Touring D.C. - Chapter 23

The Saturday before spring break would surely go down in history as one of his all-time favorite days. Eliza would be taking him around D.C. to see all the sights and basically just play tourists for the day. She had found out a couple of weeks before that James had never been there and proclaimed this as “simply unacceptable.” She proceeded to make plans in secret and told him that his problem would soon be remedied. He was looking forward to being able to spend all day with her and he had kept up his best efforts in refraining from asking what the agenda would look like—not that she would tell him even if he did ask.

But, he had to admit, he was incredibly nervous.

Because after their tourist day they would be heading to Eliza’s parents’ house for dinner and staying the night. He shuddered as he thought about that: meeting the parents. A great first impression was a must.

It was unbelievable how quickly the days had slipped by. It seemed like just yesterday that he was