“Stop looking so sickeningly happy. It’s annoying.” Ellie laughed. “Between Aric looking like he had his cake and ate it too, and you practically glowing, it’s making us girls with no s*x-life depressed.”
“Alright, I’m sorry.” Sympathy for Ellie’s current stress over Caleb tamped down the laughter.
“It’s kind of late and the others aren’t here yet. Have they called you?”
Jordan groaned. “I left my phone plugged into the car charger.”
Ellie gasped. “What? I left mine in my bag with papers to grade.”
“Oh, damn.” They stood at the same time.
The waitress approached them with new drinks. “We’ll be right back,” Ellie handed the woman a bill to cover the drinks they’d already had. “We forgot something in the car. Hold our table; we’ll only be a minute.”
Making their way to the building en
