The Girl In The Louvre - Chapter 7 All It Takes Is A Glance To Fall In Love 4

Grabbing the bags from the attendant, Julian looked out the open doors and asked, “do you want to go eat these in the park next to the Louvre? When we are finished it should be about time for you to go to your teacher.”

Although she was feeling a bit emotional about the fact that she might be leaving him forever, she remembered that she still had his number from when he texted her the photos and lit up again. “Sure,” she said smiling brightly. “I’ll let you have half of my macarons and in turn, you should give me half of yours.” She then turned around, her laughter tinkling like silver bells ringing, and started running off towards the park.

Stunned by her beauty Julian stood there and stared at her getting further and further away before shaking himself out of his daze and chasing after her. “Haha, never mind half. I’ll give you all of mine as long as you promise all of yours to me,” said Julian while laughing like he didn’t have a care in the world.

As they both raced off towards the park the sun was slowly edging towards the horizon. Panting they both arrived at a quiet spot next to the flower beds. The smell of the sweet grass was mixed in with the rose petals enveloping them with a cool scent as they lay down, relaxing on the ground.

“Here’s mine,” said Julian as he handed over his macarons with a smile.

“Thank you, and here is mine as well” replied Zhi Rou while blushing. ‘It was sort of like trading wedding ring. Maybe one day we could be trading wedding rings just like this,’ thought Zhi Rou wistfully.

Reaching into the box she pulled out a chocolate macaron cake. Slowly raising it to her mouth she took a little bite out from the side. Tasting the strong flavour of chocolate and the subtle distinct flavour that comes with the macaron she opened her cute little eyes wide. “This is so good!” said Zhi Rou shocked at the marvellous treat that was making her taste buds explode in delight.

Laughing at her open joy at finding something sweet to eat, Julian took one for himself as he leaned back and watched her gobble up the macaron. “If it tastes that good I could send you some when you get back to China,” said Julian. Looking at her hair covering her face he couldn’t help but reach forward and gently brush it behind her ear. “I think I could also come to China and finish my schooling there if I could see you, what do you think?” asked Julian. His lips were still slightly curved into a smile, but his eyes narrowed, giving him a more serious look.

Shocked at the proposition, Zhi Rou looked up. Then delight slowly filled her face as she jumped on him, disregarding the macarons that they were eating. As he was propped up at an awkward angle, when she jumped on him he fell back and her lips naturally found the way to his lips. Struck with the realization that they were kissing, Julian’s face that remained at ease the whole time started to blush red. ‘that was my first kiss’ thought Julian.

Gasping for breath Zhi Rou slowly lifted herself off of him. “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to kiss you I was just so happy that I wanted to hug you.” Blushing at the excuse that even a five-year-old wouldn’t believe, she cursed herself inside her brain wondering why she pounced on him.

As she tried to get off of her he suddenly wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her down next to him, rolling over he stared deeply into her eyes as if he wanted to swallow her whole. “Zhi Rou, did you know that if you are unlucky you could search your whole life and never find love. I knew when you first fell into my arms that you were the one, and so I don’t want to lose you and regret it for the rest of my life.”

Seeing how serious he was being, Zhi Rou thought that maybe he wasn’t just joking when he said he wanted to marry her and move to China for her. Just as she was thinking of how to respond he leaned down and kissed her. It was different than their first kiss, he was more relaxed and opened his mouth to deeply kiss her. “*Doo Doo Doo*” they both froze at the unfamiliar sound before Zhi Rou finally realized that is was her phone. “Ah sorry, I have to take this, it is from my teacher,” said Zhi Rou.