“Hey, what’s up?” Lydia asked as she walked toward his desk.
Chad gave her a weak smile. “Nothing. Just…sort of lost in thought.” Planning this date was giving him a headache. Well, “planning” wasn’t the right word—he had no idea where to start.
“I can see that, Charming,” she said with a chuckle. “You looked pretty out of it.”
“Yeah.”
“Hey, do you mind if I ask you a question?”
He shrugged. “Shoot.”
“Your name. Charming. Did you get a lot of flak for that growing up?”
Chad grimaced and rolled his eyes. “God, you have no idea. Kids teased me in elementary school, calling me a Prince, a Knight, a Disney Prince. You name it. Then as I got a little older, if a girl liked me, she would call me her Prince Charming. It was brutal.”
“Guess they didn’t know back then you were looking for y
