All told, the date had been an unmitigated disaster. She’d
been on bad Tinder dates before, but the evening had been above and beyond.
He’d been rude, boorish, asked nothing about her life over the course of their
dinner, keeping the conversation instead to his own weirdly racist views of how
the world ought to be run, and when he walked her home afterward he jammed his
tongue into her mouth without so much as a how-do-you-do.
The kiss had been deeply unpleasant, perfectly summing up
her evening as a whole, and she breathed an internal sigh of relief that it was
finally over.
And yet, in spite of this, when he asked if he could see her
again she, inexplicably, said yes.
She’d always had a problem saying no to people, you see, and
he’d mentioned that he was leaving the country on business for three months, so
she figured she could put off any unpleasantness at least until such time as he
got back, by which point he might have forgotten this whole horrible evening
had ever happened.
“Absolutely,” she told him, with a nervous little laugh, “I mean, assuming I’m still
single by then.”
He laughed, and so did she, relieved, and then she went into
her building and up to her apartment, blessedly alone at last.
It wasn’t until the small hours of the morning that she admitted
to herself that she’d made a small problem much, much worse. He knew where she
lived and he knew her phone number, and she had said that she would “Absolutely”
go out with him again. There was no way her situation would lead anything but
suffering…
Assuming she was still single by then.
One woman, one smart-phone-based dating app and a mission to
find true love on an extremely limited timeframe, this autumn Katherine Heigl
will star in a new romantic comedy that critics are already calling “A
delightful romp…”, “The feel good date-movie of the year!” and “About what you’d
expect from a Katherine Heigl movie…”
“Three Months,” coming this fall, from Fox 2000 pictures and
Spyglass Entertainment…
Cute!
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