February 7th & 8th, 2026 - Friends and More than Friends

// February 7th, 2026 //

The plan was to maximize our time together, (isn’t it always?) unfortunately a crucial misinterpretation of the texts meant at least an hour and a half missed. Rajvir has said his tests ended at 11:30, I was under the guise that they started at that time. Being that I was the days driver, it stood to reason that I was in no rush. Ryan, Martin and I got to UTM jsut before 1 in the afternoon. Raj took us around the school for a minute before we found a room to duck in to.

We had a nice lil* game of Catan. I was a turn away from winning before I was Risk-ed**. I had enough resources to build a city, allowing me to have enough VP to win. The only thing to stop me would be to roll a 7 and activate the robber forcing me to discard half my hand. You'll never guess what I rolled... I discarded my hand, it was fine I could still rebuild before anyone would win. I explained that to Martin, Ryan and Raj. Eternally my undoing. Without hesitation they turned on me, Ryan gave everything to Raj, he still hadn't enough to win. He was one card away, a single wheat away from victory. Martin implored as to what Raj needed, he explained his desire from grain. Martin had only one card in his hand, i've never seen a man slide a card so fast in my life. The three transpired against me, I cities fell, my roads crumbled, my empire fell to ruin. Rajvir won.

We went out to eat after, a nice little dinner at Heart Sushi. I think I still owe Martin actually? I liked the dinner, I didnt want AYCE until I found a tupperware in my trunk. We stuffed my second stomach full and I got to tell my closest friends about this beautiful girl I've met.

I took Martin and Ryan home and then I ran a session of DnD with the family before I went to bed. It was a good day. 



* We played for an hour and a half

** The act of being teamed up upon by your friends to lose a boardgame when you were poised to win.

// February 8th, 2026 //

I was up early. Not of my own volition, my internal clock just decided it for me. My date wouldn’t arrive for at least another hour. With me being awake I took time out of my day to drop off Frey and my mom at church. Then it was back home for a quick shower.

My date picked me up some ten minutes later and she took us to Stacked. I haven’t been to a breakfast place in a long time. (Sorry. I write this like a week later after all we’ve done is talk to each other. I really really really like this girl and it’s weird to talk about her back then when I have the feelings I have for her now…) This was our third time out, the nerves were calming but not calm. We talked while we ate, I can’t recall on what, I just remember her asking me to talk more. She ended up paying for the brunch. I tried but didn’t put up much of a fight. A part of me loved the princess treatment I was getting. She had me in the passenger seat holding her hand.

We didn’t want the day to end so early, we had only just scratched the surface of being together. We ended up at a board game cafe, stayed for an hour or so. It was cute, quaint and quiet when we got there. It was loud when we left.

We went out for ice cream after and built another flower. We talked but I have no idea what about. I got permission to have her over and so we ended up in my room again. I got to introduce her to Logan before we watched the first Harry Potter. She left after the movie. It was a really nice day and a really good date.