Short Stories

Bad Date Night

On one Saturday morning my buddy Michael told me to add his friend on Facebook. I wasn't thinking clearly about it at first, but I did it anyways. She then friended me back a couple minutes later. My friend told me to ask her out on a date and I did, because I thought what could go wrong. What I didn't know was that everything could go wrong.

She came over at around six that same night, so then I and she could hang out at my house. We both sat down and started to talk.

"So how are you?" She asked.

"I'm good how about yourself?" I replied.

"I'm great." She chuckled a little and sat her hand on the couch. Her hand then slipped in between the folds of the couch, and she screamed in horror as she brought her hand up from the couch with something inside.

She screamed, "Is THIS DOG food?" I couldn't help, but laugh at her reaction.

"Yes," I replied, "it's from Penguin's dish."

"Penguin?" She said screaming in disgust and horror.

"Yeah Penguin, anything wrong with that?" I asked confused.

"It's a dumb name!" She yelled angrily.

"Why?" I said getting angry.

"Because what kind of name is PENGUIN?" She started swinging her hand to get the dog food residue off.

I started to get ticked off, but I just choose to ignore it. We moved out of the living room and into the kitchen, and of course there had to be something wrong with the kitchen.

"What's that?" She yelled softly pointing to the counter. There was a box of some Chinese food from down the street and a packet of M&M's.

"What, I ate nothing, but M&M's and Chinese food all day because my friend had my car." She looked disgusted and I got tired of her attitude and brought her to the front door.

She looked at me and smiled saying, "I had a fun time." Sarcastically.

I smiled back and said "I didn't either." I then opened the door. She kept that smile on and walked out. I closed the door and went to my room to go sleep.

The next day I met with Michael and told him what happened with that girl.

"Wow and I thought I had bad luck." He said chuckling.

"I know right. Oh! Look at this, a couple hours after she left, she made a Facebook status, let me find it. I took a screenshot." I started swiping through my phone till I found the photo. "Here it says, 'Girls I just had the worst date. His name was Genesis. He had a dog named Penguin. I know, what kind of name is Penguin? His house was messy and he treated me the worst.'" My friend started to burst out laughing. "It gets better." I said. "I commented, 'That's not true you came into my house and made up excuses to be mad.' She then deleted the comment and then blocked me on Facebook. So yeah you thought you had bad luck."

All he could do was laugh. Once he got it together he said, "Don't worry bro, I got another girl right here."

I took his phone and dropped it on the table. We both then laughed and ended the day with a smile.