15 “You’re dating Karissa?” Trent asked. “Why didn’t you tell me?” “We were trying to keep it quiet. We didn’t want pressure on us,” I told my best friend. He was clearly the last to know since the others had the same angry expressions, but I was guessing for a very different reason. “It’s been weeks since they started dating,” Hudson said. “No, they had their first date last week,” James said. “Are you sure? I thought it was longer?” Ian added. “Why don’t we let the man who’s going on the dates talk?” Sebastian said above them all. They all turned and looked at me. “Okay, well, we had our first date last week. We went to dinner. Then over the weekend, I showed her the theater. And earlier this week, we had dinner here.” I tried to act like it was no big deal, but it was a big deal

