Author's note: Many thanks to Luxx, Fewella, Onyx03 and TheMasterBaiter for their help in brainstorming and editing.
Meeting him was unexpected.
It happened just like that, on a Tuesday afternoon at my favourite cafe. I'm sure at this point you're thinking that I spend way too much of my time at cafes. Well, you're not totally wrong. There's something about them that appeals to me. Maybe it's the result of my reading too many fanfictions back when I was in high school about people meeting their idol at a cafe.
Back to the story.
He came up to me, asking if he could sit with me, despite the cafe being empty and having several empty tables. It made me feel good to have someone so handsome and so masculine to come talk to me. He had dull brown eyes that made you feel guilty if you did not drown in them. We talked for half an hour until he told me that he had to go. If it was not for how he introduced himself, I would have never given him my number.
"My name is Adam by the way, like Adam Levine, Except I'm not-"
"As cool as him?" I laughed.
He raised his eyebrows and smirked, "There's only one way for us to find that out, you know? We should hang out sometime."
"Yeah, sure," I smiled at him, still pretty pleasantly puzzled about him. I grabbed my journal, tore a piece of paper from one of the pages, wrote my number on it, then handed it to him without any second thoughts.
We shook hands and parted ways. I watched him walking away and my eyes stopped at his calves. Suddenly, he turned around and walked back to my table. He might have seen me checking him out but I don't think either of us cared. He knew that he was total eye candy.
"I'm sorry but I forgot to ask for your name," He asked in an embarrassed voice, hand going behind his neck.
"See, Adam Levine would have never committed such a faux pas of not asking
my
name."
*
On our first date, or "hang out" rather, as I was not quite sure that it was a date, he was rather awkward with gaps of silence between random conversations. It was at the same cafe and the people who knew me there kept giving me weird looks, probably because they were seeing me with someone for the first time. At one point, the whole thing became so awkward that I pulled a pack of playing cards from my bag and asked him, "Wanna see a trick?"
He looked at me, quite perplexed and nodded.
As I shuffled the deck and made him choose a card, he stared at me with a look that I still cannot describe. I think he was just giving me his full attention but it was like being on stage in front of a huge crowd. I put the card back in, shuffled the deck again and pulled out the card that he had picked. When I showed him his card, he could not believe it. His face started glowing with happiness and his eyes crinkled up; pure joy on his face. He laughed and the whole thing started a conversation. He looked like an innocent angel.
We continued going on dates and slowly, I was no longer sitting in front of him but rather, next to him. His body would squish against mine and his arm would be around me. It had been a while since I had dated and it felt good to feel some warmth on my body.
Truth be told, I did not think that we would become an actual couple. I mean, he was so not my type. He had too much of a
chaotic
life for me. He did not know what he wanted to do in even the next few weeks, compared to me, who had my whole life planned out. I think we only clicked because we both adored silence. The moment we became very comfortable with each other, the silence did not bother us at all, in fact I think we both cherished it.
We went hiking together, loving nature and kissing like teenagers. We both craved touching each other, not necessarily in a sexual way but still, we could not get enough of each other. I don't know about him and I'm not going to assume anything but I know that for me, I liked how strong his hand felt in my hand, how heavy it was and how tight he always grasped my hand. When I would wear crop tops, his hand would always end up on my bare lower back, slowly stroking which had me struggling to stay in place because of how ticklish I was.
The first time we had sex together it was different from what I was used to. It was after a date night at my place. Somehow, he had convinced me to watch a movie that I did not really care about. He knew and respected that movies were not my thing but that time he was really hyped up about the movie. I did not pay attention to what was happening. I was snuggled against him, drowning myself in his scent. I still remember the cologne that he would always wear; it smelled so fresh, clean and masculine with hints of lime and ginger. My face was buried in his neck; breathing deeply, I could not get enough. I think he knew that I was watching the movie for
him
rather than for the movie itself. His arm never left my body; he would gently caress and rub my skin, sometimes his hand would move inside of the sweater that I was wearing and would rest there, probably enjoying my warmth as well.
When the credits finally rolled onto the screen, he held me tighter and kissed me on the cheek, asking me what I thought of the movie.
"It was great to snuggle up with you next to me," I leaned into him, trying to get us closer. It was impossible.