Clyde is trying out a blue suit and a dark red-orange time to see if they match. He models it right in front of his laptop camera to let his buddies – Lincoln, Stella, Rusty, Liam and Zach – see him through Zoom meeting.

"Does it look fancy or too fancy?" he asks.

"Well, white is distracting. Pure orange is goofy. Green makes you look like a Batman villain. And red makes you look like a James Bond villain. So, blue is the neutral, but neutrally good," Rusty gives his thoughts. "But I think try a darker blue or a royal blue, so you will not look like a politician."

"Got it."

"Man, you sure you have your daddy's knowledge on suits," Liam tells Rusty.

"He had to, if I have to handle his business. Besides, I (and by I, I mean we) still owe him with the suits we borrowed," Rusty responds.

"Dang it. We forgot that time."

Zach then asks Clyde, "So Clyde, you got your hair fixed, your glasses cleaned, how about your breath? Is it minty freshed?"

"Why would he need breath mints for a virtual date?" Stella questions Zach on his logic.

"Because a girl can see if a guy has a smelly breath when he sniffs it himself," Zach claims.

Stella then replies from her own point-of-view, "Uhmmm, we know that. But that is too much to note."

Lincoln then confronts Clyde, "So Clyde, we got your dinner table set up ready?"

Clyde inspects his table arrangement and checks every detail. "Dinner fork, dinner spoon, dessert fork, soup spoon and bread knife on their place. Napkin on the plate. Dessert saucer. And main course plate check. And to round it up. Champagne with complementary succo di prugna, also known as prune juice." He then takes a sip of the juice to check it, only to spit it out. "Still good"

Lincoln, however, brings up other important notes on his virtual date. "I know you got your arrangements right, but I mean how will the date go from there?"

"Maybe talk, and talk…"

"Talk about?" Stella queries him.

At the moment, Clyde feels slightly tongue-tied. "Just talk like normal friends."

His best friends then persuades him, "Clyde, if you really like Chloe and for your friendship to flourish, be interested on her own story. I am sure she is open."

With that, Clyde makes note of it.

That night, the 11-year-old's date with his classmate turns out well from their dinner. Clyde's parents prepared a sumptuous meal of roasted chicken (with side vegetables), mushroom soup, lettuce salad and banana bread; they also prepared a meal for Chloe by storing them on designated Tupperware containers and delivered it on her doorstep.

Their setup is video call via Zoom. So, Clyde is basically facing laptop across the table. The same goes for Chloe.

The latter then takes a bite of the chicken and the buttered broccoli. "Wow, the cooking is so exquisite. I like how the butter is tasty but not so oily."

"You can thank my dad for finding the right buttery taste," Clyde tells her.

"Tell him I love it," she says to him, to which Clyde gives her a smile.

Clyde then tries to jump to another topic. "So…Chloe, how's life?"

Chloe is kind of befuddled that Clyde asked that question thrice already. "I told you it's good, despite everything."

"Oh right," he nervously chuckles as he scrambles his thoughts for any sign. "Yeah, it's good. Everything's good."

Chloe then shares, "You know, I kind of thought how would life go on once we finally return to our normal lives. I don't know if we can go back the way it was before. It's…unusual."

Clyde finds this as an easy way to relate to her. So, he sympathizes, "Yeah, I get what you feel. Who knows what will happen next? If there will still be school. Speaking of which, really bums that we have the entire school year thrown out of the window."

"It really is tragic. Sometimes I talk to Emma if we will still get back to our lives in school. I mean, we have the opportunities to do it online. But it's not the same."

"I know what you feel. Now I kind of feel bad for hating school sometimes."

Chloe snickers on Clyde's admission. "Yeah, I felt bad for skipping Coach Pakowski's warm-up routines."

"No way!"

"Yep. Me and Emma. We sneak out, then get back at the end of the jogging cycles."

Clyde just bursts in laughter and hugely praises Chloe's surprising act of rebellion. "That really is a class act I never expect from you."

"Now you know."

The two simply exchange laughter at each other. On that point, they seem to click. Feeling it, Clyde admits, "Chloe, I l…"