The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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.

take it easy today.

perfect time to have a date with Julian.

part of your elaborate plan to prove something to me?”

asked.

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

as well continue to

tilted his head. “You don’t have to do

“We’re friends, and I won’t rest until you recognize how important you are

huffed out a laugh as he rolled his eyes. “You are stubborn.”

he was convinced to spend

garden,”

dwindled. There were still a few hardy

some tension still simmered under the surface,

competition was once again serving its

took his hand in mine.

squeezed my fingers.

the hallway to the stairs, then down the stairs to the doorway to the gardens. Since it 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 stand out. After all, we were supposed

we walked, we talked about this and that. Julian and I already got along very well, so it didn’t take much for us to