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justsookie) wrote2014-02-08 07:14 pm
justsookie) wrote2014-02-08 07:14 pm
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and if the timing is right to sneak off into the night
Sookie Stackhouse has a plan. And, for once, it's one that she's carefully thought through, trying to vet it to the best of her ability. The goal is modest — to invite Will Graham out for dinner. Well, not just any dinner. A date. A date that they can both mutually acknowledge as being a date.
Setting that goal was easy — achieving success is the hard part. It's not because of any reservations about being a woman and asking the guy out. If anything, she likes being able to have that kind of control for once in her life, not letting things be left to chance or letting everything be decided by the guy. The question is, of course, how to ask. While not counting on a yes, Sookie doesn't want to resort to something as impersonal as a text, or harried like a phone call, even if it means that she may suffer slightly more mortification upon being turned down at his doorstep.
So instead, she sends a text to check whether or not he's at his apartment, before trekking across down with a dutch apple pie carefully boxed and covered. It's a bit of a cushion; if he says no to the date, at least she'll have brought good food to a dear friend.
Making sure to clear her throat in the hall, Sookie puts on a smile, pulls both shoulders back, and raps smartly on the door.
Setting that goal was easy — achieving success is the hard part. It's not because of any reservations about being a woman and asking the guy out. If anything, she likes being able to have that kind of control for once in her life, not letting things be left to chance or letting everything be decided by the guy. The question is, of course, how to ask. While not counting on a yes, Sookie doesn't want to resort to something as impersonal as a text, or harried like a phone call, even if it means that she may suffer slightly more mortification upon being turned down at his doorstep.
So instead, she sends a text to check whether or not he's at his apartment, before trekking across down with a dutch apple pie carefully boxed and covered. It's a bit of a cushion; if he says no to the date, at least she'll have brought good food to a dear friend.
Making sure to clear her throat in the hall, Sookie puts on a smile, pulls both shoulders back, and raps smartly on the door.