Exploring

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I woke up the following morning with the sun shining through the window, I stretched and just lay in bed absorbing the feeling of being here.

jenwalker
📍Monte Carlo

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- jenwalker it's supposed to be candid 🙄

Emma came into my room a few minutes later and jumped onto my bed

"Stop bullying me on my insta posts" I whined
"Who else would I bully if I can't bully my best friend" she joked

We sat scrolling in silence for a few minutes before agreeing on a plan for today. We would have the pastries we bought last night then get ready for a day of getting to know our new hometown.

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I picked up the empty bottle of wine to put in our outside bin before we locked up and headed downstairs. I opened the front door and stepped out only to be met by a swarm of security.

"Oh no" I tried to turn back before colliding with someone
"Oh my god I am so sorry" I lifted my eyeline only to be met with the brightest green eyes smiling back "I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking and I just stepped out" I blurted out as I raised my hands to apologise, his eyes now drawn to the empty bottle of wine I was still gripping
"Bit early for wine is it not?" He joked
"Oh erm" I looked at the bottle "that was from last night I swear. I was just about to..." I pointed at the bin "before this situation"
He smiled down at me again causing my breath to catch "Anyway I must go, sorry for the collision" he chuckled as he joined the small crowd of security a few feet down the road

'Nice one Jennifer, the first pretty boy you see in Monaco and you come across as a clumsy, mumbling drunk' you thought to yourself holding your head in your hands out of sheer embarrassment.

"What was that?!" Emma exclaimed as I finally lifted my head only to make eye contact with him once again, him waving as he rounded the corner and me reciprocating the wave gingerly
"I'm such an idiot" I groaned before throwing the now infamous wine bottle into the recycling bin "c'mon, let's go explore" I linked arms with Emma as I tried to distract myself from the mortifying incident that had just occurred.

A few hours later we had walked around most of Monte Carlo, seeing all the main sites and exploring some of our university and hospital campuses we would be based in for the next year. Our course didn't start for another 2 weeks, allowing us time to settle and explore before getting down to work.
We decided to walk back to the apartment and get a takeaway pizza for our dinner. I reminded myself that we had to go shopping tomorrow to buy actual meals for the apartment and not just cheese and crackers.

"Wine?" Emma asked as we walked by the supermarket from yesterday
"Ok but you're disposing of the empties tomorrow morning this time" I laughed as I thought back to this morning. Finding myself lost in his green eyes, wondering if I would see this mystery man again.

We curled up on the couch with our pizza, wine and an episode of Love Island set up on my laptop and settled in for a cosy evening.

- -

We both woke up on the couch around 10am the next day, clearly our travels and exploring were catching up to us.

"Should we go out for a meal to do something nice for our first Saturday here?" Emma suggested
"Yeah that sounds great. How about somewhere local? Get to experience Monégasque culture" I replied as we both started to search up restaurants
"This one?" Emma asked looking at reviews for a pizza restaurant
"Oh yeah, I forgot Monaco were known for their Italian food" I laughed "But sure it looks good, let's get ready"

Emma made a lunch reservation for half past one and we started to get ready. All through uni we had always gotten ready together for nights out, balls, sports days but it felt so surreal to be getting ready in our apartment in Monte Carlo to go and have lunch down by the port.

About an hour later we were finished and ready to walk down to the restaurant.

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We had the same routine as yesterday, locking up and heading downstairs, however I let Emma take the first steps out of the door today with no problems.

After a 10 minute walk we had arrived at the restaurant and were seated by our waiter. We ordered 2 glasses of rosé as we scanned the menu for what to eat.
The noise of chairs scuffing the floor caught my attention and caused me to lock eyes with his again.

"Oh my god, you've got to be kidding me" I whispered as I tried to hide behind my menu but it was too late
"Wine girl?" I heard him question just a couple of feet away from the table
I lowered my menu to greet him "Yeah that's the one" I laughed as I wanted the ground to swallow me whole
"What a coincidence, meeting twice in two days, you could call it fate" he smiled looking between me and Emma "You don't sound like you're from Monaco, what brings you here?"
"Eh probably the food, it's the first restaurant we saw" Emma replied confused holding up the menu
"I don't think he means the restaurant Em, I think he means Monaco" I whispered to her as I put her menu back down on to the table
"We're doing a years placement abroad with university" I answered him
"What do you study" he quizzes
"Dentistry" Emma beamed
"Ah so I could call you tooth girl instead of wine girl?"
"That would be the preferable option" I laughed

"Charles?" His friend shouted from the car waiting for him
"Got to go" he smiled " hopefully see you around tooth girl" he laughed jogging back over to his friend as I shook my head in disbelief
"Oh my god I think he likes you!!" Em insisted as we both watched him drive off

So the mystery man is called Charles and seems impossible to avoid...

~ Author's note ~

So now we've met our mystery man Charles!
Hope you're enjoying the first couple of chapters

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