“Should I knock?” I hear the guy ask from behind the door.
I laugh as I hear Drew yell, “Yeah. I’m sure she’s sitting there, watching us right now through her Ring.”
I stand up straight, holding my head high.
Ah, not this girl. Little does he know that I’m going old school and spying on him through the peephole and not all high-tech with the Ring.
The guy knocks, and I stand still for a few seconds before stomping my feet as if I were walking to the door.
When I open it, I give my most surprised face to see him standing there and then try to act even more surprised when I see Drew off in the distance.
I wave at him and then ask, “What’s this?” I take the food from the guy.
He walks off and turns to Drew. “Hey, good luck, man.”
Drew smirks and then looks back to me. “I bought you dinner. That’s the first part of our date.”
The smile on my face starts to hurt my cheeks; it’s so big.
“What’s in the bag?” I ask, motioning to the item Drew gave the delivery boy.
“That’s for later. Oh, and I brought you something else too.”
He points to the ground, and I instantly crack up laughing.
Sitting at my feet is what looks like plastic wrap that would go around flowers, but instead, it’s wrapped around toilet paper, which has been arranged to resemble flowers.
I look up at him. “You did not!”
He grins and shrugs. “I figured that was more appropriate nowadays than actual flowers.”
“So, you did mean to include butts!” I yell.
His head drops to his chest, and I can see his shoulders bouncing with laughter. “Okay, fine, I did. Go get set up, and I’ll call you when I get back to my place, but wait to eat, so we can eat together.”
“You got it,” I say.
He smiles and jogs around to the driver’s side of his car.
“Oh, Drew?”
“Yeah?”
“Thank you.”
His expression lights up as he nods his head and hops in his car.
I head back inside and open my meal to see he got me ravioli with meat sauce and garlic bread as well as a house salad. I plate my food and set up my phone in case he wants to FaceTime. I mean, this is a date after all.
While I wait, I cheat and take a peek at what’s in the bag he gave the deliveryman. I close my eyes while chuckling to myself after seeing some microwave popcorn, Red Vines, and Peanut M&M’s. This must be a dinner and a movie date.
My phone rings, and I see it’s Drew calling via FaceTime. I click the green button and smile as his face comes into view.
“Hi,” he says, waving to the camera. I can see he’s set up in his room with his plate on his lap.
“Thank you so much for dinner.” I motion to the spread in front of me.
“I hope I made the right choice. I’m sorry I didn’t check first, but I was afraid it would ruin the surprise. My mom said you can’t go wrong with ravioli, so I went with her suggestion.”
