Chapter 79 - Taken

• I spent a good half of the morning digging through my bag to find something remotely decent to wear to my lunch with Ben. It wasn’t as though I was trying to impress anyone, but the thought of going anywhere in sweatpants and an oversized hoodie seemed a bit inappropriate.
• I felt like I needed to make myself look somewhat presentable even if it was just a short meet-up.
• ‘Perhaps, the Derek family mentality was finally rubbing off on me,’ I thought humorously.