“How romantic and cliche…” Gabriella thought to herself as she slipped over the threshold of Caramel- a restaurant in which Alec had taken her during one of their more intimate dinners. It seemed whenever their relationship seemed to take a new step, it had been done within the walls of this very restaurant. When they decided to move in together, when they decided to buy a car-that he later totaled two months later, and when either of them got jobs or promoted, it was also in the ‘table for two’ section of the restaurant. But now, they entered as a recently broken up couple with one of them intending to revive what the other wished to keep perpetually extinguished. The restaurant itself was the perfect location for something romantic to transpire, whether it was between lovers together f

