Sweet 16 Dates the Older CEO/C9 The Communication
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C9 The Communication

His heart had skipped a beat the second he saw her. Those wide sparkling eyes, that brown and flowing hair, that soft and bright skin. The pretty face that was burned in his head, it was her, right here on this dating app. Was this fate? Could some force have led him to this very moment? Was the hand of love guiding him to his true beloved? He was so entranced that an hour passed by without him realizing it. He snaps out of it and reads the specifics again.

According to the profile, she went by the name of Amber and was currently looking for employment. She was 21 years old. Twenty-one? But she looked so youthful! He was so nervous but he couldn't let this chance escape from him. Besides, if she was the one that rescued him, then the very least he could do was meet her to thank her. His brain was creating a million thoughts. But the more he waited, the more likely someone else was going to ask her out! He couldn't let this chance slip away!

That was all last night as he checks his phone this morning. No response yet. He was in complete agony and anxiety. This waiting game he was playing was killing him. It truly was her, it had to be. That face that was burned in his mind, that beautiful girl that saved his life, it had to be her, it just had to.

Meanwhile, Leila meets up with Tomi at a local continence store.

"You snuck out?" asks Tomi.

"My mom was being overbearing. She went shopping so she'll be out for a few hours. But that's not the point. Someone is asking me to meet up on the dating app."

"So you snatched a man?"

"I didn't 'snatch', anything. I'm refusing."

"Refusing? Why?"

"Because I'm scared. Some strange man wants to date a young girl? I don't like this."

"They don't know you're young, remember? Besides, you said that you wanted to be treated like an adult."

"But this is too much. I'm scared enough that they know what I look like, I should be glad I used a fake name."

"Yeah, I saw that. Amber, what a nice choice."

"This isn't funny, Tomi. I don't know what to do."

"Oh, Leila, will you ever grow up. You just said you wanted to be treated like an adult, and now look at you, being scared like a little kid. If you want to grow up, you gotta do grown-up things."

Leila didn't care for the advice she was getting from Tomi. It was true that Leila wanted to be treated like an adult, but she didn't think anything like this. She just wanted to get more respect, that's what she meant when she wanted to be treated like an adult. Still, she was getting fed up with how her mother kept pressuring her to do well in school without any faults, telling her what to do every day and night, and now not even allowing her to see her dad, which she thought was incredibly unfair. It was true that her dad cheated on her mom, but according to her dad, the woman came onto him and forced him into it. She got him drunk and he woke up with her in bed. The woman told him that she would tell her wife if he revealed this information and demanded hush money. However, her dad decided to do the right thing and confess to his wife about what he did. It was a big mistake and they got a divorce.

Leila believed her dad was telling the truth but her mom was not convinced. She put up with her mom's unfair actions only because her dad was comforting her, but now her dad was gone and she was left with a very demanding woman. This was too much for Leila.

She opens the app once more and checks the dating app. There he was, waiting for a response from Leila. It was at this time that Leila finally notices the man in question. He was kind of cute, but he was also 27 years old. That was 11 years older than her. She got kind of scared again until she looked closely.

"Wait a minute..." said Leila, "this guy looks familiar."

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