Sounding like a rather bad date plan, unless they intend to woo them with humor. Great job giving us a friend’s eye view of an awkward supporting type character. Fun start to a story and right in line with the challenge.

I really liked this! Very believable characters and you really have me rooting for Paul.

Sounds like a bad plan. Very believable characters.

Poor Paul. I sympathize completely with him.

This is great. I love the attempted, perhaps poorly planned, shyness exorcism here. I agree with the others the characters are true to life. I suspect this could be a funny series as well.

the characters seem real. You could picture these two talking. Their banter is lifelike. You present a very believable story here.