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Losing It
Date: 11/23/2014, Categories: First Time, Author: sunshinegal, Rating: 16, Source: LushStories
reply, adjusting my bag strap on my shoulder. I don't realise he is holding my hand until he is inches away from me. “Well, I hope I don’t seem too forward, but I’d like to do this again,” he says. “What, listen to my problems over pie and coffee?” I joke, but he steps in a little closer, hooking a loose tendril of hair behind my ear that escaped my messy bun. “No, I’d like to take you out, spend time with you and if I’m lucky, make you smile again,” he breathes, causing my mouth to drop and my eyes to widen. No-one has ever said that to me. I have been single throughout high school and a month before I graduate, I have a chance to date someone from the football team. Talk about bad timing. As soon as I find my voice, words tumble out of my mouth. "Are you free Friday night?" ******** The following two weeks have been the most romantic in my life. Two days after the diner, Mark took me out to the movies on our first date. The following date, we watched an open-air concert from the park a couple of towns over and last week, we went exploring around a food market. I never thought that someone from the football team would be so sweet but Mark really is. He holds my hand when we walk, he knows obscure rock bands and old martial arts movies and when it was cold the other night, he gave me his jacket so I wouldn’t get ill. Tonight, we return home from another night at the movies and we are standing outside my front door. As I fiddle with my bag for my keys, Mark patiently waits ...