Adventures With Theresa 🚦🚘
Episode 12
Written by Frank The Writer
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~ Theresa’s POV ~
I stepped outside with a smile on my face, the attendant looked at me and complimented me. Frank’s mom was still on her feet waiting for me. She looked at me and her mouth fell to the floor, nodding her head and helping me get to the big mirror.
“I don’t think we have to keep looking. Do we?” she said, holding me by my shoulders, and standing right behind me.
“You look gorgeous and beautiful.”
“Thank you, ma. I think this is the one.” I said looking at myself in the mirror. I felt like a princess in this dress. I’ll take it along with the shoes.
After I got back to my usual clothes, I folded the dress and placed the shoes on top of it, and handed it to the attendant. She walked us to the register where the hat was. I took my wallet out ready to pay for the dress.
“Will you be renting the dress and the shoes?” The attendant asked while pressing some numbers on the register.
“Yes,” I placed my hand, in search of my ATM card but Frank’s mom stopped me.
“No, she’s buying it.” She looked at me and at my wallet, like making me put it away with just one look. She stretched out her card.
“Oh no, ma, I can’t let you pay for my dress.” I laughed nervously, shaking my head. I already felt like I’m taking advantage of Frank for letting him pay for lots of things and now his mom trying to pay for my clothes.
“I can rent it and bring it here tomorrow.”
“No dear. I’m not letting you. End of discussion.” She said with a winning smile just like Frank’s.
“Besides, I’m just following my son’s orders. And you know if a man wants to buy you a dress, you can’t refuse.”
I smiled sheepishly.
“Yes, if my son decides to buy you cloth, will you decline?”
Silence.
“But, I….” I took a deep breath. I’m going to kill that Frank of a guy. I said to myself.
“No ‘but’ my darling. It’s our pleasure to do it.” She said with a warm smile, now handing her card to the attendant.
***
We left the stores with our bags. I couldn’t thank her enough while we walked out of the store that she technically shut me off in a comical way.
“How about we go get some chilled stuff at Shoprite? I want something cold before we go.” She turned to me.
“Okay, fine. But with one condition.” I looked at her, holding back my giggle.
“So what’s the condition?”
“You let me pay for them.”
“That sounds fair.” She laughed slightly, guiding us to the ice cream quarter when we got to Shoprite.
When we got inside, she ordered a mint chocolate milkshake and I ordered Vanilla, my favorite. We also ordered four small cupcakes to share. I paid as we agreed and went to sit at one of the tables inside the small shop, leaving our bags on a chair next to us. I bit one of the cupcakes. They were so soft and the cream was yummy and tasty.
“So, Theresa..your name is Theresa, right?”
“Yes, ma.” I nodded.
“Okay. So, tell me a bit about yourself.” She asked me while grabbing a cupcake. “What do you do for a living, my dear?”
“Um, right now, nothing.” I giggled, placing the remaining of my cupcake on the plate. “I finished school last year and since then…”
“Frank told me you are currently doing your NYSC, right?” She interrupted, taking a sip from her milkshake.
I didn’t know he talked about me with her. It made me flush slightly.
“Yeah, that’s what I’ve been up to in the last few months,” I said, moving the rest of the cupcake to my mouth. “But I have rounded up with service,” I added.
“Um, yes, he told me.”
She smiled kindly at me, like the look a mother gives to her child. It made me miss my mind.
“Don’t mind if I ask my dear, what’s going on between you two?”
I almost got choked up on my bite, swallowing the cake handy. I looked at her with shock. I was sure she knew we weren’t dating. Is she?
“Um, what do you mean, ma? We are friends.” I said nervously, trying to hide it by taking a sip from my shake. I was blushing and she knew it.
“No, not that my dear,” she chuckled, shaking her head, moving her hand up in a gesture.
“I mean, what’s going on between you two?” She sipped a drink. “I may not have spent much time with Frank anymore but I know my son, he looks bothered about something.”
“Oh! Really?” I said and moved my eyebrows up.
“And you too,” she turned in my direction.
“You had a sad glimpse in your eyes the entire time during our meal.” She said and moved closer to me. She was really very observant.
“Did something happen between you two?”
I sighed. There was no way I couldn’t lie to her about this. Even though it felt like it wasn’t in my place to tell her, I couldn’t get away with it. I have always been a terrible liar.
Well, I told her about what happened, about my concern about being just another girl on his list. I left some details out, I didn’t want to lie to her but I don’t want to tell her the whole truth. I told her about the fight we had last night, making him leave the room. I tried to be neutral as possible but I was sure she could hear the hurt in my voice.
She nodded through the story, eating another cupcake and looking somehow perceptive of what I was telling her.
“Since this morning he has been distant from me,” I said, breathing out. “And I can’t blame him really. I acted like a fool last night.”
“I see.” She said, finishing her drink, and pausing her lips in thought.
It felt so good to finally tell someone about this. I was feeling like it was closing inside my chest and it also made me feel a lot better. I just wish she took it in a good way. She was pensive, so I just decided to eat the last cupcake, hiking her time.
“I think you both have a point,” she said after a moment, turning her powerful eyes to me.
“I guess he took it the wrong way, but you do deserve to know. I’m sure he’s just confused, my dear. He’s going through a lot at the moment.”
“Is he? We haven’t really talked about ourselves. It’s been only a day or so and the fight erased the possibilities of us communicating with each other.” I said, finishing my drink as well, and taking a napkin to clean my mouth.
“I know Frank cares about you tremendously, otherwise you wouldn’t be here alone with me.”
“I guess so.” I smiled at her, realizing she was cool.
“He wouldn’t have let any girl go out shopping with his mom. He is too protective. The short time I have known him tells me that. He loves his mom to death, he would do anything for her. I guess I don’t have anything to worry about. I guess I just want to hear it from him. That’s all I asked.” She paused.
We looked at each other and smiled.
To be continued…
Frank The Writer
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