Addiction? Love? PART 1

Part 1 : Her Spontaneous Act

Packing up for the day and counting the minutes to the end, she was already excited about the weekend. She had the whole week off, what to do? where to go? these questions kept running in her mind. Being a spontaneous person she did not make any plans ahead of the week. she believed the best moments are the unplanned ones. Clocking out from work and wishing everyone happy holidays, her phone chimes. A text from a man she has been chatting to a few days now. She didn't take him seriously at all.

Text from him 

T       Hi

She replied

V      Hi to you too.

Like any other regular person

T      How are you?

She decided not to be fake

V     tired.

T     After work?

She being her

V     Yes, tell me do you know any 24 hours decent massage places?

She knew this could go both ways a decent reply or an opportunist who will seek a way in or show himself.

He chooses to reply decently, that is a good sign she thought to herself. She continued to test him and take the risk. She told him she was going to go to the beach despite it was 20 minutes to midnight. It was an indirect invitation and he took the bait.

He told her he wanted to join her. She then said, maybe it's a bad idea as they have never met before. He immediately asked her if she was scared, she laughed and said no and to prove it she shared her location and asked him to come.

A few minutes past midnight he was in front of her house. He came in a white Ford Ranger.

Her first thoughts were OMG! I need to get in a truck... As she settled in the truck, he greeted her with a smile and a question.

"Which is the best route to the beach?" she only knew one so she told him to use the navigation system. They started talking about the job and the countries system. He was an opinionated person. He argued with valid points. It was pretty exciting for her.

Then came a character judging topic of how crazy she was to go to the beach at this hour. She was a daring woman and she always felt there is always more to life if you can omit fear. However, she told him she is daring but she isn't reckless, to that he just smiled. He then asked her about her family and what do they think about going out so late. He was referring to regular Asian families. 

"My family trusts me well enough and I have been doing this for a long time now. They have gotten used to my ways now," she said.

A few seconds of silence out of nowhere the topic changed from her to the general woman out there.

"Nowadays women are too hard-headed, they try to control everything, they make their husbands do all the household chores."

She was puzzled and questioned him "Is that wrong?"

"Yes, I grew up in a house where men don't get involved with house chores," he said sternly.

He continued ranting but she paced out. Where was all this coming from she asked herself? She agreed with him men or women shan't be forced to do anything.

She remained silent. In her mind, she concluded, this must be some effect of his past relationship.

"I do not believe in forcing my man to do anything, I have full confidence that if he loves me he will make sure I'm taken cared of, therefore, I don't have to tell him to do anything"

She used her mum as an example and explained "Woman should voice what they feel and let the man help her rather than designating chores for him. A man can choose to do it or find a way to make it lighter for his love one. No one should be forced to do anything."

Those words seemed to calm him down and he said with full assurance "A man will make sure the loved one is taken cared off"

They both remained silent for a few minutes.

Right then, she chose a lighter topic; music, this topic went on till they reached the beach area. Before they went on to the beach, they bought some drinks and snacks.

Instead of going to the open area she always goes, he drove to a private place where there wasn't anyone but a few street lights and the sound of the sea caressing the beach now and then. He teased her few times saying

"I can do anything here and no one will know."

For some reason it didn't trigger any kind of fear in her, to her he seemed harmless for an unknown reason. She just smiled as he said it. Getting out from the truck her head warned her to be cautious but her heart was loving the thrill. 

She spread the mat on the beach and placed the food in between both of them, was is a cautious move or it just happened? Even she didn't have an answer, yet it was beneficial to her to evaluate his character.

They spent the night on the beach talking about each other and learning of each other's interest as boring as it may seem to others, they both didn't mind it or at least that's what she thought. He seems to be enjoying this just the way she was. Yet, at the back of her mind, she was overthinking every move he made. Being a man he had his naughty moments now and then, saying something to see her reaction.

Mostly she just smiles and said, "Anything I say to this may throw me under the bus". At one point he asks if she could sing, she denied but she gave him a smirk that meant otherwise.

He was sharp enough to catch that smile and he said I don't believe you. She then threw the question back to him, he didn't reply but started singing. It was one of her favorite songs. It was a duet song he stopped exactly where a woman's vocal should start hoping she would start.

As much she had the urge to continue she turned to him and smiled, a smile that told him 'I know what you're up to'.

"You're a smart one," he said.

"I'm still not convinced that you don't sing at all, you must have sung in the bathroom at least once."

He started another song; being born in a similar era his song choices were her favorites too. This time she sang along and lowered his voice to listen to hers. She realized but she didn't want to look at him or else he would figure out she was blushing. They sang a few duets then she suggested they leave the beach and go home. The journey home was faster, he was a fast driver.

He caught her staring at him driving a few times when he asked she said:

"Nothing, I was looking out your window."

She admired a man who can handle his car well especially when speeding. It was an attraction point she kept to herself. 

Dropping her off at her house, she expected him to drive away but he got out of his truck and lingered in front her house had a smoke and then left only cause she forced him to.

After calling him to check if he reached home, she went to bed smiling.

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