After about 15 minutes of driving, the driver dropped us near the restaurant.

Sirania walked in and I followed her.

Suddenly, she turned around and said, "I always wanted to come here with someone I love from the underneath of my heart. I love this restaurant it's like dream " Sirania beamed.

"Will you explain to me? Everything around me is getting complex, dad didn't warn me about anything and ordered me to ask you about this deal. But which deal? Everything is so all of sudden."

"Yes yes, I requested him that I will explain everything to you. But before that, we should take a seat." She said turning red a little, she is damn cute.

"Yep, we should go get a seat."

Both of us entered the restaurant and could see the majority of the crowd were couples. The manager asked us to take a seat near a window, which was already reserved maybe she made reservations.

Round tables, glass tops, menu under glass tops, light classical music, waiters smartly dressed in black and white, terracotta rustic tiled floor, large windows, small vases of yellow carnation flowers on each table.

I asked her to seat first and then sat opposite, but she came to the same side and joined our chairs together to sit beside me our knees touching each other now

"No more distance, why should we be on the opposite sides, why not on the same side?" Sirania chimed in with all her cuteness making me blush again.

I was speechless...

"You can order whatever you want, it's on me!" Sirania said all excited and seeming so kind.

"I'll have whatever you order." I replied in a laid-back way trying to be more manly.

"Sounds like you have enough dating experience."

"Thanks to all the drama I watch, it's my first date. I don't like going out, So you were going to tell me about all this chaos you created."

"Love at first sight I say. When you are mad in love you cross all borders of humanity" she replied airdropping me a pdf on my iPhone.

"Open it and read it and I will wait for your reply, there is my number on the last page of the pdf." she bubbled like a small kid.

"Yes, I will go through it, You want to marry me, right? Dad said you want an engagement done sooner or later."

"Marriage is a small part of my dream, maybe I want a girl child," she said so innocently.

I couldn't stop blushing

"I see, its the first time a girl is so interested in me." I laughed at her foolish talk.

"I have fallen beyond the depths of the ocean, to the core of the Earth, now only you can lift me up."

"Nice lines, but it's cheesy, you must love to read..."

"Well... it's not cheesy I made it for you"

The place became dark all of sudden, I guessed it must be a blackout but nothing is unplanned for this place here.

Sirania leaned her body on me I can't see anything but feel her breathe against my face and tighten her grip on my shoulder, I was almost shocked. Unexpectedly, her hand drifted to my neck. It settled there and she pulled me closer. She inhaled sharply. She was against my warm chest, chiseled to perfection. My breathing quickened as did hers.

She began nuzzling my lips with delicate kisses. So faint, they were like whispers. I urged myself to push her away, but couldn't, my body began to tremble uncontrollably, our breaths mingled. My heart fluttered inside my chest. At first, it was a delicate, butterfly kiss but soon I moved closer to her kissing her more delicately.

"My first kiss people say it's electric, I didn't think so, can I try again." She asked me politely.

I couldn't refuse.

We kissed again and didn't stop until I realized someone was watching us in that darkness and it must be so awkward from the third point of view. Trust me I don't want to stop but the power was back maybe she paid for 10 minutes of blackout.

We pulled away from each other holding hands so it didn't feel awkward.

"Do you think electricity cut was accidental?" She asked blushing, sitting back on her chair.

"So it was planned the moment you said you wanted to come here with someone you loved?" I asked breathing heavily.

"We have feelings that are not visible, we do things to prevent ourselves from being miserable. Being honest is what makes us believable, for our feelings may not always be reachable." She said and stood up to rush to the restroom when she realized she was all red.

After dinner with lot's of talk, we left the hotel. It was embarrassing to look into her eyes. She dropped me home, I wasn't surprised when she knew my address too.

I respected her.
I admired her.
I liked her.

Goodbye was heartwarming.

I walked in and my dad jumped on me, I was almost dead.

"What happened on your date? Something good?" He asked smiling like a kid.

"Were you sitting by the doors? You scared the shit out of me!"

"What happened? What did she say?" he began his interrogation.

"She gave me a pdf to read and comprehend her feelings and think about it, then to respond to her."

"Old type of romance I see... your mom did the same she wrote a diary...that's the past what's your opinion? "

"Yes, mom did a mistake by choosing you, my dear dad." I pat his shoulder to push him away and end this Q&A

"You forget you are my son, my offspring. Till the age of 20, you should have at least 2 girlfriends. You are such a waste of this wonderful genetics."

"Hmm. Sucks, disown me then."

"You should have at least once kissed her."

"Hmm...may if that's your criteria then I did."

"What? Who does it on the first date?"

"Hypocrite person, contraindication your statement. Our generation does, watch Riverdale you will understand"

"Ahh you learned to reply, Sirania can be a test for you on how you manage a task allotted, I can't guarantee her to be perfect but if you handle her, you can handle business, you are next heir after me. When you complete your training after graduation you will be taking over this business."

"Yah I get it you tell me that every day, I am gonna tell mom everything that you, Sirania, and her dad planned without my knowledge."

Dad became speechless his smile was gone as I walk through the lobby door into a dark room, and a lady with specs was sitting on a chair, reading a book.

"Mom you know what dad did today?"

I TOLD HER EVERYTHING.

I walked out of the room and dad was standing right near the door almost with no expression on his face.

"Dad, are you gonna stay here? Go to your room."

"What did your mom say?" he asked me with his eyes filled with tears.

"To do as you say." I replied.

"Oh, What was she doing?" his voice was shaking now

"Reading her book as usual."

"I see. You are hallucinating again. Your mom is dead."

That smile on my face disappear, I walked quietly to my room without saying a word and I knew what was wrong with me again.

Dad later stepped into mom's room and looked around he begins to cry silently.

"Why don't you talk to me? Why can't I see you? I love you too. I miss you too, I wanna hug you, I took a big decision in Clazer's life without you. it's been 6 years since you died my darling. Still, Clazer believes that you are alive..."

I stepped into my room before I start crying Sirania's smile remind me of another side of the world and that pdf file she was waiting for me to read, felt like I had a reason to move on, and without wasting another minute, I opened pdf entitled as Sirania's Diary.

I found that the pdf diary has entries from 18 August only.

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Back to the future...

POV: Narrator
12 December 2022
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California

"Isn't your mom dead?" The doctor asked Clazer clearing the dust settled on his spectacle with the corner of the coat.

"I usually used to see her, like a hallucination"

"Hmm, that's why your medical history has so many psychiatrists."

To be continued