Book I - 28

SCARLET

My best friends were at the restaurant with Anthony when I arrived. The Knights restaurant was a semi-casual-semi-formal restaurant bar with bright yellow string lights that hung on the windows. It wasn’t crowded, and soft jazz music was playing inside.

Fortunately, it wasn’t all awkward since I found my friends laughing about something. I knew Nate didn’t like Anthony, but he could be very understanding most of the time.

Honestly, I wanted to go home after my encounter with Luke, but I didn’t want to disappoint my friends by leaving them. It was rude. I waltzed towards their table, and they already had an iced cold tea.

“Oh, you’re here. What happened?” Katherine asked. “That was quick. This is for you.” She pushed one glass of red tea to my side.

“He left early,” I said with a quick smile.

“Hey, I heard your brother came, is everything alright?” Anthony asked, and he sounded sincere.

“I’m fine, thanks.” I smiled. “What’s up now?”

“We’re just talking about Professor Sanders,”