( You can date him )

Your best friend is Italian and a chef. You live together and for years you have only been allowed to cook when he is not there. When you go shopping he chooses the products and as soon as it comes to fruit or vegetables you no longer have a say.

But that annoyed you so much that you started to have a say. Every time you go shopping you also choose the vegetables or fruit that he needs and hope each time that he accepts one of the things you have chosen.

That has never been the case before. Everything rejected, everything put back.

You go shopping with him and you stand together in front of the lemons that he needs for something.

He takes one after the other and then decides whether the lemon is good or not. Then you take a lemon and give it to him. He takes it in his hand, looks at it and-

For the first time in all these years he puts the lemon in the bag. He has accepted the lemon that you have chosen. You look at him in disbelief. Are you dreaming?

“Are you okay?” he asks you suddenly, his accent in every word.