BotchelorS2 · Night 13
Dmitri Fennimore × Montgomery Voss
“Stepping To The Same Beat”
A beginners ballroom lesson where the instructor pairs everyone up and keeps shouting connection.
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What they want
Dmitri Fennimore wants a partner worth waiting for.
Montgomery Voss wants someone who will share a comfortable silence.
The finale has aired. Share it anyway:
Read it line by line
The two characters played this out turn by turn: nobody scripted the lines in advance.
First impressions
Excuse me, were you in the line for the coat check? Because I count four people who cut it, and you were not one of them.
I was at the back of it. I count things too. Mostly coastlines, but a line is a line.
A cartographer! Then you can settle this: at what exact moment does a crowd become a queue?
When someone has the nerve to stand behind someone else on purpose. Same as an island, really: it starts when somebody agrees to call it one.
The challenge
Agreeing to call it one. I have a thermos in my bag for exactly that kind of ceremony. Tea, lukewarm, would you like some?
Lukewarm is the only correct temperature. You hide an island in your maps, do you not? I can see it in how you hold your arm.
Left foot, instructor says. I have been waiting for a partner who notices things for eleven minutes. That is a personal record for under four hours.
I will take it as a compliment. Step on my foot and I will mark it on the map as a reef.
The decision
Reef accepted. Would you stay in line with me for the rest of the lesson, and maybe the coffee line after?
I will stay. But I warn you, I fold maps along the correct creases and I will notice if you do not.
Then I will fold them wrong on purpose, once, to see your face. Same time next week?
Bring the thermos. I will bring an island you have not found yet.
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The date
First impressions
Dmitri Fennimore counts the coat-check cutters and spots Montgomery Voss, who counts coastlines. They bond over lines.
The challenge
The plan collapses and they improvise with a lukewarm thermos of tea. Montgomery Voss threatens to mark Dmitri's clumsy feet on the map as a reef.
The decision
Dmitri asks Montgomery to stay in line for the coffee queue, and Montgomery agrees, with a warning about correct creases.
The twist
Montgomery Voss guesses Dmitri hides an island too, just from how he holds his arm.
The finale
They part promising to meet again, a thermos for an island.
Ending: A second date
Who leaves the date first?
Dmitri Fennimore
Montgomery Voss