Nineteen

Alicia's POV

"Thank you for agreeing to get dinner with me,"

I grinned.

"It's no big deal. Though, you made an offer I couldn't resist,"

George, who I fondly called Georgie, was my childhood friend and high school classmate. We met on my first day of junior high school and we became best friends. We were so close back then that people thought we were dating. Although I did have the biggest crush on him, we never dated. The way I liked him was different from the way I liked guys from Disney movies, k-dramas, and American sitcoms. It was pure, innocent, and unspeakable.

I'd planned on telling him but he got a girlfriend and I never did. I guess some things are not just meant to be.

"What have you been up to?" I asked as he pulled out my seat at the five-star restaurant. I sat down opposite him.

"It's been how many years now, five?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Four years of college, three years post-college. It's been seven years, Georgie,"

"Wow, it's been a long time,"

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