Dan I may have just won.

Jake What did you win? What were we playing? I don’t remember playing a game, man. Shit, did I lose?

Happy Dan No, no, it’s all good. I just think I won.

Tashi And what did you win, then?

Dan Strange date of the year.

Happy Jake That’s a pretty high bar to set, my friend.

Happy Tashi Of the year? You want to make that claim?

Dan Let me explain.

Tashi Please do! But wait.

Dan Hmm?

Tashi Mommy needs to fortify, before hand.

Happy Jake Mommy, can you secure us, uhm, fortification as well?

Happy Tashi Only if you never call me Mommy again.

Happy Jake Deal!

Happy Dan So how’re you and Mel doing?

Jake Hey.

Dan What?

Jake We agreed to not discuss it, didn’t we? So you wouldn’t feel odd about me and her and…

Dan Jake. You’re both my friends and I needed time to get over myself. So I’m asking, as a friend, seriously. How are you two?

Jake Relationship-wise? We’re all right. I don’t know. It’s good?

DanYou sound unsure.

Happy Jake I am unsure! We don’t tend to discuss it. We just enjoy time with each other. It really isn’t that different from before we were seeing other. Just, sometimes…

Dan Right.

Happy Jake But thanks for asking, man, seriously.

Happy Dan Sorry it took a while.

Tashi What took a while?

Happy Jake You getting back here with drinks.

Happy Tashi Shush, dear boy, or you will not get yours.

Happy Dan So all right, the date!

Happy Jake Yes!

Dan So I’ve been sort of seeing this woman for a few weeks. Nothing too serious. We’ve gone out a few times.

Tashi How many?

Dan Last night was our fourth date.

Tashi So you’re sleeping with her already?

Happy Jake ‘Tashi! Not everyone counts the dates and…

Happy Dan Naw, we missed the three date rule so this was going to be the night.

Happy Jake Or maybe everyone else does count. I give up.

Happy Tashi Good plan.

Dan So we go out to dinner, everything is fine.

Jake So the… whatever… happened after?

Dan Yes, once we got back to my place.

Happy Tashi Oh this will be good.

Dan So we’re at my place and things are moving toward the bedroom and… you know how it was really cold last night?

Happy Tashi Like tits for witches.

Happy Jake I don’t think that’s quite the saying, but yeah. It was awful out.

Dan So my hands were cold. And when I first touched her bare back she yelped and shivered. So I apologized. And…

Happy Tashi Silly boy. Warm hands first.

Happy Dan No, see, that was it. She said she kind of liked the cold skin. And then asked me to just lay there.

Happy Jake Just lay there?

Happy Dan Right! So I thought about it and asked her if she was a goth maybe. Because it was a bit strange. The cold and the laying there.

Happy Tashi If she was goth you would have known.

Happy Dan Not always. Camo-goths, Natasha.

Happy Jake What’s a camo-goth?

Happy Tashi I told Daniel about them. They’re goths who are afraid to be all goth-tastic in public, yes? So they, truth’s, dress as if they were not goths to fit in and hide. They consider it a game.

Jake I hate people.

Happy Dan Anyway she was not a camo-goth but she admitted, and here is where I win, that she was necro-curious.

Happy Tashi No! She did no such thing!

Happy Jake No way!

Happy Dan Yes! Totally yes way! She said she was necro-curious!

Tashi As if bi-curious but…

Happy Dan For dead people!

Jake What the…

Happy Dan I know! So she’s confessing this to me and I’m trying to work out if this is a deal breaker for me. Her being necro-curious.

Tashi And is it?

Dan I still don’t know! I mean I want to say yes but really, who am I to judge. So long as she doesn’t go cheating on me with a cadaver, I guess it’s cool?

Happy Jake To the touch!

Happy Dan Jerk. But yes.

Happy Tashi So now you will ice down before sex for her sometimes? Lay very still and quiet?

Happy Dan I don’t know! We didn’t discuss… I mean I guess not, or maybe? But I totally win strange date of the year!

Happy Jake I’m sorry but you don’t.

Angry Dan What? My girlfriend admitted to being necro-curious! How can that lose?!

Jake Sven’s date? With the girl who tried to cut off his toe and eat it as a symbol of her love?

Happy Dan I don’t know…

Happy Tashi Oh they are both so wonderful! I think Sven has lost however.

Happy Jake You think? I don’t know. I really don’t.

Happy Dan I’ll take a tie for first.

Happy Tashi Done!

Happy Jake Easily done!

Happy Dan Hooray!

Happy Tashi Now drink up. And take the ice home with you.