Date Night

"Sure." Eli shrugged.

The waiter smiled and stopped a passing by cart. He then pulled out two wine glasses. He placed one in front of both of us. He then proceeded to retrieve a bottle from the cart and popped off the cork. He began pouring, "Here you are."

"Thank you," I said as he topped off Eli's. He gave us a quick bow, took the cart and left.
"To us," I toasted, "And to a fun night."

Eli raised her glass. "To us." She repeated and clinked the glasses togeather.

I smiled at her and took a sip. The not-so-nice waiter came back with a different cart.

"Your food," He said through that forced smile, "Lobster tail for the gentleman and the lobster salad for the lady."

He gave us our food, bowed, and walked away.

I looked at the lobster tail, "Looks delicious."

Eli smiled. "Yeah it does." She grabbed a fork and took a small bite.

"How is it?" I asked squirting the lemon onto the tail. I don't normally like seafood but this smelled good.

"It's good." She smiled.

I took a bite of my lobster tail. After I swallowed it I said, "It is really good. You can see why it is so expensive."

Eli smiled and are more of her salad.

I continued eating my entree.

Eli finished and smiled. "Damn that was good."

I finished mine, wiped off my mouth, "You're right. It was damn good."

Eli smiled and looked around. People were giving them all sorts of nasty looks.

I noticed the nasty looks, "I guess they don't like under-dressed, swearing kids."

Just then the nice waiter walked up, "Would you care for desert?"

I turned to Eli, "Should we?"

Eli shook her head. "I know a nice ice cream shop round here."

I turned to the waiter, "No thank you. Could we get the bill?"

"Certainly sir," he said with another quick bow and then left.

Eli smiled and held Ryan's hand.

I smiled back just as the waiter came back. "Here you are sir," He said handing me the bill. I looked at it and whistled. It was pricey. I put in about 60 dollars and handed it to the waiter, "Thank you. And keep the change."

Eli nodded and stood up. "Ready?"

I stood up, "To that ice cream place now?"

Eli nodded and took his hand walking out. The headed to the sidewalk and walked along until a ice cream parlor appeared before them. "Here we are."

"I've seen this place before, never gone in though. Looks good."

Eli smirked. "It's delicious!" She took his hand and walked into the ice cream parlor.

"I'll take your word for it," I said taking in my surroundings.

She sat at the bar as the waitress came over. "Hi welcome to the ice cream palace, what would you like?"

Eli smirked. "I'll have the strawberry malt."