A Brief Moment of Insanity

Here's the next installment of our dating story:

Over the years Arthur and I spent a lot of time talking on phone since we were in a long-distance relationship.  We spent hours talking on the phone at 9pm every night sharing the day’s activities and shooting the breeze with ease.  However there was no ease to be found with our first phone call.  One evening I was peacefully studying at my desk when my world suddenly turned upside down.  My cell phone rings and Arthur is on the other end.  He had a well-rehearsed spiel about he had enjoyed going to formal a few weeks before and was wondering if I would be interested in “intentionally hanging out” with him.  I told him I would be interested in doing so.  At this point Arthur was caught off guard as he had not rehearsed what to do if I happened to say yes.  We decided on a date—it would just have to be about 2 weeks away since my academic life was in chaos with studying for a comprehensive test of everything I learned in the past 4 years to get my certification.  We agreed to get ice cream and “hang out”.  Completely harmless right?  After I hung up with Arthur I called my mom and was almost in hysterics since in a brief moment of insanity I had told a boy that I would “hang out” with him.  I had never done this before and didn’t know what the long term implications might be.  My mother tried to calm me down, assuring me that one date would not be the end of the world and wasn’t any long term commitment—just a date.  Little did she know.