He waited a day before calling him up. He didn't want to seem as if he had spent his whole day thinking about the date, even though he had. It had been the only thing he could think of. He didn't know how he was going to last the next three days. He finally deemed the time period long enough to call. He keyed in the numbers, but his hand hesitated over the call button. What if it had been a joke? What if he calls to find that Avery purposely gave him the wrong number? Or if he rings and finds out that Avery was only joking? He didn't think he could take that. He lowered his hand and thought it over. Avery had seemed eager to go out with him, even though they were practically enemies. But then again, Seto had been eager to go out with Avery. He sighed. He had a choice. He could call Avery and possibly be ridiculed or just forget about him, which had already proved to be nearly impossible. He made a split second decision. He pressed call.
He held the phone to his ear, hoping against reason that Avery wouldn't pick up just to mock him.
It rang a few times. Seto felt his hope's drop. It was just a joke. Avery wouldn't –
Suddenly it was answered.
"Hello?" asked a cheerful voice.
"Um. Hello." Seto said.
"Oh. Seto. Hey. I was just thinking…Um, did you want something?"
Seto's heart skipped a beat. 'I was just thinking', he thought. Did that mean Avery was thinking about him? His mouth felt dry.
"Yeah…" he took a second to regain his composure. "I need your address."
Avery laughed. "Oh yeah. Right. Just a sec. Do you have a pen?"
Seto nodded, then realised that Avery couldn't see him. "Yes."
Avery gave him the address. Seto smirked as he realised they lived half an hour away from each other.
"Was there anything else?" Avery asked after he had repeated the address three times.
"Well, actually, I wanted to know what we were going to do." Seto said awkwardly. He had tried to figure out a plan, but he didn't know Avery well enough to pick a destination.
"You don't know?" Avery asked, sounding surprised. "Isn't it usually the person who asks the other one out who chooses what to do?"
I've never been on a date before, Seto wanted to snap back. "I thought I should ask you," he responded instead.
"Oh, well…I don't know. What do you want to do?"
Seto scowled to himself. If he knew that he wouldn't have asked. "I don't have any preferences." He said, still calm.
"Well, I guess we could have dinner somewhere. That seems simple enough. Somewhere nice…but not formal. I don't have many formal clothes. And I'm not wearing a tux." He laughed again. "Can you find somewhere like that?"
"I'll try." Seto promised.
"Good Luck." Avery said. "See ya." And then he hung up.
Seto leaned against a wall, sighing. Who knew organising a date could be so stressful, he wondered. Luckily he knew just the place.
