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Chapter Seventeen

The Official First Date

Eli

“Have you thought about where you’re going to take her?” Ian asked irl toher to the opera will be her type of thing”

“Ian—”

“Plus, she’s been working all day, I’ to do an Edward Lewis and take her shopping and let her buy anything her heart desires, right? It ht take it to mean you dislike her current style”

Closing my locker, I looked at him “Who the hell is Edward Lewis?”

“Pretty Woman? How have you never seen that movie?”

“How often do you remember the characters' na my watch on my wrist

“That’s beside the point right now Have you thought this out? First dates are iet on my nerves

“Not really Other than asking her out, I haven’t thought it through too much I don’t overthink with Guinevere, I just do, and it feels aet yourself a date,

He grinned like he was high, and with his silverish-pink hair, it wasn’t a hard sell “You calledyour frozen heart—”

“Goodbye Ian,” I said, already out the door I wasn’t sure why he was so happy I was going on a date He hadn’t been that excited when I’d gone out with Hannah I had taken her to the opera and she had loved it, but Guinevere wasn’t Hannah, and I didn’t want her to be

“Eli”

This is what I get for even thinking about her Sighing, I turned around to see her standing there, still in oversized scrubs and a sweater “Yes?”