035: VIDEO

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[There's a petite blonde girl sitting on the edge of an unmade bed. She's wearing a Western Bulldogs football shirt which hangs low enough to almost conceal the baggy men's boxers.

The camera has been turned on deliberately. She stares at it.

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Just getting it over with.

[And she leans across to switch the feed off.]

Comments

[chasesskirt]

If it were the only alternate.

[brobeforehos]

Hockey players are pretty big.

[chasesskirt]

I'm not picky on the sport.

[brobeforehos]

You're fine the way you are.

[chasesskirt]

[Mae, you're adorable.]

I tell you what. Give me the self-acceptance pep talk if I'm still like this tomorrow.

[brobeforehos]

I can manage that.

[chasesskirt]

Great. I'll plan not to need it.

[brobeforehos]

Hey - if you need it tonight, I could always take you out for drinks? Girls' night out?

[chasesskirt]

Are you coming on me?

[Sorry, not possible to resist.]

[brobeforehos]

[Save that for the fourth date, or something.]

I was going to give you all these self-appreciation speeches and all.

[chasesskirt]

While drip feeding me sugary cocktails. I know what girls are like.

[brobeforehos]

Think of it as anthropological research.

[chasesskirt]

...All right. But nothing with an umbrella.

[brobeforehos]

I will personally take the umbrellas out of your drinks.

[chasesskirt]

[Holding up his hands, he curves his fingers into a heart.]

BFF.

[brobeforehos]

Mock me all you like.

[chasesskirt]

It's not mocking. It's girl power.

[Only 10 years out of date, Chase, excellent.]

[brobeforehos]

Chase, nobody says BFF outloud, we're not on Mean Girls.

[chasesskirt]

Maybe no one does in your world.

[brobeforehos]

What, the exotic world of Exeter?

[chasesskirt]

As opposed to so hip it's ahead-of-the-language-trends Exeter?

[brobeforehos]

[Air-quotes.] Hip.

[chasesskirt]

It means trendy.

[brobeforehos]

I know, it's just - your voice right now saying all these words.

[chasesskirt]

See, either you're flirting or mocking.

[Flirting is wishful thinking, lets be clear.]