Chapter 3|The Park

Jesse sat down on a park bench. It was a beautiful day to be out, he thought. He had an iced coffee from the vending machine. From a distance he can see a girl glancing at him. He identified her as Anais. They have been hanging out from time to time now

He got up and made his way to the vending machine. Anais looked up from her sketch book to see Jesse gone. He was just there a minute ago, she thought. She looked around to see where he might have gone to but there was no sign of him.

"Mind if I sit here?"

"Oh! No, sit." she exclaimed with her hand on her chest, "You were just there!" He smiled and offered her an iced coffee. "Thank you."

"What's that?" He asked, gesturing to the sketch book.

"Oh." She looked down on her sketch of him then handed him the sketch book. "Here."

"Wow!" He exclaimed. "Every detail is perfect!"

"Thanks. I try." She chuckled at his remarked.

"No, no. You're really good!" He flipped through the pages of sketches of clothes. "Wow!" He nodded in approval. "Anais, these are really good! No wonder you took fashion designing."

"Which one do you like best?" She asked and he flipped to the page with his sketch.

"This." He said pointing on her sketch of him and she chuckled lightly. "So you can draw anyone?"

"Not anyone. Just the ones I find attractive." She said smiling to him.

"Oh so you find me attractive? Wow!"

"I never said that."

"Yes you did."

"No I didn't." She retorted.

"Whatever," he finally said, leaning back in his seat, "I already know that you find me attractive so I win." He smirked.

"Wowww, for a man who doesn't know how to ride a bike, you sure have a lot of ego!" She said making him choke on his canned drink.

"What?" He said, coughing. "How did you know about that?"

"I. Didn't." She stated, satisfaction filling her.

"You!" He scoffed. "Okay, fine, you win." She laughed at his admission of defeat.

Anais started packing up her things. She closed her sketch book and placed it in her bag and also her pencil.

"So, anyway, I have this performance on Friday. It's actually a fundraiser for the materials we need to enter nationals."

"Oh, yeah, I heard about that."

"So, would you like to come watch me perform?"

"Yeah, sure, of course."

"Well, great!" Anais lifted her bag and stood up, as did Jesse. "I gotta go practice. See you around!" Jesse waved her goodbye. "Also bring your friend, Evelyn!" He shouted from afar before finally leaving to rehearse.

"Alright! Bye!"

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"I had planned a surprise for you on that day and you had no idea at all." He said smiling at himself.