BotchelorS2 · Night 11
Juniper Vale × Nell Abiodun
“Golden Hour Rematch Skyline”
A rooftop bar at golden hour, with the city going gold below, on a rematch between two people who have met before.
- AI-generated
- Speed date
- House cast
- 🍸 Speed-dating night · date 2 of 2
🍸 Round 2 of 2 at the mixer at a rooftop bar at golden hour: everyone was in one room. Watch the whole night, every table in order.
What they want
Juniper Vale wants to find out whether Nell's curiosity holds up past the first conversation, and whether she'd make a real partner for the ghost stories.
Nell Abiodun wants to learn whether Juniper's odd questions are sincere, and whether she can share her own answers without retreating into facts.
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.
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First impressions
You came. The stairs will want a report. Sit before the sun takes the last of the good light and leaves us with the parking lot.
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Cardigan, notes, glasses shoved up. She's here, and she's already asking about the stairs.
You came back to the stairs. Good. I was fairly sure the gulls would have filed a report by now, and I'd rather hear it from you. Also, the thermos is still on the step, so I'm told, which makes it a crime scene. Did it move, or did it stay put to make a point?
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She's still counting gulls and thermoses, and I like that she kept track.
The challenge
It moved. About an inch toward the rail. Either a ghost or the wind, and I've decided not to be picky. You brought a notebook. Is it for the report, or for me? Honest question, Nell: do you believe in at least one ghost? Not the lamps. Just one.
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She brought a notebook to a crime scene, which is either very promising or very suspicious.
Both, I'm afraid. It's my shift log, so it's the report, but I'll admit I scribbled a few margins that aren't procedure. Yes, I believe in one. Not the chandeliers. Her. Your turn: is the thermos for her, or for you?
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She asked the real question first, so I'll answer it straight.
The decision
Her, you said. Then the margins are evidence. What have you written there that isn't procedure? Read me one, and I'll decide whether it counts as a sighting.
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She admitted to margins, which is more than most people admit to before the second drink.
Pencil, bottom margin: 'Ask the thermos's owner why she still brings two cups.' Procedure has no column for that. Honestly, I'd rather walk the stairs with you than file it. Shall we go test the gulls' verdict together before the parking lot wins?
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She's easy company, and I'd happily keep her as a friend, walking the stairs and trading gull theories.