53| Jitters

"Eeeeeeeee!" Maddie screeched into my phone.

"Shhhh, Maddie! His room is literally right next door!" I whisper-shouted to her. I was getting ready for my first technical date with Alec, and was feeling super nervous about it. So naturally, I called my best friend for support.

"Sorry, I'm just really excited for you guys! The kiss sounds so romantic, and now he wants to take you on a date? This is the stuff of true love stories," she gushed.

I shook my head. "Don't get ahead of yourself. I still don't know what this is. Alec has told me that he doesn't do girlfriends, so we really need to talk tonight about what that means for us."

"Well, maybe he didn't do girlfriends in the past because he hadn't met you yet," she said.

I let out a sound somewhere between a laugh and a snort, "You're too much of a romantic."

"Maybe," she agreed. "You used to be too."

I sighed. I supposed David had ruined that part of me; the part that believed in a happy ending. Or maybe that part was never real