Nerissa & Q

The Start

"Nerissa? Are you there?"

❝...Yes.❞

"I didn't mean to make you upset the other day. Honest. I know I come off as a jokester, but I like to make people laugh and smile. I wanted to make you laugh and smile. Not the complete opposite."

❝Why?❞

"I don't know, but if I'm being honest there's something about you that intrigues me. So, tell me."

❝Tell you what exactly? My hopes? My fears? My insecurities? You want me to open up to you and act as if this is some novel where we fall in love over our similarities and everything ends up good and hopeful?❞

"I wouldn't mind falling in with you. If I knew the real you behind this phone line."

❝Stop. Don't say that.❞

"Why? Why can't I say that? Why can't I say that I maybe want to fall in with you? Is it because you're too scared to say that maybe, just maybe, you want to fall in love with me too?"

❝Quentin! Do you hear yourself right now? Love? We haven't been speaking that long to each other. There is still so much that we don't know about each other. What if you decide after you find out about the real me it's not good enough?❞

"I meant in the future. Not right now. Maybe in time we'll fall in love or maybe we won't. All I know is that I want to get to know you. Right here and right now."

❝Ocean.❞

"Excuse me? I'm over here trying to have a deep conversation with you and you're over there trying to change the subject."

❝I'm afraid of the ocean. You idiot.❞

"Oh...why?"

❝Almost drowned when I was eight. My father had to come get me because my sisters left me alone long enough to almost drown. Talk about non sister goals or whatever crap us teens say.❞

"Horses."

❝Look who's trying to change the subject now.❞

"Your fear is ocean. Mine is horses. You see, I took a trip with my father and older brother to this farm. It was great until I almost got trampled by a horse because I thought it would be a great idea as a kid to pull it's tail. Traumatized for life."

❝Hahaha...❞

"Oh? You think my traumatizing experience is funny?"

❝No, no. It's sad, but the fact that I'm imagining a little Quentin trying to pull a horses tail makes me laugh.❞

"Good. Ears."

❝You're afraid of ears?❞

"No, my insecurity is my ears. I have ears that look like I'm an elf that works in santa's workshop."

❝That and you are extremely tall.❞

"Well you're extremely short."

❝Quentin...❞

"Nerissa..."

❝Piss. Off.❞

"Are we officially friends now?"

❝In your dreams. It's going to take a lot more than one somewhat deep conversation to make me think of you as a friend.❞

"And when we do become friends? What happens after?"

❝Maybe I'll fall in with love with you.❞

"Really?"

❝Nope!❞

"Okay, that was uncalled for."

❝Yeah yeah, whatever, hanging up now lover boy!❞

"M'lady you are something else."