Albion's Version:

It was a cold night, on April 3rd 2019 in a basement bar in central London near Oxford Circus. I had been talking to a friend of mine the week before and he said he wanted to try speed dating, so, me having already done it once before with another friend volunteered as tribute and decided to go with him one night the following week.

We get there and as always there are way more guys than there are girls at these things so I scoped the room to check out the talent and thats when I saw Magda, she was already sitting down and had this little black blazer on, looking very chic, I don't think she saw me checking her out, but I was, I saw she had a sparkle in her eyes and great smile and I knew I hadn't wasted my evening.

Luckily from my previous speed dating experience, I noticed she had chosen a seat near the end of the speed dating rotation and as there were a few more guys than girls there some guys had to wait a few turns for others to do a lap before being added to the mix, so I decided to wait went up to the bar and got myself a double Jack Daniels on the rocks, my strategy being if I'm one of the last dates she has then I'll still be fresh in her mind when she decides whether to give me her number or not the next day online. Of course it worked and I didn't even have to wait until the next day as the whole group went to another pub afterwards, so a few more JD's down and that's when I realise I can't find my jacket, immediately Magda kicks into gear and notices another girl has taken it and with no hesitation Magda goes up to this other girl and immediately gets my coat back and after that we talked a bit more before walking back to the tube station together (even holding hands) when I asked your place or mine? Unbelieavly Magda resisted my charm that night, but it didn't stop us from meeting up the following week for another date and the rest as they say is history.

Magda's Version:

After I broke up with my ex-boyfriend and taking 2 years off from the dating scene to heal, I decided I was finally ready to get back out there, when my flatmate at the time suggested we go speed dating together, I was so nervous having never done anything like it before and doing it in a foreign language only added to my stress.

Then Albi sat down in front of me and my stress went away immediately, he was so friendly, easygoing and charming that I felt so comfortable instantly when suddenly the bell rang and our date was over, our 4 minute date felt like 2 seconds and I couldn’t wait to see him again.

SuddenlyI found myself in the pub next door with the group of speed daters, when I saw Albi outside looking cold and lost, eventually he came in and we talked and flirted when he said he had lost his jacket, but little did he know I had made friends with another girl at the event who had picked it up at the end of the night, so I went to get it from her and returned and that’s when we decided to call it a night, so we walked back to the station together, said our goodbyes and I couldn’t wait to see if we matched the next day. 6 years later, here we are and again it only feels like 2 seconds has passed x

Reality:

Albi got drunk and I walked him to the station where he then hit on me.

(I still thought he was cute though x)

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