Chapter 5(part 1, maybe) The Tall Tale Truth of the Water

Chapter 5: The First Date

“Hey, do you, um… maybe, want to have dinner with me?” Max asked looking as nervous as I felt.
“Sure,” I said glad my voice was even and hoping he could hear the smile in my voice.
“Cool, I guess I’ll pick you up at seven?”
“Okay,” I said thinking this through, and then it finally occurred to me, he didn’t know my room number. By the time I turned around to tell him, he was already on the other side of the deck.
“What?” I asked myself aloud entirely confused. We just walked off. How could he already be over there? It had to be at least one-hundred feet, at least.




Well, it’s seven; I guess I’ll wait a few seconds. Then I’ll put on my shoes and go find Max. Then, I heard a knock, “no, it couldn’t be,” I thought. However, there his voice was…
“Hurry up and put on your shoes or we’ll be late.”
“Oh. My. God.” I thought, “How did he know I don’t have shoes on?” however, his voice interrupted my thoughts again.
“Did you hear me?”
“ Yeah, one sec.”
“Okay,” he answered as calm as possible, like nothing was wrong.



“Wow, this place is beautiful,” I told him. He had taken me, not to the restaurant, but to the deck, and we were under the stars drinking champagne and eating spaghetti. It was the most romantic dinner I had ever had.
“Glad you like it.”
“Oh, hey, I have a question,” I told him getting a nervous ache in the pit of my stomach.
“Anything,” he gave me an amazing crooked smile.
“Um… well, how did you know my room number?” he took a few seconds to answer, that was definitely going on my list.
“Front office. I went and asked what room number you were staying in.” oh, I guess I never thought of that.
“Okay, one more,” I told him, knowing this time there was no possible answer.
“Ask away.”
“How did you know I wasn’t wearing shoes?”
“Uh… well, I assumed you would wear high-heels and I didn’t hear the clack.” Okay, logical answer since I was wearing high-heels. Wait! My room has carpet. Unless he has super hearing, he couldn’t have possibly heard that I didn’t have shoes on.
“But my room has carpet. It’s nearly impossible to hear shoes on it.” I retorted; he wasn’t getting off that easily
“Well, are you going to tell me how you knew; or am I going to have to beg until you do?!”
“Wow, feisty!”
“So… are you going to tell me?”
“No,” Max said calmly.