“What is it? Do I look ok?” Dana wore a worried expression and I realized that I had been staring at her in silence for a good couple of minutes.

I finally snapped out of it and gave her a wide smile. “You look more than okay, you look…beautiful. Wow” I was aware of the stupid grin I had on my face but I didn’t care.

Dana’s cheeks flushed red and she smiled shyly at me. She was so goddamn adorable. I held my hand out to her and Dana outstretched her arm. I took her hand in mine and kissed the top of it. Dana continued to blush and grin.

“Shall we?” I asked. I released her hand and held out my arm to her.

Dana simply nodded her head and placed her hand through my bent arm that I was offering her. We walked together down the path to my mini in a comfortable silence, both of us still smiling widely and really looking forward to the evening ahead.

Dana

Alice took me a cute little Chinese restaurant that we discovered a couple of years ago. Chinese is our favourite food, so I clapped my hands excitedly when I saw where we had arrived. I looked across at Alice and smiled and she grinned back. I reached across and pecked her on the cheek. “For our first date you sure know a lot about me!” Which was true, no one could know me any better than Alice.

We giggled together and she got out of the car and walked across to the passenger side to open the door for me. Alice held her hand out, which I took and she pulled me up and out of the mini. She was being so polite! “You’re such a gentleman” I joked.

“You think so? Should I leave now?” I laughed softly and we strolled across the car park side-by-side, our arms lightly brushing against each other, sending shocks through my body. I desperately wanted to hold her hand but I reminded myself that it was our first date and I would not usually hold the hand of someone I was on the first date with. But the next thing I knew Alice grabbed my hand and our fingers intertwined. I turned my head to look at her and smiled widely, to which Alice beamed back at me.