******CHAPTER 2; The Day Continues******
"So where did you guys plan on going?" Sara asked. "Umm..no where special,just a place called THE GRILLE..they have the best food there!" Chris replied. "Cool," I said. "It's so damn cold! How much longer is it?" I asked. "Not much longer," Jesse said. "Only one more block." {Okay, I thought to myself..it's not that much longer} I guess Greg saw that I was shivering even with my jacket on. "Here," he said, putting his jacket around my shoulders. I smiled, all of the sudden, I felt alot warmer..I never wanted this day to end.
"Okay, we're here!" Jesse exclaimed. As we walked into the warm building, everyone let out a sigh of relief. "Trousdale -party of 6, your table is ready!" We heard someone say over the loudspeaker. We followed the waitress to our table. "Here," Greg said, pulling out my chair. "Thanks," I said smiling and looking into his warm brown eyes. Chris and Jesse did the same for Courtney and Sara. After we ordered our drinks, we sat around the round, wood table and started talking. "So what made you guys decide to come to NYC to go ice-skating?" Greg asked curiously. "Well.." Courtney began. "Sara and I knew that Lauren had never ice skated before, so it was sort of a surprise for her. And we thought that it would be cool if her first time ice-skating would me at the Rockafellar Ice Rink. It was really funny, because it took her like, a thousand tries before she actually stood up on her skates without falling. That's when I gave her too big of a push, and she ran into you guys," she said laughing, remembering what had happened earlier. I felt my face get red again, but I laughed anyways, because it was pretty amusing. "Why don't we go back there after lunch" Greg said. Everyone agreed, then all 5 faces stared at me. "Shut up!" I said laughing. "I'm gonna show all of you how much skill I have when it comes to ice-skating!" I said sarcastically. After a couple of minutes, the waitress came back with our drinks, and we ordered our lunch. By the time the lunch came, we were all starving! I ordered a Grilled Chicken Ceasar Salad, Sara ordered Potatoe Skins, and Courtney ordered a soup and salad. The guys all ordered hamburgers and fries. After we all ate, we decided to go to another place for dessert. I got strawberries with whipped cream, Sara got coffee cake,Courtney got ice cream, Chris and Jesse got brownies, and Greg got a sweet roll. Even though it was 25º out, we decided to eat outside, I don't know why we did, but we did. As we walked outside, there was a bump on the threshold of the door. "Whoa!" Sara said as she tripped. Part of her coffee cake ended up in Jesse's hair. "So, are you trying to tell me something?" Jesse said sarcastically. Chris, Courtney, Greg and I started hysterically laughing. Sara started laughing too, realizing how funny she must have looked. "So that's how you're gonna play, huh?" Jesse said, with his eyes lighting up. Sara just sat there with a really confused look on her face. "Here, let me help you up," Jesse offered. As he pulled her up, he stuffed half of his brownie in her face. We all gasped as Sara started laughing. "FOOD FIGHT!" Chris screamed. 10 minutes later, we were all covered in desserts.
We all sat down on a bench, and started laughing again. "We're so stupid," I said sarcastically. "I know," Sara agreed "But that was so much fun!" she said, still laughing. We walked back to the ice rink, and when my Dad saw us, he looked at all of us like we had 3 heads. "What happened to you guys?" he said with a look of confusion on his face. "Looong story Dad. We're just gonna go ice skating again," I said trying not to laugh again.
As we got on our ice skates, Chris, Jesse, Sara and Courtney all got on the ice and made it look so easy. They all stood there, waiting for me to go on. Greg stood behind me,"Don't worry, I'm here," he whispered in my ear. I somehow managed, to get onto the ice without falling, but it was letting go of the wall that I had trouble with. "C'mon Laurie!" Courtney said smiling. "Don't worry, I'm just warming up!" I said sarcastically. "Sure, sure..that's what you WANT us to think" Chris sarcastically replied. "Shut up," I said laughing to myself. "It's okay guys, I got her," Greg said, smiling at me. "Okay," Jesse said, and then he whipsered something to Sara. She just looked over at me and Greg and just smiled.
