Date night

You are looking at yourself at the mirror of your crappy apartment, more amazed then you had ever been all day. No black eye, no broken jaw, no blood anywhere. You remember clearly the beating you took not even twenty minutes ago, but to the world you are in it's like it never happened.

The scuffle with Paul has given you a lot more confidence and determination than before. While you still don't want to mess too much with Samantha, you now know exatcly how much power you have in your hands, and you know that reality will conform to whatever person she will become once you are done.

You put on your best shirt and finish getting ready.

You almost get run over to get to the diner in time, but soon you find out you could have taken your time, as a string of texts from Sam to tell you that she is late bombard your phone.

You take advantage of the time you have to instead scout out the diner for traits.

The servers seemed quite boring, not even trying to replicate the fifties style of the establishment in their attire. The customers feel even more boring, apart from a couple of teenagers sitting close to each other and being all lovey-dovey. That was on you for picking such a shitty place for a date. But... You know... Money and stuff....

"Sam! Hi!" The girl waves at you with a big smile. You have tested on Francesca all day, but still you were not expecting how different from her old self Samantha is. She has a long wild mane of brown hair where before they were always done up and proper. Her wardrobe also has changed a lot, being a lot less conservative. She is wearing a simple graphic green t-shirt with a denim jacket and long jeans. She is still a bit plain in the face, and somewhat chubby, but you can't deny how the change of wardrobe and attitude has made her a lot more interesting to you.

You look down at the watch, wondering if its best usage is perhaps in just removing traits instead of the weird mixing and matching.

"Shall we get inside?"

You two take a seat, and you try your best navigating small talk to get a decent idea of who Sam is now.

There are still things you recognize clearly, like her talking obsessively about things she likes, and things that seem to have mutated even if you still recognize the base.

Like, before she would get her head stuck in the clouds every now and then, while reading or when she was too focused on her jobs.

Now, as you see her read the menu with the same focused attitude, she seemed a lot more... lost? almost ditzy, but not stupid. Just, lost.

Her confidence seems to be around the same as before. Then again before you only interacted with her while in the library so you can't be totally sure.

As the two of you order, you make a plan on what to do. Do you even give her the BOOKISH trait back? You have managed not to touch her until now, should you test your fortune and try and get something from her to mix with a trait you already have?