Chapter Thirty-nine

“No!” Aiden shook his head vehemently. His friend shot him a ‘seriously?’ look. “I can’t believe you have the guts to ask me to accompany you and Maddie to another friends only outing. After what you did in the last friends only outing you invited me to. I’m pretty you’ve heard that idiom that says ‘once bitten, twice shy.’”

“Come on, Aiden. I am sorry. I didn’t know Eleanor would be…you know...”

“Reminding me that you were the one that chose that barbie as my date is not going to make me forgive you faster.”

“Fine. Come to this outing not for my sake, but for Madeline’s.”

“Last I remembered she was the brain behind the blind date, the one who has somehow decided that I need to be thrown into the dating waters.”

“Now, you are exaggerating.”

“I am not exaggerating, Drew. There is a reason I do not date and you know it. I expected that as my friend you would guard my decision. If nothing else, you would respect it, not gang up against me.”

“Even if that decision is not exactly good for