"The zoo?" Violet pondered as Carl's red Tesla made a sharp left to go up the hill toward the Oakland Zoo.
"Sure, why not?" he asked as he looked over at her with a grin. "I've actually never been and it's on the way home."
"Only you would think this an appropriate side trip on my way back to Berkeley," she told him.
"Well, perhaps I'm only prolonging the inevitable," Carl said with a smirk.
"The... inevitable?" she asked with a crinkled brow.
"Yes, I probably won't be able to see you until Wednesday," he told her. "Unless you want to stay over the entire weekend?" He looked a little hopeful at that and Violet tried to hide the twitch of her lips.
It was the Saturday morning after Valentine's Day and she had stayed at his place after school on Friday.
"You won't get tired of me?" s
