Chapter four

   I rolled over and looked at my alarm clock. It was two in the afternoon already. My head was killing me and I felt like my bladder was about to explode if I didn't pee soon. I slowly sat up and pulled the covers off. I was still fully clothed. The memories of last night started to rush through my head as I headed towards the bathroom squeezing my pelvic muscles and praying I could hold it just long enough.

    It had definitely been an eventful night and not one I had expected that was for sure. I thought of Aiden. His smile, his scent, his eyes. No. I need to stop thinking of a man who could very easily end up being my professor. I didn't want to be one of those girls. The look of jealousy on Marks face confused me though. He had moved on with a girl he had been cheating on me with. Was it so wrong for me to want to move on too? Was he jealous?

    I looked in the bathroom mirror and almost laughed at how terrible I looked. My makeup was badly smeared all over my face. My hair looked like a birds nest almost with the hair clip still in and caught in my earrings. Time to clean myself up. 

    It hurt like hell detangling the hair clip and earrings from my hair. It was my own fault though. I decided to leave my earrings in though , it had been a long time since I wore them. I wiped all the makeup off, it took about three makeup wipes, and studied myself in the mirror. A little better I thought. I started the shower and grabbed a black off shoulder shirt and black skirt from my closet. I felt like looking nice today.

   After I showered, dressed and applied minimal makeup I decided I was ready to leave my bedroom. In the living room Teighlor and Sam sat together. Teighlor was painting Sams nails a bubblegum pink color. I looked down at my nails, they definitely needed to be repainted. They looked up at me and smiled.

    "Look who's finally awake. Late night?" Teighlor asked teasingly with a wink.

    "We tried to find you before we left but someone told us you had left with a guy." I rolled my eyes and shook my head. Sam sounded concerned.

   "I hate gossip. No a guy I had bumped into the other day at the library had been talking to me, I got drunk and he took me out to the walking garden to get some fresh air and sober up. We talked some, came back I couldn't find you guys, we danced some and then he walked me back here because Mark was at the party glaring at us the entire time." Teighlor raised an eye brow at me.

    "So there was a guy?" I felt like I was gonna blush so I ignored her and headed into the kitchen to get something to eat. Just as I opened the fridge though there was a knock at the door. 

   "I got it." Teighlor said loud enough for me to hear. I heard her open the door. "Hi can I help you?" She said to whoever was standing there. I peaked out of the kitchen. Some random guy was standing there with a big vase of black flowers. 

    "I have a delivery for Letty?" He said reading something. I walked over to the door. 

    "My name is Letty." I said standing behind Teighlor.

    "Hello miss. I was asked to deliver these for you as well as this card and wait for your response." He said handing me the flowers and a card. Teighlor took the flowers for me and I took the card. I opened it and was surprised to see it was from Aiden

         

             Letty,

           I can't stop thinking about you, I have been up all night. I was wondering if you would 

          at all be interested in joining me next Saturday evening for dinner. If your answer is yes

          give the delivery boy your cell number and I will call you later. I hope to hear from you

          soon.

              Aiden

   I felt myself smiling. He was thinking of me? I didn't know what to say. I really didn't want to be lusting after someone who would be one of my professors potentially but I really had enjoyed my time with him last night. Besides Teighlor and Sam had been saying I deserved better and needed to get over Mark and move on. It couldn't hurt to get to know him over dinner right? One date wouldn't hurt. Worse case scenario if I did end up in his class I could transfer out right?

      I showed Teighlor and Sam the card while I thought. They both read it and looked surprised. I wasn't sure what to do. I wanted to say yes but at the same time I couldn't help but wonder why he wanted to take me out of all people. Did he actually think I was attractive? Maybe he just felt bad for me. Maybe it was because he saw how upset I had been by seeing Mark and Carmen. There could be a thousand reasons as to why he was asking me out other than he found me attractive.

    "You're going to yes right?" Teighlor asked pulling out a piece of paper and a pen. I nodded without thinking. Oops, oh well. I really did want to say yes any ways. She scribbled down my number and handed it to the delivery guy who smiled and left. I looked over at the flowers. They were really pretty. I saw the card on them and picked it up. It said they were a breed of flowers called queen of the night tulips. I felt my self smirking. No one had ever sent me flowers. Well outside of my family that is. It was a nice move on his end.

    "So who's Aiden?" Sam finally asked bringing me back to reality. I blushed.

    "The guy from last night." I said picking up the flowers to put in my room. 

    "Wait you guys just met and he's sending you flowers?" Teighlor said following me. "Sounds like he really likes you. This is wonderful!"

    "I guess so." I said placing the flowers on the nightstand next to my bed. I really was wishing he would call already but the delivery guy had just left a few minutes ago and I didn't know how far away Aiden lived from my dorm. Assuming he was home though. I switched my phone ringer on just in case though. Wait why was I so excited to hear his voice?

   I walked back into the living room and sat with Teighlor and Sam, completely forgetting I was hungry. I was in shock partially that I just said yes to a date with a guy I barely knew. Fuck what had I just gotten myself into. What if I said something stupid? What if I embarassed myself in front of him? I was already super clutsy so I couldn't just ignore that.

    "Stop worrying." Teighlor finally said. I looked at her.

    "What if he doesn't like me though." Where the hell was that coming from. Did it even matter? I wasn't completely over Mark. 

    "He'd be a moron not to." Teighlor said with a shrug. Sam nodded in agreement.

    "You guys are my friends of course you would think that." I said feeling sad all of a sudden. Why was I sad?

    "Look that may be true but Letty you deserve to be happy. I told you that you need someone who's going to treat you better then Mark did. For fuck sake this guy you barely know just sent you flowers and asked you to dinner. He literally sent a letter to get your phone number. Did mark ever do that? No! This guy clearly likes you and wants to get to know you so let him." Sam nodded in agreement with Teighlor. She was right. In all the years Mark and I had been together the most romantic thing he had done was showed up at my job to bring me dinner. He had never been the romantic type though, or at least that's what I thought. Maybe I just hadn't been important enough to him for him to be romantic with me.

    "Not only that Letty you are an amazing person. I know you don't think so but that's because you don't see yourself the way we do. That's why Amber, Teighlor and myself all wanted us all to go to the same college together and stay in the same dorm. We're like family and we all met each other through you. So honestly we can see what this guy sees in you and it's what we see in you." Fucking hell Sam was going to make me cry. I smiled at them.

    "Thanks guys. I just didn't think after everything with Mark that someone else could take a genuine interest in me." Teighlor punched my arm and it actually hurt.

    "I told you Marks a dick head don't listen to what he said." Samantha nodded.

    "Hey bitches." Amber said coming in the door.

    "Letty has a date!" Teighlor squealed. Loud mouth. Amber set a pizza box down in front of us.

    "About friggin time. Who is he?" 

    "We met the other day at the Library sort of and he was at the party last night." I said with a shrug. 

    "Is that who everyone was saying you left with?" I nodded 

    "Nothing happened though we just talked and danced a little then he walked me home." Teighlor shook her head.

    "Best part is Amber he sent her flowers today and asked for her number through a letter." Teighlor handed her the card.

    "Oooh romantic." Amber said after reading it.

    "Isn't it? What are you going to wear?" Sam asked me. I shrugged. 

    "If he calls me tonight I'll ask him how I should dress. Depending on what he says depends on what I wear." Teighlor smiled through a bite of pizza.

    "Very smart. Now let's shut up and eat considering poor Letty hasn't eaten since before the party last night." I rolled my eyes it's not like I was wasting away. Besides Ambers girlfriend worked at the Pizza shop near campus so we ate from there a lot. Amber had probably gone to see her and that's why we had pizza. 

   I thought about Tammy she hadn't been around in a while. I knew she worked a lot like Amber so that after college they could get married. I loved having her around though. She was funny and very bubbly like Sam but also really laid back and down to earth. Her and Amber were perfect together.

    "So good! Tell Tammy we said thanks and that she better come hang out soon we miss her." Sam said. My thoughts exactly. Amber smiled.

    "Good because I invited her over for dinner tomorrow since she's off."

    "Yay. What are we making?" Sam squealed. Amber shook her head.

    "Nope you guys are going to not be here between the hours of four and eight pm." I knew that look.

    "You're going to ask her to marry you finally aren't you?" I said pointing my piece of pizza at Amber. She nodded.

    "Yep bought the ring this morning finally." She said smiling. "You guys can see it after she does." We all nodded. Tammy and Amber had been dating since eighth grade we all knew they were perfect together.

    "So tomorrow before we leave the dorm were going to clean and help you decorate." Teighlor said excitedly. "What are you planning?" Amber looked away sheepishly.

   "Well she loved that one restaurant I took her to a couple of years ago for her birthday. I was going to get food from there and put candles everywhere like they had and that's all I got so far."

    "Well that's a good start." I said encouraging her. It's not that Amber wasn't romantic, she just wasn't the most creative. Still the surprises she always did for Tammy were super cute.

    "I have a ton of candles you can use." Teighlor said. 

    "Yeah we can make this place look super romantic for you." Sam chimed in. I just nodded in agreement.

    "Thanks guys I know what I'm gonna say I just didn't plan much else." We laughed, that was typical for Amber. 

    After dinner I decided I wanted to go to the library to return the book I had finished but also check out a new one. Since I hadn't been able to on friday. I just prayed Mark wouldn't be there. It was gorgeous out today and I just felt really happy for the first time in a while. I had only walked part of the way there when an unknown number started to call me. 

    "Hello?" I answered after a few rings.

    "Letty? Sorry for not calling sooner, I got a little tied up unpacking." It was Aiden. I had almost forgotten he was going to call.

    "Oh that's fine. Thank you for the flowers. They're beautiful."

    "You're welcome. I'm sorry if it was a little weird I didn't want to show up at your dorm and ask you for your number. Didn't want to come off as a stalker." He said laughing. Right I forgot I had said that to him last night.

    "You didn't have to give me flowers though." 

    "I was asking you on a date it was the perfect reason to give you flowers." He sounded so sincere in the way he said it.

    "That's very thoughtful of you. About next Saturday though." 

    "Can you not make it?" He sounded concerned.

     "Oh no no I'm not canceling or anything. I just don't know what I should wear." He laughed.

     "Whatever you're comfortable wearing it's nothing fancy I promise. I just want to get to know you. I would of asked if you had free time any day this week before Saturday but I don't know your class schedule." I thought about tomorrow. What was I going to do for four hours.

     "Well since you're being kind and taking me out to dinner on Saturday would you like to get coffee tomorrow evening? I've got four hours to kill and you said you wanted to know the campus better and you can't say you know it without going to the best coffee shop on campus." He was silent for a moment. Shit what was I saying? Why did I feel like I wanted to see him so badly. 

    "I'm ok with that but the gentleman should always take the lady on the first date. What are you doing tonight?" I stopped dead in my tracks. Woah wait what? I felt nervous but excited all of a sudden. Did I want to see him so soon? I didn't know what to do. Fuck it Teighlor and Sam would say they were free if they were me.

    "Just heading to the library now to return a book and pick out a new one then I'm free." I was smiling.

    "I'll meet you at the library then. See you soon." 

    "See you soon." I repeated before hanging up the phone. Well three dates with one guy in one week. Wasn't expecting that to happen. 

    I texted Teighlor the update before heading into the campus library. She was excited for me and even put several winky faces in the last text message. Ugh she was hopeless. I loved that about her though. Even Sam and Amber texted me telling me to have fun and that they wanted all the details later. Typical.

     I handed the librarian the book I was returning. She smiled at me and said hello. She knew me well enough due to the fact I was here frequently so she knew I would be checking out one or two more books. I headed straight for the fiction section. I had read a good number of books in the section already but there were so many I still hadn't read. I wanted to read them all before I graduated. It was kind of a dumb goal to some but not to me. I loved to read. 

    I had picked out one book already and was browsing for a second book when I smelt him. It had taken him fourty-five minuets to get here and I wasn't sure if he had driven or walked but I figured it would be rude to ask. I pretended to not know he was there behind me as I tried to reach for a book on a top shelf. I saw his arm reach out and grab the book for me.

     "Let me get it for you." He said. I smiled.

    "Thank you Aiden." I turned and he looked at the book before handing it to me.

    "Stephen King?" He asked smiling. I shrugged.

    "My father introduced me to his books when I was younger. I've been a fan since." He looked at me amused.

    "Which one was your first?" Wait did he read?

    "Through the eyes of the dragon. My grandmother gave it to me when I was thirteen." He smiled again. 

    "Not a bad book to start with. Have you read IT?" I nodded. "That was my first by him. Hmmm I wonder." He left my side and began to look through the books. He left the section I was in and after a few minuets returned with another book. He handed it to me and I studied it. It wasn't a book or author I knew.

    "I haven't read this one." I said.

    "Good it's one of my favorites. Do you enjoy vampire novels?" I nodded. "You'll like this then. There are some erotic moments just a heads up." He said it so indifferently that I didn't know how to react.

     "I'll let you know what I think then." I said with a smile. "Now let me check these out and we can go do whatever." Bad choice of words but I just felt so comfortable around him.

    "What time is your first class tomorrow?"

    "Eleven, why?" His golden brown eyes seemed to light up. 

    "I was thinking if you didn't have to go any time soon perhaps we could go see a movie?" Not what I was expecting. 

    "Sure the campus theater should have a couple of movies going tonight. I should drop these off at my dorm though first." He nodded. Besides the campus' movie theater wasn't too far from my dorm. This was sure to be an intersting night.