MorganLaFey: hard pretzels or soft?

WScranton8: hard. What am I, a barbarian?

WScranton8: soft pretzels are overrated bread

WScranton8: although beer cheese is, admittedly, excellent

MorganLaFey: oh good, I was afraid I’d have to disown you as a friend

MorganLaFey: beer cheese is almost a good enough reason for soft pretzels to exist

MorganLaFey: but not for anyone to actually eat them

WScranton8: Pepsi or Coke?

MorganLaFey: do I have to have one?

WScranton8: I believe that is the point of this exercise, yes :-P

MorganLaFey: then Coke

MorganLaFey: but I’m a real sucker for grade soda ;-)

WScranton8: me too :-)

WScranton8: but that’s not what I asked ;-)

WScranton8: and Coke is a fine answer

MorganLaFey: was Pepsi OK?

WScranton8: yeah, probably

WScranton8: I’m kinda running out of questions, to be honest

MorganLaFey: OK. I have one more, though.

WScranton8: shoot

MorganLaFey: it’s a big one

WScranton8: oh, bring it on Morgan

WScranton8: I’m sure I can handle it

MorganLaFey: I certainly hope so :-)

MorganLaFey: so bear with me here, it requires a little groundwork

MorganLaFey: a question before the question, if you will

WScranton8: you trying to cheat me, Morgan?

MorganLaFey: hey that’s why I’m asking beforehand

WScranton8: so a question before the question before the question?

MorganLaFey: yeah :-P

WScranton8: go ahead

MorganLaFey: are you really in Scranton?

MorganLaFey: I know that’s the sort of question we tend to avoid

MorganLaFey: but I really need to know

MorganLaFey: it’s important

WScranton8: why?

MorganLaFey: because I’m in Scranton

MorganLaFey: and I just broke up with my fiancé

MorganLaFey: so I’m looking for apartments

MorganLaFey: and I need a friend to go look with me

WScranton8: um, yes, yes I am in Scranton

MorganLaFey: good. Do you know anyone who might be free to help me look?

WScranton8: I can think of someone, yes

WScranton8: how did I not know this about you?

MorganLaFey: because we met when I was a scared 16 year old on the internet?

WScranton8: fair enough :-)

WScranton8: so, when do you want to do this?

MorganLaFey: you mean, actually meet?

WScranton8: yes

WScranton8: and get you a new apartment, of course

MorganLaFey: of course

MorganLaFey: after work on Wednesday?

WScranton8: sounds good

WScranton8: where do you want to meet?

WScranton8: how do you want to meet?

MorganLaFey: Steamtown Mall Starbucks?

WScranton8: sounds good

MorganLaFey: but we’ll need to make sure we can recognize each other…

MorganLaFey: how about you bring a book with a red rose in it

MorganLaFey: maybe your high school yearbook, since we met in high school

MorganLaFey: and I like to think we’d have written in each other’s yearbooks if we’d really known each other in person

WScranton8: sounds good

WScranton8: so, I bring my yearbook with a red rose in it

WScranton8: how do I recognize you?

MorganLaFey: oh, I’ll be wearing a rose

MorganLaFey: and also, I’ll be the one who comes over and talks to the weird guy sitting in the Starbucks with his high school yearbook :-P

WScranton8: :-D

WScranton8: I can’t believe you actually want to meet

MorganLaFey: I think it’s time, don’t you?

MorganLaFey: it’s not like we’re teens anymore

MorganLaFey: I’m not afraid of you and I don’t think you need to be afraid of me

WScranton8: probably not, no

MorganLaFey: so, Wednesday after work doesn’t exactly seem “too soon”

MorganLaFey: shall we say 7, to be precise?

WScranton8: sounds good

WScranton8: and no, I don’t think we could really call that rushing into things

MorganLaFey: then it’s a date

Pam smiled at her computer screen. Phase two was coming along nicely.