Chapter 20 - Part 1

Pov: Victoria

I had a boyfriend! Two weeks after our first date, Jonathan asked me to be his girlfriend. It was all happening very fast but I did not mind it. Alice and Sam liked him, my mom thought he was ‘the sweetest thing ever’ because he bought flowers for her and dropped them off when he came to pick me up for our first date.

We had settled on having lunch at Paula’s and then going to the movies to see if they were playing anything good. I had suggested meeting him at the café but he was not having it. He insisted on coming to pick me up from home. I knew that I did not have to do that much to impress Jonathan but I was still nervous.

I had to put in some effort. I think that my mom was even more excited about the date than I was. She had even skipped going to work that Saturday just so she could be home when Jonathan came to pick me up.

“It's not like this is the first time a boy came to pick me up, Mom. Caleb did that all the time,” I tried to reason with her.

“It’s not the sa