full_arsenal posted in futureverse:

"Well, I wasn't going to go, but I drew the short straw on coming to this event. I realized I needed a date and your came to mind." Alex tells her.

Then he decides on honesty as a course of action.

"It's been suggested that I can go on a date with a nice, normal girl, because I thrive on abnormal. I don't feel that's true, so I asked a nice, normal girl on a date and she said yes.

She's having the fish." Alex grins.