It really felt like deja vu for Charlie,⠀⠀sitting on the steps of the closed down family diner as it rained like cats and dogs.⠀⠀⠀⠀She really was holding herself together to not breakdown.
Remember that date with Josh the quarterback Charlie had well it was a prank by some of the popular cheerleaders and members of the football team of the local high school.⠀⠀⠀⠀The prank was to get charlie emily inside the closed down diner and lock her inside.
It took Charlie proximity an hour to eventually break out of the diner,⠀⠀being barefoot;⠀⠀broken heels shoes beside her,⠀⠀and the semi diner door was proven fact.⠀⠀⠀⠀This was the worst hour of her life.
Hugging her knees,⠀⠀fingers messing with the ripped fabric of her summer dress she fixed throughout the week.⠀⠀⠀⠀Then a bright light hit her face but those lights faded but the sound of a car engine was audible,⠀⠀she knew who the car belonged to and the shoes in front of her.⠀⠀⠀⠀Charlotte hides her face into her knees knowing Michael was going to /maybe/ laugh or say i told you so.
⠀⠀❝⠀⠀can we just go already⠀⠀❞⠀⠀a mumbled ask,⠀⠀a plead.
unprompted for @giftedlife ♡
♱. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐑 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐀𝐌 would pull up with a tremendous growl , every bit as unmistakable as its owner . Far too proud ( && powerful ) a vehicle for someone as young as he , it was naturally his prized possession , && its ostentation would come to a stop just yards away from poor Charlie . Michael got out of the driver's side door , his shoes crunching in the gravel upon the asphalt ; a dark figure in the bright headlights like white hot stars in the wretched gloom of the overgrown parking lot .
♱. ❝ Hey , cutie . You going my way ? ❞ He asked , trying to bring some levity to the moment . He knew it must have been awful for her to have been left all on her own like this , whatever had happened .
♱. Privately , he had been so concerned over the outcome of Charlie's date that he'd been waiting up for the first sign that something was going awry . It would have taken nothing more than a bad feeling for him to jump behind the wheel of his Pontiac && sped to her location to pick her up .
♱. ❝ Ah … you need help getting to the car ? ❞ He noticed the absence of shoes on her feet , && only naturally took it upon himself to get her across the cracked asphalt && the dreadful pouring rain into the cab of the vehicle . As such , he would gesture , wordlessly making the offer to pick her up off the ground && carry her to it .
♱. He wasn't saying , ❛ I told you so . ❜