I took a deep breath of the cold air as Nicole and I walked on the pavement, past the town gardens. I was excited beyond belief about going to Parker's. This was like a date. Kind of. A real date.
"Are you going to start screaming right now, or are you going to keep on smiling like a proper chump?" Nicole commented.
"Screaming!" I started jumping up and down on the pavement.
Nicole shook her head and laughed. "You know there's an elderly couple just behind us who are staring at you?"
I spun around to see an old lady and an old gentleman, stood stock still a few meters away from me. I blushed and spun back to Nicole. "You could have told me that earlier." I whisper-yelled. We continued walking.
"Yeah," she muttered. "Walk like nothing ever happened, Lucia. Oh, but they were holding ha
