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‘We’re here,’ she waskindenough to announce to me as we arrived in front of a shabby old diner.
‘Here!?’ My stomach had let out of growl as a sign of protest. I just prayed I wouldn’t spend the evening in the bathroom because I wouldn’t even have brought my dog to eat there.
But I needed to humor her, regardless if it meant going on a suicide mission.
‘You’ve put way worse things in your mouth than this food.’ She did have a point there. ‘Let me order. I know exactly what to get.’
‘No doubting you on that one.’ I wasn’t even sure if anything there was edible, let alone order from the menu.
At a strange level, it was fun. No private chef and huge chances of food poisoning, but at least I was getting to know the other part of Echo City. I guess it was too late to let her know that we did have a fast-food joint in the Hills.
‘A small chicken wings menu to go,’ I could hear her place her order to the waitress.
Just a small menu, maybe she won’t make me eat here.
‘That will be $2.50,’ the cashier spoke as Bea slipped something in her hand.
‘Keep the change,’ my date said, throwing her an innocent smile.
Jesus things were getting ridiculous. I could afford to buy the whole restaurant with the contents of my wallet, so I was certain that we could afford more than a few $2.50 chicken wings. Besides, what kind of menu could cost $2.50 when a normal dinner in the Hills is usually $250? ‘I have some cash on me.’ I felt I needed to intervene.
I should have figured that Bea didn’t want any help, ‘I told you it’s my treat.’ She took a paper bag from the waitress and headed towards the exit. ‘Come on, let’s go.’
‘Go where?’Now we were walking around town!? Fucking great!
‘To get drinks. Come.’ We walked to a local supermarket. ‘Beer or soda?’
‘Soda. Not really a beer guy.’ I never was too fond of beer. It was too cheap for my taste.
She didn’t even let me finish what I was saying as she took two cans of soda, and threw them on the floor.
‘Are you out of your mind? What are you doing!?’ I almost yelled, trying to bring her back to her senses. I was not in the mood to explain to the police how my date decided to go crazy on me and trash the local supermarket. Besides, between the two of us, I was usually the crazy one.
‘Relax. I’ll pay for them,’ She whispered, picking up the cans from the floor and going to the cash register. ‘These ones are a little bent.’
The cashier took the sodas to check them ‘Let me see... 50% discount. It will be 55 cents for both.’
‘Thank you.’ She paid the man as I was amusing myself with what she was doing.
‘Can you also do that with cars?’ I couldn’t help myself from making fun of her, although I knew the real reasons why she learned those tricks.
And even if I hadn’t, she was making sure I was to pay for my sarcasm, ‘We can’t really afford cars down here, so no.’
She didn’t continue on the subject and neither did I since I felt that I was getting close to having my head ripped off from my shoulders.
Instead, she satisfied herself by taking revenge on my lungs as we reached an abandoned building, ‘We’ll have to go up like seventeen floors,’ she said with a certain smirk tugging at the corners of her lips.
‘What!?’ Are you fucking kidding me?’ I thought we were going to have some relaxed fun, not climbing fucking mount Everest.
‘Come on, you look like you were born in a gym.’ She made her way up the steps.
‘I work out. But what you’re asking me is Rocky Balboa’s level,’ I had to admit, I have always hated the step master.
‘It will be worth it. I promise.’ She was assuring me, although I didn’t need to be convinced of anything. Spending time with her was wellworth it. That was enough convincing for me.
With numbed calves, we finally managed to reach the top of the stairs. The air held a certain thickness to it, definitely much more polluted than what I inhaled in the Hills. In fact, so toxic that it was making my lungs struggle trying to readjust.
And I loved it.
