Double Date

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIPgku\_oXS0

***Kasey:** Hello, Craig.*

***DrWreckage:** Hello. This is it, this is the beginning of the record of our crimes.*

***Annie:** [snickering] Is love a crime?*

***DrWreckage:** Uhhh.*

***Niamh:** In this case, yes.*

***DrWreckage:** There's all sorts of crimes that are going to be involved in this one.*

***Annie:** Oh my god.*

***DrWreckage:** Like, like the crime of what if actual love, question mark? But um, yeah. So, I think the first question is – Tadd agreed to meet Faith after her shift at Philosotea. Um.*

***Annie:** Mhm.*

***DrWreckage:** Would Kurt and Ernest have shown up early?*

***Kasey:** Oooooh*

***DrWreckage:** Cause they knew exactly when he would be there and they are kind of there to, like, scope the whole thing, right? So–*

***Kasey:** They did tell, they did tell Faith that they were showing up.*

***Annie:** Mm-hmm*

***Kasey:** I don't know if Faith told Tadd, they didn't tell Tadd directly.*

***DrWreckage:** It's true.*

***Annie:** Oh God uh... No, she was too flustered at that point to tell. So it's gonna be a surprise.*

***DrWreckage:** This is an opportunity to you know, lay lay the scene either as, maybe as Faith or as Kurt or Ernest if you're there early.*

***Annie:** It was a dark and stormy night. Uh, no. Uh. I mean it's just like summertime so it's probably like, very bright, very warm inside, like warm colors everywhere inside the place. Uh there's generic poppy, jazzy-type tunes playing, and like it's very sparse in terms of customers probably right now. Uh. Hmm. Yeah she's probably just like, got someone on the front while she's like out back like, clocking out. Getting ready to clock out. Uh, when someone else might probably walk in. Either– when Kurt and Ernest might walk in.*

***Kasey:** Yeah! That sounds good.*

***Niamh:** In the back you said, right?*

***Annie:** Yeah.*

***Niamh:** So they'd walk in through the back. Because they've done this before.*

*[laughter]*

***Kasey:** Even though this isn’t a paid– this isn’t a kind of thing where they have to circumvent a pay– a paystub, they’re still, uh– they’re just coming in the back because they can.*

***Annie:** Oh my god.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh, we know Faith, perhaps you've heard of her.*

*[Laughter]*

***Annie:** The bouncer lets you in.*

*[Laughter]*

***Annie:** There’s no bouncer, there’s just delivery, um, like delivery goods door garage thing.*

***DrWreckage:** Mhm.*

***Annie:** Um. So, yeah you probably walk in to like a very pristine empty kitchen? There a few dishes stacked up, but like, other than that everything's up to code because, duh… Um, and I think like a moment later there's like a little bit of fumbling coming from like, the break room. Uh, and like the door like, unlocks and like, Faith is like pushing down like, uh, like– I want to say a dorky sundress?*

***Kasey:** Awwwww.*

***Niamh:** Aww.*

**Faith:** Oh! Ugh, I gotta stop letting you guys in through the back. I gotta lock that door.

**Kurt:** You know it was locked.

**Faith:** [sighs] You know what, it's fine. It’s fine. Um.

*[Laughter]*

**Faith:** I’ll just– I’ll make it– Reese can get some of my tips. Um.

**Ernest:** So you ready for your daaaaate?

**Faith:** Yeah haha. Um. I'm very nervous. Is– um– you two have done this a lot– at least once, right?

*[Laughter]*

***Kasey:** Yeah, I think Ernest just, Ernest just stares like, for a couple of seconds like what on Earth?*

***Annie:** She’s like, putting her fingers together, making like little smoochie noises.*

*[Laughter]*

***Annie:** Then she stops after, after a second.*

***Niamh:** Kurt’s got that like, quizzical look in their face, that’s kind of like–*

**Kurt:** Are you– what are you doing? What's the deal?

***Annie:** She like puts her hands through her bangs, like–*

**Faith:** I don't know what I'm doing.

**Kurt:** Okay. Well, he might not be a vampire, and if that’s the case uh... you uh, talk about interests and stuff like that and like, you try to bond over those. Maybe like, try to get some like, banter going or something like that. That's usually a good sign. Um. But like, yeah you kind of feel out their vibe.

**Faith:** Okay, okay, okay, all right.

***Annie:** And she like looks for a pen to write things down, but then like, shakes her head.*

*[Laughter]*

***Niamh:** Awww.*

**Faith:** Oh let's go out and sit where the customers are because that's more than likely where he would be.

**Ernest:** Yeah, I– I don't think he's gonna come find you in the back room?

**Faith:** Yeah, let’s– let’s– let’s go.

***Annie:** There’s just another scene of the three of us walking out of the kitchen like, like nothing's wrong. Then I imagine one of the– one of the workers like– Oooohh Do– who do we want working right now?*

***Niamh:** It has to be Savior, doesn’t it?*

*[Laughter]*

***Annie:** It has to be Mike. Oh my god. What do you all think?*

***Kasey:** I’m down for that. Just, just condensed– condensed all of– or, or, many of–*

***Annie:** Oops all crushes.*

***Kasey:** Oops all crushes, yes.*

***DrWreckage:** Is this explicitly an opportunity for Savior to see Faith on a date and be like “Finally. Oh, god. Whew.”*

***Annie:** Cause that whole thing is that they don't know each other's superhero identities. But they've met each other both as co-workers and superheroes, but they haven’t put the pieces together.*

***Kasey:** Yes Mike, Mike sounds– Mike sounds like the ideal choice here.*

***Annie:** Oh god. Alright. Probably like stumbles back a little like, cause he's still got like the newbie apron on, or the rookie apron on. Because of course there’s a rookie apron that like, I don't know, has like rookie on part of the seam or something.*

***Niamh:** The Challenge icon.*

***Annie:** Oh god. No he's not like 60. Um. But yeah, there's– there's probably like a reserved table that has orchids around it. Um, she would like, gesture for everybody to take a seat and like, start spreading menus, like– and then she just like, stops after– and takes a seat herself.*

*[Laughter]*

**Faith:** I guess we should wait to order, huh? Or– because– Wait, is that rude?

**Ernest:** I mean unless you're gonna order for him? But yeah, we should probably wait.

**Faith:** Yeah no, I'm not going to– no I'm not gonna do that cause that’s– that’s– that’s– I still don't know him a lot a lot.

**Kurt:** Mhm.

***DrWreckage:** Uh. I have a couple of questions about Philosotea before I, uh, saunter into this scene.*

***Annie:** Oh god. Yeah.*

***DrWreckage:** Is it the sort of like cafe that doesn’t have, like it’s just sort-of a curbside cafe with not like a parking lot? Or is it a big enough cafe that it has a parking lot.*

***Annie:** Uh, it does not have a parking lot but it’s on this like, uh, newly-developed type street thing.*

***DrWreckage:** So very pedestrian?*

***Annie:** Uh, it’s very pedestrian but there is, like, you can pay for parking on the road.*

***DrWreckage:** Right. There are a couple of parking spots.*

***Annie:** Mhm.*

***DrWreckage:** And then my other question is, I mean- it’s called “Philosotea” literally, um. Is it- so it’s mostly a tea shop, right?*

***Annie:** It’s, uh, it’s like its main thing is boba tea, yeah.*

***DrWreckage:** Oh, it’s a boba tea shop. But does it also sell, like, teas, like exotic teas or is this a very- I don’t wanna say “hipster” in a bad way. But like I also don’t want to say like “basic” in a bad way? But you know what I mean, like what kind?*

***Annie:** [Laughter] Yeah like on the scale of hipster to basic?*

***DrWreckage:** Yeah like, does this place have a bunch of teas you’ve never heard of or is it all just sort-of like, um, you know like “comfort-food” style like good stuff?*

***Annie:** Um, the menu-type thing that I was thinking of when I first made it was kind of like similar to Starbucks but like, uh. It’s mostly stuff that pairs well with boba.*

***DrWreckage:** Got it*

***Annie:** Or like other tea stuff. Just like, they also do a variety of- they also do a variety of drinks.*

***DrWreckage:** Okay, so with that answer I think that -importantly- y’all are sitting at that table for just a little bit before Tadd shows up and I don’t know if any– anything else is gonna come up in that time frame but I just wanted to point out that delay.*

***Kasey:** Yeah! I think they’re mostly just, mostly just waiting.*

***DrWreckage:** So, um, I imagine at least somebody in the group has their eyes glued on the door. When, finally, Tadd enters– to the surprise of no one out of character– and perhaps to the surprise of no one in character, he’s wearing a leather jacket and aviator shades.*

***Everyone else:** [Various expressions of “Oh my goodness” and probably many hands on faces]*

***DrWreckage:** But they’re actually, they’re silver-tinted aviator shades so that they match his car, and jeans and stuff. Like, he’s not wearing his school letterman. And then he takes his shades off and comes in, pockets them very, uh, you know, cool and suave and he takes a second to look around before noticing the three of you? And, of course, there is a quizzical beat where “There are two other people from super-detention here.” Before he, uh, recomposes himself and walks over.*

**Faith:** Uh-um, hi! Um- I-

**Tadd:** Hey, Faith.

**Faith:** Hi.

**Tadd:** Looking good!

**Faith:** Thanks! Uh- you too!

**Tadd:** How was your shift?

***Annie:** She’ll like, look around.*

**Faith:** Not-not very, not a lot of stuff, not a lot of work to do…

***DrWreckage:** After just briefly making small-talk with Faith, he like turns to look at whichever Ernest or Kurt is closer to him and this moment was like:*

**Tadd:** Hey, nice to meet you again.

**Ernest:** Yeah, hey! Did Faith not let you know?

**Tadd:** Ah, no I had no idea that anybody else was gonna be here… I thought that this was just like a you and me thing?

***DrWreckage:** He says looking at Annie (Faith).*

**Faith:** Oh, I forgot to say that– double-dates are always more fun? Especially that you get to know everyone…

**Tadd:** OH! You two are here together.

*[Choked laughter]*

***Kasey:** Ernest says:*

**Ernest:** It’s a double date so it’ll be twice as fun!

***Kasey:** ...and makes very awkward finger guns.*

*[Laughter]*

***DrWreckage:** Uh- Kurt will notice a very quizzical look shot at Kurt, but he recomposes himself again and is like:*

**Tadd:** Yea, no I’m down!

***DrWreckage:** And he’ll like take the seat that’s open for him.*

***Niamh:** Kurt will add on to Ernest’s “Twice as fun” and say:*

**Kurt:** It just makes it a lot more casual as well, y’know? It’s a lot of pressure– first dates and all that.

**Tadd:** Yeaaah… I guess.

***Annie:** Faith is noodling along at this, like almost trembling. Tremblingly? What would the seating arrangement be? Because I myself have never been on a date.*

***Kasey:** Yeah I’m not sure. Is it across or next to?*

***DrWreckage:** Uh, so it’s very- As someone who’s also never been on a date my intellectual academic understanding is that couples have their own sorta pacing as to whether or not they prefer to sit across from each other or side-to-side, probably is equal to how much like PDA they like to do? Like if they want to cuddle and smooch, they want to be on the same side.*

*[Teenagers giggling]*

***Annie:** Oh gosh. Oh so it’d probably be like across?*

*[Muffled with giggling]*

***Niamh:** Well, Kurt and Ernest are very PDA. Um, mhm.*

***Annie:** Oh geez… Faith probably realizes this at that exact moment.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh and I think that means that Tadd’s also sitting down- Are these booths? Or chairs?*

***Annie:** Um, is it a booth or is it a chair? Let’s all decide that.*

***DrWreckage:** Well, I think there’s the interesting dynamic where if it’s a booth, Tadd’s sitting down traps you.*

***Kasey & Niamh:** Oh no.*

*[“What have we done”-esque laughter]*

***DrWreckage:** Which is funny only because of how nervous you are.*

***Annie:** Yeah, yeah she wouldn’t- yea that’s something just pure chaos ready to be unleashed.*

***DrWreckage:** Excellent. Then I think we’ll do the interesting thing and Tadd sits down, and right away picks up the menu, and is already like super close, in that he like leans over as if to look at the menu with you and say:*

**Tadd:** Well, I defer to the expert. What’s best here?

**Faith:** Oh, aha I’m not an expert…

***Annie:** But it’s like that smug smile of humblebrag.*

**Ernest:** They have a marshmallow smoothie.

***Niamh:** Oh my god…*

***Annie:** [Giggling]*

**Tadd:** Oof, that’s a little early in the afternoon- yea no, you know what. Do you- do you want that?

***DrWreckage:** He says.*

**Ernest:** It’s a lot of sugar.

***Niamh:** Kurt will punch Ernest.*

**Kurt:** Just enough for a sweetie pie like you, right?

*[Adorable Chinhands Laughter]*

***Annie:** Faith, like holding her own menu, would like point like her finger would kinda like tick back and forth till she’s like-*

**Faith [Internally]:** Oh, should I point at his menu or should I point at my own menu.

***Annie:** But she’d like point to her own menu and be- and like point out um:*

**Faith:** Oh gosh-

 **Editor’s note: It was at this point that things became a bit jumbled and an OOC question was taken as an in-character statement. For now, there’s gonna be the accurate notation of who was in and out of character based on the previous notation. It was clarified after comedic hijinks and we managed to get back on track because we are the best of the best and professional roleplayers. [Insert cool sunglasses smile emoji here]**

***Annie:** Should we invent a summer smoothie? I’d be down to invent a summer smoothie.*

***DrWreckage:** Well, it’s summer.*

***Annie:** Yea. Uh, so what would be the base- like the base liquid? Between like milk, juice, or water, I guess.*

***DrWreckage:** Lemonade.*

***Annie:** Oh.*

***DrWreckage:** A nice gentle lemonade, not like the stuff for kids that’s super harsh.*

***Annie:** Uh-huh. Uh. Alright, moving to Kasey. What would the fruits be? Fruits or chocolates or like any ingredients?*

***Kasey:** Ernest is just pointing emphatically at marshmallows.*

*[Literally sweet giggling]*

***DrWreckage:** Hm. I don’t know if that...*

***Annie:** Marshmallows and lemonade?*

***Niamh:** Kurt will decide to even-further ruin it and point at the chocolate.*

*[Evil laughter and physical pain]*

***Annie:** So, marshmallows, lemonade, and uh… chocolate…*

***DrWreckage:** Yeah that sounds gross and awful. I’m saying that out of character…*

*[Laughter that is honestly fair because it’s the truth]*

***Kasey:** What is Tadd saying about it in-character?*

***DrWreckage:** So we’ve been like, is- did we literally workshop this smoothie in-character, that’s what just happened?*

***Annie:** I thought we were workshopping it out of character.*

***DrWreckage:** Yea I wasn’t particularly clear either, um.*

 **[Laughter of realization aka The Gang Was Able To Communicate]**

***Kasey:** Ah, I’m sorry.*

***Annie:** No problem.*

*[Jumbled]*

***DrWreckage:** If you think that’s something you would serve then I guess? And if that’s something-*

***Kasey:** I was imagining it was uh- it was like a “Build your own Smoothie” like selection on the menu.*

***Annie:** I mean like it probably is.*

***Kasey:** Sorry, sorry, yeah I thought we were going in-character here.*

***Annie:** Oh yeah, you two are probably scheming to build like the worst smoothie ever.*

***DrWreckage:** That’s basically what they did just do. Annie I don’t think they want you to find true love!*

***Annie:** Oh my goddd.*

***Kasey:** Look, look, Ernest is just very enthusiastic about marshmallows and has no respect for uh any standard culinary combinations.*

***DrWreckage:** Fair point.*

***Niamh:** And Kurt loves this.*

***Annie:** Awww that’s so cute! Um, actually in that case, I guess like we’re both group-building our own smoothies? Or like pairs.*

***DrWreckage:** Yea it’s not like on the double-date you get 4 straws into the smoothie. I don’t think that’s how a double date works.*

***Kasey:** Okay yea, we could do that by pairs.*

***Annie:** Uh, so you guys first. You’ve got your marshmallow and chocolate abomination. Uh, and the base was gonna be lemonade?*

***Kasey:** Well- well if they’re separate ones then…*

***DrWreckage:** The lemonade was Tadd’s suggestion. So for our nice summer smoothie that’s gonna have fruits and stuff in it, um, and their dessert abomination, I guess is the sort of like delineation.*

***Annie:** [You’re] gonna make Mike cry on the job…*

***Niamh**: But I think um, Kurt and Ernest would have the base of milk then and not be so much of an abomination.*

***DrWreckage:** Yes, that repairs that drink quite a lot! I don’t think we need to get too far into specifics I think it’s just nice to say that like Tadd um sort of like, very encouragingly, leads Faith- or allows Faith to lead him through building a smoothie as a way of trying to calm her down because it’s very clear that you’re nervous.*

***Annie:** Yea like if-if- if you were- since he allows her to uh “be in her element.” I guess she would like very expertly construct the best summer smoothie- customizable-thing-option.*

***DrWreckage:** So after letting you be in your element as you build the smoothie and building up your confidence, um, he then uh like at the end of- the peak of you handling it perfectly and designing this smoothie, he leans in and says:*

**Tadd:** So, two straws or two drinks?

***Annie:** Everything just breaks.*

**Faith:** What do you think would be...better? Because I think it’s- it’s I don’t know if you’re like about that but it’s probably cheaper to get two straws.

**Tadd:** Yeah! I don’t need an excuse.

**Faith:** This thing is pretty big… Um, alright! T-two straws, uh, what about the two of you?

***Annie:** She’ll like look over.*

***Kasey:** I think Ernest has been, um, rambling about smoothie combination ideas that are not uh encompassable within this menu selection to Kurt.*

***Niamh:** Kurt will look over and be like-*

**Kurt:** What was the question?

***Niamh:** -very smiley and blushy about their boyfriend rambling. Um, and just be like-*

**Kurt:** Oh, um, two straws and two drinks. But you know, like staggered.

**Faith:** Uh huh, okay!

**Annie:** And she’ll like, raise her- raise her hand to like uh try and get Mike’s attention I guess? And yeah, he’d come over, take the orders ah, probably become just increasingly flustered and like looking at Faith like “What’ve you done.” What’s the ship name? Kurnest? Ert?

*[Laughter at the thought of someone referring to the ship as “Ert”]*

***DrWreckage:** Oh that one just rolls off the tongue...*

***DrWreckage:** It's got to be Kurnest, surely?*

***Niamh:** It is*

***Kasey:** Mhm*

***Annie:** Alright, [Assorted giggling from Kasey and Annie overlapping], uh, yeah while taking Kurnest’s order. He, uh, probably leaves. And there's uh definitely that moment where the drinks are being made uh like the ambience of like blender and uh– the ambience of like blender noises going on. She’d probably like turn to Tadd and be like:*

**Faith:** So, um, what do you do other than the football team.

**Tadd:** I'm on a couple of other extracurricular, uh, clubs and teams. Uh, you know I go where they need me.

***DrWreckage:** Uh, he says.*

**Ernest:** So do you have to like run for captain? Is it a- Is it an elected position?

**Tadd:** No, uh, you impress the coach.

**Faith:** Huh [in the understanding way]

***Kasey:** Ernest kinda frowns.*

*[Giggling]*

**Tadd:** Yeah, but I'm only going for captain on the football team. Everywhere else it’s just you know when they need a spot filled. How about you? I know you're running that fan club.

**Faith:** Uh, yeah, I guess I'm gonna start running it. Once this year starts back up with like everybody. I guess we were hoping on getting more people at the- at the fall club fair, I guess?

**Ernest:** Do we need to fight a ghost again?

**Faith:** I mean I think we're probably gonna have to like one up fighting ghosts now too. Like...

**Ernest:** Fighting several ghosts?

**Faith:** Could fight our own villain?

**Tadd:** Hey, uh, that’s a point. All your friends seem to be on Big Team and you have like teleporting powers. Are you on Big Team?

***Annie:** Awkward pause. And her mouth is just hanging open.*

**Faith:** Nope, nope. Nope, I couldn't even imagine being on Big Team.

***Niamh:** [Giggling from them]  Kurt has flashbacks. Um...*

***Annie:** Kurt has what?*

***Niamh:** Kurt has flashbacks to the last time at Philosotea [i.e. the 4/20 Hangout]*

*[Laughter]*

***Kasey:** I think– I think– I think Ernest might be kind of like lightly kicking Kurt’s leg under the table.*

*[Giggling]*

***DrWreckage:** Uh so you all have this like minor fugue panic attack. Um and uh, Tadd, who is incredibly socially savvy just like nods is like–*

**Tadd:** Yeah, okay. You're not on Big Team, I get it.

***DrWreckage:** But he completely understands that you are, in fact, on Big Team.*

*[Laughter]*

***Annie:** Yeah that's– that's– yeah, that’s amazing. Um. But I'll go– I'll go with that. Uh.*

**Faith:** I mean, I don't really have any other stuff I guess other than like, you know, my job and um, hanging out?

**Ernest:** Oh come on, you're really good at music.

**Kurt:** Mhm.

**Tadd:** What's your instrument?

**Faith:** Uh French Horn. It's– I– I don't want to join band because that's– that's a lot of pressure because apparently from what I saw for band tryouts, nobody else plays French Horn and I don't want to do that.

**Tadd:** Oh, that would be rough.

**Faith:** Yeah. But it's fun to play. And like the apartment's soundproof, so I'm not going to be like getting complaints or something about noise.

**Tadd:** I imagine most apartments are soundproof in Halcyon, eh?

**Faith:** Right, yeah. You know I couldn't think of that, that's– that's interesting.

***Kasey:** Ernest– Ernest gets flashbacks to, uh, the noise complaints that i've been sent to his apartment. Back when– back when he lived in an apartment.*

**Tadd:** [suggestively] I mean, I know my apartment is soundproof.

*[Snickering]*

***Annie:** Oh she will very most certainly um, like be confused for a moment, it's like– ‘yeah because you know, what you just said’ and then the realization will hit, for just a moment. Uh. And she'll like take a very long sip of her water. But yeah, complimentary water– water uh.*

**Tadd:** So are you all from here?

**Faith:** Uh yeah.

**Tadd:** You know, the city.

**Faith:** Like, my dad's in Halycon, born and raised?

**Tadd:** Or you know, just like most of your life.

**Faith:** Yeah I'd say like half my life.

**Ernest:** I just moved here like last summer so... coming up on a year, nearly?

**Kurt:** Um. Yeah i've lived here all my life. Uh– yeah, even that year in the future I guess.

**Tadd:** Hey man, like uh I get that y'all are superheroes and everything, but that's pretty heavy to just drop into a conversation like it's nothing.

**Ernest:** Oh no, it was– it was– it was super awful and uh, we don't talk about it.

***Kasey:** Ernest kicks Kurt under the table.*

*[Laughter]*

**Tadd:** Yeah, I kind of figured that you wouldn't want to talk about it which is why it's like, hey. We're just meeting each other.

**Kurt:** Oh, well. You know it's a pretty significant part of my life, I should maybe say it up front.

**Tadd:** Yeah that's fair. So anyway... I was just trying to segue into the fact that I also just moved here.

**Faith:** Oh really, from where?

**Tadd:** Minnesota.

**Faith:** Huh, I've never been to Minnesota.

**Tadd:** There's nothing there.

**Faith:** I mean there's every– there's something everywhere, right? Unless there's like nothing nowhere. Wait, that's also–

**Tadd:** There's a big mall.

**Faith:** Well, that’s something.

**Kurt:** I feel like you're demeaning the like, greatness of Lake Superior.

**Tadd:** Well Lake Superior is great but uh, Minnesota actually has the least Superior shoreline of any of the states. That have a Superior shoreline. Obviously it has more of a Superior shoreline than Oklahoma.

**Faith:** Yeah, there probably isn't like, a good shoreline in like, Arizona or something.

**Tadd:** Not that I know of. Never been.

**Faith:** It's– it's really hot. Um.

***Kasey:** Just because this is uh– just because this is something that uh, Ernest does frequently, um. By some, uh, medium- to less-obvious, minor sleight of hand, Ernest will have put marshmallows in uh, Tadd and Faith’s drink.*

***Annie:** Like as it arrives you like, uh, they get switched up for a second and then it just comes back with marshmallows.*

***Kasey:** Or he's like flicking them in, just like whenever they're not quite looking.*

***Annie:** Yeah.*

*[Laughter]*

**Faith:** Um. Cheers, I guess everyone. Enjoy.

***Annie:** She’ll like look with just the faintest hint of like, grimacing pity towards your drink.*

***DrWreckage:** So just to make– just to put a little bit more tension back into this date with Tadd – who is someone's nemesis – um.*

***Annie:** Oh, right.*

***DrWreckage:** Ernest, uh, after you like, very effectively sleight of hand the marshmallows into the drink like. When you look away and look back the marshmallows are all out on a napkin next to him.*

*[laughter]*

***DrWreckage:** And like Tadd isn't calling any attention to it, but he like completely noticed and took them out.*

***Annie:** Oh my god. Ninja. Uh.*

***Kasey:** Ernest– Ernest is– Ernest is now– is now very– very narrows eyes at Tadd, but also won’t say anything. [giggling]*

***Annie:** Uh. And I think Faith would let this sit– let the drink sit there for a moment uh, like ‘Am I supposed to take the first sip or is...?’ Uh. And she’ll like– I just– i guess just lean in for the first sip.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh, Tadd intentionally takes a sip at the same time as you.*

***Annie:** Uh. And it's like a very quick, very– As soon as– as soon as like, he also leaned in she like, takes a very quick sip, so as not to be like rude and like recoil. Uh. But like very– I guess calmly, like... not calmly, like.... steadily leans back.*

**Tadd:** You did a good job, it tastes like summer.

**Faith:** Yeah it does. Thanks for, um, helping me pick.

**Kurt:** I'm pretty– I'm pretty sure– I'm pretty sure you just said a Kendrick Lamar line right there. I'm pretty sure that's a lyric I've heard before.

***Niamh:** Kurt will say.*

***DrWreckage:** Tadd like, looks around as if searching his mind– you know that like, where you look diagonally up and that sort of thing?*

**Annie:** Yeah.

***DrWreckage:** He's like–*

**Tadd:** I– I'm gonna be honest i'm not that into music.

***Kasey:** Ernest looks horrified.*

**Tadd:** Hey, there's a lot on my plate. Like I listen to it casually, but I don't know who Kendrick Lamar is.

**Ernest:** Okay fair. But everybody likes some kind of music.

**Tadd:** Yeah, I mean... they like– they just… Look, in the weight room at the school, you can't even hardly tell what's coming through those speakers. They play the music, it's all hardcore pump it up stuff.

**Ernest:** Yeah you should see– you should see if you can get them to– Look. Practicing in like rhythm with uh, music?

***Kasey:** And Ernest just kind of uh, does some um, like, punches in the air that maybe kind of come close to knocking something over. But doesn’t actually.*

*[Laughter]*

***DrWreckage:** A waiter has to like really skillfully readjust.*

*[Laughter]*

**Ernest:** Um. It's a– It’s a good time.

***DrWreckage:** So um, I think uh, unless anybody else wanted to do anything while drinks were on the table I think um, I want to sort of skip to the drinks being done.*

***Niamh:** I– I do want something.*

***DrWreckage:** All right.*

***Annie:** Mhm.*

***Niamh:** The next time Tadd like, goes to take a drink um, and like lingers there a little too long after Faith, Kurt's gonna like move into Ernest’s lap and intentionally bump the table so some of the drink will like, spill on Tadd. Um.*

***DrWreckage:** Yeah, um, you do that and like your timing is really good and Tadd's hand shoots up and catches the drink and like nothing spills on him.*

**Faith:** Oh, nice catch.

**Tadd:** Eh, football.

***DrWreckage:** He says that, but like there's like one million percent that was like, combat reflexes. Like, everybody here has done a fight or two um and like he also very clearly grabbed it with his evil hand.*

*[Oooohs and giggling at the evil hand]*

***Annie:** She would like look, kind of like lean, uh, to kind of check out what's part of under the table, and she's like–*

**Faith:** I swear I had these adjusted last month. That's gonna come loose already?

***Annie:** –and like kind of mumbling a bit, like looking under to see. Just, leaning under.*

**Tadd:** Hey–

***DrWreckage:** He like, very gently puts a hand on you–*

**Tadd:** Hey, you're off the clock. Don't worry about it.

**Faith:** Oh, all right. Um. I just wanted this to go, you know, not like bumpy. Um.

**Tadd:** I'm having a great time.

**Faith:** That’s great– That’s great to hear.

**Tadd:** Speaking of, uh, I have uh– I have my car uh, if you all want to go for a drive.

**Faith:** That sounds like fun. What do you guys say?

***Annie:** She's very like, like, keeping a very straight like intrigued face but her eyes are just like, on fire.*

***Kasey:** Ernest is very uh, I think Kurt would probably be able to tell that the dilemma Ernest is going through is uh, between wanting to uh, challenge Tadd to a race but also not wanting to not be in the car.*

***Niamh:** I think Kurt is like–*

**Kurt:** Yeah, it'd be cool to go for a ride.

***Niamh:** –to like guide Ernest, to be like ‘Be in the car.’*

**Kasey:** Yeah, yeah, Ernest is like–

**Ernest:** Yeah, yeah that sounds good.

**Faith:** All right, yeah let's– let’s go for a drive. It's– it's a great day outside.

**Tadd:** Uh, so I wasn't expecting a double date um, but do you all mind if i pick up the tab?

**Faith:** Um, oh gosh no I did– I mean I– I insist we'd like at least split it if not– cause like–

**Kurt:** Oh, no worries I already got it. I talked with Mike earlier– you might remember when I went to the washroom.

**Tadd:** Ohh, you all have the uh, the secret in here at Philosotea.

**Faith:** Haha. Yeees? Right?

***Niamh:** Just dead stare.*

*[Giggling]*

**Tadd:** I mean that's cool uh, can I still leave a tip?

**Faith:** I mean sure, sure it's that's just– that's all on you. It's not like–

**Kurt:** It's not like I can say no.

**Tadd:** I didn’t know what your deal was, with Mike.

***DrWreckage:** Uh he starts to get out of the booth and like, you know, uh affix his leather jacket such to suggest that it's time to go for the ride.*

***Annie:** Yeah she would like also slide out and like, um, grab her bag or something.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh, so Tadd super leaves a tip uh, and it's one of those tips that's just a little bit too much. You know where it's like kind of ostentatious or a little douchey?*

***Annie:** Mhm.*

***DrWreckage:** Yeah, that's how much of a tip he leaves. Now I don't know what that is because I don't know what the price of the meal was– we don't need to get into the weeds on that. So I just need to say that it was just a little bit too much of a tip. And he puts on the aviators and he's uh and he– he goes– he like follows you to the door, such that he's opening the door for you to go outside. You know, that whole thing*

***Kasey:** I think, uh, uh, Ernest will like– sort of like, hold Kurt back for a moment so they could talk without uh, Tadd or Faith for a sec.*

***Annie:** Mhm.*

***Kasey:** And just be like–*

**Ernest:** Okay what– what– what's your read? I'm still not thinking vampire, but also... he’s hiding something.

**Kurt:** Yeah, I feel– is it douche energy? It feels like douche energy, you know?

**Ernest:** I don’t– That's not– He's not hiding that.

***DrWreckage:** It spills out of him like his Dragon Ball Z power level.*

**Kurt:** So listen babe you know I can't tell with that, because I'm an asshole and it's–

***Kasey:** Oh, you broke up a little.*

***Niamh:** Um just, Kurt was like–*

**Kurt:** You know I can't tell with that because I'm an asshole and it's hard for me to say.

*[Laughter]*

***Kasey:** Ernest– Ernest– Ernest will uh, give Kurt like a little smooch and be like–*

**Ernest:** Yeah maybe– you may be prickly but you're not, you don't– you do not uh, have– have– have as much douche energy, no. Um.

***Niamh:** Yeah Kurt will definitely smirk like, all like, smug after getting smooched and like–*

**Kurt:** Yeah uh. The date has been pretty awkward right? Like– right?

***Annie:** It's been bumpy but I'd say it's not– not going that bad– as bad as they thought it would.*

***DrWreckage:** I mean the whole– the whole part where– this is me out of character– the whole part where you were like yeah, ‘I got trapped in time.’ It's like ‘Yeah, okay I don't know what to do with that, buddy.’*

***Niamh:** Mhm.*

***Kasey and Annie:** That’s rough, buddy.*

***Niamh:** Yeah.*

*[Laughter]*

***Niamh:** But that was Kurt looking for reassurance from Ernest–*

***Kasey:** Awwww*

***Niamh:** –that it was going bad.*

***Kasey:** Oh, oh, oh, that was in character.*

***Niamh:** Yeah.*

***Kasey:** Uh, Ernest is like–*

**Ernest:** Yeah it's been– it's been awkward, but some of that has been our fault.

***DrWreckage:** I just imagine you two sitting with like fingers on your chin scratching and like the math symbols, and like ‘what percent of this is our fault?’*

*[Giggling]*

**Kurt:** Wait, wait, wait. Can't– Hm, no that would bring them closer together. That would be a bad plan.

***Kasey:** Yeah, Ernest is like–*

Ernest: Yeah no, I already– I already thought about, you know, top down car/rainstorm but. Yeah.

*[Laughter]*

**Kurt:** Wait, wait, wait. Banknotes Harper sold him weed. That's the game, isn't it? You know it is. Get pulled over, he could get– get him Banknotes Harpered, right? Right?

***Niamh:** And Kurt seeing like no, um like no response from Ernest is gonna be like–*

**Kurt:** Yeah maybe that's a little too harsh.

*[Laughter and ‘Oh my god.’]*

**Ernest:** Yeah all right, I don’t– yeah let's– let's just see where this is going.

**Kurt:** Yeah, sounds good.

***Annie:** Out of character, I am all on board with the top down/rainstorm.*

***Kasey:** Yeah but Ernest– but Ernest knows– Ernest knows that's the summer– that's the summer teen movie.*

*[Laughter]*

***Niamh:** Kurt has one final gambit uh, that he's gonna tell Ernest about.*

**Kurt:** if– if– if it goes to hell, we just make out in the back of the car and make it awkward when we're in the middle of the country? And we just start making out, okay?

***Kasey:** Ernest will nod.*

***DrWreckage:** Oh that's just gonna go the way that you don't want it to go.*

*[Laughter]*

***DrWreckage:** Um. So yeah like, uh Tadd– When you two catch up having made your schemes, um, uh Tadd was just sort of outside um, you know, hanging out uh with Faith. Maybe they made some small talk. Uh, but when the group reunites he'll like lead y'all um, because he didn't park out here on the street, so you have to walk a couple blocks to where he parked, basically.*

***Annie:** Mhm. Er, well the way that um– the way that uh, the like area outside the shop is it's– it's like a um– it's like a one-lane road on each side.*

***DrWreckage:** Yeah.*

***Annie:** Uh, with like a slight parking for small vehicles.*

***DrWreckage:** Right. His is neither of those things. Um. Uh, so like after some walking and some chatting uh, you get to the uh, black and silver Thunderbird with the top down and the gorgeous white leather upholstery sparkling in the sun and it's like it's straight out of the 50s.*

**Faith:** Wow that's– that's a really nice car.

**Tadd:** Thanks, I put a lot of work into her.

***Annie:** She would like go over uh, like look around and like very absent-mindedly go to like look at things, check things out like very um, very like into the idea of like, like all of the mechanics stuff of the car. I don't know– I don't know what a car person likes. Right?*

***DrWreckage:** Right but do you– do you– do you want to say that like, even though you as Annie can't say intellectual uh, mechanic things that your character says some things?*

***Annie:** Mhm. She like– yeah she would spout off a few um like, mechanical things that someone in the know would probably know.*

***DrWreckage:** Tadd gets a devious grin and like will uh, return your serve, so to speak. Um like–*

**Tadd:** Yeah, you know it's a body kit uh, but that's because I can't afford a legit Thunderbird, but you know it's really about the aesthetics anyway, it's not like it matters if it's original.

***DrWreckage:** And then you also talk about how he takes it to uh, track days at Halcyon Racetrack.*

**Faith:** Oh cool. I know my mom was talking about maybe getting back into doing that now that she's back here.

**Tadd:** Oh yeah, your mom races?

**Faith:** Yeah, it's like mostly like big– Uh, I have a photo.

***Annie:** And she like pulls up these like heavy duty like military style jeeps that are like super outfitted and stuff.*

**Tadd:** I don't know if you can race those.

**Faith:** I don't know how but she makes– she makes it work.

**Tadd:** Unless you had a race entirely composed of heavy vehicles, which I suppose would be pretty cool.

**Faith:** The noise would be crazy.

***Annie:** Um and it's at that point that I imagine the other two arrive.*

***Niamh:** Kurt will say to Ernest–*

**Kurt:** Yo, that car would be so cool to crash into something. Like, oh my god, I'm pretty sure I crashed one just like that when I was uh, you know, um in the future.

**Tadd:** Like I was... Okay.

***Niamh:** Kurt will give them thumbs up*

**Kurt:** Cool car, dude.

**Tadd:** So yeah, there's plenty of room in the back for you two.

***DrWreckage:** Uh. And then he like, opens the door of the passenger side for Faith.*

**Faith:** Thank you.

***Annie:** And she would like to take her seat very– very like, like, content with herself, and like content with the whole situation that's happening.*

***DrWreckage:** And Tadd walks around to his side and then does that thing where he hops into it instead of opening the door*

*[Snickering]*

***Annie:** Just to be cooool.*

***Kasey:**  All right so we'll just get in the back.*

***Niamh:** Yeah, Kurt will just teleport there.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh yeah he, the– the engine growls to life um, and he uh takes you out of the parking lot. He does not buckle up.*

***Annie:** Faith does, absolutely. Seat belt, checks everything. Everything before the car– before the engine starts up, but like as soon as it does she's like confused for a moment and then by then it's probably already too late.*

***DrWreckage:** Do it's just kind of like– I don't know if anybody has ever driven uh, a car with a top down in the summer, um. My personal opinion is that it's just kind of noisy and unpleasant when you're in the city.*

*[Laughter]*

***DrWreckage:** So for like, for the first ten or so minutes, it's not– like you aren't even really capable of conversation so much. Um, but Tadd quickly gets the vehicle to, you know, outside the city. Um, I'm sure there's some place that is the nearest place that is a little bit more sparse and naturey. Uh, as I understand it there's maybe even more of that than there was previously um, after the finale.*

***Kasey:** There is a– There is a nature reserve outside the city.*

***DrWreckage:** Wherever it is, I mean this is where Tadd takes people to smooch anyway, so he's got the, he's got the uh, uh the secret uh, deal on where to go uh, um and– and quickly you all are– it's– it's a beautiful summer uh, afternoon. The top's down and you're cruising gently on uh, some low traffic road uh, with some nature scenery.*

***Kasey:** I think Ernest does a little– does a little trick with the airflow around the car so it's a– it's a pleasant breeze for him and Kurt and Faith but, but a little bit– a little bit more turbulent over on Tadd's side.*

***Annie:** Like, Faith is probably like too encapsulated and enjoying it to really notice um, the specific change for just one– one person in the car.*

***Niamh:** Uh, Kurt will like start saying to Faith like–*

**Kurt:** Oh hey, remember when like, you, Toni and I went camping out this way?

**Faith:** Oh yeah! That was so much fun, we like burned so many marshmallows.

***Annie:** And just like, look to Ernest like ‘I'm sorry.’*

**Kurt:** We still ate them though. It's not like we didn't eat them.

**Faith:** Yeah that's true, they weren't half bad? Um, I'm gonna chalk that up to Toni being like the best cook ever.

**Kurt:** Like grill master supreme, like the best.

***Annie:** Toni the tiger, I'm grrrrrrill master.*

*[Laughter]*

**Faith:** Um, yeah the views from– from– from the overlook are just absolutely amazing.

***DrWreckage:** Uh Tadd pointedly like, looks at you and says–*

**Tadd:** I think the view’s already amazing.

**Faith:** Oh, uh. Oh, thanks.

***Annie:** And she like– Would his hair be messed up a bit?*

***DrWreckage:** I mean it's like, he– he's a– he is a jock who is obsessed with his appearance– I wouldn't say obsessed, but he's very pointed about his appearance and he owns a car with a top down that he drives in the summer, so his hair is like uh– uh managed for that. Which is to say it looks amazing right now.*

***Kasey:** Is it– is it– is it managed for– for uh, super-powered interference with– with uh, said top down driving?*

***DrWreckage:** I don't know, I guess I'll have to wear– roll a hair resistance check against your unleash your powers. Um, I don't know it's like– it's up to you like, how intense are you going with uh, putting bad weather on him?*

***Kasey:** Oh man. I think he would probably– he would probably try to– to– to mess with– with Tadd's hair. He's still trying not to be obvious about it, but.*

***Niamh:** Is Ernest smart enough to realize that he can change the moisture in the air to like, ruin whatever product Tadd has in?*

***Annie:** Oh my god, no.*

***Kasey:** Probably not.*

***DrWreckage:** Good. I'm glad we're not doing chemistry in this dating session.*

***Annie:** As someone who has to use hair product, please no. Um, but yeah if there's like a strand or two out of place, she would like a reach over to tuck it behind his ear or whatever.*

***Kasey:** Oh no, my plot.*

***Annie:** [Gremlin laughter]*

***Niamh:** Oh no.*

***DrWreckage:** I don't know uh, Kurnest, this seems to be going really well.*

*[Giggling over plots accomplished and plots foiled]*

***DrWreckage:** I mean, I think there's maybe uh, another cheesy one-liner or two uh, before inevitably the car arrives at uh, uh, Halcyon City's Makeout Point like, the equivalent. Um because this is– Because every uh, session with Tadd is in some way a genre film from the 50s.*

*[Laughter]*

***Annie:** See I imagine like the area itself is called like HCMP, but nobody like– The sign– the bottom part of the sign is just so weathered and like, destroyed that nobody knows what the original meaning is, and they haven't bothered to replace it so everybody just calls it the Makeout Point. Like people who know where it is call it the Makeout Point.*

***DrWreckage:** But you know, it's– it's usually the– the part of the nature reserve that's high and overlooks the city, right, so that's it’s got this gorgeous view um.*

***Annie:** Yeah.*

***DrWreckage:** And then cars can pull up and teens can make out.*

***Annie:** [Gremlin giggling]*

***DrWreckage:** And he'll pull up where there's a nice view and stop the car.*

***Annie:** Awesome.*

**Faith:** We– we should– yeah, let’s–

***Annie:** She’ll like, open the door to try and to get out uh, just to like take you– take a– take a little stretch.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh, Tadd stays in the car just because he's like uh, adjusting his side mirror and like sort of... he's got that big lounge on that he's had the whole time he was driving, you know, with the one arm out over the side of the car.*

***Annie:** Yeah.*

***Niamh:** Kurt will look panicked at Ernest.*

*[Laughter]*

***DrWreckage:** "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas."*

***Kasey:** [laughs] Yeah*

***Annie:** You tried something but it doesn't seem to have worked.*

***Kasey:** Yeah Ernest– Ernest is– is– [laughs] Oh man. Let's see, how– how– to what degree... See I think– I think– I think the problem is uh, Ernest– Ernest has been like all over the place in terms of uh, trying to talk up his friend, but also uh, make Tadd look bad, and also make out with his boyfriend [laughs] that he's like– Yeah, I think that's– because that was their– because that was their uh, last ditch plan, Ernest just goes and starts making out with Kurt, still in the car. Even though it’s stopped.*

*[Laughter]*

***Niamh:** Yeah Kurt will definitely be there for that. And like, yeah, it's probably pretty heavy, whatever it is.*

***DrWreckage:** Um so Tadd will casually leave the car without calling attention to your uh, tongue combat.*

*[Laughter]*

***DrWreckage:** And sort of uh join, Faith uh, like sort of standing and um, you know, looking out at the view.*

***Kasey:** That– that feeling that feeling when you're uh, too distracted by your own boyfriend to ruin your friend’s [laughter] double date.*

***Annie:** Isn't that the kind of young love we all strive for?*

**Faith:** Wow I’ve... never actually seen Halcyon from up here.

**Tadd:** Not a lot of people take the time to come out here

***DrWreckage:** Uh, and as he says that he tries to hold your hand.*

***Annie:** Oh god, I felt my heart pound for a moment. Um, she would like uh, like flinch for a moment not– not like– not like [gross] flinch, but like uh twitch that's the word um-*

***DrWreckage:** A nervous flinch as opposed to a disgusted flinch.*

***Annie:** Yeah! Um but like uh, she would probably quickly go to grab her phone like:*

**Faith:** Ah, I'm gonna take a picture of this my– my dad would love it uh...

***Annie:** And like– she like steps a few steps forward, uh like snaps a picture, puts her phone back in her bag, and like uh– I feel like if she would turn around she would see just the two of you absolutely like, spaghetti mouth or whatever. Um and she's immediately like, surprised and flushing and like turns back around and like takes a few steps back towards uh...*

***DrWreckage:** Tadd walks up to you and like gently leads you to a bench uh that I imagine is here since there's a good view.*

***Annie:** Probably.*

***DrWreckage:** And like he just sort of goes for it after you've seen that and he's like–*

**Tadd:** They're having a good time. You wanna have a good time?

**Faith:** Um–

***DrWreckage:**  And he's like got smoldering, you know, bedroom eyes just like lasered on you.*

**Faith:** Um– I've, uh, um, I've never, um, uh, kissed anyone before… Uh… I mean I– I'm gonna put it forward that… I’m not… really like… into– into that...

**Tadd:** What, like a– like a hypothesis? Gonna put it forward, like a theory?

**Faith:** I mean, I guess right now it's about to do the testing stages, haha...

*DrWreckage: Uh he gets in close and says–*

**Tadd:** Don't worry, everyone's got a first time.

***Annie:** Uh, and I’d say she wouldn't lean back, but she wouldn't lean forward either.*

**Faith:** Um, so this is really close...

**Tadd:** That's how kissing works.

**Faith:** I– I guess it is.

***Annie:** And she would like hover.*

**Faith:** So is it gonna… is is there like a like... this build up but like is the, when uh–

***Annie:** And like i imagine at that point that's that's when it happens [when she’s about to ask when does it happen]*

***DrWreckage:** Yeah yeah if the opening is there that's when he'll take it.*

*[Long pause]*

***Annie:** Uh and like she doesn't yeah she still doesn't lean into it, but she doesn't lean away either.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh he'll just kiss you once gently, um, he doesn't try and turn it into a makeout session and he just pulls away.*

**Tadd:** Hey look, you didn't die.

**Faith:** I didn't um… that– that… I thought I would.

***Annie:** Her face is just a tomato.*

***DrWreckage:** And also while you were kissing, like he actually grabbed your hand and you're holding hands.*

***Annie:** Which hand?*

***DrWreckage:** Uh because he's sitting on the left- it's right hands. He's not using his evil hand to hold your hand… or his right hand-- it's his right hand, your left hand, that's how hand holding works.*

***Annie:** Yeah, yeah that's how it works.*

***DrWreckage:** Academically, I’ve been led to believe, I haven't done that either.*

***Everyone:** Aww*

**Faith:** That wasn't bad, that was– that was quite nice...

**Tadd:** You did great for a first time.

***DrWreckage:** And he just sort of leans back in the bench and he'll just hold your hand and look out at the view.*

***Annie:** She would look out too.*

***DrWreckage:** He doesn't put any pressure on you to kiss more or anything.*

***Annie:** Uh yeah, yeah she's like very clearly like flustered uh, but is keeping it pretty like– like on the low burn– burner.*

**Faith:** Um, do you think they're done making out?

***DrWreckage:** Uh so out of character question uh, Kurnest are you done making out?*

*[Laughter]*

***Annie:** Like match cut to– to–*

***DrWreckage:** Like did the um, uh, the tension of what was happening over at the bench pull you away from each other's faces enough for you to to peep on it and spy um or are you just having a good time?*

***Kasey:** [giggle] Hmm what do you think Niamh?*

***Niamh:**  I think they're probably just having a good time, like they've tried– Nothing's that wrong here that they need to stop, you know? So I feel like– yeah, that would be my opinion unless you had different ideas, Kasey.*

***Kasey:** Yeah probably– they know they know that they know that uh “Oh, Faith could do a punch if necessary.”*

***Niamh:** Mhm.*

***Annie:** Yeah, she can stand up for herself!*

***DrWreckage:** So um, unless there's any other part of this thing that people want to do, I think I have a way to end it um, that sort of book notes– uh is that the word i'm looking for?*

***Kasey:** Bookends?*

***DrWreckage:** Bookends, thank you! Uh bookends, the uh, ‘it's Tadd and he's kind of vaguely sinister’ and actually to get that into this whole thing.*

***Niamh:** Mhm.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh, so I wanna say that uh, you know after everyone's had make-outs and hand-holds um, that Tadd offers to drive everybody home. You know, because like that's the thing that you do when you have a car and teens have hung out. Um and that I want to say uh for narrative reasons that the way that that works out is that Faith actually gets dropped off first. If everybody would actually get a ride home with Tadd.*

***Annie:** Uh-huh, that seems fair.*

***Kasey:** Sure.*

***Niamh:** Sure.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh, so I mean nothing of note happens in dropping Faith off except for like, he'll be open to another kiss uh, and he'll also like try and set up a future date. I was just gonna say, that doesn't need to be specific but you know however you respond is up to you.*

***Annie:** She would probably like not immediately uh, like go back in for another one but uh-*

***DrWreckage:** Maybe cheek-peck for goodbye? Is that what you’re trying to–*

***Annie:** Yeah, cheek-peck! She would go up to the door and like, kind of like run back and do a little cheek-peck and then like, wave goodbye.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh so Tadd comes back to the car. Um I– I assume you two are not like, still heavy making out like the whole ride home?*

***Kasey/Niamh:** No! No! Gosh.*

***DrWreckage:** Uh and he'll start– I don't know if he's driving you like to your house or to like your vehicle-if you um drove to Philosotea um but there's this awkward silence after he pulls away uh from Faith’s house um and uh at some point he just sort of breaks in with–*

**Tadd:** Hey, I was like picking up this pretty hostile vibe from you two during the double date.

**Ernest:** Look, Faith's our friend. Halcyon's got a lot of shady characters in it, and we don't know you too well yet.

**Kurt:** Yeah! Plus she's a cinnamon roll, and if anything were ever to happen I'd probably go on a rampage.

**Tadd:** I can dig looking after your friend, but trying to sabotage that shit was not cool.

**Ernest:** Sabotage? What sabotage? It seemed like it went fine.

**Kurt:** Yeah.

**Tadd:** Yeah it did, despite y’all’s best effort.

***DrWreckage:** -and then he like sort of pointedly turns to look at uh, Kurt in the back seat.*

**Tadd:** It's like, I've been pretty cool about your whole thing and not talking about it because you didn't want to talk about it. So like, just be cool okay?

**Niamh:** Kurt will kind of like slyly smile and be like-

**Kurt:** You know he knows, right? Like you don't think I’d tell my boyfriend that?

**Tadd:** Well you weren't cool talking about it in public so i didn't talk about it-

***DrWreckage:** -and he like puts his sunglasses back on.*

**Tadd:** All i'm saying is, I’ve been like jumping through hoops for you guys the last two days and I don't know, it just felt like a dick move today.

***Niamh:** Kurt will lean over and be like– look over at Ernest and be like:*

**Kurt:** You know, are we becoming Ellen and Tay? Do we have to say the mean thing now?

***Kasey:** Uh, sorry what was the end of that?*

**Kurt:** Do we have to say the mean thing now?

***Kasey:** I think– I think– I think Ernest will– will uh look conflicted, um, uh but give a slight nod to Kurt.*

*Niamh: Uh… Kurt will just like look at Tadd and say:*

**Kurt:** You know there's no rules that either of us have to be nice to you. The general vibe I've gotten from you and from everyone around you? Your whole shtick? You're a douche, and I’m not gonna stop you from dating my friend. I'm gonna make sure she's okay. But Whiz? Uh, my teammates? Box? I don't know, I'm just here, and I'll act how I want and if you manage to get in the way of any of that? So be it.

***DrWreckage:** Uh Tadd doesn't have a witty retort to that um and you don't think that he's– you don't get like the sense that he's offended, um, but like there is this hostile tension for the rest of the drive home. Or, to your destination. And I assume you're being dropped off together?*

***Kasey:** Yeah [giggle]*

***DrWreckage:** Uh and um it's– it– there's just– you can't even put your finger on it. It's like as he's pulling away after dropping you off, you can't see his eyes because of the aviators, but you just feel like he's, like, staring at you evilly um, through the– through them. Like, that there's a– there's this-- because because the vibe you get like nine times out of ten with Tadd, just like you said was like ‘douche’ right? But in– in the– in the tail off of this scene there's this other thing entirely that's sort of coming off of him. Kind of like the Jojo's menacing joke that was told.*

***Annie:** This time for real.*

***DrWreckage:** Yeah, like uh, like– as he's pulling away and you can't see his eyes behind the aviators there's you know menacing, like, and then he and he drives away.*

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***DrWreckage:** And I think that's the scene? Like the whole thing?*

***Niamh:** Mhm*

***Kasey:** Yeah*

***Annie:** Yeah*

***DrWreckage:** Okay bye Craig–*

***Kasey:** Bye Craig!*

***DrWreckage:** –and bye people who are listening i hope it wasn't like weird fanfic. I hope you had a good time okay byyyeeee.*