The following day at lunch, Alex and Gabe invited me and Nessa to eat lunch with them along with a few other friends. At first, I didn’t want to go but then Nessa said that it was a possibility that Ethan would also be there. It would be the perfect time to spend some time with him since I hadn’t been seeing much of him this past week.
I agreed to go but I was hesitant. If Krista went, it wouldn’t be pleasant. She would find every way to keep us apart. Nevertheless, I still got into the back seat of Gabe’s car. On the car ride there Gabe and Vanessa did most of the talking—well more like arguing—but they filled the silence. Alex would glance back at me every so often from the passenger seat and roll his eyes. I giggled each time.
We got to the burger place within ten minutes, pulling up
