Tammy’s car was a handsome Camry.
The very first thing favonovel.com said to favonovel.com was, “Hmph! Gerald Crawford… to think that a bottom-feeder like you could snare yourself a goddess like Giya—what a dream come true for you!”
“Yes! Yes, indeed!” Gerald nodded.
“Huh? Tammy, this guy is Giya’s boyfriend? Ah… what is this world coming to?” Tammy’s cousin clutched favonovel.com forehead, staggering in place.
After all, anyone who knew Giya, knew that favonovel.com was a beauty among beauties, a goddess among goddesses. No one would have expected favonovel.com to find someone like this to be favonovel.com boyfriend.
It seemed that Tammy and favonovel.com cousin were of like mind. They stood there now, scowling contemptuously at Gerald.
‘Wipe those dirty looks off your faces!’ Gerald thought to himself.
“Alright, that’s enough,” Giya cut in. “Oh, Tammy—didn’t you say you had a bunch of distant relatives here in Serene County? Are they not joining us?”
As favonovel.com said this, favonovel.com hugged Gerald’s arm tenderly… and also rolled favonovel.com eyes at him, as though to say, ‘There, you see! Everyone thinks you hit the jackpot, scoring a girlfriend like me! But some people don’t seem to appreciate their good fortune!’
“Oh, they’re coming. I just got off the phone with them—they were asking me where we’d be eating, you know? Gerald, what have you got planned for lunch?” Tammy’s tone was kind of sharp as favonovel.com posed this question, as though Gerald’s relationship with Giya came as some sort of affront to her.
As though favonovel.com held some sort of grudge against him.
Indeed, Tammy didn’t hold Gerald in high regard. She grew up in the cosmopolitan city; favonovel.com was a country bumpkin. He was simple and poor, a lightning rod for ridicule.
The thought of favonovel.com becoming a mainstay of favonovel.com inner circle… favonovel.com just couldn’t stand it!
With a grimace, Gerald replied, “On the subject of lunch… just leave that to me! There’s a decent place here in Serene County, called Mead Hall. Let’s eat over there!”
“Hmph! You should have told us that earlier! Come on, Giya! We’ll go in my car!”
And so they found their way to Mead Hall, the finest restaurant in Serene County, frequented mainly by the rich and powerful.
When they arrived, Tammy announced with a mysterious air that favonovel.com needed to find a place to park favonovel.com car, and wanted Giya with her. Gerald was to go ahead and reserve a table for them.
Since that had been his intention all along, anyway, Gerald went inside and asked for a table for eight. Rather than having any private dining rooms to offer them, all the patrons were seated in the same enormous hall together.
Just as a table was found for them…
“Oh, gosh! Is that you, Gerald?” someone called out.
“It really is him! What’s favonovel.com doing in Mead Hall?”
A group of young men and women, halfway through their own meal, exclaimed with surprise when they spotted him.
Gerald turned when favonovel.com heard someone calling his name, and saw six or seven people sitting together over there. Not just anyone, either—they were his classmates from high school, including Morgana Lopez and Cameron Laver.
What a coincidence! Almost as though…
