#Chapter 190: Surprise!

Almara’s Pov Arthur is acting weird. The school has been open for a month and we’ve been going out to lunch together every day since, except when I asked him today he gave me some lame excuse about having too much work to do. I only asked out of courtesy, I wasn’t actually expecting his usual answer to change. Even when I asked him if I could pick us up lunch and sit in his room with him while he worked, he got very fidgety and said that he had to run out to an art store. Which is also completely out of the blue. Now it’s lunchtime and even though I have no plans, my stomach growls meaning that I better make plans quick or be irritable the rest of the day. It’ll be hard to be creative when my entire line of thinking will be focused on food. I can’t even get lunch with Grace, she’s with my parents today. I walk out the doors of the building and cross the parking lot to my car. Alone. “Hi, Mrs. Covington!” A couple of new students wave eagerly at me. I wave back and give a friendl