Chapter 0430

I set out to show Julian what having a real girlfriend should be like as soon as I could, so early the next morning, I dressed in my cutest sundress and showed up to his door with a basket of fresh bread I plucked straight from

the kitchen. It was still warm.

I knocked on his door. Brian opened it, and his eye twitched in what I assumed was surprise. It was the most emotion I had ever seen out of him.

“Is Julian awake yet?” I asked.

“He’s getting dressed,” Brian said. Before I could ask to come in, Brian

stepped back and let me inside the room.

I stood just inside the door in Julian’s sitting room. Brian glanced at me again, before disappearing into what must have been the bedroom. A moment later, Julian himself came bursting out.

“Piper? To what do I owe the pleasure?”

I held out the basket. “I thought we could spend some time together today.”

He walked closer, glanced into the basket, and then snatched a handful of the bread. He bit into it, chewed, and swallowed.

final dress–rehearsal tomorrow, Bridget personally requested that everyone take it easy today. It had been some time since we had a day without practice or some other

the perfect time to have a

part of your elaborate plan to prove something to

asked.

“I said. There was no reason to hide it. I’d been upfront from

as well continue to

head. “You don’t have to do

I’m definitely doing this,” I said. “We’re friends, and I won’t rest until you recognize how important you are

a laugh as he rolled his

like that he was convinced to spend time

take a walk in the garden,” I said. “It’s a

brought into the competition, a lot of the protesting had dwindled. There were still a few hardy regulars, but

still simmered under the surface, but

distracted now. The competition was once again

Julian said. I took his hand in mine. He smirked a

squeezed my fingers.

was our day off, there were other girls out there taking walks, though no one seemed to pay Julian and I any attention. We wouldn’t

already got along very well, so it didn’t take much for us to have an enjoyable time in each other’s company.

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