Chapter 9
"The caterer canceled and I don't know where to find another one. It has me so stressed, I'm thinking of setting up take-out and calling it done," Bri said as she sat opposite, spearing her garden salad.
The whoosh of the cappuccino machine pulled my attention to the front of the café. The blueberry muffins in the display case called to my tastebuds.
"Es?" She followed the path of my stare and shook her head.
"Sorry. Those muffins looked good."
"How you've stayed slim is beyond me, with your monster appetite."
Backhanded compliment, but eh, that was Bri. "Thanks, I guess." I shrugged.
Of all the people I'd ever met, Bri was the most beautiful. The most perfect. Her thinking that she wasn't meant there was no hope for us lesser mortals.
It made me pity her.
"Actually, I t
