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Go Billy!

Wait. What do you mean you may have asked her out? You did or you didn't.

Uh. Well. I asked her to a movie and dinner. Well, the movie was her idea, and I just spun it to more of a...date-ish...thing. I didn't, uh...say that it was a...date. She kind of said about it being a friend date...kind of thing. If that makes sense. As in something friends do. I...didn't...really correct her.

But I mean it sounds like a date...!

It's all about the baby steps.

Good job, Padawan.

I don't know if maybe she's starting to catch on to the whole fact that we would be really good as MORE THAN friends? I don't know. Sometimes we talk about relationships and kind of open and intimate things. And it gets a little awkward. Maybe it's just me.

I should just come out and say it, shouldn't I? Just like...say it. I don't know.

Take my opinion with a grain of salt, since I don't always follow this advice, but the ripping off the band-aid approach seems pretty good to me.

I'm just not...good...at this. This relationship thing. I'm not very liberal with that love word. Not that I should be, but, y'know.

Most things worth are while aren't easy, and take much of our courage, Billy.

This is Yoda!Rachel, if you will.

Learn from your teachings, I will.

Good!

May? May as in you did?!?!

As in I sort of might have?! It sounds like a date! Except she sees it as a...thing friends do. Not as in like romantic date. IT'S A START, ANYWAY.

It is! It's good! Flowers. There should be flowers.

What kind? I mean, I could always look up the various meanings of flowers... I don't know how she'll react to flowers! Maybe I shouldn't do flowers. Flowers aren't too much, are they?

I think it would be sweet. Daisies. Maybe mixed flowers.

Okay, I think I've totally got one I can get her. A bouquet, I mean. I don't actually know when this'll take place, though. We were just kind of musing about things to do outside of what we already do. So I guess I should hold off on ordering them.

I should be better at this than I am.

So is this like a night time date of dinner and movies or a daytime amusement park thing?

Why? Why should you be better? I think it's sweet.

Movie in the afternoon, dinner after.

I don't know. I'm almost reaching middle age, and I've had a few girlfriends, and I just feel like this shouldn't be as panic-inducing and confusing as it is. It's such a...teenage thing. (Or it was in my day; now it just looks like it's all about sex.)