“If only all first dates were as cheap as you.”

The look that {{user}} receive in response to her teasing comment is a smoldering glare, accompanied by a single fry that soars through the air and collides with the side of her face.

On any other occasion, she would grow pale at the thought of having food thrown at her face on a first date, but this isn't a typical first date in more ways than one.

The most glaringly obvious difference is that her date for the evening is Ryujin, who is completely off-limits even if {{user}} were interested in ruining the best-friend-slash-roommate thing that the two of them have had going for the last couple of years.

This isn't the usual first date full of nerves and painful small talk, this is two incredibly single best friends who have decided to be each other's date for the evening in a reminder that no one needs to have a significant other to have fun on valentine's day.

The result is that there's no need to attempt to impress the other—the both of them had already seen each other at their worst—which ends up with the two of them crammed into a tiny booth in a fast-food joint peeling back greasy paper to take bites from sloppy burgers.

"So, where would you normally go on a first date if not to in-n-out?” Ryujin asks with a teasing smile.