I sighed and glanced down at my watch for the fifth time in ten minutes.

No, whoever I was waiting wasn't late. I'm a little time obsess freak that arrives almost half an hour earlier so he could never be accuse of being late. I'm never gonna forget that one time I was late and my date was crying on our table, thinking I had stood her up, when all that had happened was that I had a flat tire. Luckily, the date ended up a disaster and she was a little neurotic, but I can't blame her much.

I was hoping that this date was different. It was set up by a mutual friend of ours, but she had the brilliant idea that make it a double date, so it could take the pressure off the actual date. My exact reply to that was, 'if it does go wrong, we all know it won't be your fault'. Not like I could fault Angie, she did it with good intentions.

I was wearing my best clothes. I wanted to give this girl and Angie a good impression, but more to the other girl. Angie had told me a little about her. Her name was Kayla and she was the sister of her fiancé. So, I couldn't mess it up.

"Ryder!" My name being called, pulled me out of my deep thinking. Angie was coming my way, with a simple light blue dress up to her knees and her hair all tied up, and a smile that could make you buy or sell anything.

"Angie..." I greeted her, equally enthusiastic. Even if this blind date goes wrong, it would give me the chance to catch up with my friend "You look fabulous... And that ring in your hand helps..." I noticed the ring on her left hand and she smiled wider.

"Come, I wanna introduce you to some people..." she wrapped an arm around my shoulders and made me turn around to face the other two people of this date.

The first one was a male, and it was safe to say it was Angie's fiancé. Unless, Angie got the wrong impression of me and thought I was gay. He was slightly tall, just a few inches taller than me. He was blonde and his hair was sticking everywhere, like he wanted to tame it and couldn't. His skin was tan, yet perfect at the same time, as if he spent the exact amount time under the sun. His blue eyes were twinkling in excitement, I hope, and he was smirking at me.

The person behind him was a female and she was very pretty. She was wearing a dress similar to Angie's, but hers was a dark bourbon color, almost crimson. Her hair was straight, loose and reddish, though it had some streaks of blonde around, in an attempt to make it lighter. Her eyes, the only trait I could link back to her brother, were the same blue as him and hers were curious about the whole thing.

"So, you're the famous Ryder my fiancée talks about so much?" the guy, that if my memory serves me right was Austin, pulled out his hand to shake mine. I immediately took it.

"I don't know about famous, but my name is Ryder..." I admitted. In some dark corner of my mind, I was worried about what Angie had told these two about me "You must be Austin, right?" He nodded in reply and I smirked "I heard some stories about you too..."

"Unfortunately for you, all of them must be true..." his sister butted into the conversation and Austin quickly fake pouted at his sister, making Angie chuckle and shake her head "I'm Kayla and I'm your date..."

"Pleasure to meet you, Kayla" I grabbed her hand and kissed the back of it, surprising her. For her, it was obvious that I was going for a hand shake "Would you guys like to sit? Haven't order anything, but water..." I apologized, but they waved my apologies as we men, helped our ladies to seat, Kayla to my right and Angie in front of me. Austin, unfortunately, sat in the last available seat, that was in front of his sister.

"We made you wait too long? We couldn't find a place to park the car..." Kayla began, but I waved her apology, smiling.

"No worries, you see... I always arrive almost thirty minutes prior to any appointment..." I explained to her. That lead to a very detailed explanation about how my only late date had ended in disaster and how I had managed to sneak into doctors' appointments before, which lead to Austin and Kayla to reveal that another brother of theirs was a doctor, along with his boyfriend.

"Will is a great guy, but Nico is kind of possessive of him..." Angie shared her opinion. I was fearing that it would create a little argument, but they all nodded their heads. We ordered and continued to talk about many things, like how Austin made a career out of his music.

"I knew I saw you before!" I recognized, shocking everyone "Yeah, you were a youtuber, you uploaded your music... Man, you were fantastic! My cousin was obsess with you! Wait until I tell her that I had dinner with you..." I joked, knowing fully well that I wasn't going to be believed by her. Austin kept the joke with me and told me that, if she didn't believe me, he could always arrange something. After a while, the girls went to the bathroom and I was alone with Austin.

But, instead of the overprotective brother act, I was surprised with something else.

"Look, Ryder... I don't expect you to leave here thinking that my sister is the one for you..." I nodded, mainly because I couldn't known that yet "But, even if it doesn't work out, please try to be her friend first... That's what she need now..."

"Austin, I can't promise you that Kayla and I will live happily ever after after tonight, but..." I made a pause for dramatic suspense "I can promise that we'll be friends no matter what..." I promised him.

I didn't know if Kayla was gonna be 'the one', like everyone is looking for. But doesn't the saying goes 'Rome wasn't built in a day'...?

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I have returned.

Seriously, I'm sorry about my disappearance last week, but I had two big reasons. First one, my allergies attacked again and I was blowing my nose since Friday afternoon last week. I still do. Second reason, last Sunday we celebrated my brother's 22 birthday. He's officially allowed to get into troubles (and, with that I mean drink, vote and get in jail) in all the countries of the world (or, at least, the ones I know he's allow). Technically, you can do all that since you're 18 in Argentina, but it never fully sinks until this age, more or less...

Anyway, most of you know that last Friday I finished another one of my stories, 'How This Happened?!' If you haven't read it, go and tell me what you think (if you want to! No pressure!). If you want me to write your favorite option from 'Comments Are Poll', go there and vote or leave a comment. The next story won't be uploaded until November, as I need this week to start and finish my Mother's Day Special (Mother's Day is next Sunday here), before preparing 'Mortals: Meet...' this year's special chapters... (BTW, I wanna thank Sophie Cheshire for her idea for Halloween... I'm gonna twisted a little, but is around what you told me...)

I'm not sure if to post next Sunday, as I'll probably want to upload all the Mother's Day Special, but that's up to you. Do you want me to? You think is loable?

Any way, see you all next week!