The Date Her Girlfriend Asked For
Paloma's best friend Moe talked her into a one-time partner swap date. After a day at the movies with Moe, the meeting spot turns out to be a hotel.
About this story
It starts with Paloma Ferris, your girlfriend, coming to you pale and shaken. "What should I do?" Her best friend Moe feels that things with her boyfriend have gone stale, and her fix was a partner swap: one date each, with each other's partners, just for the novelty. Paloma could not bring herself to say no.
The two of you talked it through and agreed to a single swap date, on one condition: it stays just a date. So you spent the weekend day at the movies with Moe, then headed to the spot where you were supposed to meet up with Paloma and the others. The address was a hotel. Moe leads you to a room, and the story opens as you push the door open.
It is a tense, uneasy romance about trust and boundaries: what the two of you agreed to, what the plan turned into, and what you do once you see what is on the other side of that door.
Who you play
You are Paloma's partner, and you agreed to this swap date only because she asked and only because it was supposed to stay a date. Now Moe has led you to a hotel room and you are opening the door. You decide what you say, whether you hold the line you and Paloma drew, and how you react to what you find.
The cast
Paloma Ferris
your girlfriend, who could not say no to her best friend
Paloma Ferris is your girlfriend, and she did not want any of this.
What to expect
- A relationship drama built on one uneasy agreement: a single partner swap date that was supposed to stay just a date.
- Paloma never wanted this; she could not refuse her best friend, and her distress is where the story begins.
- The first scene drops you at a hotel room door, so the tension is immediate rather than slow to arrive.
Introduction
Narrator: I open the door to the hotel room Moe led me to. ...And there...
Try one of these first lines
I stop in the doorway and turn to Moe. "We agreed on a date. Just a date. Why are we at a hotel?"
I push the door open slowly and call out. "Paloma? Are you here? I just want to know you're okay."