A Date
1003 Words
" What do you want?"
We near him and I waste no time in confronting him. My legs feeling heavier and heavier the closer I get and the more his eyes burn into me. His cold blue eyes and large form enough to make anyone waiver. I'm ready to swing at him at this point especially when the memory of what happened yesterday is standing right in front of me. Carloine's jabs don't help either.
“ Are you stalking me?” I fire at him and it irritates me that he looks so intimidating and unfazed. I normally get more of a reaction out of people. There's a twinkle in his eyes as I square up with him and I hate that he is so commanding.
" What do you want?!" I grit out and he raises his eyebrow at me. I normally don't show my temper. I am level headed and cold but he needs to leave me alone.
" Deep breaths," he says tauntingly and I raise my eyebrows at him. I am ready to go off.
“ I came here to ask you a question Ms. Hyram. ” he replies coolly and his eyes fall on Caroline behind me before returning to me.
“ No means no Mr. Mahin and if I see you again then I’m definitely reporting you to the police. Somehow you seem to think you are worthy of talking to me.”
“ Yeah!” Caroline pipes up behind me and I cringe at her feeble attempt at backing me up.
“ It’s not about the house.” he levels at me.
My curiosity is now rising as I look at him questioningly.
“ I want to apologise for threatening you yesterday. The house is sentimental and though it doesn’t excuse my behaviour I just tend to have a way of getting what I want and I was frustrated. ”
His words send a shiver through me but I wasn't falling for it.
“Frustrated or not it doesn’t seem right you go around treating women like that and then putting your hands on them.”
He smiles brightly and when the wind drifts lightly I can smell his intoxicating cologne.
“ Now you aren’t going to let your sister believe I put my hand on you like that Ms. Hyram? Especially with the way you were moaning in my backseat.”
I can’t believe he said that out loud. I try to look unfazed but I am annoyed inside. From Caroline's outburst to his declaration the guards will probably have a field day today. Not that they can even tell anyone but still I didn't like this desperate narrative that was being thrown around.
“ That explains it.” laughs Caroline and I know I’m never going to hear the end of this. I needed leverage and the thing I failed at was knowing anything about him. I should have had him investigated.
“ What do you do Mr. Mahin?” I direct at him trying to change the topic. I needed to figure out this stranger before me. I knew nothing about him but a name that sounded faimiliar. Who was I talking to? I hadn't even bothered to research him since yestereday.
“ Entertainment.”
“ Do you work in the porn industry?” Caroline blurts out and we all turn to look at her.
“It is possible and we must never judge.” she adds on softly.
“ No” he replies.
“ Well if anything fails you could be in it. Women are already really getting off to you at nights.”
I turn to her wishing she would shut up as something flashes in his eyes at Caroline’s words. I pray deep down he didn’t get what Caroline was saying or even believe I would.
“ Are you finished now?” I say to her sharply and she lowers her head and stare out at the street. “ Goodbye Mr. Mahin and leave me alone.”I say coldly letting him know my words are final and turn to leave but his next words stop me in my tracks. These are completely unexpected but I should have known better from this unexpected man before me.
“ Would you like to go out for dinner with me Ms. Hyram?”
It was a simple question but somehow it sounded like he was offering me the world. His words made me realize something. The last time I went on a date was with Gregory. I didn't waste my time on dates or anything much. I was always busy.
I had also promised myself I wouldn’t see him anymore and I was going to stay true to that. If only it wasn’t so hard especially when he was popping up almost everywhere.
“ No, I think I’ll gladly decline.”
“ C’mon it will be fun and you should be grateful.”
His last words struck a chord. Here goes my morning. He just has to rile me up one way or another.
“ What’s that supposed to mean?”
“ It means you have a lot of attitude that you should be grateful I’m over looking.” his blue eyes seemed to be staring into me again and I shake my head.
“I'm not going anywhere with you. What do I look like?" I question him " I'm not going on a date with you. I don’t have a problem with finding men to go out with and I’m not pity project especially for the likes of you. ”
“ The likes of me?” he straightened up off the side of his vehicle and I fought the urge to take a step back.
“ You’re wasting my time. Where do I pick you up tonight?”
He was disrespectful.
" 1501 Oliver Gardens. Ring up and I'll have her ready at 7?" Caroline smiles widely.
I must be hearing wrong.
" Thank you. Clearly, you're the nice one. "
- Writer
