Chapter 8
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Chapter 8I called the eye place Monday before class and got an appointment Tuesday afternoon. The eye exam and the lenses were indeed covered by my parents’ insurance. Anne met me after the exam, and we looked at a lot of different frames. We started with some of the expensive ones I could never afford, just for fun, but after a while, we went into the bargain section. Most of them were truly horrible - even worse than my old ones - but we found a pair that actually looked really good. I never would have even noticed them myself, but Anne had a good eye. They were medium-sized rectangles in a dark blue plastic, almost black. When I tried them, I didn’t look like an owl anymore - I almost looked stylish.
I picked up my new glasses on Thursday evening. Anne wanted to go out for dinner, so I wore my new dress. When I saw myself in the mirror, with the dress, the hair and the glasses, I thought I actually looked a little bit pretty. Maybe Anne really was right about me.
Anne picked me up at the eye place and we went off campus to a cheap but yummy Chinese place. If I hadn’t know better, it might have felt like a date.
Over dinner, Anne brought up the subject of guys and dating again. She had a look of feigned innocence, but I could tell she wasn’t going to let me off easily. “Now that you’re all pretty, you have no excuse not to at least talk to one of your crushes.”
She continued with a teasing smile. “I know you like CS Dave. You should ask him out next Tuesday after board game night.”
I did indeed like CS Dave, but I wasn’t going to ask him out. I grinned a little to myself because I had the perfect excuse, one that not even Anne could argue with. “CS Dave is going out with a guy named Mark. So I really don’t think I’m his type.”
Anne sighed a little and replied, “Figures. There has to be somebody else you’re interested in, though.”
“Not at the moment. That cute guy in OChem turned out to be kind of a jerk in lab last week after his experiment went bad - you remember. Pretty much killed my interest. But I promise I’ll tell you when there is somebody, and you can tease me mercilessly until I do something about it.”
Anne held out her hand and said “deal” as we shook on it.
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