Fanon:The Dating Game

Lisa
I curl up on the couch, holding my favorite book: Dreamology. As I peruse its pages for at least the tenth time, my mother glides into the room. She looks unusually fancy; then again, she's having a four-person dinner party tonight. The four people being me, her, her boyfriend, and his son. I've never met either of them, but I don't like them.

Burying myself further in the exploits of Alice and Max, I don't hear the doorbell ring, don't see two people coming in. Someone very distant calls my name. I try to keep my attention on the book, but unfortunately I have to snap out of my reverie. At once I recognize one of them; I've seen him in the halls at school. My mom told me he was a year older, but he's in some of my classes. Strange.