“Uhh, should we go get lunch, then?”

“Yeah, let’s go!”

Today was the couple’s very first date. They’d first decided at the end of last summer that they would go out. They’d had a fight in spring, and it had taken a long time for them to make up. They were each able to confirm that they felt something special for one another, but hadn’t quite been able to define that feeling until Chris, of all people, prompted them. That the words had come from him had been a surprise to everyone, but this was what he’d told them:

“If you both feel strongly for one another, you should make those feelings clear. Otherwise, it’ll take more than twenty years for you to start going out, like it did with us.”

Allen and Sara had to admit the words were convincing coming from Chris, but Sara had a hard time obeying his advice.

Her feelings were complicated due to her memories of her life in Japan, but when she’d been upfront with Allen about this, he’d said in response, “Would you not go out with anyone unless they’re Liam’s age, then? Or Chris’s? Josef’s?”

Sara had gotten a far-off look in her eyes for a moment when she realized how few men there were around her that could serve as hypotheticals. When she considered who’d be a good fit for her at her age in her last life, though, Chris was a little too old and Liam was actually younger than her. Josef was out of the q