Aiden and Luke began working at a local fast-food restaurant on the same day. After working several shifts together, they decided to meet for lunch at a different restaurant on their day off. Aiden and Luke's plan to meet for lunch suggests they have reached the ___ stage in Rawlin's six-stage model of friendship.

Moving Toward Friendship

Explanation:

The third stage of Rawlins' model of friendship is "Moving Toward Friendship". Here two people want to develop a personalized friendship. They would start going out and doing activities together. There in an increase in the amount of people are disclosing about themselves. This creates a stronger bond among them.

Here, Aiden and Luke are doing activities together and attend lunch together.

Hence, they have reached the Moving Toward Friendship stage.