Museum Trip (part III)

"What's his problem?" Ally said as soon as that rude guy was out of ear shot.

"That was a let down." Gwen stated sadly, looking down at her feet.

"Just know that it was nothing you did that would make him ignore you like he did. Or me either, for that matter."

Gwen sighed. "Whatever. Let's get lunch."

They sullenly walked to the food court.

"Now that I think about it, nothing really happened between us. He just wanted to share a bench with us. That's all. We overreact too much." Gwen said.

"Yea, let's not let it ruin our day." Ally said as she nibbled on a french fry. "Besides, we should have tried to talk to him, at least, instead of ignoring him."

"Yea." Gwen sighed.

They got up from their table and went on looking through the many galleries in the huge museum. They started laughing and having fun again. The next exhibit they walked into was the most famous one with all of the Van Goghs and Monets.  

"Oh, Gwen I love this one!" Ally said, pointing at a blue Van Gogh. 

"Ok take a picture of this." Gwen said as she started to go over to the painting to pose in front of it. She quickly stuck one arm out to outline the bottom of the painting and the other arm on the side. The frame of this particular painting was very intricate and large and it stuck out two inches from the wall. Gwen, who did not anticipate the jutting frame, was waiting for Ally to take the picture and realized that the painting was slowly starting to swing. Her eyes bugged out. Her arm had ever so slightly grazed the picture frame of the famous Van Gogh and she was starting to freak out. The light on Ally's camera finally flashed as Gwen spied a security guard starting to rush toward her. 

Gwen could feel herself blushing and the redness creeping up her cheeks. Gwen quickly grabbed Ally's arm and escorted her to a different section of the exhibit. The security guard stood down but continued following the two girls around.

"I have to go to the bathroom." Gwen said loudly. Loud enough for some people to stare at her.

"Um, Ok." Ally said, looking surprised at Gwen's sudden outburst. They headed for the potty. The security guard did not follow.

When they were safely in the bathroom Gwen told the surprised Ally everything that had happened.

"What?!" Was all Ally could say. 

"Yea." Gwen said laughing. "I can't believe you didn't notice the guard following us for the last ten minutes. I feel so stupid." She said smiling. 

"It's just the last thing we could have done to get yelled at besides start climbing a sculpture." Ally sniggered.

"Ok, let's get going. What time is it, Nancy Drew?" Gwen said. Ally always had a watch.

"It's, uh, about three o'clock. We still have two hours till we have to go."

"Awesome. I think we saw practically everything in the museum expect all the stuff in the West Wing."

"Yea, we could do that. That's the medieval artifacts and 17th century French stuff," Ally said while looking a the map.

The West Wing was really cool and they both liked it.

"I kinda want to find that guy again. I want to talk to him." Gwen said. "What do you think the chances of us finding him are?"

"Hahaha. Practically zero." Ally laughed.

They set out looking for him in the West Wing. 

"Ok, Gwen, which way should we go?" They had come to a four way stop and could go either left, right, or straight. 

"Father, guide my sword!" Gwen said jokingly. "Uh, let's go right."

As soon as they started walking right they ran into him. Gwen and Ally looked at each other shocked. Gwen's face started turning red again for, like, the fifth time that day.

"Um, hi." the hot guy said. He had an amazing British accent.

"Hi." They both said in unison. 

Oh. My. Goodness, Gwen thought. 

"My name is Troy."

"My name is Ally, and this is my best friend Gwen."

"Nice to meet you. Again." Troy said, smiling, and surprisingly shook each of the girl's hands.

"Yea. You were the guy from the bench earlier, right?" Gwen said, pretending that she didn't remember him and know exactly who he was. 

"Yes. That was me. Sorry for being so rude earlier." Troy said.

"Oh, that's ok," Ally said. Gwen just stared.

"The truth is that I was actually too nervous to talk to you two. Because... I thought you were so pretty. And it took we a lot of courage just to go over and sit next to you," Troy admitted nervously, but it was most appreciated by Gwen and Ally.

Troy's gaze fell upon Gwen. It seemed like five minutes went by. Then Gwen saw someone come up and grab Troy from behind. It was a huge bear hug.

"Awwww, come on Bryan." Troy groaned but had a huge smile on his face. The boys continued to wrestle a little, while Gwen and Ally observed and smiled at each other. 

They finally ceased rough-housing. "Sorry about that," Troy said, "this is my friend Bryan."

"Hi," Bryan said to Gwen. He then looked at Ally's deep blue eyes and gracefully kissed her hand. Ally giggled and Bryan took her arm, and the led her out of the room.

Whoa, Gwen thought. Way to go, Ally!

Gwen was by herself with Troy in the room. There was an awkward silence as they both tried to avoid eye contact. They were both shy.

Maybe all my fantasies will finally come true if Troy turns out to be a nice guy and ask me out, Gwen thought.  

Their wandering eyes finally met. Gwen sweetly sighed out loud before she knew that she really had done it out loud. He smiled a huge grin and took both of her hands in his. He slowly leaned in and kissed her.

Well, that was more than I expected. For once. She was the happiest she had ever been in her whole life.

The End