As Rawzer sits at the bar sipping his milk, he notices an incredibly hot girl walk in. Wowza.
"Can anyone tell me where the nearest news stand is?"
Every man in the bar stands up, looks down, and quickly sits back down again. Rawzer calmly and cooly gets up, pays his tab, and offers to help this "damsel in distress." Heh.
"Uh, yeah, I can, um, show you."
Rawzer looks rather flustered. The girl laughs. Rawzer leads the way.
"So, what where you doing asking for help in the crummiest bar in the spaceport?" Rawzer has replaced his embarrassment with humourous thoughts. In this way, and usually only this way, he can get his confidence to speak with women.
"It was the nearest place to the entrance."
"Ah." Rawzer fumbled for something else to say. "What do you want from the news stand?"
"News about my father."
"Your father?" Rawzer regained a sense of panic.
"Yes, he's in these peace talks over in Droth."
"Droth? As in the Droth Peace Treaty?"
"That's the only one I know of."
"Well, the only one there I know of that's human would be Dr. Joseph Ackman."
"Yes, that's him. I'm his daughter, Sylvia." She's rich!
"Sylvia, I like that name. I'm Rawzer."
"Rawzer? Is that like a nickname?"
"No, it's alien. I was adopted."
"Neat." She didn't mind that Rawzer was raised by alens! "Is this the news stand?"
"What?" This didn't seem to fit in the conversation. "Oh, right, the news stand. Yeah. Here you are."
"Thanks." Sylvia planted a kiss on Rawzer's cheek. The embarrassment came rushing back. But he quickly overcame it.
"Hey, will I ever see you again?"
Sylvia wrote something on a piece of paper and gave it to him. "Here's my number. Call me if you want to out sometime."
"Well, what are you doing this weekend?"
"Oh, well, nothing, really."
"Great, do you want to have dinner at the Gilded Truffle with me? Friday at 7?"
"Sure." She smiled. Rawzer loved that smile.
"Well, see you then, I'll be sure not to go on any long trips!"
"See ya." She said "ya!" She's interesting, to top it off! This is going to be the greatest week ever!
As Rawzer is thinking happily, he runs right into a tough pirate type about twice his size. Damn.
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"I'm afraid you had a cardiac episode. Ah heh heh heh..."
"Worst episode ever!"