Love at the Nth Time

My Own Grave

Chapter 8

I glared at Win as I put my pinkie in my ear, "Why did you shout at me, you gay." He was sitting in front of my desk, with his iPad gone on a black screen due to inactivity. My attention kept diverting from this stack of product proposals.

"Y-you kissed her? Oh my god…." I chuckled a bit because of his reactions right now.

"As if I could pass up something adorable, she told me I'm handsome. What would you expect? Just laugh at it?" She told me I was beautiful then, handsome. That amount of flattery from her made my heart jump like the f**k. It was crazy.

"She didn't refuse, wow."

I looked outside the window. That's what I'm crazy thinking about.

She didn't say anything about the kiss afterwards. Did she like it too? What would her reaction be if I didn't smoke?

"Hmm, I think she likes you too."

"You think so? Well, she's quite reserved, so that's reasonable." My phone vibrated. I gazed at Win, who looked at me too. "It's her."

"Aye, let me see!! What did she say??" I moved away from him as he tried to snatch away my phone and read the message.

Message

Celine: Yeah, I'll go! I'm not sure if you're planning to introduce me to some lesbians, though.

I waited for her in front of the meeting place. We were going to Ocean Park. I asked her on a date, and she chose the dating place.

"This is just a friendly date." My eyebrows creased while I talked to her on the phone. I could already see her standing in front of the entrance. The weather was hot as usual.

"How many times have you mentioned that by now?" Her serious face turned in awe when she saw me.

"Whoa... You looked different outside your Dad's company," she said, smiling at me.

What a darling, wearing a paired azure blue cropped top and pants with white shoes. Simple, but it's comfortable to go anywhere we'd like only to wear those kinds of clothing.

I looked away and put my shades on my head. I wore a loose white printed shirt, torn half black jeans, and black sneakers.

She's simple, so I wanted to level her simplicity too.

"You're too distracting people because of your height, hair, and colour, I think," she said as we went into the parking lot where I parked my car. "Your hair's so pretty. I like it." I stopped from opening the backdoor of the hatchback and looked at her thoughtfully.

"Could you please stop acting cute? I'll kiss you right here this instant." She moved away a bit from me. I breathed out silently and fixed the set of three-layered suits wrapped in a dust-proof clothing bag, which I'd be wearing later at a friend's party. I had to inform Win I hadn't prepared a set of formal clothes as a spare if ever there would be some bastard friend of mine who'd throw me a drink or push me later to the pool.

I glanced at Celine, busy chatting with someone on her phone. That's better. I wouldn't know myself till I could control merely acting normal with her if she kept being sweet.

As we entered the theme park, I followed her walk towards the animals on display. I touched some strands of my hair. Was I catching a lot of attention? How about pinning it up?

I took my sunnies over my head then hung it on the collar of my shirt. I got closer to the transparent glass cage of this kind of lizard, which Celine found amusing. "It's not moving; it's dead," I said, and she laughed at my silly joke. I smiled as if it was a recognition of her having fun.

Celine's eyes were beaming with joy as the store took her to a child's fancy place with plushies of different sizes.

"Wah, so cute," she giggled and looked at me while she played with the penguin stuff-toy from the shelf. It's medium in size, and the materials used for it were pretty good. My eyes rose to meet the exciting black rounded eyes.

"Want it?" She nodded, smiling.

"Are you making a move on me?" she asked. I smiled.

"You're not my type, lady. Take it. I'll buy it for you."

"Omg, okay, hihi, can I buy more?" I chuckled and shrugged it off.

"Yeah, sure, I won't hold those things for you, though."

We stopped by a drinks stall. The food stalls were in one place, and I only saw a few people roaming around the place. The attractions were located on different routes far away from here. She took the lemon fruit shake in my hand.

"I have already come here more than thrice, but I just felt comfy here." I touched and played with the penguin stuff-toy she's holding around her arm. We stood beside each other as we chose to stand alongside a metallic round table.

"Do you usually go out a lot on your rest days?" I questioned.

"Hmm, no, it depends. Though it's been like three years, and I dreamed of getting more and more memories of travelling." I sipped my juice and looked at her.

"Let's go to Thailand, then." Her eyes widened, I smiled widely—what a cutie.

"All expenses paid?" I looked the other way. Travelling to different countries wasn't new to me.

"Yup, don't worry about anything."

"Whoa, I want to! I want to ask, are you serious?" I chuckled in amusement. "Of course, didn't your boyfriend bring you out of the country?"

"Nope, he's too busy and has an irregular schedule, so we can't just go to any distant places, although I like to go. Let's go. When?" I stirred the ice in my juice.

"I'll book a flight next week? How many days?" presuming she'd have a preliminary schedule.

"Month?" she replied. We laughed. We walked around later on and headed to another attraction near us. She clung to my arm and pulled me. My eyebrows furrowed a little, catching her eyes on me.

"Of course, I'm kidding. I can't do that. They'll fire me for sure. Maybe a week is enough, but I know it won't be." I chuckled and looked upfront as we reached the starting point of the 'Oceanarium'- a vast public aquarium where you could watch the sea creatures underwater through a walkway tunnel.

"Let's make memories, then."

The time passed by, and we didn't even mind it. We laughed and talked about fun and serious things. Celine felt as comfortable with me as she clung to me all of the time, and here I was, falling more and more from my own grave that I made.