Level Up: Dante and Angie's First Date
"Oh, crap! Oh, crap! Oh, crap!" Dante sputtered as he paced around in frantic circles within the confines of his extraordinarily grubby room.
Lyle didn't even bother to sit down or even cross the threshold into Dante's hellhole. Why Angie ever agreed to go out with him was beyond the Hugginson. "Dude, how did you ever score a date with Angie. I mean, no offense but she's smart, strong, and pretty. She's out of your league." Lyle said bluntly. He and Dante had this bond to where they could be perfectly frank with one another with taking offense.
However, in Dante's defense, he did clean himself quite a bit this past year. From getting his teeth straightened to doing cross fit and mixed martial arts to get a more toned body and match Angie's Krav Maga skills. He even started to groom himself and take showers. That was amazing. So, maybe Lyle was staying in the past a bit too much. What really shocked him was Dante's ability to understand and apply Cal Newport's How to Become a Straight-A Student, so well.
…Great, now he owed him an apology for downing him once he actually thought about it. "Look man, I'm sorry I said it that way."
Dante didn't hear a word Lyle said, he was to busy looking up good conversation topics for first dates. "Hey, what about this: What are you best at?." He asked his main buddy. Lyle was the best at handling women. So of course he was the first person Dante would call to help with some lady advice. Strangely, enough though, he didn't want to "handle" Angie. He wanted to get to know her better. Outside of their insane adventures they didn't really have a strong connection a year ago. Not like she did with Wyatt, anyway.
Don't think about that.
How could he not? Wyatt and Angie had a strong relationship that had always made Dante suspicious that they where dating. Even back then, he wasn't that big of an idiot to miss obvious signs of a couple. He even felt a bit betrayed when he stupidly asked Wyatt to talk to her for him and their relationship had only gotten stronger and didn't even spare him the dignity of being a third wheel. Only a lost and slightly hurt outsider.
Now that's a conversation topic.
"Never mind dude, I got one." Dante said with a determined and faintly reprisal gaze in his hazel eyes.
Lyle stood dumfounded. He just ran off twenty seven awesome tips on how to pull off a successful first date right off the top of his head and Dante wasn't even paying attention. Normally, he would be a little upset. However, the Hugginson knew when he saw the slight sparkle in another brother's eyes when he was about to get his first date with his crush. But, there was another look in Dante's eyes that did not seem so benevolent. Then again, Dante may have changed, but he was no Lyle Hugginson. He couldn't be good at everything. So he would take his unfortunate friend as he was and give him a ride to Baer's superstar diner.