Tentative Date Novels & Stories

I turned slowly. “What arrangements?” She froze. Too late. Professional mask back in place. “I misspoke.” My pulse roared. “You said arrangements.” A beat of silence stretched between us. “There is a projected placement date,” she admitted carefully. “But such matters are not within your purview right now.” They had set a date. My fingernails bit into my palms hard enough to hurt. “When?” I demanded. “I cannot disclose..” “When?” She hesitated. “Two weeks,” she said finally.

The lady answered smoothly. "Okay, can I make an appointment?" I took a deep breath as I heard her typing away on the keyboard. "Alright can I have your name and date of birth please." I gave her the required information as she typed it into her system. "Would you happen to know how far along you are?" "I think about a month. Maybe 3 almost 4 weeks." More typing. After a few more embarrassing questions she was finally able to tell me what I wanted to know. "Okay Ms. Frost, the earliest time we have is Tuesday, August 28th. Will that be okay?" She asked. I put the phone on speaker and searched through my calendar making sure there wasn't anything else going on.

“Ikaw lang ang sadya namin dito, Abi. May date tayo mamaya, di ba?” “H-ha?” Napamulagat si Abigail. “Bukas naman tayo.” “Ako sana—sa Wednesday mo pagbigyan.” “T-teka, teka, wala akong natatandaang ganyan.” “Busy ka ba ngayon? O, sige, iatras natin sa Wednesday ang data natin.” “O, di sa Thursday ako?” “Okay lang ako sa Friday.” Muling nagpalipat-lipat sa tatlong kaharap ang mga mata ni Abigail habang hinahalukay sa memorya ang tungkol sa mga ‘date’ niya sa mga ito.

Safer, she added silently. He nodded in understanding. “Can we change topics? This is bringing the mood way down,” she said, a little too brightly. “Agreed. No need to cover absolutely every topic on the first date,” Rick grinned. “But I’d like to, eventually. If you’d like to go out again, that is.” “Wait a sec, let me check my social calendar,” she said in mock seriousness as she pulled out her phone. “Hmmm, the national bean counter’s convention isn’t until July, they haven’t published the cotillion schedule yet….”

“Shut up.” He grins like he just won something. I stand. Grab my towel. “I’m done.” “Already?” “I’ve got class.” He follows me toward the door. “So… when’s the date?” I pause. “…I don’t know.” He whistles. “Man. You look thrilled.” I glance back at him. “It’s not a real date.” “Sure sounds like one.” “It’s for publicity.” “That’s how all bad decisions start.” I don’t argue.

While Nisha looked at her parents who were looking so much happy which made her smile. "Okay pandit ji. Now can you please look the dates for ceremonies". Rohini asked. Pandit nodded. "Hm engagement can be done on 5th September". Pandit informed. "And in the case of wedding, there are three dates. One is on September is 10th, then on September 25th and another on 5th October". he said and the elders started discussing each other. "Children do you have any opinion on the dates". Mahesh asked. Nisha and Rohan looked each other.

“Sigh. I'll probably regret it when I get back, but I guess I could extend the ditching period.” “Won't you get into trouble?” “I'll just call in sick. And other than that, Youhei's running things while I'm away so it's not that much of a problem. Wait, what's the date today?” “January 15th.” “Oh, Santera Mairi Festival. Tsumi, are you sure that you want to go?” She nodded. “Ok but first, I have to go take care of something in my car.” “Ok, we’ll wait here.”

I look up and Colt sheepishly grins knowing he almost caught me in the shower. My cheeks blush and my heartbeat picks up a bit as I look away to try to get myself under control before I look up at him, “Hey, everything okay?” He licks his lips like he’s about to devour a meal, or just me, and says, “Everything’s fine, just wanted to run something by you really quick. We have a launch party scheduled for Friday night, and you leave on Wednesday. I was wondering if I could convince you to stay an extra few days so you could come with me? It only gives you 3 or 4 days of downtime though, so I understand if you don’t want to.”

“He’s a pretty boy and not only that, but he looks exactly like Laura. I’m in the modeling business and I’ve never seen a guy with hair like that. Besides, she’d never go for a guy who is her carbon copy with a stick shift.” “Right,” Helen said, stuffing the sheet back into the binder. “Then I think that Gregory and Michael are your prime choices, but I happen to know that Michael is pretty popular and it’ll be hard to get him. We’ll probably have to schedule him in advance if you want to line him up for a date in the future.” “I want to see how tonight works out before I set up a schedule. I guess we’ll go with Gregory,” Dominic said wearily. Helen got up and talked with the receptionist, b

She had an excuse under way. “No, no. No no no. No excuses baby. We are doing a retreat . Me and you together. How soon can you get yourself ready?” I asked her. I wasn't going to be backing out from any and every thing that I knew would help her get back on her feet. “Next month?” Emily asked, squinting at her phone. “Too far,” I commented. “I'll give a time frame to work with.” I thought long about my own schedule. I had a couple of meetings with the mayor, councilmen too, “Let's say between 20-24th of this month, when is departure gonna be?”