THE BIG DAY
John prepared his outfit and got himself ready. He couldn’t explain why, but he had a strong sense that the date was going to go well. Iris’s reply had made him feel like the stars were aligning. Unlike with other dates, he didn’t feel uncertain about himself. He felt confident that this would be a date he would enjoy.
Similarly, Iris felt the same way. After so many years of feeling nervous about dating and dreading the very thought of them, suddenly, inexplicably, she felt excited. Could it finally be that something was about to go right for a change? Is this the moment her friends had told her about?