After the weekly Dungeons and Dragons game let out on campus, I dragged my friend out for a drink. He had just turned twenty-one, and I was overdue on a birthday drink myself from the month prior. It’s not like either of us were ones to drink. Our idea of a great party was a warrior, cleric, magic-user and thief. Your first legal drink was kind of a right of passage though, and we had missed so many rights of passage in our youth by virtue of being just a little nerdy. Even though we were three years into legal adulthood, this still counted as youth, right? I know I wasn’t ready for adulting yet.

We each ordered a drink, although we didn’t really have an idea what we’d like. Um… maybe we chose poorly, or maybe alcohol is just an acquired taste. I sprang for an appetizer for us, and then we ordered sodas. I think we were worried about being drunk because we’d both had a drink. Yes, we were dumb then despite being honor roll students all our lives. We figured the food and soda would help us sober up. Now all we needed was some time.

As we picked at the appetizer and sipped at our sodas we bonded over discussing that night’s gaming session. That somehow led to discussing our character’s leveling up, just as we had in real life. Maybe it was the entire two shots of alcohol in my drink, but I ended up bemoaning that I was twenty-one now and had never been kissed.

He admitted that he hadn’t been either, then looked at me. “Um, is this a situation where I should be offering to kiss you? Or was I already invited to do so and I’m just really bad at flirting?”

I felt a little flustered. I hadn’t been inviting him, but if he was asking if he could kiss me, that was the closest I might get to being kissed for a while. He wasn’t a bad guy either. I actually really enjoyed being around him, even outside the protective structure of gaming night. I never would have dragged anyone else out for a drink like him. At the same time, I didn’t really want to seem like I was into him, when I guess I hadn’t really thought about it myself. And I had trouble with decision making.

I reached into my pocket and pulled out a twenty-sider. “I’ll tell you what. Roll a thirteen or higher and you can kiss me.”

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I just ran with an idea I had one night and weaved in some general memories of gaming nights back in college, then upped the nerdiness count even beyond that, while hopefully keeping it cute. I hope people enjoy.

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