Chapter 23: First Night in Porto

Chapter 23: First Night in Porto

"Hey, are those contact lenses?" Mylo asked curiously as he finally noticed Jason's strangely blue eyes.

"No," Jason replied with one word as he walked toward the door, too hungry to engage in more than one-word conversations unless absolutely necessary.

"They're real?" Mylo asked again still with curiosity in his voice, but there was now a great deal of doubt in his tone as well.

"Yes," Jason replied again as he reached the door and pushed it open, while Mylo was following him from behind.

"Swear down? I've never seen something like that before though?" Mylo had a hard time believing Jason's answers.

"You know, someone other than me would be uncomfortable with this conversation... also, aren't you supposed to be leading the way,"

"You haven't forgotten that I'm not from around here, right?" Jason quickly broke his own rule because it seemed like Mylo wasn't going to stop talking.

"Oh... that will be 20 euros," Mylo responded.

"You want me to pay?" Jason asked in surprise.

"Nah, I'm just joking, let's go, I know a few places around the area," Mylo said with a laugh as he took the lead as they left the dorm and walked out into the street.

Jason looked around the city which looked even more beautiful at nighttime with all the lights casting different glows everywhere and making one feel as if they were walking inside of a beautiful painting as they walked down the busy sidewalks despite it already being night.

"Do you mind Portuguese food? Or should we try looking for something else?" Mylo asked as they walked, suddenly remembering that this was probably Jason's first time in Portugal and that he may not be used to the food here.

"Nah, I'm good with whatever is available," Jason replied as a legit foodie.

He had two younger brothers who lived with their parents in Switzerland.

And finally, he was single.

Jason had no way to tell anyone that he had found out this much about a person without asking for such information and was very glad when they finally reached their destination.

*Pool Bar*

The name of the place was on a billboard and was almost shining in the glow from the lights, but they weren't there to admire the signboards and quickly entered through the doors of the slightly crowded place.

They went to one of the few available tables instead of taking a seat at the bar as they were here for food and not to get wasted, though Mylo slightly disagreed with that statement as while he wasn't here to get wasted either, he wasn't here for food only... at least not only the ones on the table.

He was hungry for more than one kind of food.

They sat and Mylo quickly got one of the waitresses to take their orders.

While they waited for their food to arrive, Jason noticed quite a few of the girls in the bar/restaurant giving him a few glances, but he ignored it as he was quite used to it since it was a normal occurrence.

He always attributed it to the abnormal color of his eyes as despite always receiving glances, no girl had ever walked up to him to ask him out, so he had never thought it was because he was handsome, though he knew that he was by no means ugly.

"Thank God I wasn't born ugly, otherwise I would feel very jealous about this situation... not that I'm not slightly jealous already," Mylo said with an almost depressing sigh as he noticed the glances that most of the girls in the bar were sending Jason's way and Jason who seemed to ignore their gazes with a look that said he was used to it.

"Bruh, what're you talking about, I get these glances everywhere,"

"Who knew seeing a black guy with blue eyes was that strange," Jason shrugged off whatever strange things he thought Mylo was saying and pulled out his phone.

'Does he not really know why they're looking at him like that?' Mylo felt like a bomb had exploded in his head and his depression instantly went up another notch.