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.