Chapter 13They scheduled the date for Saturday at seven P.M. Over many texts and f*******: messages, they decided that they would go all out for this date. Not cost-wise, because Nick was still hurting for cash, but all out for romance. You know, Katie’s text read. Let’s pretend we’re in a John Hughes film. Or something from the eighties or nineties. Dress up like it’s the prom and have fun. What do you think? As soon as Nick had seen the message, he was in. The hopeless romantic inside of him, one that had stayed suppressed and silenced over his years of dating, was finally allowed to be free. Without it being weird or unwanted—he got to treat Katie like she was the protagonist in one of those films. This wasn’t going to be one of those casual dates that he’d gone on while he was in uni

