I looked down to find her smiling innocently at me, the top of her head barley reaching my chest.
“My car’s just round the corner there.” I took her hand and she gleefully skipped beside me not quite being able to keep up with my steps.
“You’re walking too fast.” She said with a pout.
“I’m walking perfectly normally.” I said striding along.
“Normal for you.” She kicked the back of my leg and slowed to her own walking pace. For every one step of mine she took two or three; I laughed paternally.
My car alarm beeped it’s welcome. I turned to see her reaction; to see if it would be the same one I got from most girls who saw my car for the first time.
“That’s your car?” She looked on disappointingly to my Aston Martin.
“Yes, why? Don’t you like it?” I pressed a button to unlock the car doors. “Most girls think it’s brilliant.”
“Well, I’m not most girls.” She came back quick with that line, making me feel a complete fool.
“Well, obviously that’s true. You’re like no one I’ve met.” I said in hopes of redeeming myself. She took a seat on black leather.
“I thought you’d drive like a Mercedes or something. You know something more adult and less flashy.” She smiled, teasing at the hint of a mid life crisis.
“I have one of those too.” I said, reaching into the glove compartment for the candy tin.
“You lie! You don’t.” She stuck out her tongue and I placed a freshly unwrapped candy upon it. “Thanks.” She hummed in satisfaction.
“Yes I do! It’s parked in my garage at home.” I leaned back, rested my head on cold leather and placed my hand on the gearshift.
“Well I don’t believe you.” She folded her hands neatly onto her lap, looking around the car’s interior and then out the window to our surroundings. An uncomfortable deafening silence surrounded us. A silence when minutes pass like hours. We’re relatively new to each other despite all of our molesting motions.
“Aren’t you going to take me home? It would be the gentlemanly thing to do you know.” The latter half said with a posh English accent, mirroring my own.
“Yes! Yes. Where do you live?” Turning the ignition I checked mirrors and gauged how much room I’d have to exit the spot. I turned the wheel and felt a hot palm on the back of my hand.
“Not my home, your home.” She gave me a nudge and propped herself up on my shoulder with her tiny hand, manhandling me for a passionate kiss.