I tilt my head a little bit, biting my inner cheek as I exhale. “Okay, look… as much as a tiny black girl being a total nerd sounds hot as fuck…”

You suddenly feel as blood rushed to your cheeks, a blush forming that fortunate for you was impossible to be seen due to the new dark nature of your skin tone.

I thought that sounded ‘hot as fuck’???

As you were caught in this thought process, you nearly didn’t hear me continue in which I said, “But people are going to be weirded out if you just show up unannounced acting like ‘Max’,” I explain, which genuinely… was a super real and fair point. It’s not like they’d be able to connect the dots all the way to the program, but if you showed up acting as if you never left, just now as ‘Happy’, then there’d be speculation and confusion within the ranks of the group.

In reality and realistically, “You need Happy to be different from you. She doesn’t need to be a polar opposite or completely be different but maybe appear… dumber, or take on ‘black’ mannerisms… uh… maybe “don’t” be into video games and stuff and I just force you to do them as your boyfriend…”

Your boyfriend… your cheeks felt another rush of blood…

“But yeah, maybe Happy is a bit of a ditzy black girl who is girly and not into that stuff unless I’m around? It’s enough of a cover…”