First Floor Rec Room, Tuesday Evening

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Hurley was supposed to meet Penelope here tonight, so she could play the piano.

Whether or not meeting the girl you're dating while you can only blurt out what you're actually thinking is actually a good idea, well, that's another thing.

But Hurley wasn't about to stand her up. He was a man of his word, and he was there.

[ooc: Rec room is open to any, but please to not interrupt the date, if'n you please?]

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"Hello, Hurley," Penelope greeted as she met him, just as she promised.

"How are you tonight?"

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"Worried I'm gonna say something stupid?" Hurley said, right off the bat.

Oh, what a wonderful start.

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"You shouldn't worry about that, Hurley. I'm not extremely socially adept anyway so I imagine it might just go over my head, if you did."

She was helpful.

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"Well, you're smarter than me," Hurley said. "I mean, I'm not even totally sure what socially adept means."

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"What do you think it means?" she heard herself ask.

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"Ummm... good at social... stuff?" Hurley ventured.

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Penelope nodded. "Yes! You are not stupid, Hurley."

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"Oh, I don't think I'm stupid. I'm just not as smart as you. Cause you're really smart," Hurley said

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"I should play the piano," she said, changing the topic. She sat at the bench.

"Anything particular you'd like to hear?"

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"Anything you want to play," Hurley said, and he meant it. "I dunno what you know how to play."

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"I can play anything," she replied, smiling at him. "But I will play what I played in Music Club today." And she sat primly and started to play Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Hurley grinned. "That's awesome," he said. "You're really good."

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"Thank you, Hurley. Do you have any hobbies or talents?"

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"I sing sometimes, I'm pretty good at Ping Pong, I play basketball, I watch porn sometimes?" Hurley said.

And his eyes bugged when he said the last one. Oh crap.

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Her eyes bugged too because that was all she heard. "Oh."

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"Not a lot," Hurley added quickly. "I mean, I have a roommate and stuff. I'm not a pervert, I swear."

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"You're a healthy boy. Boys do this, so I've heard."

Oh dear. Her cheeks were on fire.

He looked at naked normal girls. Not girls with pig noses. And she felt almost too tiny next to him to be noticed. In... that sort of way.

"You wouldn't want to see me naked, would you?" Oh, dear.

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"I would," Hurley said. "I mean, not yet, you gotta take that sort of thing slow and careful and stuff and oh man, I just told you I want to see you naked."

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"No one will see me naked until I'm married," she stated.

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Hurley nodded. "That's totally okay. I mean, naked you would be nice, but really not the time for it and oh man why can I not stop saying this sort of stuff today?"

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"Not the time for it probably ever," she admitted.

Then she sucked in air and looked at him.

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"Can we forget this happened?" Hurley said. His eyes were pleading.

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"I don't think that is possible. I can't get it out of my head."

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"I didn't want to say any of that," Hurley said. "I'm not that type of guy, I swear."

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"If you want to be, Hurley, I don't mind. If you want to date other girls too. I don't mind."

Oh, dear.

"I don't think I would like it very much but we're seeing what happens, right?"