“I can’t answer that one. You might get it in your head to actually take me there.”
“Don’t worry, I already have it in my head. Not telling me would force me to take you everywhere until I finally found it.”
He was ridiculous. But I knew he really might.
“Thailand. If I could go anywhere right now, I’d like to visit there. And before you ask me why, I don’t know. I saw it in a magazine once.”
I picked up the chopsticks when the server came back out with our food.
“Why am I the only one answering these?”
“Because I’m the only one asking questions,” he responded. “I was born in Fresno, California, my favorite color is white, favorite movie is Citizen Kane, I call you Ms. Harper whenever you look like you are undressing me with your eyes—”
“I do not!”
“After this morning, can you really say that?”
Oh! Urgh, I wanted to smack him. But instead I stuffed food in my mouth.
“I also call you Ms. Harper when you laugh or smile at me like I’m the only man in the world,” he added before taking a bite of his meal.
My heartbeat quickened, and I swallowed the piece of my chicken in my mouth. We were both quiet for some time before I found the courage to speak again. “You didn’t say where you would travel to.”
“That’s because I can go anywhere I want to.” He shrugged. “So I’m going to be content going wherever you want to go.”
Felicity, don’t fall for this… don’t fall for him.
But why was it so easy to think one thing and feel another?
Day 5
11:31 a.m.
“You nervous?” he asked, placing the helmet on my head.
“That depends on how good a driver you are,” I said, even though I was a little nervous.
He zipped up the leather jacket on me before grabbing his own helmet. “I’ve been riding motorcycles since I was seventeen, and I’m still one piece. Just hold on tight.”
He threw his leg over the back of his black Harley, waiting for me to get on.
“Theo—”
“Trust me. You won’t get hurt.”
He was always pushing me out of my comfort zone.
He handed me pair of sunglasses, and I swung my leg over and wrapped my hands around his waist.
“You ready?” He started the engine.
“Just go!” I clenched my eyes shut.
I was holding on to him tightly, too scared I would fall off this thing to loosen my grip even a little. The wind whipped right by us, my hair lashing around behind us. When I’d asked him where we were going, he said it didn’t matter. It was the ride that was important. We’d see when we got there.
“Open your eyes, Felicity!” he yelled.
“I’m okay!”