Chapter 17. Dinner Talk

“Have you eaten yet?”

“No.”

“Would you like to have dinner with me?”

I was already on my way to the kitchen when Nathan’s suggestion made me freeze in place.

Dinner?

Five days had passed since the beginning of this… trial period. It was an arrangement that I had never imagined myself getting into.

But to my surprise, I was beginning to feel comfortable with it, even though two weeks or a month hadn’t even passed. It was as if talking to Nathan every day was a natural occurrence, one that did not seem like a random appointment in my daily schedule. Not to mention that I talked to him more than I talked to my own family.

Not that that was unusual. After all, Ken was very busy with his first year of residency, which I heard was quite demanding, while Louisa was in the middle of a job search. She had always wanted to be a kindergarten or elementary school teacher, but after graduation, she wanted to help our parents out first. She was truly a sw