I gave my best phone voice though I wasn’t really sure why. “Hi, um, it’s Luke, the waiter from earlier.” I closed my eyes listening to his voice. “Oh hi, how’s it going?” “Good … good. I just talked to my friend. He said he’d be happy to meet up with you two tomorrow. Well, actually he said to tell you that ‘we’ would be happy to meet up with you, I hope that’s okay.” So he was coming too? Yes! “Of course.” I forced my voice to sound normal. “It’s not going to be anything special, just me and her getting together at her place for dinner and cake. I can text you her address tomorrow, alright?” I didn’t want to give it to him tonight; after all, I didn’t know what kind of guy he was—other than a cute one. “That’s perfect. Do you have a time in mind?” “Um, how about 7:00-ish? That way I have time to get over there, and she’ll be even more surprised when you guys show up out of the blue.”
