long nails run in my family genes. Even if I try to cut off my finger nails it would end up growing even faster” Derek replied to Leslie’s question.

Leslie and Derek kept on chatting and they wasted a lot of time in the restaurant. They had so many similarities apart from the fact that they were both hardcore followers of past philosophers. This was the first time Leslie had been comfortable with someone that wasn’t her parents, and the crazy fact is that she just met him today and it seems as if they have known each other all their lives.

They exchanged numbers in the restaurant so that they could text each other, Leslie looked at her cell phone and the time was about 4:30 pm.

“Ohhh s**t! I need to get home now because my mum will be worried because this is my first time in this school and I told her that today’s lectures was meant to end by 2 pm and I would be home by 2:30 pm. I am two hours past that time already and I’m sure she must have called my dad to tell him that I wasn’t back home yet. They might think that I got lost on my way back home” Leslie complained to Derek. She seemed to be fretting.

“Yeah sure I fully understand. It seems I won’t be walking you home tthen.It is better we get you a cab, so you can arrive home fast enough”. Derek replied. They both got up from the table and Derek dropped three hundred dollar notes on the table as they left the restaurant.

“Was the food really worth 300 dollars?” Leslie asked Derek.

“It is actually worth 249 dollars and I left the remaining 50 as a tip for the waiter” Derek replied.

“Isn’t that being extravagant? If I knew that the food was this expensive I wouldn’t have followed you to the restaurant”. Leslie said to Derek as she got quite angry at him. She was not used to someone spending so much money.

“Ohhh! I’m sorry dear! But you are worth every penny I paid and even more that was why I wasn’t phased by the bills” Derek replied.

The response from Derek was enough to keep Leslie shut as he ordered a cab for her right in front of the restaurant.

“Please get in dear and I hope to see you in school tomorrow”. He said to Leslie as he opened the door of the cab so she could get in and he closed the door gently as she got inside the cab.

The cab started moving and Derek kept on waving until the cab took a turn. Derek’s phone suddenly rang and he saw it was a text message from Leslie, he

quickly opened the text message and he saw “ Thanks a lot for today Derry, it was indeed a beautiful day and I am looking forward to seeing you tomorrow” the message read and she ended it all with a love emoji. Derek blushed immediately he read the text and he left the restaurant smiling. While in the restaurant, Leslie had already sent a message to her mum telling her not worry because she was already on her way home.

When Leslie finally got home, her mum Brenda was glad to see her and she asked, “baby where have you been all this while? I was damn worried about you, I thought you got lost or something”.

“I’m sorry mum, I was done with lectures around 2 pm but I met a new friend and he decided to take me out, I have been with him all this while until I remembered that I had to get home before 2:30 pm but when I checked the time, it was already 4:30 pm. I am really sorry mum that I kept you worried, I hope you didn’t call Dad to tell him that I wasn’t yet back home because that would really distract him from work?” Leslie said to Brenda.

“Wow really? You met a new friend and he’s a guy? Wow baby I’m so proud of you. You are finally socializing just like a normal teenage girl should”. The mother said happy that Leslie was beginning to act like her age.

“I was going to call your dad because I was so worried but as soon as I got your text I was relaxed and I didn’t call him anymore. So tell me, is this new friend of yours hot?” Brenda teased Leslie who started to blush.

“Come on mum, you having this talk with me is really weird. But he looks good though and he has this crazy physique and he is a very hairy boy. He really knows how to treat a lady, he’s quite a gentleman mum” Leslie replied to Brenda in a dreamily.