When we arrive at the restaurant, which isn't anything too fancy but it definitely isn't a McDonald's, I enter with Maddox. He speaks to a man at the front while I respond to my friend's messages, who are all confirming our plans for Saturday. Maddox clears his throat and I realize that we're going to join Abel, who is probably in the back of the restaurant.
I follow Maddox through the dim lit place and we approach a table with two empty seats. Abel's date is sitting across from him with a large grin on her face. Her dark hazelnut eyes are glinting as she laughs at something Abel says and I can't help but smile. Her beam is contagious. Her smooth brown skin contrasts with the pretty white blouse she's dressed in and I notice that Abel too is wearing white. I wonder if it was planned.
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