A playlist of Jazzy love songs were being played on Kathy’s iPod. She was getting ready for her date; it was still very early as it was only 9am in the morning. She had a smile on her face for the whole day and dancing along to the music being played and when Michael Buble’s song was being played she had a bigger smile on her face and danced even more.

Keith walked into Kathy’s room and stared at her with a blur look on his face. Kathy was still dancing around and didn’t notice Keith staring at her. Keith was beginning to enjoyed it and he was about to laugh at her being so happy and dancing without caring weather it’s stupid or not. She continued twirling in her baby blue dress for about 20 minutes, when she finally stopped and dropped on the floor, Keith started clapping his hands.

Kathy was shocked and quickly turned her head towards her door and her jaw dropped. She put her hands on her mouth.

“How long have you been standing there?” she asked him feeling a bit embarrassed.
Keith laughed and said “About 20 minutes and it’s very entertaining.”

“Well it’s not funny and you should have knocked.” Kathy was a bit mad.

“I did but you were too busy dancing to Michael Buble’s song. What’s up with the love songs anyway?” he asked.

“I just felt like listening to it that’s all, I love Michael Buble anyway.” She replied.

“What’s with the happy mood today?” Keith asked her as he went to sit on the chair at her balcony.

“I can ask you the same question, you were whistling and got that ‘I’m in love’ face on. Anyway I got a date later in the afternoon.” Kathy smiled.

“Oh yeah, that guy. Can’t I be happy anyway? Besides, you sure you should be wearing that dress of yours, it look a bit too over dress for an afternoon date.” Keith told her.

“Really? What should I wear then? Wait why am I taking fashion advice from you?” She questioned herself.

“Trust me, I should know. Plus a guy like him, I think he’ll bring you somewhere to have fun, like an amusement park or to a Go-Kart course. Something fun.” Keith said to her. He sounded like he knew a lot and was giving some good advice to her.

“Okay fine then, go out! I need to change.” She demanded and she pushed him out of her room then locked the door.

She walked into her closet and looked through some decent blouse and shirts. She chooses her jeans but hasn’t decided on a top yet. She looked around and tried on about 10 tops and finally decided to choose a white blouse which looked clean and has nice raffles on it.

She then proceeded to choose her shoes, she decided to choose a cute purple ballerina flats. Then she took out her gray cardigan and put it on her bed. She went on to pack her bag. She put her lip gloss, a book, her glasses and her camera in her hand bag.
Suddenly her phone rang. It was Heather.

“Hello” she said.

“So you excited about your date today?” Heather asked.

“Yeah, I woke up around 8 this morning and couldn’t sleep after that and I’m getting ready now.”

“It’s only 10.” Heather pointed out.

“I know, I’m just too excited about it and I think I might be losing my mind. I thinking this must be a prank or something.” Kathy said

“Are you playing Michael Buble now?” she asked. Heather knows Kathy always plays her jazzy love songs playlist when she’s happy about something.

“Yeah. You know how I always feel about his songs. It calms me down.” Kathy said.

“Then I started dancing around in my room and Keith was staring at me for 20 minutes of my stupid performance.” Kathy told her. “I feel stupid, but I felt calm after the dance.” Kathy confessed.

Heather laughed at her statement. “Oh yeah, did you saw Lilly’s face yesterday at the cinema. She looked happy.”

“I know, I’m so happy for her. Plus my brother looks very happy too today. I heard him whistling some tunes.” Kathy said.

“Have you talked to Lilly about yesterday?” Heather asked Kathy.

“Not yet, I’ve been busy. She’ll probably call me later.” Kathy said. “Anyway I have to go now, I got another call coming in.” she continued.

“Okay then. Bye. Talk to you later and have a great date.” Heather told her.

“Oh I will. Okay bye.” Kathy said and then ended the call with Heather and proceeded answering the other phone call.

“Hello” She said.

“Hey.” It was Ryan on the other line.

“Hey, So when did you came back?” Kathy asked him.

“Yesterday. So how are you?” He asked her.

“I’m fine. Just living an ordinary life here.”

“That’s nice. Anyway I just want to tell you that I’m going to pick you up later
around 12.30pm.” Ryan said.

“Okay, no problem. You got my address already right?” she asked him.

“Yeah. I’ll see you later then.”

“Yeah. See you. Bye.”

“Bye.” Ryan said and the call ended.
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Ryan put down his phone and he wasn’t sure what to do. Just went he got up from the couch, Casey came in to the living room.

“What’s up dude?” Casey asked Ryan.

“Nothing much, I got a date later.” Ryan told him.

“Who is she?” Casey asked him as he walked into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee.

“She’s the girl I told you about.” Ryan told him as he grabbed another cup and filled
it up with coffee.

“Oh that girl. So are you going to give her the necklace?” He asked him.

“I don’t think so cuz I have no idea if she the one or not and I don’t if she’s like the other girls I dated before. I don’t want to go through the same thing again. This time I’m going to take things slow.” Ryan said with a hand gesture showing slow.
Casey laughed “Okay. So where will you be bringing her to?” he asked.

“I don’t know maybe the go-kart track or maybe go have pizza. Something fun.” Ryan said.

“Should have guessed it already.” Casey responded.

“Whatever man. I’m out” Ryan said as he walked out of the kitchen.

Casey laughed and didn’t bother him, he continued drinking his coffee. Ryan went to get his keys to his Mercedes CL63 and went out the door. He still wasn’t sure what to get her but finally decided to go to the nearest florist to get some flowers.

He went into the florist and looked around and saw some nice purple roses, they looked fresh. He finally decided to get her some of those roses. After he got the flowers, he drove to Kathy’s house. He had a hard time finding the place but after a few turns, he finally found the house.

He walked stopped his car and grabbed the flowers. He was feeling nervous and his decision it to meet the parents first. He walked up to her doorsteps and pressed the doorbell.

“Coming.” Someone shouted from the house.

He stood there with one had in his front pocket and the other holding the flowers. Someone finally came to the door.

“Yes?” Keith answered the door. Keith knew who he was but he was just messing with him.

“Hi, I’m looking for Kathy.” Ryan said nervously.

“Sorry you got the wrong house.” Keith told him with a serious face.

“I’m sure I got the right place and I remember you.” Ryan said to him with a confuse look on his face.

“No you don’t know me and I don’t know you.” Keith continued teasing him. He looked behind Ryan and saw his Mercedes, his eyes opened wide open. “Hey tell you what; I’ll trade you my car with yours.” Keith continued.

Ryan looked back at his car and said “Yeah, I don’t think so. I’m not being selfish though.”

“Keith who is it?” Kathy shouted from the kitchen.

“Just some guy with a nice car!” Keith shouted back to her.

Kathy walked out of the kitchen and walked to the front door. She smiled when she saw
Ryan’s face but embarrassed and wasn’t sure what Keith did or said to Ryan.

“Hey Ryan. Sorry about my brother messing with you.” Kathy said shyly.

Ryan laughed slightly “No it was entertaining. Here, it’s for you.” He handed over the flowers to her.

“Thanks, I love purple.” Kathy said to him and she smelled the fresh flowers.

“You’re welcome. Glad you like it.” Ryan replied. He was happy she liked the flowers.

“So are your parents home, I’d like to say hi to them.”

“My parents happen to be out right now so the only guardian here is Keith, the guy who just messed with you.” She punched Keith’s arm. “Ouch: Keith said, rubbing his arm.

“Okay so I’ve already said hi to him.” Ryan said. “You ready to go?” he continued.

“Hold on, you should bring her back home not later than 8pm tonight.” Keith suddenly put on his serious face and acted like his dad.

“Yes sir, will do.” Ryan said with a smile.

“If you dare hurt her I’ll get you” Keith continued and this time he did the ‘I got my eyes on you’ to Ryan.

“I promise I won’t hurt her and I’ll take good care of her.” Ryan said to Keith and assured Keith.

“Okay I’m ready, we should go now.” Kathy took her bag and told Ryan.

“Bye Keith, I’ll see you when I’m back.” She told Keith as she followed Ryan to his car.

Ryan opened his car door for Kathy like a gentleman. “Wow, nice car.” Kathy remarked.

“Thanks.” Ryan replied.

He went into the driver’s seat and started the engine. Keith was still standing at the door watching them.

“Does your brother does that to all your dates?” Ryan asked.

“Yeah, he is as over protective as my dad.” Kathy said.

“Well he is a funny guy. I like him.” Ryan said.

“Yeah that’s his first impression to everyone I know.” Kathy confessed.

“He’s a funny guy. So is he working already?” Ryan asked her.

“Yeah, he has his own small company and he’s studying his masters for architecture.” Kathy told Ryan.

“That sounds cool. You think he knows how to design a cool skate park?” Ryan asked, he was planning to build a new skate park for the community.

“I’m not sure, I’ve never seen him done any skate parks before but he did some great buildings.” She said.

“So want to have pizza or something different?” Ryan asked his date politely.

“Something different would be cool. I haven’t really tried much restaurant here. Most of the time I only have pizzas with my friends or my mom would cook for us at home.” Kathy told him.

“Cool, we can try the Beach Garden café at the San Clemente Pier. I heard it’s a nice place.” Ryan suggested.

“Okay, sounds nice.” She said.

About 20 minutes later, they arrived at the café. Kathy walked beside Ryan and when they arrived at the café, they decided to sit inside. A waitress at the restaurant came to their table and brought them their menu.

“Here’s your menu, I’ll give you some time to decide and when you’re ready just call for me.” The waitress said.

“Thank you.” They both said.

They scanned through the menu after a few minutes, Ryan called the waitress backed. They ordered their food and continued talking after that.

“So you enjoy being famous?” she asked him.

“Yeah, it if cool but there are pros and cons to being famous. Most of the time I just keep myself focus on what I do best and my family keeps me grounded, which is really good.” He told her.

“I’m surprise you didn’t act like how the other girls usually do when they see me.” He said curiously.

“Well, I try not to be too much. I really don’t want to freak you out.” She said, hoping it’s the right thing to say.

“Well you’re really cool. How is your hand by the way?” Ryan asked.

“What?” she wasn’t sure what he was talking about.

“Your hand, the other day I saw a scratch on it when we fell.” He pointed to her hand with a small scar.

“Oh, that. It’s fine. It didn’t hurt too much. There is a small scar though but it’s barely noticeable.” She rubbed the scar on her hand.

“So what do you enjoy doing?” Ryan asked her.

“I like to go out a lot but I got school activities most of the time. I hang out with my two best friends a lot and sometime we just sing and dance randomly.” Kathy told him with a smile.

“Sounds fun, I love hanging with my friends too. After those skate tours and travelling around the world, it’s very tiring. So when I come back I’ll just go out with my friends or maybe spend time with my brothers since I don’t live at my mom’s place anymore.” He said while taking another bite of his food.

“You sound close with your brothers.” She said to him.

“Yeah I am, well after my parents’ divorce, I’m like the man of the house so they look up to me especially Kane, my youngest brother.”

“I know Kane; I mean I’ve seen him in your show before. He’s really cute.” She said and took a sip of her drink.

Ryan laughed, looking at her being nervous. “So you watched my show before?”

“Yeah.” She said nervously and smiled slightly.

“That’s cool, you like the show?” he asked her.

“Yeah, I enjoyed watching it. I’m not a stalker though.” She quickly cleared up any misunderstanding.

Ryan chuckled, “I know you’re not a stalker. Anyway, tell me about your family.”

“Well, My dad is American-Chinese, as in my grandma is American and my grandfather is Chinese. My mom is American born Chinese. She doesn’t really look like a Chinese though. So technically, I’m Chinese.”

“Okay, I was expecting you to tell me about your parents but yeah, that would work too. Very interesting family history though. At first I thought you have Native American roots but I guess not.” Ryan said.

“Well I think I have some Native American roots too.” She giggled.

“Wow, your roots are defiantly very interesting. Do you know how to skateboard or surf?” Ryan asked her.

“I can rollerblade a bit but I can skateboard or surf. It’s hard for me. What about you, I mean what are your interests in music?” She asked him.

“I just listen to anything that has a fast beat, like Lil’ Wayne’s music is cool” Ryan replied.

“Cool, Lil’ Wayne’s music is nice. I listen to almost anything. I think even the songs that you’ve never heard of.” Kathy said sounding like a music expert.

“So you love music huh?”

“Yeah, my room is practically filled with CDs and my iPod is full.”

“We should go to a concert some day.” Ryan suggested.

“That’s sounds cool. I have never been to a concert before actually. My dad won’t let me, he says it’s dangerous.” She told him.

“I understand how you dada feels, he just want you to be safe. I’m surprise he allows you to go on today’s date with me.”

“Well I talked him into letting me go on this date. I got my mom on my side so that’s good news, cuz my dad listens to my mom.”

“I would love to meet your mom to thank her.” He smiled.

After their lunch, Ryan brought her to race go-kart and Kathy pretty much enjoyed the world day. After 5 rounds, Kathy won the race and beat Ryan by just a few seconds. The race was pretty close between them.

After the racing, they went to the beach to hang out for a while and chatted more. They watched the sunset and set there just admiring the view. Ryan wasn’t sure if he should hold her hand or not but when they were about to leave, Ryan reached out his hand to help her up.

“Thanks.” She said as she stood up.

Kathy looked at her hand and Ryan was still holding it. She started to blush and Ryan smiled.

“You don’t mind me holding you hand?” Ryan smile as he asked her.

“No, not at all.” She smiled.

They walked down the beach for a while, when it got darker, they decided to go home.

“So will your parents be home by now?” he asked her.

She looked at her watch to check the time. “Yeah, I think they’ll be home by now and my mom is probably cooking dinner already.”

“You love your mom’s cooking?”

“Yeah, she’s a really good cook, last time, she joined a cooking competition and she won first place.”

“Now she sounds like a very good cook, I should try her food some day.” He smiled.
They finally arrived at her house after a while. Ryan walked her up to her front door.

“Thanks for today, I had a great time.” Kathy said.

“I had a great time too.”Ryan smiled to her.

Just as Kathy was about to open the door, someone opened it. It was her dad.

“Oh hi dad.” Kathy said.

“Hi sir, I’m Ryan. Thanks for letting Kathy go on a date with me today.”

“Oh, hi there Ryan. It’s no problem, as long as you take a good care of her. She the baby of the house you know?”

“Dad.” She was a bit embarrassed with what her dad said about her.

“Okay sorry, baby.” Her dad said.

“Come by our place anytime. We can have a chat sometime.” Her dad said to Ryan with a smile.

“Sure, will do. Thanks again.” Ryan reached out his hand to shake Kathy’s dad’s hand.

“Drive safely. Nice to meet you.” He shook Ryan’s hand.

“Nice to meet you too sir. Have a good night.” Ryan said with a polite smile.

“Okay dad, go back in. I’ll come in soon.” She pushed her dad into the house. Then turned to Ryan and smiled.

“So what do you think of my dad?” She asked him.

“Well he didn’t look scary and he’s a nice guy.” Ryan told her while putting one of his hand in his pocket.

“Well I wonder why, cuz that didn’t seem like him at all. Maybe he likes you.” She said.

“Anyway, I better go now, you dada will probably come out soon if I don’t let you in.” he smiled.

“Okay, drive safe back. Don’t drive too fast.”She told him with her gentle voice.

“I will.” He smile.

He said bye to her and gave her a hug, she was very happy to receive the hug from him.

Kathy watched him walked back to his car. She waved to him before he drove off.

‘The best day of my life, EVER.’ She thought to herself.