Nerd Love Pt VIII

HELLOOOOO NERDLINGS!
   Sorry for the recent bout of silence but, No wait I'm NOT SORRY. I have a life and a new job and I do this for free so quit your bitchin'! I do apologize for yelling just now though. That may have been uncalled for. In either case I have a new chunk of Nerd Love for you here to make up for my recent tardiness. Enjoy and as always

Nerds Do It Better

Nerd Love Pt. VIII

(Brent enters Irish pub and sees Dawn dressed casually sitting at the bar)

Brent: Hey there

Dawn: Hey yourself, take a seat I ordered you a beer.

Brent: What? Who does that in real life? This could end horribly.

Dawn: Don’t worry, I know quality when I see it.

Brent: Noted…Sooo do you come here often?

Dawn: HA What?

Brent: What?

Dawn: Did you seriously just ask me that? What are you nervous or something?

Brent: heh yeah maybe, I guess I’m just not used to being asked to drinks by attractive package handlers, I didn’t mean that to be as dirty as it sounded.

Dawn: Ha it’s ok I am a great package handler. There is more to me than delivering packages you know.

Brent: I’m sure that’s true but how would I know, for all I am aware of you could be a high tech delivery robot from the future sent here to lull me into some false sense of security before you deliver my body to scientists via time machine so they can study me because I’m the first mutant and my super powers will be far too powerful.

Dawn: …Wow

Brent: Uh yeah I can go off on tangents sometimes.

Dawn: Clearly, well I am a delivery girl by day but an artist by night. I like to draw and paint mostly things you can’t see in the real world.

Brent: That awesome! So like unicorns and things like that?

Dawn: Why do you jump on unicorns right away?

Brent: I guess I just assumed. You are blond and a girl.

Dawn: Well I paint all kinds of things, mostly fantasy landscapes (under her breath) with unicorns in them.

Brent: HA (beer gets put in front of Brent and he drinks it) wow that is pretty good.

Dawn: Told ya, I know quality when I see it.

(Back at Brent’s apartment he is talking on the phone)

Brent: and then we talked about our college years and how she used to smoke a lot of pot and we laughed about how if she still did it would help her art and then I told her how I am a writer and we started brainstorming about how we could combine our talents and create a unicorn based comic strip…it was such a great night

Greg: …I’m going to go get Gwen

Brent: That’s probably for the best

Gwen: What’s up?

Brent: It was a great night. We have so much in common.

Gwen: Aw yay, what did you guys talk about don’t leave anything out.

Brent: Ok so… (after he tells the whole story)

Gwen: So what about Casey?

Brent: OH god I don’t know. Casey is like a female me; we have the same taste in everything. Games, TV, Books but sometimes I just feel I don’t know…off around her I guess. With Dawn it’s like, I mean we don’t have the same taste in everything but I feel…energized when I’m around her. She is funny, colorful and is willing to watch Firefly after I spent an hour explaining to her it was nothing like Star Trek.

Gwen: So she isn’t quite the nerd girl you were looking for then?

Brent: No but…there is something there.

Gwen: Well then you know what you have to do, don’t you?

Brent: Make sure I buy the blu ray of Firefly and wash my bed sheets?

Gwen: What is wrong with you?

Brent: What?

Gwen: You have to end it with Casey!

Brent: What? Why?

Gwen: What do you mean why? You clearly have feelings for Dawn.

Brent: But that doesn’t mean that I don’t like Casey, I like her a lot actually.

Gwen: But you also like Dawn.

Brent: Right…

Gwen: So…

Brent: I don’t…oh shit

Gwen: Now you’re gettin’ it.