I dragged Luke out to his car with no idea in mind of where we were going. However, I was not regretting leaving that awful school for anything.
"Okay, you drive," he threw me his keys once we were right in front of his car. I barely caught them.
"Damn you," I giggled as we got in the car.
"Go ahead, baby," he winked as I revved up the ignition and ignored his annoying cockiness.
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It took me a whole fifteen minutes to find a place that mildly suited me. I was going for a place to eat. Fortunately, I found a Chinese restaurant that looked pretty good named The Blue-Eyed Dragon.
"I was feeling like Chinese," I said with confidence to Luke like I had actually planned the whole thing out.
"Sure," he chuckled, showing off his dimples as he smiled and we got out of the car.
Walking up to the door, he held out his hand for me to take and we entered looking like any ordinary couple. Not like a couple who had just recently been best friends and nothing more. Not like a couple who had only declared their love for each other mere hours ago. No, everything seemed normal if you just looked at us hand in hand, if you didn't know our confusing history...
That's how I wish I could see us, but we were always going to have a past and all those promises that were either going to stay infinitely untouched in past's history or be shattered by the future.
"Hello, table for two?" The lady at the front of the restaurant asked once we were inside.
"Yes please," Luke smiled as she nodded and lead us to our seats that were way in the back next to a tall bamboo plant and large statute of a dragon breathing fire.
"The waiter will be with you shortly, enjoy!" The woman said, handing us our menus. I grinned back at her before I began to read the menu.
"Well, by the looks of it so far, you did pick a good place," Luke told me, not looking up from his menu.
"Hah!" I teased him and he lightly kicked me under the table like a child. I kicked him back, but he stopped to look at me seriously.
"Hal," he started. "Can I ask you something really important?"
"Of course," I blinked.
"Do you like the way it is now with us...? You know, despite our past... Does it get in the way of the future?"
I gulped, not expecting this question. "Uh, well I just think--"
"Holy shit!" Luke cut me off as he grabbed my arm from across the table.
"What?" I followed his eyes to what he had made such an exclamation at. He sat there frozen and finally I saw why.
He had looked through the bamboo plant and saw my dad and his mother three tables away from us. Having lunch. Chatting. Laughing...
The biggest knot formed in my throat and it was like I couldn't swallow or breathe at all. Oh god.
No.
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WOW GUYS IM SO SORRY FOR THE SLOW UPDATE I HAVE FINALS COMING UP AT MY SCHOOL AND I'VE BEEN CRAMMING!!! IDK WHY IM WRITING IN ALL CAPS LOL
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the promise ➳ hemmings
Fanfiction| Promises are just very sincere lies. We make them thinking that we'll keep them. But in time, our motivation to keep them fades-- just like the hope and trust others had in us that they wouldn't. It's just sad to think that's what our relationship...
