Love at First Night - Chapter 79

The next day my sister Evelyn brought Joanna and my takeaway food to celebrate her first week in that restaurant she started to work for. She seemed more excited than usual to be working in that place, however, I wasn’t surprised. She always got super excited for a job the first weeks and then gave up it after a few months- or weeks- depending on how much she stood the place.

She also had the same problems about dating, until she found her current french boyfriend, but before him, she changed boyfriends just like she changed jobs.

That “problem” bothered our mom since she constantly criticized her for her uncertain choices but Joanna didn’t care, her excuse was that she was young and she still had to figure out what she was looking for.

However, I kinda was envious of her capability of moving on boys so easily, I was sure that if it wasn’t for Cameron I would have taken months to move on Carl, and would have spent my days being depressed at home and losing the will to live and to love.

“So if we come to that local will you offer us drinks?” Joanna asked.

Please say no, I don’t want to get in that local at all, what if waiters will recognize me and ask me about Cameron? Or worse what if they inform him that they saw me there with my sister and my best friend.

My heart skipped a beat waiting for Evelyn’s answer.

“Maybe in the future when I am sure they hired me.”

I took an inner relieved breath.

Evelyn turned around to gaze at me, she rested her hand on her hip, “why are you so quiet today, Lily?”

“Oh nothing,” I said, taking some sips of my coffee to sound less nervous than I truly was.

“I was just listening to you talk.” I lied faking a smile, “I hope you’ll like this job.”

Another lie and I flinched away from my gaze involuntary for the forthcoming sense of guilty.

“Thank you, Lily, I found an article about the event you held last night. Congratulation!” She offered me a sincere smile and I nodded.

“Yes, I am very happy,” I replied.

“We should celebrate, for mine and Joanna’s new job and your old one going greatly!” She exclaimed.

“We should hold a party, and invite all our friends!” She continued as the smile on her face grew bigger.

I frowned my forehead and shook my head slowly doubtful, “I doubt, I have many friends left to invite, even If I had friends I doubt I would want to see them after they attended my failed wedding.”

I raised my hands in a sign of surrender.

“I will invite my friends then and some old collages friends. You both need new friends. You can’t spend the night watching a movie and eating on the sofa.”

Joanna and I shared a surprised gaze, then looked at her again and asked in sync, “how do you know how we spend the nights?”

Evelyn laughed, “You have all snacks around you and there is still the DVD next to the tv. And I kinda know you Lily even if we hadn’t shared much in the last years.”

I felt a bit sad hearing her comment because there wasn’t much I knew about her.

“We should have a girl night instead.” I proposed, “let’s keep the takeaway food for tomorrow. Let’s have dinner out.”

Evelyn’s face lit up when a smile appeared on her face.

We went to my room and they picked two of my dresses, then we helped each other with the make-up.

We got in my car and I drove to one of the restaurants Cameron brought me in, I was sure that the restaurant was popular enough and I knew that they were very considerate in mind the client’s privacy.

We walked down the car and got into the restaurant.

We didn’t book so I mentally prayed that they still would find a table for me.

“Good evening, have you booked?”

“We haven’t.”

The girl browsed through the bookings and grimaced hesitating, “what’s your name miss?”

“Lily Waldorf.” Her eyes widened, or maybe that was only my supposition?

She cleared her voice. “We have a free table.” She smiled, slamming the book close, then she walked to a table at the bottom of the dining room.

“This place is so elite!” Joanna whispered as soon as the waiter left our table.

“So when will you introduce me to your handsome french boyfriend?” Joanna asked winking to Evelyn who chuckled.

“When he will come back, my birthday is in one month and I am sure he will surprise me that day,” Evelyn replied.

“We have to learn some French words then!” I added and we both laughed.

“Their accents are so sensual, you just need to hear them talk and puff! you’re already in love!”

“Ohh!” I raised my eyebrows, “I didn’t know you had a thing on accents.”

Joanna shrugged, “I do, I mean, who doesn’t?”

Evelyn nodded, “I agree. When I first met him I was like: I didn’t understand a word of what you said but I agree to whatever you said!”

We all laughed, the waiter reached us to take our order and after thanking him he left allowing us to laugh again.

The waiter brought us food and then we ordered a dessert, I noticed the waiter came to ask us how was the food more often than at the other table. I wondered if the reason why they were having a special consideration on our table was because of me. Maybe they remembered about my date with Cameron and they realized I could be his potential girlfriend.

Is it how people treat you when all of a sudden you became known?

Luckily neither Joanna nor Evelyn noticed, so we continued to spend the night having fun and none of the restaurants ever mentioned a thing about Cameron.