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fill our glasses. “Our special today is pasta with white clam sauce. Do you need a few more minutes to decide?”
    “Yes, please,” Joe answered.
    Jonathan read the lunch menu to me. I really wanted spaghetti and meatballs, but I worried it would be too hard to eat. I tried to choose something that would require as little assistance as possible from Johnathan. I wanted him to be able to enjoy this rare treat without having to babysit the blind girl. I settled for the rigatoni, hoping I could spoon it up easily, without making a mess or a fool of myself.
    I forgot about the melted cheese aspect. I was having an annoyingly difficult time. I kept getting strings of cheese down my chin, neck, and probably all over my shirt. Finally, I dropped my spoon and pushed the bowl away in frustration. “
Italian
. Great idea Alec.”
    “What? We all have cheese and sauce all over us. Not as much as you… your shirt looks like a cheese and spaghetti sauce tie-dye experiment gone terribly wrong. But you wear it well, Paige.” Alec’s teasing didn’t help with my already darkening mood.
    I grabbed the first thing my hand touched, which happened to be a fork, and threw it in the direction of his voice.
    “Nice catch, Alec,” Seth said.
    It’s a good thing I had my sonar spell turned on. Something roughly the size of a large meatball spun toward my face. Instinct kicked in and I deflected the flying object with a spell. If it had been a hard object, it would have flown back at Alec. But it was, indeed, a meatball. It basically exploded on impact with my spell and instead of just Alec getting blasted with a food bomb, all of us got blasted with bits of meat shrapnel. All of us—including the hot waitress who had apparently just stopped by to refill our water.
    “What the… how… what just happened?” she sputtered.
    Silence ensued.
    Alec spoke first, unfortunately. “Spontaneous combustion. Because of your nuclear hotness. To prevent further unfortunate incidents such as this one, might I suggest that you stay away from meatballs while you’re wearing that dress?” He was such a player.
    Seth and Johnathan both groaned. Halli laughed. I sat there, wishing I could see the expression on the waitress’s face.
    A chair across the table from me scraped against the cement of the patio as it was scooted out. Alec opened his mouth again. “Mariah, let me help you get some of that mess wiped off your dress.”
    In unison, Joe, Johnathan and Seth said, “No, Alec!”
    Halli’s increased laughter was contagious. I started laughing and then the waitress, Mariah, joined in. “Thanks, but I think I’d better just go change,” she said.
    “Well, okay. I can help with that, too, if you want,” Alec yelled after her as her footsteps disappeared into the restaurant.
    I felt Johnathan start to stand, but he sat again as Seth said, “Don’t get up Johnathan, let me do it.”
    I heard a smack as Seth hit Alec upside the head. “Ow! What’d I do? Don’t be haters just because you guys don’t know how to talk to the ladies.”
    “Um, yeah. You’re lucky she didn’t slap you,” Joe said. “And I can’t believe you threw a meatball at Paige.”
    “What? She threw a
fork
at me. She could have taken my eye out!”
    Johnathan stood, scooting his chair back quite a ways from the sound of it. “You aren’t very funny, Alec.”
    I reached for him and caught the edge of his shirt. “Johnathan, its fine. Just sit down and finish eating. I think we’ve made enough of a spectacle of ourselves already, don’t you?” I pulled on his shirt.
    “What’d I do?” Alec questioned. “Oh, wait. I didn’t mean anything by it Paige. It’s just an expression, you know? I wasn’t even thinking about… you know… your eyes, or anything. By the way, nice shot with the deflection. You were wicked fast with that.”
    Johnathan sat back down and laced his fingers with mine, resting our hands on his bouncing leg.
    “Let me help you with your