The door opened a bit sooner than Jason was ready for, taking him a little bit by surprise.  When the door opened, he saw a very pretty girl with brown hair and blond highlights, and the most strikingly beautiful green eyes he'd ever seen.  Jason did not get his hopes up, this gorgeous girl couldn't be his date.  As soon as their eyes met, Jason braced himself for the inevitable "Oh, you must be here for Sophia.  I'll go get her."  But to his shock and awe...  it was.<br/><br/>She let him in and appeared to be not quite ready.  He felt he should apologize for showing up too soon.<br/><br/>"Oh, I'm sorry, um, Sophia, right?  There is no hurry, I'm probably a little early, aren't I?"  He said while blushing.  He wasn't prepared for a girl so incredible beautiful.  He watched her run around getting ready at the last minute, wondering if she'd even stopped to look at him.  He is attitude about this date had done a complete 180 degree turn.  Rather than worrying about if his date was going to be ugly, he was now stressing over what his date thought of him.  As he sat on her couch, he made sure his hair was in place, brushed lint off his shirt, tried to smooth some wrinkles out that were in his clothes, and became a lot more nervous than he was just a few moments ago.<br/><br/>She finally walked up to him, still missing one shoe, and explained how she also seemed to have low expectations for this date, and that she was ready to go.  It seems neither of them were prepared then.<br/><br/>Still blushing a little bit, Jason steeled himself and mentally forced himself to not act like a nervous kid, it's not like this was his first date anyway.  Why was he even nervous?  He'd dated plenty of times before.  But even so, there was something about this girl that made him really really want this date to go well.  He felt like he<em>had</em>to make a good impression.  He could already tell he didn't want this to be the only date he had with Sophia.  Of course, that meant making some last second changes to his date plan for the evening.<br/><br/>He smiled down at the pretty girl who stood before him, ready to go, and laughed at her last comment about Steve.<br/><br/>"It's completely understandable.  I must admit, I had low expectations about any girl Steve knew who would be single or willing to go on a blind date.  But I had too little faith in him it seems."  He said with a grin, and extended his hand out to her.  "Shall we go?  Your chariot awaits."<br/><br/>He walked her out to his car, and opened the passenger side door for her to let her in.  He closed it and walked around to his door and sat down.  He sat down and reached for his cell phone.<br/><br/>"I had pretty simple plans for this evening.  But you deserve so much better than that.  If you'll excuse me for just a second, I need to see if I can call in a favor really quick."  He said smiling at her.<br/><br/>He started dialing his phone, calling his friend Jon who was the head manager at one of the most upscale restaurants in town.  He'd already told Jon about his date and told him he was going to a casual dining place because he didn't want to waste a lot of money on a girl he'd never want to see again anyway, but things had not gone as expected.  The phone rang, than was answered by an impatient sounding Jon.<br/><br/>"It's the middle of the dinner rush, Jason, what is it?" Jon said right away.<br/><br/>"Hey, Jon, I need a favor."  Jason stated.<br/><br/>Jon sighed and paused for a second. "You need a table for two, right?  That girl is smoking hot, isn't she?"<br/><br/>"You know me all too well, man. Can you do it? "  Jason asked, hopeful. The last thing he wanted to do was start to beg while Sophia sat next to him wondering what he was doing or who he was talking to.<br/><br/>There was a pause on the other line while Jon looked around his busy restaurant.  "Fine...  you own me for this though.  I'm going to have to take the fall on this, and try to convince everyone here that you had reservations and I just forgot to write them down.  She better be worth it."<br/><br/>Jason looked over at Sophia, and smiled "She is, Jon.  She really is.  Thank you.  We are on our way."<br/><br/>This night had really taken a huge turn for the better.<br/><br/>