Tara and Damian met up at a cafe. They talked for about 15 minutes, and then Tara’s high school friend happened to show up. He spotted her and decided to come over and say hi.
“Hey, Tara.”
Tara turned around and was surprised to see Ethan. She stood up to give him a hug.
“Hey, Ethan.”
Ethan hugged her back.
“So what's up, how are you?”
Damian watched them, feeling a little jealous.
They pulled apart and Tara answered him:
“I'm good. Nothing much, just came out for coffee with a new friend.” She pointed at Damian.
Ethan held out his hand to shake his.
“I'm Ethan, nice to meet you.”
“Damian, nice to meet you too.”
Tara asked him: “What's new with you, how have you been?”
Ethan smiled.
“I'm good, just came out for a bit with my girlfriend.”
Tara smiled a little too and noticed his girlfriend nearby.
“Cool. Glad we ran into each other.”
“Same here, see ya.”
“See ya,” she said and sat back down in her chair.
Damian was still slightly jealous, even though Ethan mentioned he had a girlfriend.
“Who was that?”
Tara looked at him.
“A guy from high school.”
Damian smiled a bit and made a joke.
“Did he study fashion design too?”
Tara laughed.
“Nah. We were just in the same shift, so we’d hang out a lot during breaks and stuff like that.”
Damian got a bit more jealous when she said that, but he tried to hide it.
“Ah, nice.”
They stayed at the cafe for another 20 minutes or so and then headed out. They decided to take a walk through the park.
They walked side by side, talking about serious stuff one minute and joking around the next. Then Damian spotted an ice cream stand nearby.
“Wanna grab some ice cream?” he asked Tara.
“Sure.”
They went over to get ice cream, and Damian bought them both chocolate ice cream.
They headed back toward the park.
Damian asked her: “Do you wanna go down to the rocks by the lake?”
“Yeah.”
They walked over there, and just as they were about to sit down, Tara’s foot accidentally caught on a rock. She dropped her ice cream and started to fall, but Damian caught her right in the nick of time. Reacting super fast, he tossed his ice cream aside and grabbed her by the waist. Because his reaction was so quick, he ended up falling back and sitting down on a rock, with Tara landing right in his lap. Their faces were just a couple of centimeters apart.
To be continued...
Note: This story is written entirely by me in my native language, and I only use AI to translate it into English since English is not my first language.