This choice: "Double Date with Danger" - direct continuation of our first story • Go Back...Chapter #3Double Date with Danger by: Sage   (This story, for those of you who don't like to read into things, is a continuation of our previous little adventure which starts here: http://www.writing.com/main/interact/ite...
If you haven't yet read this, than I highly recommend it as it gives an account of what happens when a friend goes to another friend's house to try out something a crazy scientist gave him, only to actually have it work. It's also an interesting tale in any case, and was a lot of fun to write.)
"So, this is it?" asked Chris as we drove up to the entrance of the restaurant where we would be meeting Julian and Kokoro in about ten minutes. The four of us had arranged this date kind of on the fly, true to tell, and only because Ko, who had some connection with the owner of the establishment, had been able to snag a set of reservations that had been canceled just the other day, whereas normally it would have taken several weeks just to get on the list of people waiting to get on the list for making reservations.
"I guess so. Never been a fan of this kind of food myself," I admitted as we pulled up to the door. Two young men waited there and one of them opened her door while I got out of the driver's seat and the other held out his hand. Recognizing him as a valet I handed him my keys to the car wrapped up in a ten spot, which gave him a grin as he slid into the seat without a word, driving off towards the parking complex just a little ways off.
"Right this way, lady and gentleman," said the other man as he walked us over to the door, opening it for us, and I handed him a five as I walked past him, not sure if I was supposed to or not, but he seemed to like it as he pocketed the bill and then smiled at me, pointing me over to an elderly man sitting behind a podium. In the man's hands was a sheet and a pad, obviously the guests list for tonight and I couldn't help but feel out of place.
Christine at least owned a dress and was looking like a lady of finery, while myself, in a form fitting suit that, to the unassuming eye looked like spandex, but was in fact a special polymer mesh, looked like some kind of bum. Still I wasn't about to act like this bothered me outwardly, after all, this suit was probably more expensive than most of the ones that the other people around us were wearing, and even if they didn't know it, I did.
"Reservation?" asked the gentleman behind the podium, and I nodded a bit, wondering whose name it was under before deciding to just act like I knew it and hope that worked.
"Kokoro, a party of four," I told him, and the man opened his left eye a crack, looking the two of us up and down for a moment, judging us and obviously not liking the way I looked, but upon inspection of his list he tilted his head and then turned around, walking towards a table near the back that got it's own little alcove near the kitchen. Still not saying anything he laid four different billfolds which I took to be menus of some sort on the table before walking away, flickering his head in a snobbish gesture at me as he walked past. Ignoring that as best I could I pulled out Chris' seat and offered it too her, she giggled and curtsied once before taking the chair and sitting in it as I pulled out the one to her left and sat down beside her.
"Ko said Julian and she would be a little late, but they should be here in five minutes or so. That should give us time to order some wine. Kokoro already told me the kind she and Julian wanted," she said as she opened the billfold and revealed that instead of listing foods it listed types of wine along with dates after them. Seeing the action I mimed it and less than a minute later a boy came up to us and tapped his pen on a blank piece of paper atop a writing pad.
"And what drinks would you be having this evening?" asked the boy, and Chris ordered something which I could pronounce at all, and then made two more selection, pointing towards the seats of our friends across the table, and then when the boy turned to me I decided to order a nice cabernet for myself, which got me a look from the boy that I tried to ignore. Then looking across the table at Chris I smiled, and together we waited for Julian and Kokoro to show up.   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
| Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
<<-- Previous · Outline  · Recent Additions © Copyright 2024 Sage (UN: star_sage at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
sith has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work within this interactive story. Poster accepts all responsibility, legal and otherwise, for the content uploaded, submitted to and posted on Writing.Com. |
View Portfolio
Visit Notebook
Send Gift Points
Awards
Badges
Send Email
Community Newsfeed
General Discussion
Sponsored Items
Book of Trinkets
Static Items
Books
Groups
Interactive Stories
Audio
Campfire Creatives
Community Notes
Crossword Puzzles
Documents
Folders
Images
In & Outs
Madlibs
Photo Albums
Polls
Product Reviews
Quizzes
Survey Forms
Web Pages
Word Searches
More by this author