The Struggles of Math

Evangeline had shocked him, but it seemed so she did in a good way. She returned his smile. They were being very smiley towards each other, but she didn't mind, his smile was nice.

He seemed a bit flustered in his response, making her smile all the more. She bit the inside of her cheek, she'd have never thought of being his date when they first met, but now after how relaxed they've been the idea seemed all the more appealing to her. "I uh.. Would love to be." She smiled looking down, and bit her lip. She was just as nervous as Zeke seemed to be.

His answer was simple and it made her happy. "Yes I'd really like to." His smile was really sweet, and it gave her a warm fuzzy feeling she couldn't ignore.

The waitress returned with her salad and Evangeline muttered a small thank you. "Yes I'm ready now." She said quietly.

She made her way towards the door when she heard the waitress telling them not to forget to hold hands. Evangeline turned and looked back with her, her mouth had fallen partly open, and quickly turned back and gave a nervous laugh and looked to Zeke with a red face, "so how about that ice cream then?"

The ice cream stand was a lot closer than Evangeline had thought originally. Which she didn't mind. Ice cream sounded really good to her.

Her mouth nearly fell open when Zeke ordered cookies and cream that's what she was going to get too. "I'll have the same," she offered the guy a small smile.

She was slightly concerned at hearing an "uh oh". Oh, gosh now what could have possibly happened? Evangeline thought to herself, letting out a sigh.

The guy came back with one cone and two scoops...

"What? How on earth do you run out of ice cream comes? It's only lunch time?" She muttered it more to herself, and handed him money for the cone.

"Actually," Evangeline paused not waiting for Zeke's input. "We'd love to share the ice cream cone." She gave Him a smile, her green eyes twinkling in a way.

"Come on Zeke," she grabbed his hand before he could object. "This ice cream isn't going to eat itself." she walked over to the nearest bench, and took a lick of the ice cream, handing it to Him.

She watched as he sat down with a smug smile on her face, and he took the cone his hand lightly touching hers. She watched and it was like he purposely avoided licking the same spot she did.

"I don't have germs you know," she wished she could have taken that sentence back. "Okay technically I do, but we all do, but um.. you know what I meant." She noticed he had gotten some ice cream on his cheek and without thinking she reached up with her thumb and wiped it off. She knew her face was red now.

She accepted the cone again and took a lick, purposely eating off the same part he did, and handed it back licking her bottom lip to get the ice cream off. "I don't think it's that weird."

The ice cream was really welcoming on this warm day.

"What about you Fletcher," she had almost forgotten about him again, "do you think it's weird?"

Evangeline wasn't expecting a full on explanation about germs, but she listened many way as Fletcher explained. She couldn't complain about him knowing everything, because he literally did. Well, almost everything.

She smiled when Zeke's face turned red from her touch,"Does my touch, uh, fluster you Zeke?"

"And yes I am happy now that you mention it," then he mentioned tasting salad, and cherry? Her eyes went wide, "Damn." She muttered under her breath, hoping he didn't hear, or Fletcher for that matter. Swearing wasn't very lady like, and wasn't something Evangeline did often. "I may be wearing a tad bit of cherry lipgloss, you know to give my lips a shine." She really didn't need to add the shine part, but something she just didn't know when to be quiet.

She looked to him with a shy smile, "you don't seem to be complaining that much though."

Evangeline couldn't help but let out a little giggle, "Don't be nervous, I just touched your cheek is all." She couldn't help it she touched his cheek again. "See? Just a touch."

Her mouth fell open, her lipgloss tasted good? And he wanted her to eat the ice cream so she could taste it again, she accepted it but before taking another lick she muttered, "well there's another way to taste lipgloss than just by sharing my ice cream." She said it loud enough, but she wasn't sure if he'd understand her muttering.

She took another lick of the ice cream, and smiled handing it to him with a light blush to her cheeks, "Here taste away."

She decided maybe she shouldn't touch his cheek again, she didn't think it was entirely weird he liked the taste of her lip gloss, but it was rather amusing he enjoyed it so much. Who knew?

He gave he a sweet smile, and she thought maybe he had heard her, and heard her he did. But clearly they had two different mind sets.

Her face turned red, "That's not entirely what I had in mind.... But uh here," she took her lip gloss from her purse," you can if you really want to."

"I think Fletcher knew what I meant, if that counts for anything." She muttered.

Evangeline signed exasperated, clearly they were just messing around, but by the way they were talking she knew they weren't.

She took back her lip gloss and an idea crossed her mind, she took her lip gloss and opened it, and put some on her lips rubbing her lips together. Then without thinking too much on the thought, took her index finger rubbed it along her bottom lip, then rubbed it on Zeke's.

She smiled really big and took a lick of the ice cream, "Here ya go." Her confidence slowly started to fade and she looked forward once again, maybe she went too far.

"I don't think you really want to know what I thought." She muttered, she had a bad habit of that.

She laughed at his shocked expression, "Oh, just the taste you wanted more of."

She listened as he said it wasn't satisfying cause the flavor wasn't lasting, "That's the thing about lipgloss, it doesn't last forever, and eventually that's why you have to buy more. Or you know they wouldn't make money."

He really wanted to know what she wasn't telling him. "Hmm, I'd rather keep our friendship. I don't want to ruin it." Her voice was now a whisper, instead of a mutter.

Zeke couldn't hear her, but in all honesty it was her fault she should learn to not mutter under breath. She didn't know how to say it any louder though, she didn't want to make it awkward or maybe it wouldn't be that way at all.

"I said I didn't want to uh ruin our friendship we've so recently found," her face was getting pink. "I was just going to say..well..uh."

She was truly at a loss for words, it was so unlike Evangeline.
He moved towards her dropping ice cream on the chest of her shirt, and just like that he got it with his finger and plopped it in his mouth. Her mouth fell open, and she slowly closed it. Her face was no longer pink, but a nice shade of red.

She zoomed through her sentence, "I just meant you'd taste it more with a.. Uh. A umm kiss." She lowered the last word, but she knew it was loud enough to hear.

A hypothesis! You've got to be kidding me! He still didn't get it, how much more clear could she be? Then, Evangeline watched it dawn on him, a shy smile appearing on her face.

She watched him look down, he didn't think she was serious, "Hey," she said softly, and put her index finger under his chin making him look at her. "It's no big deal, I was being serious so you know." She dropped her hand.

"We are on a 'date'?" She quoted with her hands, "you said so yourself." She grinned her eyes lighting up. "but you don't have to kiss me, unless you want to."

She just registered something he said, "you.. Like the taste of me?" Her face turned red again, and couldn't help but smile.