A new couple
Dating a few months. It is becoming serious and neither has said so.
- What could you teach me to do properly in the next ten minutes?
- Do I seem like someone who sings in the car? Why or why not?
- When did you last dance somewhere with no dance floor?
- When did you last sing along in a car, and who was driving?
- When did you last stay awake until the sky went light?
- When did you last eat a meal alone in a restaurant?
- When did you last say yes to something you were too tired for?
- When did you last cry at something on a screen?
- When did you last feel proud of me in front of other people?
- When did you last text someone about me, and what did you say?
- When did you last lie awake, and what time did you give up?
- When did you last buy something and hide the price from me?
- When did you last take a photo of me without telling me?
- When did you last walk somewhere further just to keep talking?
- When did you last miss me at an exact moment, and where were you?
- When did you last introduce me to someone, and how did you describe me?
- When did you last laugh until you couldn't breathe, and who caused it?
- When did you last put music on to change the mood in a room?
- When did you last let a call go to voicemail, and whose was it?
- What do I do that annoys you and you would miss?
- What did you pretend to enjoy on our first date?
- What do you say yes to with me and dread every time?
- Which of my friends do you like more than you let on?
- What do you do alone that you would never do in front of me?
- What do you spend on me that you would never spend on yourself?
- Which of our habits looks ridiculous from outside and works perfectly?
- Which part of this city do you know better than the map does?
- What do people always get wrong about the place you grew up?
- What did an old job teach you that still comes in useful?
- What could you fix with your own hands that I would pay someone for?
- Which song should I hear again, and what should I listen for?
- How do you pack a bag? Mine always weighs twice what it should.
- Which sport should I watch with you sitting next to me, explaining it?
- Where is the best place in this city to stand and watch people?
- What game could you beat me at, and what is your opening move?
- What could you draw from memory right now, on a napkin?
- Which cheap thing on a menu do you know is the best order?
- What is the right way to get into cold water? I have never dared.
- Who in your life should be famous, and what for?
- What can you spot in a crowd that I walk straight past?
- How do you stay awake on a long drive, and who taught you?
- Which of your parents could teach me something, and what would it be?
- Do I seem like someone who cries at films? Why or why not?
- Guess what I was like at fifteen. Be specific about the haircut.
- Do I seem like someone who could change a tyre? Why or why not?
- Do I seem like someone who reads the manual? Why or why not?
- Guess what I still own from childhood, and why that survived.
- Guess what I noticed about you first. It was not your face.
- Guess where I would take you on a Sunday, and what we would eat.
- Guess what my friends warned you about, and whether they were right.
- Guess what I do when I cannot sleep, and why that.
- Guess which of my hobbies I would give up first, and why that one.