"No, I don't have a problem with rejection." Ryan defended mid-sip of his beer. "Women have a problem SEEING me."
"Seeing you? There you are." Jenna pointed a long finger at him. Jenna was as tall as Ryan, just as witty, but where Ryan's brilliance manifested only in gripes, Jenna had a spritely, teasing way of demonstrating it. She was the optimistic yin to his cynical yang.
"Ha. Ha." replied Ryan. Gulping down another pull (this one a little deeper than the last), Ryan clarified.
"I project myself well, and I don't have to tell you how smart I am. I truly feel that girls..."
"Women."
"Women, don't value what I have to offer."
Jenna pondered Ryan's position for a moment. She did that thing where she let her eyes drift to the left and downwards, as if visualizing a tangible answer descending like a balloon. She knew WHAT she wanted to say, but not how to phrase it. Ryan truly was intelligent in her view; few guys, her current boyfriend included, could carry a conversation with her.
Ryan also had a way with words. His vocabulary was impecable, and though his opinion of himself was indeed vaunted, he was far from snobbish. Oftentimes, Jenna thought he hadn't heard her talking to him only to be reassured that he was searching for the ideal word to reply with. He wasn't a pompous speaker, just an efficient one.
Now, challenged by his self-assessment of being unappealing to the opposite sex - and herself in no position to credibly say otherwise, what with her six-packed boyfriend. Such reassurance from her only be seen as condescending mercy-prattle.
That she decided was Ryan's ultimate flaw, and by extension, the answer to her question. He second guessed.
Ryan, for his part, awaited Jenna's answer with anticipation. Debate was a vice of Ryan's and he prided himself on what he felt was logic, or the elimination of unreasonable assumptions, (or what Ryan called, much to the chagrin of Jenna, women's bane.)

(To be continued)

Ryan needs to drink more and Jenna needs to get laid

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