Night on the town

[Matthew Cole]

"I went to Chicago State University." He replied casually when she returned his question. It was nothing fancy but Matt had just been happy that he had been able to go to collage at all. Heaven knows his mother had worked hard enough to send him there and for that he was genuinely grateful. He smirked when she said he should come to a game and she could teach him how to play, "I know how to play properly, I've been on several different soccer teams since the 4th grade." He retorted to her playful sass. "But I wouldn't mind coming to a game and watching you play." He added, accepting her offer. "See you running around in those shorts." He joked, looking at her across the table with a little flirtatiously smile. Then waitress arrived with Matt's burger and fries and placed it on the table before the flirtatious moment had an opportunity to morph into any more 'teenage awkwardness'. "Thank you." Matt said to the waitress before she disappeared again. He picked up a fry and bit it before looking at Grace and pushing his plate towards her a little. "Go on." He offered her, "I've been out with enough women to know 'I don't want fries' means 'I want your fries.'" He smirked knowingly before taking a sip of his soda. Tag: Gracelyn Cordova . ~*~

[Gracelyn Cordova]

and i won't take defeat

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Grace hadn’t exactly gotten into college because her parents could afford it. Hell, if it hadn’t been for her soccer playing she would have never gone to college either. It wasn’t like her family could have afforded it at all. No, she didn’t blame them in the slightest. But college to her had been a luxury and she’d made sure she’d gotten good grades and put her heart and soul into getting the opportunity.

There Matt went taking her literally again. She simply smiled. Nope it was easier to just not bring it up. When he made the comment about the shorts she lightly kicked him from under the table. Why was it always the comments about the shorts from guys. It wasn’t like she was tall and leggy like some of her teammates. Pft. Men.

Cue him trying to get her to eat. Again. “Are you going to be persistent about the fries or something?” She asked with a quirked brow. Grace picked up one and showed it to him. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d think you want me to eat this fry.” She broke it in half, half of it she aimed towards his mouth. The other half she popped in her own mouth. Fine, she could let him win this battle.

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[Matthew Cole]

Matt grinned when Grace kicked him under the table. Thankfully she hadn't taken it the wrong way and been offended...Though he DID like seeing her in her shorts, not that he was gonna make a point of it, no he was goon shut his mouth on that front while he still had the chance. When she asked if he was going to persistent about the fries he put his hands up in surrender, "No. Do what you want." He lowered his hands again. "Just past experience has shown me that 'I don't want fries' usually means, 'I want your fries'." He reiterated. And as he had let slip he had been out with enough women over the years to have learned that...but thankfully Grace hadn't seemed to have picked up on that admission. He bit the fry as Grace fed it to him and looked across the table at her, her smile as bright and sunny as ever. His own smile faded a little and he rested his elbows on the table with one hand on top of his fist, he was planning to ask her at the end of the evening but the moment took him and he decided to go with it before he lost the nerve, "So, I was wondering how you'd feel about going out for real some time?" After wanting to bring the subject up for weeks he finally had, now if she said yes then she said yes and if she said no then she said no. At least if she wasn't interested he'd know and could start to let it go, and if she was interested they could stop dancing around the subject. Either way he just hoped that things wouldn't get weird now that he had brought it up. Tag: Gracelyn Cordova . ~*~

[Gracelyn Cordova]

and i won't take defeat

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Gracelyn shook her head at him as he threw his hands up. “Okay, okay I get the point.” She took a full fry popped it in her mouth and chewed on it taking little bites of it. Yes, she was pretending to be a prissy slow fry eater since he wanted to be all something about the fries. It was fun to mess with him about the fries really it was. Though she wasn’t going to lie the fries at this place were really good.

She watched as his smile faded, it left Grace with some reservations about him not enjoying himself but she didn’t speak them. She made a strange contorted face for a moment before he spoke. Then after his question she smiled a bit and hid her slowly blushing face. “I’d like that.” She decided to make herself perfectly clear though seeing her ever reddening face… yeah she only hoped there was enough of her scarf to hide it.

Grace could only sit there and hope that Matt had meant what he said. Grace hadn't really dated anyone, she was so caught up in who her brother would disapprove of and who he would tolerate. She was fairly certain if he was around now, that he'd give someone the whole big brother/little sister talk. Grace tried to push that thought aside. Nate wasn't here to do that for her, it was up to her to make an unbiased sound decision on someone that she wanted in her life. From what she knew about Matt... he didn't seem to fit psychotic killer or paranoid jealous control freak.

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[Matthew Cole]

Matt looked across the table at Grace as he waited for her answer. It couldn't have been more than a couple of seconds but ghaa! It felt a lot longer. But he had asked her now and he couldn't undo that, he could only hope that this didn't turn into a car crash as he sat there all but holding his breath. “I’d like that.” The smile grew back widely on his face, "Yeah?" Of all the women he had asked out this was the happiest he had been to get a yes. Besides the way she smiled and hid her face with her scarf was cute enough to bring a smile to his face all on it's own. Oh her feminine wiles were well at work on him if she realized it or not. "How about Friday night?" He offered. It was the conventional date night after all. "Or if you're free Wednesday I have the day off and we could do something a bit earlier in the day." He suggested. He didn't care when he saw her just as long as he saw her. And he had a few first date ideas in mind depending when they went out. But those details could be worked out nearer the time. Right now he was just so pleased inside that Grace felt the same way about taking there friendship to the next step by having a date. Tag: Gracelyn Cordova . ~*~

[Gracelyn Cordova]

and i won't take defeat

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Of course Matt would pick Friday night. Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays she was usually traveling or if she had a home game she was still having games at least during the season though semi final matches were coming up and she was busy getting ready for those, so she’d have more free time. At least until Spring. She was about to protest when he mentioned Wednesday. “Wednesday then. I never get Friday nights off but this weekend is our semi finals. I’ll have my weekends back soon” She mentioned with a small smile. Well he at least deserved to know how busy her schedule could be ahead of time right?

To be honest, Grace hadn’t really been the dating type. There had been too much going on in her life to even be ready for that. But she did want more and going on a date with a friend was a lot better than hardly knowing the person you were asking out. She picked up a fry and tried to decide what she wanted to do with it. “This was that french fry you were just dying for me to eat” she replied as she poked him in the mouth with it and smirked.

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[Matthew Cole]

"Oh I get that, the season keeps you all pretty bust. Wednesday it is then." He replied with a light smile. She had said yes, this was actually going to happen.  He turned his head when she pushed the fry towards his face and chuckled. At least she was playful and had a sense of humor, that was always a good thing. Heaven knew she would need it if she was ever gonna meet his friends and be a part of his life. He bit the end off the fry playfully and looked at her, shaking his head. "You know I think you're the one with the fry obsession. I just offered you some and you haven't dropped the subject since." He teased. Matt took a sip of his drink, washing the salt out of his mouth. He looked over at Grace with a smile on his face as they sat there chitchatting and talking. He had been through so much lately it was insane, life had hurled so much at him over the months and he wasn't sure if it was ever going to end, but as he sat there just talking with her he felt like things could finally be picking up at last. (Ooc: Should we bring this to a close or did you wanna keep it going?) Tag: Gracelyn Cordova . ~*~