“No… there isn’t.”
I’m not sure that what I’m seeing is right, but he looks kind of nervous.
“What are we doing tonight?”
“This,” he answers, taking my hand.
I glance up at him and smile as he leads me closer to the cars we walk down past a station wagon with a couple sitting on the hood. Looking around, I see people either gathered together on blankets or sitting on the tops of their cars.
It’s eight o’clock at night and people are gathered like they’re here for some kind of concert.
We stop by a Porsche and Josh points way ahead of us as a set of bright lights go on, illuminating the men who are setting up a screen.
It’s a cinema size screen and I see what we’re doing. Why we’re here.
“The cinema?” I ask, looking back to Josh.
“Yeah. Thought you might like this.”
I love it. “I’ve never been to an open air cinema before.”
“Me neither.” He beams and I laugh when he picks me up and sets me on top of the car.
Josh normally drives a convertible. I’ve never seen him with this car before.
He reaches into the car and grabs a massive bag of popcorn, hands it to me and gets on top of the car to sit next to me.
I just look at him, wondering what this is.
As the film starts, my heart stills in my chest when I see Casablanca come on the screen.
I look from the screen to Josh in complete disbelief.
This was so much more than thinking we were going to a restaurant. This is so much more than anyone has ever done for me. It’s so much more than what I expected from us.
He kisses the top of my nose and smiles. “I watch, remember? You really like this,” he whispers.
“I really do.”
“So, I want to as well.” He says and slips his arm around me.
I rest my head against his chest and allow my mind to drift and slip into another fantasy. This moment and this feeling that settles over me.
Happiness.
Chapter Fourteen
Giselle
Happiness…
It continued through the film, and now it’s over I don’t know what we’ll do.
We’re normally at the Dark odyssey. We’re normally in a bed. We would have normally had sex several times by now and played around with each other.
But… we’re here in a normal setting and it’s that part of the evening where I’m supposed to go home.
This was a date, and it was a nice date.