Evie
After Aria texted me that she was there with her “surprise”, I finished up the last of the dishes and made my way to the front of the restaurant. I spotted Aria by the front door, waving to someone outside. When she noticed me approaching, she smiled wide.
“Guess who’s back?” said Aria, and I hardly had time to guess before a man entered the doorway. I could hardly believe my eyes. It was like looking at a ghost from the past.
“Lucas!” I blinked wildly, thinking that he was simply a trick of the light. He had been a close friend of Aria and I in college. While he had a more upper-class background, being from an elite family, he didn’t have the attitude of someone from that sector.
Maybe him being gay meant he knew what it was like to be knocked down by society. He had been rath
