Annabelle hadn't wanted to burn the restaurant down initially.
In all honesty, she had been in a good mood. The food smelled great, the weather was perfect, and the boy she had met on Tinder looked like an absolute snack in all his pictures.
But t...
"Do you have pictures of yourself, or do you also want to take fake ones and make your first date hate you?"
Luca laughed at that. "I don't have many photos."
"Okay. Stand up. Get by the tree. We're taking photos."
"It'll look silly, no?"
Annabelle gestured around them. Sure, there were a few people laying scattered on the grass, with their picnic blankets thrown between them and their laughter floating into the night. But all of them were doing their own stupidly adorable things – one was serenading his girlfriend with a very out of tune ukulele, and another group of friends were playing some game that involved screaming, "Social justice warriors with flamethrowers of compassion!"
Whatever that meant.
Before she knew it, Luca was posing by the tree. Propping his leg onto the bark, folding his arms, laughing as she rolled around the grass to find the perfect angle. Even with tomato stains on his shirt and tired circles beneath his eyes, his face lit up with every smile.
She was surprised he would need Tinder at all. How were people not throwing themselves at him? How?
She took enough snaps to make herself seem borderline obsessive. But, when she showed him all sixty of them to choose from, he had assessed each one like the angle actually mattered.
And thus, the process began.
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"Please do not put something about liking travelling in your bio."
"Why not?"
"Everyone puts that. Trust me."
Luca seemed to ponder this. "What about saying that I'm very good at board games?"
"Good at... board games?"
"Yeah."
Annabelle shrugged. "You know what? Go for it. It's different."
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"Wait, you're already swiping?"
"Yeah. Look at this girl. She's cute. Should I swipe yes?"
"Luca, her bio says that she gives wine to her cats."
