CHAPTER ELEVEN
The iPad flickered, and the display opened with me in a little box in the top corner and Jasper filling the screen. This was our first virtual date, where we agreed to go beyond the platonic getting-to know-you communication that had become our daily routine.
We FaceTimed on the phone every day, and it was the most human interaction I’d had in years. Jasper told me, for this evening, I should forget all about my past and experience the here and now. For tonight’s show, a bigger screen was needed than our usual cell phone ritual, ergo the iPad.
I took a quick glimpse at myself and was pleased with how I looked and also the backdrop of my velvet swivel chair.
My attention was focused on Jasper, who also wore all black. Black jeans with a black button-down shirt. His shirt
