chapter 30

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Aubrey POV

"Aubrey!" my mum yells, obviously I don't respond fast enough as she yells again "Aubrey there is a cutie at the door for you!"

I love this woman but man does she have to embarrass the both of us?

"MUM OH MY GOD IM COMING" I yell back and running around my room to find my shoes. Ian said that he was taking me out to dinner, and I was shitting myself over what to wear. But I finally settled on a dress that could either pass as fancy or casual especially with the massive brown coat I paired with it. 

Aubrey's outfit [is this too much for a first date i have no idea, but this is wattpad so let's go with it]

I jog down the stairs and am met by two large hands on my upper arms and a worried expression on Ian's face.

"Hi" I mutter a little breathless from my 'jog'.

"Baby, you scared me half to death" Ian sighs bringing his hands to run them through his hair. When he does this I take time to notice his outfit and I can't help widen my eyes at how gorgeous he looks. Keep it together Aubrey.

Ian's outfit 

He brings his hands back to rest on my shoulders and stares me in the eyes with a look of worry and seriousness "Don't run down the stairs angel"

I chuckle at his response and move past him to the front door, where my mum is standing there 'on her phone' but really eavesdropping. 

"Well have fun Aubs" my mum says giving me a knowing smile, kissing me on the forehead and leaving whilst giving Ian a wave.

Ian grabs my hand moving to stand beside me. He leans down and whispers "Are you ready for our date angel"

I turn to look up at him with the biggest smile plastered on my face and a pink blush gracing my cheeks and hum in response. 

He returns a warm and genuine smile and then leads me outside to his car. He has such a beautiful smile and ever since we have been getting to know each other he smiles more and more and it just makes my heart melt. I love his smile, and his bloody gorgeous face. 

He leads me to the passenger side and opens the door for me bowing like a gentlemen which I can't help but chuckle and slap him slightly on the chest. This causes him to chuckle and then buckle my seatbelt for me. I huff "You know I can do up my own seatbelt right?"

He clicks my seatbelt in and then whilst his body is still leaning over mine he looks at me with a cheeky grin and pecks his lips on mine before shutting the door. 

I feel the car shift as Ian gets in and as I turn to him my face is immediately grabbed by his hands and he smashes his lips to mine. I give into the kiss and it feels as if my body is rife with electricity. I pull away slowly, because I am damn hungry and want to go to dinner but it is met with a growl from Ian before he allows me to leave his grasp.

"You look beautiful angel" he says with his silver eyes gleaming with adoration.

"Thank you silver, you look not too bad yourself" I smile. He rolls his eyes and moves to turn on the car. 

About twenty minutes later we arrive at the restaurant. "Italian, I freaking love Italian!" I say as Ian leads through the doors.

Ian does all the formalities and as we are taken to our table I can't help but be in awe at the restaurant. We are outside with wooden furnishes and a real romantic scene is set up with the fairy lights acting as a ceiling and I imagine after a few drinks in an intoxicated haze they would look like stars. 

I look around and see lots of fancy looking people swirling their deep red wine in their glasses and sucking up to each other. 

We have the best seat which overlooks the city, and I can't help but give Ian an excited smile. "Glad you like it angel" Ian smiles and hands me a menu to look at. 

We are both engrossed in reading the menu when a familiar voice scoffs "Hello how can I- oh you have got to be fucking kidding me"

My confused expression from trying to read the all Italian menu looks up to see a frustrated looking Riley. My eyes immediately widen and I gulp. Looking over at Ian I see him gripping the menu and death staring Riley.

"Out of all the fucking places you work here?" Ian grits out slamming his menu down on the table.

Riley just rolls her eyes and then looks at me, I offer her a shy smile and she quickly looks away. Damn she would rather death stare Ian than even look at me for a second. Fair I guess.

"Out of all the fucking places" Riley hums. "Now what can I get you two turds?" she says batting her lashes and giving us a fake smile.

I have to stifle a laugh. 

"How the hell did you get a job at a place like this?" Ian chuckles darkly.

"How the hell did you get into a place like this?" Riley shoots back looking Ian up and down. Ian narrows his eyes at her and opens his mouth to speak but Riley says "You know, you don't scrub up too bad, but god does it hurt to do the top buttons up? This is a refined establishment Mr Gray" Riley mocks.

Riley turns her attention to me and with a confident smirk she looks me up and down and says "You look fucking amazing as always Carter" 

I blush immediately and before I can say anything Ian says "Keep your fucking gaze above the shoulders Storm" with his darkened eyes looking ready for murder.

Riley snickers and then composes herself "So what can I get you two?"

"A new waiter" Ian snaps back.

"Hmmmm no" Riley says strumming her finger against her chin. "Trust me I thought I wanted that as soon as I saw your god ugly face Gray, but this could be fun especially if Carter is going to be here" 

They stare each other down and I am almost convinced they are going to throttle each other's throats so I quickly say "I can't actually understand the menu, so I might need some time to search things up if that is ok please?" 

Riley and Ian snap their attention to me and both of their faces' immediately soften.

"Let me help-" they both say looking at me warmly and when they realise they are saying the same thing they snap their attention back to each other. Oh great here we go again.  

Riley backs down first and leaves, Ian gives me a smirk and I just roll my eyes. But seconds later a distinct scraping sound draws both of our attention. We see Riley turn the corner dragging behind her a chair. I turn back to see Ian with a hard cold expression on his face. 

"Maybe she is just moving it to another-" I start to try and assure Ian but all of Ian's fears are affirmed when Riley cuts me off.

"So babe what don't we understand" she says plopping down on the seat she painfully dragged and positioned next to me at the table.

I look at Ian and see his face red with anger, the steam practically flowing out of his ears. His jaw is clenched impossibly tight, he makes me worry about his teeth sometimes.

Ian stands staring down Riley. 

"Tut tut tut, Gray, let's not cause a scene." Riley mocks with a small smile on her face as she wags her finger.

I give Ian a pointed look and he immediately sits down grumbling to himself.

"You can leave Storm, I can help her with the menu" Ian says, his mouth hardly moving as he maintains a tensed face.

"Oh no, I already got the chair and everything." Riley says smirking and motioning to the chair. 

"Fucking fine, the quicker you do it the quicker you can be gone" Ian concedes and Riley gives me a smile.

I start to smile back but hear a loud cough from Ian which draws my attention to him and he looks at me then pointedly looks at the menu.

"I was uh wondering what the pan-a all-glio is?" I say shyly looking at Riley.

Riley looks at me with wide eyes and says "What the fuck is a pan all-glio?" chuckling slightly and I turn to see an amused smirk on Ian's face.

I tilt my head back and say "Ahhhh... I'm really bad... it's this one" I say pointing to the menu.

"Oh pane all'aglio" Riley laughs. "That's garlic bread babe" she smiles.

"Her name is actually Aubrey" Ian mutters. But when Riley ignores him to then look at the menu he says again "Her name is Aubrey, I would suggest using it" with a forced smile.

Riley just rolls her eyes and I see a vein in Ian's neck twitch. 

"Can we uh get the garlic bread please Ian?" I smile at Ian to try and calm him down. He immediately looks to me a tries to soften his gaze but just gives me a stiff nod.

"You might like this one" Riley says leaning her body over mine and pointing to a pasta dish. "It's a gnocchi with mozzarella and tomato sauce" she looks up at me and I can't help but be slightly flushed at how close we are. 

"Uh mm yup! Yes! Yum that uh sounds good!" I stutter, trying not to look at Riley as she straightens. 

"Unless you want a pizza?" she questions resting her head on her hand as she puts her elbow on the table.

From my peripheral vision I can literally see Ian fuming. 

"Oh no uh the gnocchi sounds good" I say giving Riley a smile and she returns it, our eyes locking contact for just that second too long for friends. 

"What will the grump have?" she says sitting up to look at Ian.

"Maialina pizza" he says with his eyes narrowed and a hard face. 

Riley stands up after taking down our order and then leaves dragging that chair impossibly slow around the corner until only distant scrapes can be heard. 

"Oh I fucking hate that girl" Ian says shaking his head.

I laugh. "You did well though. You controlled your anger really well." I say praising him and bringing my hands to hold his across the table, because going off some of his past reactions this really could have gone a lot worse.

The rest of the date passes like a dream and Riley only returns once to give us our food, which was just met with them death glaring each other. What's new? 

But the conversation between Ian and I flowed seamlessly and we found ourselves laughing and enjoying every moment with each other. 

But there was the undeniable gut feeling I had, that Ian is hiding something for me. 

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bahaha riley is such a fun character to write. anywho i hope you enjoyed and if you did it would mean a lot if you could please vote!

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