Valentine's Day Anti-Holiday

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Hello? Hey. Yeah, just about.

Uh-huh. Okay, how long you be? Alright, I'll have it already by then.

Yeah, I'll have. .. No, I just gotta tidy up a few things.

It's fine. Uh-uh. No, you don't have to bring anything.

Seriously, I've got it all. I'm all set. Alright, alright, alright.

Okay, see you soon. Bye. Hey, come on in.

Let me grab your coat. Yeah, just make yourself comfortable. I mean, it's just kind of us, you know? But Valentine's Day sucks when you're single.

So I got snacks, drinks, you got games, video games, movies, foosball. Okay, a couple ground rules, okay? Number one, we're not talking about Valentine's Day crap, okay? Nothing about, no moaning about our singleness, no talking about, you know, all our friends are off on dates tonight or anything.

This is a Valentine's Day anti-holiday. We are protesting. I don't know.

We could be protesting that we're single or maybe that Valentine's Day exists in the first place. I don't care. Pick whichever one you want.

Okay. Oh, you're gonna show me? Right.

Girl, you don't even know what you're getting into here. You had a foosball table in the garage when I was a kid. Yeah, well, you're gonna get your ass kicked.

Oh, really? All right, well, let's see you back that up then. All right, you ready? Let's do this.

Okay, you're better than I thought you'd be. Hmm. No, I didn't hear what Denise in the county said.

Huh, I didn't hear about that. Are you serious? She shut him down just like that? No, that's ice cold.

Damn. Hmm. You know what I'm gonna point out right now? You just broke the one rule we had.

Only rule. No talking about. Stop.

All right, you're getting it for that. Dang it. Okay, stop scoring on me.

You're kicking my ass in my own apartment. Stop it. What'd you think of that email from HR today? Right? I mean, somebody did something to prompt that response.

They didn't just pull it out of thin air. And you hear Bill is moving? Yeah.

No, he got a really good offer to go into management. Yes, he's moving out of state. At the end of March, I think.

I mean, there's gonna be a going away party for him. Yeah, some of the details I'll let you know. Uh-huh.

All right, you ready to do something else? Well, we'll call it a draw then. Yeah, let's watch a movie.

Okay, ground rule number two, and this is an extension of ground rule number one. We are not watching anything romantic. No romantic comedies.

No rom-coms. I mean it. Anything else? Okay.

Horror it is. You got one in mind? No.

Okay, I want to watch a horror one, but no one's gonna make me like stay up all night. Yes, that movie's scary as hell. No, I'm not watching it.

Okay, that's better. Yes, let's watch that. God, it's such a pain.

Why don't you go sit on the couch and I'll grab the snacks and drinks. So, I know I just gave you crap for breaking ground rule number one, but I'm gonna really break it. No, house rules.

It's my apartment. Well, that means I get to suspend the rules temporarily. Shut up.

No, I, look, I'm sorry to do this, but I really need to pick your brain on this. Okay. Look, there's this girl that I like.

I've had my eye on for a little while. Quite, quite a while, actually. And no, I'm not telling you who it is.

Yes, you know her. That's why I'm not telling you. All right.

So, I've had my eye on her for a while and we're friends. Okay. And I really value our friendship.

I really don't want it to, to go sour. But I, I really, I really like this girl. And I, I'm just trying to figure out how to, how to communicate my interest without scaring her off.

You know, how to, how to be careful and, and let her know, you know, how I feel without scaring her away. Well, you know me. Yeah.

I mean, I'll be honest, but gentle about it. But I'm just really, just really worried that if I do this, and she doesn't feel the same way about me, that it's going to really ruin our friendship. And that's just really a scary thought for me.

Because I really value this friendship, you know? I just, I don't know. I don't know what to do.

Yeah, I get it. I gotta, I can either take the chance or I can keep silent about it and just never know. As scared as I am of losing this friendship, the thought of not knowing if you and I could be any more than this is much scarier to me.

I just, I adore you. Every time you come in the room, it lights it up. It lights me up.

And I know we've been friends for a long time. And I've been, I've been interested, like, almost since the day we met. Because I was scared.

Because you're so important to me. You support me. You've helped me out on so many projects, so many times that I was down and discouraged that you lifted me back up.

And you've let me be that shoulder for you to cry on as well. You just have this way about you that you make people feel special. You make me feel special.

And every, every time you come in the room, it just, it gives me butterflies. And when I have to say goodbye to you, it's, it feels like I'm losing something every time. But I got, I can't, I got to know.

No, okay, keep it together. You were just waiting for me to make a move. How long have you been interested? Oh, my gosh, I don't even believe this.

Okay, sorry. Keeping it together. No, just okay.

We're just, we're just like, totally giggling now. Just come here. I've wanted to kiss.