Speaker 1: Oh jeez, is he here yet? Alone at a pizza joint?
Just my luck. Everyone's gonna think I'm here to eat
a whole pizza by myself. If I just keep waiting
like this, I might. Oh hey, funny seeing you here? Wait,
is Becky here? Did you come with your family? Oh?
Oh dang, just my besties, little brother live leaf loving it? Then? Huh?
Are your friends here or something? No? Huh? Maybe you
want a pizza all to yourself too? You want to
share one? Well, it's sweet of you, But I'm waiting
for someone. Actually, what do you mean who? I'm here
on a date, well, a blind date. I don't know
the guy. Why do you want to know his name?
Are you jealous? H why? Uh? Okay, fine, here's the
email invite and it says his name right there. Oh
oh my, oh my god, oh my god, it's you.
Oh oh shoot, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to
How the flipping heck? Did I not realize it sooner? Huh? No, No, no,
it's it's it's it's not a problem. Okay, maybe it's
a little bit of a problem. You're just like, you're
like younger than me, you know, Oh my god, your
older sister's been my best friend since kindergarten. We knew
each other when you were still in diapers. Aren't you
in like high school or something? You're you're not? Oh
my god, time really does fly. Oh my god. You
do look a bit taller than I remember, although maybe
that's because I'm sitting here. Oh no, you are taller now,
look at you, all grown up and stuff. All right, fine, fine, fine,
better than having to pick out on a whole pizza
by myself. But a blind day you that's pretty brave.
You always seemed so shy. I suppose you're right. Looks
can be deceiving, but you'd always run out of the
room whenever I came over to see your sister. It
hasn't been years since you've done that. How's it? Well? Still,
that's my memory of you, among other things. Oh nothing,
Oh nothing, Anyway, I'm starving. Let's just scan the QR
code and bingo. All right, what do you want to get? Well?
My favorite is veggie, but I know not everyone's into that.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, good idea. Let's do half and half?
All right, crazy bread? Aren't we getting enough bread since
it's like pizza already? Actually, that's not even my biggest
issue with that. No, it's fine. It's silly anyway, not
a great icebreaker. All right, fine, since you insist. I mean,
is it called crazy bread because it makes you go
crazy or because it makes you stop being crazy? Is
it just a crazy? Good deal? Did somebody have to
already be crazy to order breadsticks with the pizza? Am
I crazy? Oh? Good? I'm glad you don't think so.
You're so convincing. Uh huh, Yeah, clearly I'm the talkative one.
Your sister wasn't much better than you at coming out
of her shell. I figured it ran in the family. Okay,
maybe you're not shy now, maybe I'm still not convinced,
but I always remembered huh oh, never mind. No, no,
it's embarrassing. I did not mean embarrassing for me. Okay.
I remember how every time you'd run away from your
sister and I, you'd always find some reason to come by.
You weren't being creepy, but it was so obvious you
just wanted to see or me. You did it as
a little kid, as a boy, and as a high schooler.
Remember when we both came home from college for Christmas
A few years ago, you still did it, and you
never said a word besides sorry, no, no, no, no,
don't say sorry. Now, that's not what I was getting on.
I was just surprised. It was like deja vous. So
you being all forward and kind of confident is just different.
It's nice, don't get me wrong, but different. What changed? Yeah,
girls will do that too. Well, at least you've gone
out with some chicks then, right, so then you know
we're not all that scary now, right exactly, And that's
the whole point. You never bothered us, well, you never
bothered me. Maybe you bothered your sister and I don't know,
but I didn't think you were weird or anything. Actually,
I kind of wish you would have just come up
to us and talked more. We could have hung out
or something. I don't know. Kind of like we are now,
aren't we Funny how life works out like that, isn't
it full of surprises? Hmm? Do you pass the date test? Well,
you're certainly not shy anymore, that is, and well you're
not boring either. I think I'll see how good the
pizza is first. But you're not off to a bad start.
So why a blind date? Huh. You've got all summer
and a bunch of newly graduated girls around, don't you. Yes,
you could ask me the same question after you answer
it first. That is oh oh oh, so it's only
been a few weeks since she Oh I'm sorry to
hear that. It's all right, Just give it a few
months and it'll be like she never existed. Besides, I'd
like to think I'm far more interesting than some honor
roll pick me anyway. Oh yeah, I'm glad you think
so too. Me. Okay, fine, you did answer my question.
I am I don't know. I just I got tired
of the guys that I was dating. Hum. They always
said that university would be so much different from high school,
and it's true in some ways, but in others, Oh god,
it's even worse. And drama drama, drama, non stop drama.
You know what, I changed my mind? Don't talk to girls.
They are nothing but trouble. What does that have to
do with guys? Oh, sweetie, you'll figure it out one day.
Suffice it to say, I'm a little tired of that
crowd right now, so I figured, Hey, why not try
a blind date. Maybe I'll get some handsome driven and
passionate professional. Instead I got you, not that I mind.
You might be just a surprise I needed, honestly, Yeah,
I mean it. I mean it is weird that, well,
you're related to my best friend and I've known you
for such a long time. But then again, at the
same time, there's benefits to that, and I don't know.
The way you've treated me on this date is nice.
And you didn't make me feel super dumb for not
knowing that it was you when I literally pointed to
your name. Thank you for that, by the way, And
you've been nothing but a gentleman. Honestly, I don't know.
I maybe want to have another date, like one where
I know that it's you. Oh, the pizza is here,
thank you? That looks amazing, And so what do you say? No,
not about the pizza. Would you want to go on
another date, but one where we know that it's one
another and not a surprise? Yeah? Okay, that makes me
so happy. I've been really wanting to go apple picking.
When'd you be down? M Thank you? Wait, you're not
gonna tell your sister, are you? I mean, eventually we'll
tell her if you know we need to, but maybe
for now, just I don't know. Okay, you're right. You're right.
We'll just keep it on the download for now, and
if it gets serious then we'll let her know. It
works for me, all right. Can you pass me a slice?
Thank you,