Chapter 51 Fifty

• “What is it?” I ask Brandon who is on the seat across me, watching me as if his life depends on my next movements. My eyes don’t leave the screen of my laptop resting atop the desk, I scowl without looking in his direction. “Brandon?”
• The email with the invitation for my zoom meeting with other student body leaders stares back at me, the time on the lower part of my screen shows I have a few minutes until ten when we will commence but I don’t want to spend another second talking to him. I am not the one who broke a promise to their spouse. He did this to himself.
• Sunlight seeps in through the long, sliding windows, casting a shadow on the table. I take a bite from the leftover slices of pizza on the table, pizza he brought home last night but I couldn’t eat because I was fast asleep. Asleep and hungry because I refused to prepare dinner, thinking we would go on our first date at a fancy, outdoor restaurant.