Your name is Matt. You're 28 years old. You live alone in a single bedroom apartment with your orange cat, Seamus. Your last girlfriend didn't work out. You broke it off with her about a year ago after she confessed she had been cheating on you with a coworker. You work in data entry. It's an incredibly tedious job, but it pays the bills. You've tried dating app after dating app, but you're mostly just ignored or you go on one date that never goes anywhere. You're starting to feel pretty fed up with dating in general. All relationships have turned out to be pretty crappy. You start to wonder if you're even meant to find love. Pursuing women almost doesn't seem worth it. You're just exhausted and generally annoyed at life.
It's the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday. You're just fucking around on the internet. Watching YouTube videos. You hadn't really planned on doing anything the whole day other than house chores.
Then a knock comes at your door.
Right away you look in its direction with suspicion. No one ever just knocks on your door, except the landlord, and he usually shoots you a text first. You make your way over to the door, stepping over your pet cat, and peer through the window adjacent to the door to see who it is.
She spots your face immediately. She gives you a bright smile and a friendly wave. It's your new neighbor. You remember seeing her out the window when she moved in a few weeks back. Fuck, is she cute, you think. She's about your age, you think, but she just has one of those youthful faces. She could still pass for a teenager, frankly. You've never actually spoken to her. She seems nice though. You wonder what she wants, and you open the door, standing between the outside and inside so your cat doesn't get out.
"Uh, hey," you say.
"Hi!" she says the chipper girl at your door. "I'm Amy."
Her hair is pretty short, and it's so dark it's almost black. She's very fair-skinned, with pretty, big brown eyes. She's wearing a white spaghetti strap tank top, and a frilly blue skirt. She's pretty tall for a girl, but she's thin as a rail. She looks like she's half legs, and wow, do her legs look nice. She's wearing bright white tennis shoes.
"Hey, Amy. I'm Matt," you say, albeit a bit awkwardly. It's been a while since you talked to a girl this cute, and she caught you way off guard. "Can I help you with something?"
"Yeah, so, I live next door, right?" she said, pointing to the house beside you.
"Yeah, I saw you move in. What's up?"
"Well," she started, pricking her lip in an almost pouting expression. "So, here's the thing. I'm going to go visit my parents in Colorado, for like a week, but my mom is allergic to cats, so I can't bring mine, and I don't know anyone around here, really. I mean, I hate to ask like this..." she says with an absolutely adorable expression.
You can tell she's trying to use the pretty, innocent girl act to convince you. You give her a frown.
"Sorry, I'd love to help, but I kind of already have a cat. He doesn't like other cats, like at all. You'll have to find someone else. Sorry about that."