“You know, Calliope, I have been trying to set my brother up with someone for years now,” my best friend, Heather, explains, looking up from her pen and paper.

“So?” I mutter, leaning over her shoulder to look at her notes.

**_‘Asher and…

Aubrey?

Eloise?

Kennedy?

Paris?

Delilah?

Macie?

Calliope…’

_**“Oh no. No, I can’t date Asher be— because…”

My heart beats like a drumroll before a life-cha...

I tried. You should know that but nobody else. I did as you demanded....

“Ummmm… hi.”

“Hi there!”

Introverted Jess was standing at a table with some random dude her best friend Bella had just set her up with. Bella told her to go to the fancy restaurant in the centre of the city for a girls night out but instead here she was with Sebastian. Boring Sebastian.

Sebastian was sitting at the table Bella was supposed to be at so naturally Jess was confused.

“I think you...

Jessica was sitting at one of the most awkward dinners she had ever been at. She sat across the table from Dean, who was equally as uncomfortable.

Their oblivious mutual friend sat at the end of the table, chatting away. Diane was trying to set them up, saying that they would just be so cute together, yada yada.

It might have been a good idea, but Diane didn’t know that Jessica and Dean were swo...

“I guess he’s kinda cute.” My friend whispered. He was… except his nose was a little bruised and so was his eye. What can I say he put up a fight. “I just can’t believe you kidnapped him…again” She sighed.

I grinned as he woke up. “I swear this is the third time this month!” He shouted. My friend looked at him sympathetically.

“I really am sorry.” She said and he looked at her like he did every...

“Okay… so, don’t make a big deal over it, but… I finally have a crush!” Giselle confessed.

“Seriously!” I said, clapping wildly. “Tell me who, tell me who!”

“Viv! Please don’t tell anyone!” Giselle begged, and I slumped. But I gave her a small nod. “Okay… well, I met him in band. Let me see if I can spot him…” She looks around the cafeteria and finally spots a dark-haired boy on the shorter side...

“Hey your sister is cute, is she taken? Not for me, but I think I know this guy who would be just perfect for her…”

“Um.. actually she is. Geez, I hope this guy you wanna match her up with ain’t too better than me..”

“What?”

“..She’s my girlfriend.”

The matchmaker-to-be recoiled in horror.

“What!?!?!? Oh sh*t, look I’m really sorry.. it’s just that..I overheard you two talking about being t...

“Oh,” Angie teased, the tops of her pointed elven ears quivering. “stop being so bitter,”

“I’m not bitter. I’m simply stating the facts.”

A loud cheer erupted from somewhere within the Inn, a joyous sound that shook the tables and raised patrons cups, golden liquid sloshing up and spilling onto the sticky wooden floor.

A giant hearth blazed at the edge of the establishment, the crackling fire fi...

“Nope” I said. Eve looked at me desperately. “Please Mari? Harry is a great guy!” “Uh huh” I said. I don’t even bother with these blind dates anymore! Evelenne or as everyone called her, Eve, was always matching me up with stupid people! The first guy was a literal CLOWN! Now she wants to match me up with Harry Seamister. He really sounds weird. But, I’ll go with him for Eve….

“Hi.” Says Harry as...

The sign above the cafe had seen many storms but weathered and washed it still stood with its faded neon letters: Auntie A.’s Classical Greek Diner. And classic it was with each stool at the bar resembling a Doric, Ionic or Corinthian pillar all topped with a velvety, light blue cushion. The tables were heavy like strong decks of triremes, their chairs with backs in half circles like ships’ wheel...