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“Berkeley’s kind of cool. I love San Francisco,” he said. “Well, I don’t know that I love San Francisco, but it’s cool. I visited once.”
“You seem like you’ve been to a lot of places.”
“Yeah.” He shrugged. “I got scouted for a lot of different universities and my parents travel a lot.”
“That’s cool.”
“Not really. We were in an RV, which sounds like it should be fun, but it’s really not when you do it every single summer.”
“Oh wow,” I said. “That’s a lot of RVing.”
“Yeah, it was.” He paused. “So, anything else you want to add?”
“No, I think I’m good.” I smiled. “But do you want to get some chicken wings as well?”
“I think I love you,” he said. “What flavor?”
“Barbecue?”
“Marry me, Callie.”
I started giggling then. All of a sudden, he froze. “Hey. Is everything okay, Josh?”
His eyes were wide, and his jaw dropped. “Shit,” he said under his breath.
“What is it?” I turned toward the door where he was looking and felt all the blood drain from my body. Antonio was there with Alessandro, and a cute girl was standing behind them, looking bored. What the fuck? Was he following me? I turned back to look at Josh.
“That’s the guy, huh?” He nodded. “So, that’s the guy you know?”
“Yeah.” I wasn’t sure if Antonio had seen us, and I tried to bend forward so that he wouldn’t.
“Fuck, he’s coming over here,” Josh said, grabbing my hand.
“What are you doing?” I said quickly.
“Just play along with me,” he said.
“Okay.” I gave him a wide smile and sat back, acting as if I didn’t have a care in the world.
“Callie.” Antonio’s voice was deep and dark as he stood next to me.
I looked up at him with wide eyes and smiled sweetly. “Oh. Hi, Antonio.” I stared at him. “Fancy seeing you here.”
“I own the place,” he said, blinking at me. There was a murderous glint in his eyes. “What are you doing here?”
“If you can’t tell, dude, she’s on a date with me,” Josh said, looking up at him. “So please, back off.” Antonio’s fist curled, and I wasn’t sure if he was going to punch Josh.
“Don’t,” I said, staring at him.
“Don’t what?” he said, glaring at me.
“Don’t even think about making a scene.”
“Why are you out on a date having pizza?”
“Why wouldn’t I be?” I said softly. He stared into my eyes as if he were searching for something. I heard Alessandro chuckling behind him. I looked over at Alessandro. He was shaking his head, running his fingers through his hair. He really was handsome, not as handsome as Antonio, of course, but I knew some women would think he was better-looking. He had a more boyish, youthful look to him. The girl was standing there, and I was curious who she was, but I wasn’t going to ask. I didn’t want him to think that I cared.
“Well, it was nice to see you, Antonio.” I paused. “Actually, that’s a lie, and I don’t like lying as much as I don’t like liars,” I said. “So if you’ll excuse us.”
