Ninja Lover

Chapter Three: First Date

I stare at my phone screen, part of me regretting the text I just sent, the other part burning after the dream I had when I passed out. I was normally to shy for this kind of thing; however I have had a crush on Tyler since as long as I can remember. He has always been a kind and giving person. He has always been the kind of guy I could see myself with.

I hear a knock at my door, and I look at the time. 8:00pm? Its got to be Jessica. I open my door and she gives me a hug.

Looking relieved she comes into my room and starts going through my closet. "What in the world are you doing?" I ask suspicious

She smiles and says. " Well I had instructions to get you ready for your date." she continues sifting through my clothes.

I chuckle, " Hun, I get you are excited for me but I literally just told him we could go on a date"

"Well, I have been given instructions to have you there by 9." She says pulling out a blue dress that I bought for a dance awhile ago. Its not super nice but nicer than my casual dresses , " Put this on." she hands me the dress and I know that its better to just do as she says. I love my friend but her stubbornness knows no bounds. I take off my clothes from earlier and put on the dress. I look in the mirror impressed by how pretty I look in this dress. The blue is such a great contrast to my black hair; which is just a touch longer than my shoulders and naturally curly. I get the thought that I look like the pictures of my mom at her age. She was such a beauty. I sigh and grab a sweater, it would be cold this time of night. " I just have to be home by my curfew at midnight." I say

" Dont worry I wont let you be late." she says smiling brightly. Jessica grabs my hand and walks me out to her car; which she left running. I giggle, she knew that getting me would not take long. I buckle up not even sure where we are going. " So I have a blindfold for you to wear, its a little bit of a surprise." She hands me a black satin blindfold and I put it on. "OK, but jess you have to promise no murdering me."

She gasps acting all hurt. " I would never." She chuckles. While the drive does feel familiar I take this opportunity to imagine my life as Tyler's girlfriend. I blush a little. I have never been with anyone. I hope he doesn't find me inexperienced and boring. I hope that he will still like me once he finds out how new this world is to me. No one has even ever held my hand. With that thought I feel the car stop and Jessica get out of the car to help walk me to where ever we are going. I feel her start leading me, it doesn't feel like a long walk. soon she stops, I hear a couple beeps, then a door open. We walk across the room, the air is much warmer in here and it feels so nice. She sits me down on a plush couch. "Alright girl, we are here, I am going to leave but I will be just on the other side of the door, if after this you'd rather I take you home you only need to say so. No ones feelings will be hurt if you dont click." She squeezes my hand, then lets go and a I hear her footsteps exit the room. I nervously take off the blindfold to find myself in what could be the schools old weight room, only there's a couch a Tv and a bed in the space. I go over to the bed, mostly curious why someone would sleep in a weight room. It seems that there is only one door. This is starting to get a little alarming.

"Don't be scared." I hear, its Tyler and he sounds right behind me but I never heard him approach, I turn around and sure enough there's Tyler just barley arms length away. I blush

" Well you sure know how to sneak u on a girl, what is all this?" I ask pointing to the space.

He smiles. " Well awhile ago my father and I got into an argument, he said to come home once I had respect for his viewpoint. So he built me a space at school to call my own, it has a small kitchen and a laundry machine, I pretty much never go home." He shrugs. Then I remember his dad is one of the donors to the school, so he paid for the new weight room and was able to arrange for his son to live in this one. How weird it would be to have a parent so rich they just buy off an entire school just to get rid of his son. That is some argument.

"Well, what did you have in mind?" I ask still in awe with how nice this space looks, other than the floor and ceiling I probably would not have recognized it, these people should decorate for dances, The space was so dream like, no harsh light, very soft light from little twinkle lights behind a translucent curtains.

"I was hoping we could just sit together, and get to know each other." He answered sweetly taking my hand and escorting me to the couch. He sits down and looks up at me patting next to him. I make the mistake of looking into his perfect green eyes, they always seem to cast a spell on me and I sit down practically on top of him, I am so close to him I can smell his cologne. It smells just like a campfire, warm and cinnamon, maybe a little hint of orange. I could just burry myself in his chest in surround myself in his scent.

"So, what do you want to know?" I ask

he smiles mischievously " let's start small, any plans for after highschool?"

"hmmm, I honestly have yet to decide, I know that I need to but I have yet to figure out what I would like to do. What about you Tyler?"

"The plan my whole life is to take over for my dad, he is ready to retire, I don't know if I will be ready though." he looks away, saddened by something. I want to know what it is but I am unsure if he would tell me yet. He turns back to me. "it's getting late, I would like to take you home." he smiles sweetly

" Ok I would not mind if you took me home." I feel myself blush, Tyler stands up, walks to the door nods to Jess and comes back.

He holds out his hand and I take it breathless as he scoops me up and escorts me out the door. Once we get to his car he opens the door for me. "After you madam." I get in buckling up. I watch Tyler as he walks to the other side, he is so graceful, pretty sure he could put a ballerina to shame.