Meli: “Hey Carol, did you hear was Lina did?”
Lina: “Again with this…”
Carol: “What did she do?”
Meli: “She broke up with her boyfriend again”
Carol: “Seriously? Lina what was that for!? I thought you liked this one?”
Lina: “*sigh* I thought I did too, but I don’t know, he turned to be just a shallow dumbass. Emphasis on the dumbass part”
Meli: “Ah, Lina used a big word for her, was it that bad?”
Carol: “Meli, shut up, Lina what happened?”
Lina: “Nothing happened, he was just not what I needed…”
Carol: “That tells me nothing, that’s the 4th one this month”
Meli: “And the 10th one since we graduated”
Carol: “Meli, shut it. As for you Lina, what will you do?”
Lina: “What do you mean, what will I do?”
Carol: “Will you find a new one or finally rest for now?”
Lina: “I’ll go for one more, hehe”
Carol/Meli: “Seriously…”
Lina: “Yes! Seriously, and stop with those looks, they are rude you know”
Carol: “*sigh* fine, then what’s the goal this time? Music, sports or wild card?”
Lina: “Why do you make my love life sound like some game!?”
Carol: “Because at this point it is. Meli?”
Meli: “Let’s see, with this last one, the score is 8 for music, 14 for sports, and 6 wild cards!”
Carol: “Surprisingly small for the wild cards, ah, Meli you forgot 2 more in the music ones”
Meli: “Really? Which ones?”
Carol: “The xylophone and the triangle band ones she tried to equally go for in 3rd year of High School”
Meli: “We’re counting those 2?”
Carol: “Yep”
Lina: “Stop it…”
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Meli: “That brings the total of 30 failed boyfriends in less than 5 years! What did you do to get that record Lina!?”
Carol: “That’s almost 6 a year, congratulations”
Lina: “This isn’t something I wanted or planned for! Stop keeping count, stop treating my love life like a game and help a friend a bit!”
Carol/Meli: “…”
Lina: “Thanks a lot…”
Carol: “…Lina, how confident are you in getting a man?”
Lina: “Ah?”
Meli: “Based on the scores, I’d say pretty good”
Lina: “Meli!!”
Meli: “Hehe”
Carol: “Meli stop it already, that’s rude”
Meli: “You were doing it too…”
Carol: “Ignoring that, Lina let’s make a little game for this”
Lina: “Are you seriously intent on making my love life even more of a game!?”
Carol: “Kind of, but not like you think. Let’s see, 2 years, got that?”
Lina: “2 years for what?”
Carol: “This is our first semester of University and the first 2 years are focused on main courses, so this class we’re going to know is kind of the report and instruction room we get. Within these 2 years, I want you to go after whichever we pick, if you get him, make it work, if it fails, go for the next one, until one sticks”
Lina: “Are you stupid!? I’ll seem like a slut if I do that, besides how can I trust you to pick someone for me!?”
Carol: “Well the slut part might be seen if people knew your exboyfriends record, so do your hardest to not screw up too much. As for the guy, don’t worry, we know you just like them with a cute face, so as long we have that down you’ll have some interest…so how about that one that is coming in?”
Lina: “Don’t make me sound so shallow! And who!?”
Carol: “Him, the tall one with black hair and headphones on”
Lina: “Well…he is a bit cute, wait that’s not what I mean! Why him!?”
Carol: “Isn’t it obvious, he has an unapproachable aura, that means one of two things, either he has little to no experiences with girls or he is already taken. You just have to hope for the former and maybe it will work out?”
Lina: “Oi, you just questioned yourself there, didn’t you?”
Meli: “Oh, that sounds fun, why don’t you try it Lina? Maybe he’ll be the lucky number 31 to get you out of your breakup rollercoaster”
Lina: “31 isn’t a lucky number! And why would I go along with the plan you guys have?”
Carol: “Isn’t it obvious, you still want to try something but you have no direction. So we’re just giving you one goal, if you find something better, then go for that, if not, try it out, maybe it’s like Meli says and he’ll be your sweet prince charming to give you your happy ever after”
Meli: “I didn’t it like that though”
Carol: “Meli, I love you, but please stop talking at moments like these. So, Lina? Will you try it”
Lina: “I’ll try it…not because you told me to, but because I’m not interested in him too”
Meli: “Ah, there she goes, brave, isn’t she?”
Carol: “I’ll say, I could never do that, but let’s see if it works”
Meli: “Have high hopes?”
Carol: “Not exactly that, but that guy, I’ve heard of him before, he isn’t a loose cannon like the ones she’s had before. If she wants him to fall for her, she’ll have to work for it, so at least for now we won’t to keep record of exes”
Meli: “Why is that?”
Carol: “Because Lina hates to give up once she picked a man, even if she breaks up soon after, she has never once given up before they became a couple”
Meli: “Ah, that’s true, so we’ll be hearing a lot of MBX from now on”
Carol: “MBX?”
Meli: “Mysterious Boyfriend X!”
Carol: “Why does he sound like a Saturday morning cartoon villain?”
Meli: “I don’t know, but like you said, he has that aura to himself”
Carol: “That is true, well MBX, let’s see how it takes you to fall for the princess and by extension how long until both of yoou are dating”
Meli: “Yep, ah she finally got close to him”
Lina: Okay Lina, prep yourself, he isn’t that cute, so you can work with this, let’s go for the simple and friendly route. Yes! Fast and straightforward is best!
Lina: “Hi! Nice to meet you!”
MBX: “?”
Lina: “My name is Lina, Lina Weaver. And yours is?”
MBX: “…Alberto, Alberto Bosque…”