First Date, Pt. 1

A short story about a fictionalized first date based on a very awkward encounter at a bar.

He checked his watch: 7:57 p.m.

Edward stood at the front door of her apartment nervously combing his hand through his hair and fiddling with the lapels of his blue blazer. It was a seventh-floor apartment in one of the modern, brick-and-glass buildings downtown that he passed on his way home from work. He always wondered about who lived in these downtow…