Okay, so just finished Resident Evil Village, I loved it. Now this chapter is a short one again because I just needed to get an update out there. And I've been busy with work and my hobbies.

Other than that, life is going well.

"..." Jem's brain short circuited upon hearing that.

"Jem?" Winter asked as she was not expecting this.

Nala however was getting excited as she heard her dad could possibly have a girlfriend now.

"Huh what?" He suddenly snapped out of it.

"Oh sorry Winter, I thought I was dreaming, it sounded like you said you wanted to go on a date with me." He said as she nodded.

"Yes, I said that."

Annnd there it was again. Jem's brain short circuited another time. Only this time it didn't last as long and he snapped out of it relatively quick.

"You serious?" He asked as he wasn't sure if he was dreaming or not.

"Yes?" She wasn't sure why he was being so weird about this.

"Well uhm...why?" He asked as he was a bit confused.

"What do you mean why?" Winter wasn't trying to play 20 questions here.

"I mean why do you want to go on a date with me?" He asked as this seemed random.

Winter rolled her eyes. She should have figured Jem would react like this. But she wasn't prepared to answer the "Why" question. She couldn't say something like 'I've been watching you and think you're nice.' Because that sounds creepy as shit. But she also couldn't say 'I saw how you adopted Nala, and I want to be her mom.' Because again, that comes off as too strong. So she went with ol reliable.

Compliment him.

"Well, you're a really sweet guy, and I think it would be nice." She said as that should be good enough.

"Huh...weird." Jem said as Winter was confused by his reaction.

"What?"

"Well, you called me a 'raging buffoon' when you first got here. And now suddenly you want to go on a date? What changed?"

"You're still a buffoon, but you're a lovable buffoon." She said as that was his best option.

"Hehe, okay no argument there." He said as it was nice to get a compliment every now and then.

Even if it was also part of an insult. Jem honestly didn't know how he felt about this. His brain was currently debating what it was supposed to do. Suddenly, his brain went full blown Pixar.

Meanwhile in Jem's brain

"I say he goes on the date! This is literally the best situation we've had in years! And it sure as shit beats anything else! Who else can say they dated an anime character?!" The bubbly party of Jem's brain said as it was dressed in american flag ranger panties, a green tanktop and yellow tinted sunglasses.

"This is retarded, they're not from the same world, and eventually she has to go back." Jem's depressed and pessimistic side popped up, dressed in his usual all black attire and a pet raven on his shoulder.

"I mean, it could work, those two have made leaps and bounds in terms of getting to know each other, while the Remnant/Earth gap is still there, its not like they couldn't visit each other if something did blossom out of this." Jem's logical brain spoke up as he was dressed in an irish wool sweater, linen pants, oxfords, and a fancy tobacco pipe.

"Ehhhh, I don't know, this seems kind of weird coming out of nowhere." The rest of the council of Jem's brain was trying to think.

On one hand, they had all been desperate for a date. And LORD knows how stressful it had been for them after the whole Alex and his girlfriend fake out at the gym. And if that wasn't bad enough, they had to deal with the fact that Jem seemed to attract all the GMILFS at the gym. It had not been a good last few months for them. They needed this big break.

"BUT WHAT ABOUT MY BIG TOMBOY WAIFU!" The retarded part of Jem's brain had broken out of his room as they all groaned.

"Oh god, somebody put that walking meme back in the cage." The angry part of Jem's brain knocked out the dumb one and took him away.

"Okay, look, I think we can all agree that our luck hasn't been that good in the past few months." Everyone murmured in agreement.

"But not to point fingers, I think we're letting one person be overly negative about this." Depressed Jem just scoffed and gave them the finger.

"So I think we just need to say yes." Bubbles said mostly everyone agreed.

"Oh come on, whats the worst that could happen?" Bubbles said as Logic broke through.

"Well, for all we know it could go horribly wrong and spin Jem into a depression that he can't escape out of." That got Depressed Jem to perk up a bit as he felt it was his time to shine.

"OR it could go really well and next thing you know, Jem has a big tiddy anime girl for a girlfriend, thats every virgins fantasy." Bubbles said as everyone agreed with that.

"To be fair, I think we're thinking too much into this." Logic said as he took a long draw of his pipe.

"What makes you say that?"

"Well for starters, we're not actually real, we're just figments of Jem's imagination trying to desperately rationalize a coherent response. However, because he is so out of practice and nervous, he's imaging his emotions as figments from a childrens movie that gives off calming feelings, that way he can think the situation through calmly and-"

Back to reality

"You know what, why not?" Jem said yes to Winter's date.

"Very well, I'll leave you to plan it." She said as she went back to her book.

"Wait? What? You asked me out!" He didn't see why he was doing the work.

"Well...yes...however..." Winter felt a bit silly now that she had to admit this.

"I've never been on a date that wasn't-" Jem cut her off.

"Wait don't tell me, all the dates you've been on have been fancy high society dates where you don't really do anything fun?" He saw where this was going.

"Yes."

"Oh okay, I got this one covered." And with that the two stopped talking.

And were now alone with their thoughts.

"Well, I do believe that this will set things in motion, and keep that tomboy away from him." Winter thought as she was suddenly glad was off of that wagon.

She still couldn't believe he was into Tomboys. More importantly, if he was into tomboys, how come he wasn't attracted to Harriet? She had the sporty look, and the short hair, she should have been the one Jem was obsessing over. And then she remembered their conversation from earlier about how Jem didn't like Harriet in the show because she was a bitch. That had been a fun time, listening to Jem list all the characters he couldn't stand. Robyn Hill, Harriet, most of the white fang. And then there were characters he didn't hate, but hated their weapons, like Flynt Coals trumpet thing.

"I got it!" Jem yelled as Winter looked at him.

"Already?" She was surprised it didn't take him that long to think of an idea.

"Yep."

"You gonna tell me?"

"Nope, you'll see."

Well that wasn't any fun. But Winter decided to just let it go and get back to reading her book in the passenger seat.

"Dad?" Nala said from the backseat.

"Yeah honey?"

"Is Winter going to be my new mommy?"