Too late to back out now

Tonight started out perfect. Nothing could be more perfect than rocking the house in the de Jong Theater with Vocal Point. But now you’re probably wondering why it only started perfect. That’s because it didn’t end as great as it began. Let me start from the beginning. A few days ago my roommates were helping me come up with a date idea when one of them suggested going to Pizza Pie Café on Tuesday because it’s karaoke night. But that gave us a strict time table to find a date. The following night a friend of ours, Alex, was playing cards with us when one roommate told him about my project. So they unofficially asked him to go with us. Anyone who knows Alex knows how fun and easy going he is so he gladly agreed.

That brings us to tonight. Since Alex was taken, and the only other guy who visits our apartment regularly is AJ, I had to ask AJ out. And Tuesday was quickly approaching. So Alex and AJ came over for card games as usual, but the subject never came up. In fact, I couldn’t say a single word to AJ because he spent the whole night flirting with my roommate, Cara. As curfew came I panicked. Well, let’s face it; I had been panicking all night. The ball of nerves in my stomach had grown until it was a monster eating my insides. At the last possible moment I pulled Alex aside. I can’t recall what I actually said but I think it was something like this, “Remember how we talked about going to Pizza Pie. Well… will you go with me? Officially?” Alex, being Alex, was very sweet about it and seemed flattered that I would ask him.

Meanwhile, AJ was already out the door when I yelled his name. If I have to go on a date then so does Cara. We are each others wing-women; when one person goes down, we take the other with us. So there Cara was and had no choice but to ask him to Pizza Pie. And that is how I got a date for Tuesday and a couple to double with. My traitorous stomach is still making me nauseous but it’s too late to do anything about it now.