A Date

I was making a fatal mistake.

The fatal mistake I mean was my approach to dating.

The core of my dates up until now could be summed up as ‘consideration and taking the lead.’

I would pick out food Yubel might like, clothes that suited her, and beautiful places, then offer them to her.

It was an approach that would make any ordinary woman fall for me without fail.

A sure-fire give-and-take: the man courted, and the woman became captivated.

But was Yubel an ordinary woman?

Absolutely not.

Yubel thought very little of her own worth.

That was why, even if she became captivated, it still wouldn’t amount to give-and-take for her...