Blind Date

Story by skiesofsilver on SoFurry

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Written for Xerox2's Aftermath Story contest: https://www.sofurry.com/view/1319693


Aidan stumbled into his apartment from work, slamming the door behind him. Though it was only mid afternoon, he yawned and blinked tired eyes behind his glasses as he knelt down and began to untie his laces. He was so utterly exhausted that he failed to notice the other young man who stood there with a slight smile on his face as Aidan blocked the doorway.

"I guess those undergrads really do drain the soul nowadays," the other man remarked.

Aidan blinked and looked up. He pushed up his glasses and blinked again when he saw the other man.

"Oh, sorry, Dominic," he said, moving to the side. "It was a long day."

Dominic laughed and looked down at his watch. "It's barely 2, and you didn't get there until it was 9, eh?" He shook his head. "Soft."

"Hey," Aidan said with a smile. "You were the one that kept me up with all your relativistic theories and how CausDek Corp is going to take over the world. And you're one to talk; I recall having to wake you up on multiple occasions around, oh-- " He looked down at his watchless arm and squinted dramatically. "2 o' clock, is it? I thought I was going to have to wake you up so you could make your class."

"Yeah right," Dominic scoffed. "You look like you're about to collapse. You would have forgotten about me."

"No!" Aidan denied.

"Yep, in fact..." Dominic smirked. "I bet you've forgotten your date."

Aidan froze.

"Date?" he squeaked.

"Blind date," Dominic said. "At 5:30. I set it up."

"Of course you did..."

"You agreed to it!" Dominic said, his raised hands. "Of course, it may have been a little late when you did so, but..."

"Alright, alright," Aidan groaned. "Where do I have to be."

"Here."

"Here?"

"Yeah." Dominic nodded. "She's going to pick you up."

Aidan looked up at his friend with a tilt to his head.

"That's hardly traditional."

"Well..." Dominic shrugged. "You know how Cascade is with carpooling. It's encouraged."

"To say the least..." Aidan muttered.

"Buck up," Dominic said, moving towards the door. "It'll be fun, I promise."

"Yeah, yeah..." Aidan yawned and stood, slipping off his shoes. "Is she at least human?"

"I think so." Dominic scratched his chin. "At least she was last time I talked to Casey." He shrugged. "But you know how times are. Changing times. Whether you like it or not, we're all going to end up a little less human someday."

Aidan shook his head. "That's not true."

"Oh, sure it is," Dominic said. "They have a model and everything. Apparently by 2047 we'll all be Changed." He laughed. "What do you think I'm studying?"

"Hopefully something more important than graphs on why we're all going to be upright walking bunnies."

"Come on," Dominic scoffed. "We're not all going to be bunnies. They're just...common. Sort of like foxes. And dragons..." He looked wistfully over Aidan's shoulder. "I wonder what that's about..." He shrugged. "If she is Changed, I know you can deal with it. I have to say, I dealt with that one squid lady pretty nicely myself. And who knows? Your Change might be coming up soon. Gotta keep an open mind." He winked. "You might end up a fox yourself."

"To say the least..."

"You already said that, pal." Dominic laughed and patted Aidan's shoulder. "Why don't you take a nap? You don't even have to set an alarm. You can just wait for the doorbell."

"Yeah..." Aidan rolled his eyes. "That sounds like a winning strategy. Show up for my date disheveled and half awake."

"You could have some of my coffee. Pot is still hot."

"Bleh." Aidan stuck out his tongue. "I love you, man, but you make the worst coffee."

"You wound me. Fine, just set an alarm." Dominic opened the door and looked back to Aidan. "Your future is in your hands. I'll be out."

And with that, Dominic was gone, the door shut quietly behind him. Aidan sighed and then yawned. He supposed that his roommate was right, that it wouldn't be so bad an idea to take a nap. As he shuffled towards his room, he considered cleaning up the place a little, just in case his date--whoever she was--did step inside his apartment. This idea was quickly discarded once he saw his bed. It looked so comfortable, so nice, and so necessary, that anything but falling onto its soft surface and snoozing seemed like a world altering feat. Without really thinking, he did what his body demanded and collapsed onto his bed. He did have the presence of mind to place his glasses on his nightstand before clutching tightly at one of his pillows. Just as he thought of setting an alarm, sleep soon claimed him.

Aidan awoke with the distinct urge to pee. Groggily, he rolled out of bed and stood, landing on feet that seemed so unsteady. Without his glasses, he was very nearly blind, but the call of nature was stronger than his desire to see. Though everything seemed off, and he felt a little warmer than he should have in an apartment Dominic usually kept cool, he hardly questioned anything, even as his ears twitched as he stumbled and caught himself on the wall with a sound that was louder than it should have been. He shook off the strange sensations with a shake of his head, and was rewarded with an even stranger sensation as his chest seemed to...jiggle? Figuring he had been drinking a bit too much lately, he ignored this as well and made his way towards his bathroom, taking awkward half steps along the way, his movements only further hindered as his jeans began to slide down his hips. He let them fall to the floor and stepped out of them instead, knowing he was going to have to change out of them anyways for...what was happening tonight?

"Blind date," he hissed. "Crap."

He paused. Was it just him or had his voice sounded higher, if a little raspier? He shook his head, took in a long breath of air, and let out an exaggeratedly deep breath, and was rewarded with the sensation of his chest wobbling again. He set his jaw, and even that felt strange, as if his mouth was out of alignment. He growled at all these inconsistencies, rubbing his oddly warm and fuzzy legs together as he neared the bathroom.

He reached for the bathroom door and wrapped his fingers around the handle. Was it just him, or did he hear some clicking as he did so? And where were his other fingers? He was sure he had five on each hand...

He grumbled and forced the door open, stepping into the bathroom even as his toes clacked against the tiled floor. He didn't so much as flick on the light as he made his way over to the toilet. Though it was rather dark and he could hardly see, the white porcelain was easy enough to make out. Plus, he had always been rather accurate.

He reached down into his boxers and frowned. There was nothing there. Had he reached in the wrong place? He looked down, glazing over his oddly lumpy chest and saw his dark looking hand was at the front of his boxers, ignoring the protrusion of that arm. Frowning, he dug deeper with his hand and yelped as he came across something that certainly wasn't his cock, or male for that matter. He stiffened, and then, without thinking, prodded what he had come across again. It was soft and fleshy, parting slightly as his fingers poked against it, as if it were meant to take in rather than jut out as his manhood had done when he was aroused. He squeaked, immediately withdrawing his fingers as his ears flicked up. His eyes widened as he turned his head towards the mirror.

"No, no, no..." he said, his words said softly not just because of volume, but that's how his voice now was.

As Aidan looked into the mirror he realized three things: that he was wide awake, that he no longer had the urge to pee, and that he couldn't see shit.

With this last realization, Aidan raced out of the bathroom back towards his room. This time, he willfully ignored the sensations his movement gave him: the bouncing of his chest, the erratic, whipping movements of something behind him, the sway of his hips that his boxers were beginning to slip off of, and his odd gait, at least until he nearly tripped over his discarded jeans. He caught himself on his hands, and it was impossible now that they were so close to see how they were different. His fingers were covered with dark brown fur, and his nails were a glistening black, but most odd of all was the membrane that lay between his fingers and pushed out of his arm, looking very much like strangely formed bat wings.

"You have to be kidding me..." he murmured, angling his head between his arms to see his feet. He gulped upon seeing four larger toes instead of five and how his heels were up in the air rather than lower down, as if it was natural for him to walk like that.

He shook his head and stood, bending down to dig his phone out of his jeans as an afterthought. Afterwards, he walked into his room, snatched his glasses from the stand, and kept them in his hands. He didn't put them on, not yet. He made his way to the bathroom, flicked on the lights, and put his phone on the counter. He took a deep breath as he turned to face the mirror, letting the air out as he put on his glasses. Though he couldn't quite see as clearly as he used to with them prior to what had just happened, his reflection, as close as it was, was clear enough.

He thought he would have yelled, cried, or done something when he saw what he found in the mirror, but he could only stare in mute shock. Staring at him from the reflection wasn't him. It wasn't even a him. It was a humanoid bat, of what variety Aidan wasn't sure, but she was covered in dark brown fur, save for fluffier grey fur that wrapped around her neck and swept down to what he could see of her chest, and on that chest were breasts outlined underneath a collared shirt. Her eyes were golden, her ears larger and triangular and raised as if in alarm, and her nose was large and pink, looking like a pig's but not quite a swine's nose. As Aidan stared at the reflection, he realized he could see that nose in the fringe of his vision, though it was no less obtrusive than his human nose had been.

He blinked even as he continued to stare at the bat lady, with her winglike arms (or were they armlike wings?), wide hips covered by burgundy boxers, and legs that seemed quite long and thin. Was he taller? He couldn't be sure. He saw something move behind her, and he looked over his shoulder to see the outline of a rounded rear and the grey, wormy tail that lay above it.

Human. He was no longer human. Humanoid, sure, but he had gone through his Change and now was this. He turned towards the mirror and this time reacted. He let out a shriek, and it sounded appropriately batlike. After that, he felt a bit better, at least until he remembered the other effects of the change. He glanced down and lifted the top of his shirt to look at what lay on his chest: a pair of grey furred breasts that were...well, they certainly weren't big, but any size was too big for someone who never had them. Gulping, he let go of his shirt and glanced down to his boxers. With some trepidation, he gently tugged at the front of his boxers with a clawed hand so he could see what lay beneath. He sighed as he found what he expected, or close enough: a relatively smooth grey furred crotch with a thinly lipped feminine slit where his cock had once been. He gawked at it for a few seconds before letting his elastic boxers snap into place, shivering as he rubbed his thicker thighs together.

A million thoughts raced through his head as he considered the implications of his Change. What would Mum and Pop think of their only son now being their second daughter? Did it work like that? His parents at least had retained their gender through their respective Changes, even if their size swap had changed how things were done around the house. His sister...he shivered. She hadn't gone through her Change yet, but he knew she wouldn't let him hear the end of it. He suspected she would tease him about girly things and be very disappointed to hear that he had literally slept through his Change. And Dominic? He looked down at his feminized form. His friend and roommate wasn't a horn dog by any means, but would it be appropriate for them to share an apartment now?

He scratched at his neck fuzz and sighed, not out of distress, but because that felt quite good, even if the rest of the current situation was uncomfortable. He reached for his phone and picked it up, the screen coming to life as his black claws brushed against it. His eyes widened as he saw the time: 5:30.

"Crap, crap, crap..." he said, each word a little louder than the last, allowing him to hear how much his tone had altered. It was lighter, higher, and a little raspier, but it sounded like him if he was some sort of bat lady...which he now was.

The date! He couldn't go on a date like this. He certainly didn't have the clothing for it, and he didn't even want to think about acquiring such clothing. Plus, he sincerely doubted his date was into bat girls, whoever she was. He had to call Dominic so his friend could call it off. He dialed his friend's number and lifted the phone to his unfamiliar ears. This turned out to be a mistake, as the phone ringing so close to his newly sensitive ears proved to be too much. He swore and pulled the phone away, holding it in front of him instead. He glared at its screen.

"Come on, Dom..." he murmured. "Answer your fucking phone."

While the phone continued to ring, he glanced back in the mirror. He still didn't recognize the face in the mirror as his own, but he was still curious. He turned his head and opened his mouth. Sure enough, his teeth was sharp and fierce, but he had fewer of them now and his tongue was a shade of red that reminded him of blood.

"Dominic here..." Aidan heard as he squinted at the inside of his mouth, trying to ignore how silly his glasses looked on his batty face. He shut his jaw shut and looked down at his phone.

"But I'm not here to take your call! So leave me a message after the beep!"

There was a beep, and Aidan hung up with a grumble. He scrolled through his contacts, wondering who else who might be able to help, when his ears swiveled right as he heard a knock.

He stood stock still. He knew he hadn't imagined that, because his ears still twitched as if anticipating further sound. Sure enough, there was another knock, this one more insistent than the last.

"Oh, come on..." Aidan said. He looked down at himself. He couldn't answer the door like this! His nipples poked out against his shirt, and he wasn't even wearing pants. Maybe if he just waited, she would go away. It was hardly fair for her, but neither was this for him. He needed to go to the Cascade Change Center, not awkwardly explain to a (probably) nice young lady why her date could no longer go on a date.

So, Aidan waited, and there was another knock, punctuated by a series of sharp raps. Still he waited, figuring most people left after the third try. Then whoever was behind the knocks rang the buzzer.

It sounded, loud and high. Aidan swore, clutching at his ears. He had always meant to get it fixed, but both he and Dominic had been too lazy to talk to the landlord about it. Hardly anyone visited, so it had never been a problem...until now.

Still swearing, Aidan stumbled out of the bathroom towards his jeans. He recoiled as the buzzer rang again, but managed to hoist his jeans onto his thinner, leaner frame in the meanwhile.

"Coming, coming!" He screeched, hardly caring now how he sounded. He was having a hard enough time keeping his pants on. Prior to going to the door, he ran back into his room and looped a belt around his waist, having to use the penultimate notch to keep his jeans up. Unsure of what to do about his breasts, he decided not to care as the buzzer sounded one more time. He scowled and ran towards the door, throwing it open without a second thought.

Aidan froze as he saw who the insistent knocker was. It was a humanoid orca wearing a checkered, feminine dress and carrying a purse, though it hardly seemed female, its chest flat and its body appearing a bit bulky for its clothing, while its feet were conspicuously bare. It had one hand raised with a finger an inch away from the buzzer.

"Um, hi," Aidan said. "Please don't buzz again. It, uh, hurts my ears."

"Sorry," the orca said, its voice deep yet gentle. It dropped its hand and regarded Aidan with black eyes as gentle as its voice. "This is apartment 534, right?"

Aidan nodded.

"Oh." The orca looked over Aidan. "I'm here for an...Aidan?"

"Oh." Aidan reached out and caught the door before it swung shut. "That's, uh..."

"You?" The orca guessed.

Aidan gulped...and nodded. He had been ready to lie, but why? This was who he was now, no point in hiding the truth even from strangers.

"I see." The orca frowned and then smiled, showing many sharp teeth. It held out a hand. "I'm Ann."

"Ann?"

"Yes." The orca laughed. "I guess it was supposed to be a blind date, huh? Well, I kind of cheated. Dom told me your name, and I got a picture out of him before agreeing to it." She looked down, putting both arms behind her back, large flicked tail ponderously brushing against the floor behind her. Aidan swore he saw a blush in the white portions of her face. "Sorry, not really fair for you, but there's some strange guys out there." She looked back up to Aidan. "But sorry but isn't really an apology."

"You're..." Aidan blinked. "You're my date?"

"I am." The orca giggled. "I mean, I was. I still can be?" She shrugged and looked over Aidan. "I see you went through your Change recently too, unless Dom was pulling a prank?"

"No." Aidan shook his head. He rubbed the back of his fuzzy neck nervously. "I, uh...just went through it right now. Well, not now now, but while I was napping."

"Oh, that's not so bad. Mine just happened now. While I was driving over here, in fact."

"What?" Aidan said. "While you were driving? Wasn't that..."

"Freaky?" Ann asked, to which Aidan nodded. "Totally. To be honest, I'm freaked the fuck out right now. Mind if I come in?"

"Huh?" Aidan blinked, then stepped aside. "Be my guest."

"Thanks."

As soon as he said it, Aidan cursed himself and then cursed himself again for napping instead of cleaning up the place. Ann walked past him, and Aiden noticed he was taller than her. This made him feel a little better for some reason. Maybe he was taller as a bat lady. He had always wanted to be taller, and now it seemed he was. It was a small solace, but solace nonetheless. He looked over to Ann and watched as she walked over to the living room, before unceremoniously collapsing onto their couch. Frowning, she sat up and adjusted her seating to account for her tail. When Aidan walked into the room, she placed her purse on the floor and smiled a toothful smile at him.

"Sorry," she said. "Didn't mean to just crash but...I still can't believe I didn't crash."

"Yeah. Damn, I've heard of people undergoing a Change while swimming or walking or biking, but never driving." Aidan looked at the orca, still unsure of Ann's sex. "Are you alright?"

"I think so. A Change is a Change but..." She looked down at herself. "I think I'm a guy now? You think that wouldn't bother me so much as this big tail and smooth skin but..." she shrugged. "I don't know, do orcas have breasts?"

"I don't know either but..." Aidan glanced at his shirt. "I guess bats do?"

Aidan felt his face go flush upon saying this, but when Ann laughed, so did he.

"Seems so," Ann said. "I'm no expert. I've seen lizards with breasts so I suppose anything is possible."

"Lizards with--"

They both burst out laughing, Ann's laugh sounding like a cetacean shriek while Aidan's were even higher pitched shriek. Though the laughter stung at Aidan's hearing a little, it was well worth it. For a moment, there was silence, but it was a happy pause, and not so awkward as Aidan thought it should have been.

"This is strange," he said.

"Yep." Ann nodded. "Really weird. It's funny how this happened."

"Yeah, I'm sure the universe is having a laugh." Aidan cleared his throat. "I'm still sort of surprised you came given..."

"Given this?" Ann pointed to herself. "Like I said, totally freaked out."

"Right." Aidan smiled apologetically. "Where are my manners. Are you thirsty? Hungry? Can I get you something to drink?"

"Sure," Ann said. "Do you have some blood?"

"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?"

"It's just that...well, you resemble a vampire bat. If the universe is laughing, does this make this ironic? Were you a bloodsucker before this even?"

"I don't know," Aidan huffed, folding his arms across his chest, mindful of his breasts. "Were you fond of terrorizing seals and penguins prior to you getting here?"

Ann stared at Aidan and Aidan stared at Ann, and then they both burst out laughing again. When they were done, Aidan took a few steps back towards the kitchen.

"I do have some coffee," he said. "Can't promise it's any good. Dom made it."

"Oh, yes please!" Ann said. "I already feel awake enough, but I wouldn't mind some artificial alertness."

"Alright, give me a minute."

Aidan went into the kitchen and found Dom's pot. It was still thankfully warm, or at least warm enough that he didn't feel too bad in pouring a mug for Ann and him. He emerged from the kitchen a minute later to find Ann looking down her skirt. He stopped in his tracks and felt heat rise to his face. She seemed to notice him, sitting up straight and smiling apologetically.

"Sorry," she said. "I'm just curious. I always knew it was a possibility, but...I thought it would be more obvious, you know? It's not like there's nothing there, but I figured it would be flopping around, but no, apparently orcas like to hide it. It's funny, I didn't think this would be so important. Like, my tail should be more important or that I don't breathe through my mouth. I have a blowhole. A blowhole!" She snorted, her nostrils flaring "But no, I'm looking for my dick. Just goes to show how human we still are, huh?" A mischievous glint came into her eyes, and her smile widened as she stared at Aidan. "Have you looked at it yet, hmm?"

"L-looked at what?" Aidan stuttered, clutching the mugs tightly. It was odd how his ears flattened, but it also felt so right.

"You know what I mean," Ann chortled with a whistling click.

"Well..." Aidan made his way over to Ann, sitting in the stuffed chair perpendicular to hers. He offered her a mug as he spoke his next word. "Maybe."

"Maybe?" Ann said, taking the mug. "You can be honest. You just walked in on me looking for my dick."

"Well, yes. Why wouldn't I? I mean..." he looked down at himself and shivered. "This is who I am now."

"Huh." Ann gazed thoughtfully at Aidan. "I like that. I also like that I'm the first one to meet you, just like you're the first one to meet me."

"Are we?" Aidan folded his arms across his chest. "I guess it's a good thing, because now I can warn all of Cascade about the savage orca that has made this place her home."

"Well, I'm sure the town will find me quite acceptable when I made the bloodsucking bat menace well known."

Ann laughed, but dropped her gaze to her mug. Aidan's ears flicked forward in concern.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"I don't think we started this out right." Ann looked up to Aidan. "Sorry about buzzing so insistently. I didn't know you had such sensitive ears and...I was a little upset myself. Mostly freaked out, but..."

"It's ok." Aidan smiled, then held out a hand. "Hi. I'm Aidan, and apparently I'm a vampire bat who vants to drink your blood."

Ann took his hand and shook it. "And I'm Ann. My pastime is frightening young seals who tread too close to the edge." She flashed a toothsome smile. "And eating the dumb ones."

They burst out laughing for the third time, and this time Aidan felt something more than relief. He looked at Ann, then hurriedly looked away when she looked back at him. He looked to his mug and took a quick sip. His hopes that his taste buds had changed to make the coffee more palatable was quickly dashed. It was like he was drinking coffee made by an alien who had read of coffee an era after humanity's extinction. He supposed if the Change continued as projected, there might not be a humanity as it once was at some point. He grimaced and saw Ann doing the same across from him.

"I'm so sorry," he said.

"Oh, it's ok," Ann said. "And by that, I don't blame you that it's quite bad."

"Dom," they both said simultaneously, shaking their heads, then smiling at each other.

"By the way, how do you know him?" Aidan asked.

"Oh, Dom?" She said. "Well..."

So, they set to a casual conversation where they talked about everything else but their altered forms: how they both knew Dom (Aidan from childhood, Ann in that they shared some classes), how they both had never run into each other before (Ann noted they had, Aidan couldn't remember), and what they intended to do after getting their master's (Ann was in favor of pursuing her PhD to hopefully work big in CausDek Corp, while Aidan preferred to teach for a bit). They talked of other things too, frivolous and relatively unimportant, but it made Aidan feel all the better, because here they were, Changed and they weren't mutually freaking out. About halfway through their coffee, the subject of the Change did of course come up, and it was no less easy to talk about: family (Ann was now the only "son" in her family while she teased Aidan about worrying about his sister bothering him about his newfound femininity), friends (half of their fellows were Changed anyhow, and the rest would follow eventually as explained by Ann), living conditions (they joked about switching roommates and Ann mentioned more pool visits), and school (business as usual given that faculty wasn't immune to the universe's whims). At the end of it, Aidan had laughed more in an hour than he had laughed in years, and he was somehow staring at an empty mug.

"That was awful," he remarked, licking at his lips in hopes the terrible bitterness would go away. "This was a mistake."

"I don't think so," Ann said, sitting up. She had been lying on her side for most of the conversation. "It was quite nice."

Aidan looked up at her with concern.

"Oh the coffee was terrible," Ann laughed with a click. "But this date was nice."

"Date?"

"Sure! We met somewhere, had some coffee, and had a nice conversation."

"We met at my house, didn't go anywhere, and had the world's worst coffee."

"But we had great company and a really great conversation."

"Great company?" Aidan murmured, scratching at his neck fuzz. He stiffened when Ann rubbed at it too, if only momentarily.

"Sure! I like you, Aidan."

"Uhh..." Aidan blinked, and then he smiled at the orca across from him. "I like you too."

"Thanks! Helps that you're kind of cute!"

Aidan blushed, but he was sort of ready for that.

"Thanks, you're, uh, sort of..." His ears flicked forward as he examined the black and white orca. "Can I say handsome?"

"You could, but..." She winked at Aidan. "Cute works too."

"Oh, I see."

Ann tilted her head. "Do you?"

"Uhh..."

"You are cute, though," she said with a laugh. "This was a good first date. Wasn't quite blind but...it turned out that way." She sat back and let out a satisfied sigh. "So, when's the next one?"

"Next one?"

"Sure," Ann said, then leaned forward and rubbed at the back of her melonlike dome. She smiled smugly. "Might be a little quick, and you're free to say no, but I have an idea in mind."

"And that is?" Aidan said, leaning forward at well, enjoying Ann's conspiratorial smile.

"Cascade Change Center," she said. "Have you been yet?" She looked pointedly over Aidan's clothing. "Something tells me you're a little bit new about being a bat. And a girl."

"I could say the same thing about you," Aidan replied, matching her smile. "Because most orca bulls aren't found in flowery dresses."

"What, orcas can't wear dresses? Just like bats can't wear bras?"

Aidan shivered, but maintained his smile as Ann stood.

"You're right, we're both new, and we can be new to it together if you'd like. Change centers are a little spooky. Won't you come along?"

"Of course," he said. "And..." He looked shyly away. "Maybe we can get some real coffee afterwards."

"I'd love to!" Ann exclaimed shrilly, then winced. She crossed her legs together. "Talking about some new things, I think I feel it stirring. Mind if I use your restroom?"

"Of course not, but..." Aidan squirmed as his urge to use the restroom resurfaced. "I gotta go too. See you in a minute?"

"Oh." Ann's face set seriously. "I was hoping you could help me."

"It's, um, er..."

Ann laughed and stood up to give Aidan a quick kiss on his neck fuzz. His eyes widened, and he watched as the orca walked away, oddly attracted by how her tail swayed behind her.

"I'm just kidding!" Ann said over her shoulder as she neared the restroom, while Aidan began to head over to the apartment's other one. "I'll figure it out, and I promise I won't make a mess. It just might be more than a minute. Is that ok?"

"Sure. I, uh, got a few things to figure out myself. Oh..." He readjusted his glasses. "I know we were carpooling, so I hope you don't mind if you drive, I don't think it's legal for me to..."

"Of course!" Ann shouted, peeking out of the restroom. "So a few minutes then?"

"Yeah!" Aidan shouted back.

"Alright! It's a date."

Aidan smiled as he entered the restroom. It sure was.