*Caterina*

“I bet it’s a surprise trip. I feel like guys like Elio love to plan surprise trips,” Anna babbled next to me as we walked side by side down the steps of the lecture hall we had been in.

Sometimes I wondered if she was almost as invested in my relationship as I was. Maybe I’d have to find a mafia man for her… surely Elio had a single friend or two.

“I don’t know if it’s a trip,” I said. “He knows I have class and ...