Chapter 39: Chapter 39

Alexander Martinez's pov;

What should I wear for today? It was never a problem since I wore suits everyday since I only go for my company or visit other companies for business but I was confused today. Why is that? Because I agreed when Isabella asked me out. Why did I agree? If I didn't agree, I wouldn't be in this position. I let out a sigh and took a suit and got into it.

I wore a suit and walked downstairs and found Isabella standing in the stairs in front of me. Why wasn't she moving? What is she doing standing there?

"Are you going to stand here all day?"

After she moved away, I headed to the dining hall.

She called me, no, she shouted my name across the hall, "Mr Martinez!"

I stopped and looked at her and waited for her to complete her sentence.

She asked, "Did you forget that we're going out?"

"No, why?"

"The suit? I said to come in casual wear."

She did? How did I forget it? It'll be embarrassing if I said I forgot so I adjusted the overcoat and asked, "What's wrong with the suit?"

Mr Johnson appeared from nowhere and patted my shoulder saying, "Take a look at her clothes and yours. She's wearing a t-shirt and shorts and you... Wearing a suit. Don't you think it's weird, Sir? You look old when you stand next to her. What if people stare at you weirdly?"

I look old beside her? I am old!

Isabella joined him by saying,"Yeah, you don't like people staring at you, right? What if they look at us because of their outfits?"

She's right on that point. I don't want to pull any unwanted attention towards me. "But I don't own..."

Before I finished with the sentence Mr Johnson said, "Ethan and you are the same size so his clothes will suit you."

"I don't wear others' clothes."

How can he suggest that I should wear that brats clothes? If he heard about that, he'll tease me to my grave.

"Mr Martinez! Do you still have that outfit which I bought for you that day?"

The clothes he bought?

"I don't know but I didn't throw it away."

"Then it must be in your closet. Let's look it up."

Mr Johnson asked Isabella, "What's going on here? What outfit and when did you buy an outfit for him?"

"We'll talk about that later, Big brother. We're running out of time already so we gotta hurry up." And I turned to Mr Martinez and said, "Come with me." And ran up the stairs.

After Isabella left, Mr Johnson asked me, "When did she buy clothes for you?"

I gave a stare at him and followed Isabella.

When I entered my room, I saw Isabella checking out the wardrobe and looked into it after asking permission from me.

While she was searching, Mr Johnson poked me and asked, "When did that happen? Why didn't you tell me about that?"

She took the outfit and gave it to me. Ah! It's here? Do I have to wear this? I don't think I have any other choice then.

After I got changed, I took a look at myself in the mirror. Blue shorts and white t-shirt? Does this suit me? I came out and saw Isabella and Mr Johnson whispering to each other and laughing a little.

"What are you whispering?"

Even after seeing me standing in front of them, they whispered to each other and smiled. I let out a sigh and asked her, "Are we still going?"

"Yes! Yes! We're going. Big brother stopped teasing him. We gotta go. Mr Martinez, let's go." Isabella ran out of the room.

"Told you. You will look better in a white shirt."

"Stop it." And walked out of the room.

After getting into the car, I asked her, "Where are you taking me?" While she was looking into her phone.

"Not yet. Please don't ask me." And continued looking at her phone.

Isabella leaned forward to the driver like saying an address, so I waited for her to say it but she only directed him by saying the directions. She's smart. I went back to looking at my phone.

After some time we reached the place. I got out of the car and heard her letting out a scream.

Scandia Family Fun centre. Fun centre? The place where there are more people. How could she take me here?

"Do you like it, Mr Martinez?"

I turned and tried to get into the car but she stopped me and asked, "Why are you getting back into the car? We are supposed to go in. It's already time."

"I'm going back to the house."

She had pouty lips and said, "I was excited when you agreed to come with me. And, it's been months since I hung out with my friends. I feel so lonely. If you leave, I'll be very sad."

I let out a sigh and said, "Let's go."

"Please, Mr Martinez, let's have a tour inside. They said they added new attractions recently..."

Why is she still pleading with me when I already agreed to go with her?

"I said let's go in."

She got excited and asked, "Do you mean going inside the fun centre?"

I nodded when she asked me.

She scratched her head and said, "I thought you were talking about getting back into the car so... It's solved then." And shouted, "Let's go to the fun centre and have some fun!"

I don't know who this person is.

I walked into the fun centre and she followed me behind.

When we entered she bought a map of the fun centre. Why was she buying it? Is this her first time here? The only fun centre I went to was along with my father and Olivia and Ethan since Ethan forced me to go along with him. And that was the only time I went.

She sounded excited after looking at the map, "Wow! There's go-carts! I love those rides. It's fun to crash other people's cars in the field."

"You like crashing into others? That's crazy."

She laughed and looked at the map, "Take a look! There's a miniature-golf course here. I bet you'll have fun playing that."

"I don't play it."

"What!? Wasn't golf a sport of rich people? Don't you like it? Have you played it before? Have you tried to play? Or did you get lost when you played with others so you don't like it anymore?"

Golf is a rich people's sport? Does she grow by watching television?

I let out a sigh and said, "I don't know how to."

"Well, where do you want to go first? Go Karts, batting cage, bumper boat, drop tower, miniature golf, arcade... Mr Martinez?"

I took the map from her and gave it to the guy she got it from and looked around while saying, "What about we take a walk and go for the first ride we see on the way?"

"Um... That sounds great! We can take the first ride we see on the way! Great thinking, Mr Martinez!" And we started walking on the pathway.

While we're walking, I spotted miniature golf at the beginning of our rides. I walked in the direction of miniature golf since it was the first game we spotted after the entrance.

She said, "Mr Martinez, I don't know how to play it either."

Was there a rule like we shouldn't play if we don't know the ways and rules?

"We're not here to compete."

Isabella got golf sticks and balls for both of us from the counter and walked to me holding that.

"What are we going to do with this?"

I took a golf set from her and set the ball on the pin and stood holding the gold stick and looked at the hole and aimed the stick and knocked over the ball. It snapped and rolled over when it hit the ground and dropped into the hole. Maybe it's a lucky day for me.

"Mr Martinez, did you just lie to me? You know how to play, right?"

I smiled and said, "I've seen people playing it."

She placed the ball on the pin and spined her golf stick in the air which didn't even touch the ball. But she was looking for the ball farther away. I pointed at where she was standing and let out a chuckle.

She got mad and said, "Why didn't it work out for me? I watched people playing it too? Mr Martinez, do you really don't know how to play?"

I shook my head and was still smiling at her.

"Not fair!" She shouted.

The woman beside us said to her, "Don't get mad. It's common for beginners but once you start playing it, it'll be easier."

I said, "Try again."

While I was playing golf, Isabella shouted, "Mr Martinez, look at that. I finished the first hole."

After she scored a goal, she came to watch me play. Why didn't she continue playing? Did she get bored already? I finished it quickly and walked to her and said, "Let's go."

Isabella asked me to get into the bumper car but I refused and stood out while she was playing inside the cage. She tried to crash everyone's car around her. Her bumper car spinned whenever some wild drivers hit her car and when she hit someone too, she laughed out loud, looked like she was enjoying it.

After going karts over, we headed to the drop tower. I refused to board it again but she didn't let go of me this time and held my hand tightly and sat in the drop tower. I tried to leave even after sitting in the seat but got scolded by an operator who was preparing to launch so I remained in the seat. I got scared and gripped tightly for my safety. The ride started with a slow takeoff and it dropped suddenly from the top which left me in a terror. Next time, it took off quickly and dropped quickly too. I started screaming out loud when it took off and dropped down.

When the drop tower ride got over, I walked to the nearby bench and sat on it. I was running out of breath since I screamed out loud. Isabella ran away and came back with a bottle of water and gave it to me. I took the bottle from her and drank it.

While I was drinking the water, she said, "Let's go to the batting cages."

I finished the bottle and stood up and said, "Batting cages then."

Since she brought me, i don't want to disappoint her and i started to like it too since it's been years i came to places like this.

Batting cages are a four side netted atmosphere where we can play baseball freely.

"Do you know how to play baseball, Mr Martinez?"

Baseball, huh? I shook my head and asked her back, "What about you?"

"I don't have a father or a brother to teach me. It seems like we both don't have anyone to teach us, right?"

Why is she bringing up the past now? And I wonder how she talks about it so casually.

I throwed the ball over to hrr and stood on the pitch and said, "Throw it!"

"How?"

"Like how you throw things to your friends."

"Really?"

She raised the ball and threw it towards me. I hit it with the baseball bat on the first try to my surprise. I walked over to him and asked, "Did you lie that you don't know?"

"I have watched..."

She finished the sentence by saying, "You watched when others were playing. Since you have a great grasping skill, you play it very well, right? that's what you wanted to say, right?"

I gave a nod and changed the bat with her and took the ball from her.

"Don't laugh when I lose!"

She shouted and got ready with the bat.

I throwed the ball and she accidentally… accidentally hit the ball. She ran over to me instead of running home.

"It was a hit, Mr Martinez?"

I gave a nod and we continued playing for a while.

When lunch time came, she took me to a pizza corner which is inside the fun centre.

While I was looking at the menu card, she asked me, "Did you finalise?"

I gave a nod and said about my order to the worker.

Inside the arcade, The graffiti and its lighting made the place lit. I played along with Isabella, we tried race games, shooting games, it was fun. I started enjoying playing the games even though I got lost. Since she's good at basketball, she scored a lot in throwing the balls. After playing games like dancing and karaoke, I came to know that I suck at it, especially the claw machine. I got lost a lot in that game again and again which made me mad. After two to three times of trial, she got hold of the panda plushie and took it out which surprised me. She gave the plushie to me while saying, "You two look a lot more similar." And continued playing.

Do we two look the same? In what way?

When we came out of the arcade, it's already night? Did we spend a lot of time in the arcade?

"Let's go. We still have bumper boats to get on." And walked to the place where the boats are.

When we reached the place, I asked, "I'm sure we'll get drenched in water."

She laughed and said, "Exactly! That's why I took you here at the end of the day. You didn't try the go carts so you have to try this for sure. It will be the last ride of our day! So let's get into some water!"

I hesitated to get on the bumper boat but she didn't let me and somehow got me to board one of the bumper boats and she got one too. When everyone got their bumper boats, she tried to chase me whereas I was running away from her rather than crashing on her boat. Why is she chasing me? What if I got drenched in water?

"Where are you going? Turn and hit my boat!"

Was she mad? I know she's the crazy one but why was she proving it every day?

Someone escaped from her and found a place where no one was nearby. I saw Isabella's boat get bumped by someone as a 12 year old boy. I thought she'd get mad but she laughed along with them and crashed into each other again and again and got water splashed on them. While I was driving towards her, the water splashed on me too.

I got out the boat and walked to her. Isabella was squeezing water out of her shirt. While she was doing that, some of her skin got exposed. Wasn't she aware of that?

She laughed and asked, "How did you get wet?"

"Someone bumped their boat with mine."

She continued laughing at him.

"Let's go to the house." And walked past her.

"You're going to get into the car like that?"

"Then?"

"Come with me."

We got to the restroom. Why are we here?

I said, "I don't have clothes to change into."

"Dry your clothes in the dryer inside the washroom."

"D-Do you want me to remove my clothes in a public place?" My eyes almost popped out when I heard her.

"Duh! It's a men's washroom."

And, does that mean we can remove our clothes?

"I'll get to the car."

"Wait, do you want to get your car seat wet?"

"I don't care."

"You'll get sick if you're in wet clothes, Mr Martinez."

"I don't care." I walked to the car.

After some time, Isabella got into the car, "What took you so long?"

"Drying takes time."

Drying?! Does that mean she took off her clothes?

"Did you take your clothes off in a public place?"

"Yeah! I took off everything." And smirked at me.

When she said that, her naked body came to my mind in a blurry state. I shooed it away before it got clear.

I quickly turned my head away from her and asked the driver to go to the house. Why did I did that? Stop thinking like that!