❝going on a blind date is a great way to reassure yourself that dying alone isn't so bad.❞
─unknown

skeeter
ugh i
wanna cry 

and crawl into a hole
with lots of snicker bars
and fluffy blankets and
 just hibernate

and maybe jump
off a cliff

keanu
i hope you don't
jump off a cliff 

skeeter
keanu??

keanu
yep that's
my name 

don't wear
it out 

skeeter
whoopsie 

i meant to text
charlie sorry 

keanu
it's okay 😌

why do you
want to jump
off a cliff?

skeeter
oh that 

it was a bad,
bad, BAAAAD
date 

keanu
oh 

you know
what solves
that?

skeeter

keanu
ice cream is
good comfort
food!

skeeter
i know 😌 that's why
my freezer is always
full of them 

actually i don't have a
lot of food in the fridge
and my apartment is mostly
filled out chinese and pizza
take-out boxes 

keanu
you know for a
doctor you're
pretty unhealthy 

skeeter
and for an actor you're
pretty not so full
 of yourself 

you're actually
really humble

keanu
anyway

skeeter
i can just imagine
you squirming 

keanu 
i broke my ankle in
another motorcycle
accident a few years ago 

skeeter
does keanu reeves hate
 being complimented?

keanu
i had to use crutches
for a few weeks 

skeeter
he does!! 

keanu 
i think that's why i
limp a little until today 

skeeter
keanu, you're so tall and
handsome and kind and you
have beautiful brown eyes 

i love your motorcycles
and your silky black hair 

and you're a
magnificent spirit 

keanu
now you're just
messing with me 🤨

skeeter
i'm sorry but it's fun to
see you blush and
squirm AJALKJSSJ 

and you don't limp 🤗
your walk is fine 

hey, you're a
hollywood legend
right 

keanu
nope

skeeter
have you ever
met stevie wonder?

keanu
i think i saw
him perform
once. why?

skeeter
is he really
blind??

keanu
skeeter, why
would you think
that?

skeeter
the man watches basketball
games and catches a
falling microphone

it's PLAUSIBLE 

keanu
uhm yeah but he
has other sense too 🤷🏻‍♂️
and i think being
declared blind doesn't
mean there's total darkness

skeeter
hmm. . .🤔

do you think it would be
 embarrassing if i went 
to one of his concerts 
and held up an I LOVE 
YOU STEVIE poster 

just curious 

keanu
your curiosity is
similar to a child's 

skeeter
i take pride in that 

when my mom was
pregnant with my youngest
brother, i pestered her by
inserting myself between her
and my dad when they were
 sleeping and whispering to
her questions

keanu
and you did
that because?

skeeter
because i wanted to
 know if we would
be having a tod or
a vixey 

keanu
is that some kind
of slang for 'boy or girl' ? 

skeeter
OH MY GOD 

those are names from
the fox & the hound movie 😕😕😕
how could you not know that?

keanu
i've never seen
that movie 😶

skeeter
whAT 

how are
we still
friends 

keanu
i'm guessing
that's your
favorite disney
movie

skeeter
it's my FAVORITE
 MOVIE PERIOD. 

keanu
wait, why did you
write the word period
then use a period?

skeeter
that's not the point 

there are more
disappointments in life
than the misuse of
periods in sentences 

periodt
periodical
periodism

keanu
what?

skeeter
how could you not see
 that movie, keanu?
hoW?????? 

don't you
have a
childhood?

keanu
i think i was already
working by then when
it was released

skeeter
what──i──
but──you

i──i don't think we
can be friends
anymore 

keanu
skeeter, you're
over-reacting 

skeeter
i think i'm having takotsubo
cardiomyopathy over the
fact that you haven't seen 
the fox & the hound

keanu
no you're not 

skeeter
shush i'm the
one with the 
medical degree 
between the
two of us 

keanu
i was more amused
of shrek to be honest 

skeeter

you know what i'm
 too tired to argue
 with you 😪

keanu 
okay 😅

and i'm sorry
about your date 

skeeter
it's fine 🤗 peoole
are shit anyway 

keanu
excuse me?

skeeter
SOME people
are shit
anyway

keanu
better 😊

⊱ ──────ஓ๑♡๑ஓ────── ⊰

Usually, Skeeter wouldn't have time to have lunch when she was working. To her luck, she had gone on her rounds in the morning and, so far, there were no new patients and Charlie had dragged her ass into the cafeteria. 

The food wasn't glamorous──there was pizza, sloppy joe, fries, clam chowder. They had vending machines which contained chips that tasted like the wall and chocolate bars. It was ironic to think that these unhealthy foods were found in a hospital and Skeeter often told her patients to eat healthy when she herself wasn't doing it. 

"Ugh! Charlie, he was so annoying!" Skeeter grumbled, stirring her bowl of clam chowder. 

"Who's annoying?" Robert Swan asked as he took the seat across from the duo. 

They had warmed up to the young nurse and saw him as one of their sons. Charlie joked the other day that Robert would have been his and Skeeter's love child if they ended up together (after that, they both burst into stomach-aching laughter at the absurd thought). 

With a mouth full of sloppy joe, Charlie answered. "Skeeter's date last night." 

"Oh? Why?"

Skeeter rolled her eyes as she thought back to her time last night, an annoyed groan escaping her mouth. "He just wouldn't shut up and went on and on about his expanding clinic and how much money he would be making by the end of the year."

"Why did you agree to the date in the first place anyway?"

"Because!" She exclaimed, hands in the air exasperatedly. "Ruth Evans-Greenberg just always has to get her way! She can be so annoying sometimes." 

"Oh, come on, Doctor Evans." Robert said, ever the optimist. "I'm sure she's not that bad."

Skeeter gave him a blank look. "After I told my sister that the date was a nightmare, she called me a snob and said that I would die alone surrounded by cat shit──not cats! Cat. shit."

"Looks like your sister does not know your taste." Robert pointed out since Charlie had been focusing on his sloppy joe.

"Stupid plastic surgeons." Skeeter mumbled under her breath, her lips in a frown and nose scrunched up. She sat up straighter in her chair and placed her hand on her best friend's shoulder, making him turn to her with sloppy joe dripping down his chin. "Charlie, you're quite a. . .pensive person."

Skeeter could make out his reply through all the food in his mouth: I am?

She nodded her head. "Yes, you are. Wouldn't you want someone who's comfortable spending some moments of silence with you? If I'm too tired and busy to talk, then that should completely be okay, right?"

Charlie nodded proudly. She had offered him some napkins to wipe the. . .left-over food on his fast. "Yes! Sometimes, it's just nice to listen to the quiet with your person."

Robert's eyes shifted from Charlie's understanding expression to Doctor Evans' grateful smile. "Why aren't you two together again?" To which they laughed. 

Charlie looked at him dead in the eye. "I'm telling you, man." He said in a joking tone, "Marrying Doctor Evans would just bring wrinkles to my astounding face."

"Excuse me? Charlie, have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately?"

While Robert told the story about how he had gotten his tongue stuck on a block of ice, Skeeter's phone buzzed and she discreetly checked her phone under the table.

TEXT FROM: mickey 

skeeter!! i can now
officially call you cool.
you wanna know why?

goofy
i've always known
i was cool wth are
you talking about ??

mickey
i'm telling
you anyway 🤪🤪

you know how
your favorite
movie is the fox &
the hound 

goofy 
if you're going to call
me lame, let me just
remind you that your
wife's name is LITERALLY
bambi 

mickey
IT'S A NICKNAME 

and you're cool
now because i
caught keanu
watching the fox & the
hound on his phone
and i asked what he
thought about it and
he said it was actually
a pretty cool story

conclusion: if keanu
thinks it's cool, then
it's cool 😌

goofy
okay whatever
you say 🤗

"Care to fill us in on what has you smiling like an idiot, Dr. Evans?" 

Skeeter looked at Charlie, eyes wide. "What was that?"

"Why are you smiling at your phone?"

"Oh, Chris just told me some random news." She shrugged, "That's all."