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Episode One - The Date

It was actually pretty much simple to do it. At least for him. Or at least if you see it like if it's a challenge at all. Doesn't need to, and sometimes it ain't, but if you really want to, a challenge it might be. That day, our friend nice guy (let's call him this way from now on) met a nice girl.

The day was kind of weird. One cloud here, one cloud there. Those days you wake up and you can't even decide if it's a good day or bad day. It's something you can't classify and you really don't want bother considering it. Those days you can't decide if you want to go out, stay home or whatever. Nice girl got a call from a friend to take a walk. Not in the wild side like the song, but a simple walk. In the middle of that walk nice guy showed up. He was friend of nice girl's friend. A coincidence (ok, if you're superstitious I'll let you decide it was destiny or something like that). They all decided to take the walk together. Oh by the way: the walk was on those long sidewalks you have near a river or a beach, with the wind blowing in your face and the sun shining in your eyes, except the fact, as you can recall, the weather in that day was fuzzy.

After fifteen minutes walking, nice girl friend got a call from his work. He had to leave for some emergency. Nice guy was a guy who never missed a chance and boy, he was the guy who would never wave by to a good chance at something. So he asked nice girl to have a drink with him. Sure, why not thought nice girl, despite the fact she accepted the invitation with some sort of embarassement.

Conversation began. The first ten minutes were about the city they lived in and all the beautiful things and experiences the place had to offer. The so called small talk. After all, no one turns into Aristoteles in the first date. No one, except nice guy. In the middle of words of monuments, sightseeing and soundscapes he asked her what was like to be happy for her. She replied with a weird look and said, come again? Happyness he said, whats it like to be happy? She got her face red but found it unusual and replied after a few seconds breaking her tought down to earth. Happyness she said, is to wake up in a rainy day and see the beauty in the stormy sky. It's a like a song in repeat when you hear it for the first time and you get so blowned away by the feeling it brings you. It's like remembering the days you were a child and a simple baloon would leave you smiling for the rest of  the day. She said all of this with her dazzling hair touched by the wind and her eyes smiling at the sun. Nice guy didn't expect such a complete and philosofical awnser. But she didn't stop and wanted to know, what about you, what's happyness for you nice guy?

He'd better come up with a good awnser to this one. Her reply was astonishing to say the least. So he looked in her eyes, not in the romantic way, but in a sincere hand touch he claimed: happyness is the never expecting feeling. It's what we are all looking for but it's the thing that always found you instead. It's the brick that solid rock your days and the brick that turn your dreams into darkness. It's a lesson from that teacher you loved and the punishment of the advices you chose to ignore. It's confidence and despair, emotion and conflict.

It wasn't the awnser she was expecting, but the least you expect the more you care about. Things you don't understand but that are mind reachable, make you want more of it. Make you want to know more about it. And then, it clicked, nice girl wanted to know more about nice guy. They didn't said it but I know, happyness is beyond many things, a click. A wild click you can say, but definitely a click.

Hours passed by while they talked and hunger arrived. Dinner at my place asked nice guy. Why not said the nice girl. But this time, embarrassment was something that walked by the same sidewalk they haved walked hours early.

And so it begins our blog love story. Next episode soon. Take care.