#Chapter 53 Date Night

William and I met at the gate after school. I followed him to where his car was parked, and he held the door for me as I climbed into the passenger seat.

I waited until William got into the driver's seat before I told him Victor wasn’t coming. “I’m sorry, but Victor texted me this afternoon and said he can’t make it.”

“That’s too bad,” William said. “I was looking forward to seeing him.”

Before William started the car, my stomach let out a loud growl that made me cringe.

I was embarrassed until William chuckled. “I’m hungry, too. Lunch in the cafeteria today was lousy. We have time. Why don’t we go out for a bite?”

“Sure,” I replied. “That sounds great.”

“How about we stop in at Gilded,” William said.

Gilded was the first five-star restaurant that Victor took me to on the day the reporters broke my glasses, and then William joined us. It felt like that evening was a long time ago, but it had been only a few weeks.

“Sure. Gilded sounds fine.” I had been there several times since then,