Sophie Chen had been waiting for this moment for approximately fifty-nine days.
Not the date itself—though she had been waiting for Lucas to ask Vivian on a proper first date since approximately six years ago, when she had first noticed his ears turning pink every time Vivian walked into a room and had filed that observation away in the mental cabinet she now understood was the precursor to her PowerPoint documentation system. No, what Sophie had been waiting for was the analysis. The comprehensive, multi-variable, statistically rigorous, seventeen-chart, forty-seven-slide analysis of every single moment of the first official Lucas-Vivian romantic outing. This was what Sophie Chen had been born to do, and she had been preparing for it with the focused intensity of an Olympic athlete approaching the most important competition of her career.
