"Ah, spring." "It wasn't here yet but you could finally walk to school without the fear you'd freeze and wake up 10 Million years from now in some futuroid laboratory." "Though I bet the futuroids would be nicer." "Naturally when the weather warms up, teenage minds turn to sex." "Not that teenage minds ever really turn away from it." "Is that all you're eating?" "No wonder you're so skinny!" "Hi Donna." "Donna is the only girl at Medora High who actually has a crash on ME." "Seriously, when I first saw you in Eng Lit," "I thought you had cancer!" "I was going to take up a collection but then your hair didn't fall out well, yet." "That hairline is a time bomb." "I don't know what her strategy was." "Maybe by getting people to focus on her annoying personality, they wouldn't notice her looks." "Well thanks, Donna, there's Raja, so I better, uh..." "Go then!" "You make a cute couple!" "Is my hairline ok?" "Yes, why?" "No reason." "You're not eating." "I cannot." "This is about her..." "" " Who?" "" " Whooo ;-) Sadika!" "Sadika who?" "How many Sadikas do we know?" "Sadika Sada something something" "Sadika Sada something something was a Muslim girl Raja met several weeks ago and has not stopped denying he's thinking about since" "Sadika Sadaqatmal is a nice young woman whom I wish well." "You wish her more than well!" "You keep her picture under your mattress." "Who's the old guy?" "It's the grandfather." "No, because, because, he wanted to get a picture of her but he was trying to play it cool so he has to..." "What are you doing?" "What are you doing, Claire?" "In Pakistan we respect one another's privacy unless the government decides otherwise." "Why don't you just ask her out?" "" " She was into you too." "" " It is immaterial." "Muslims do not date until it is time to get married." "What, if you asked me, explains why some of their young guys are so crabby." "Yeah, but you said yourself that Muslims here are more casual." "But I hope one day to return to Pakistan provided of course that your permissive culture has not corrupted me so much I am turned away at the border." "Is that my Pizza?" "Yeah, I thought you were going to stay lovesick a little longer." "Raja wasn't listening to me, but I still had one secret weapon." "So," "I talked to Dalwah Sadaqatmal today." "Do you remember Dalwah?" "Of course!" "How is she?" "mmm good real good." "What about Sylvio?" "Sylvio was the Sadaqatmals German exchange student who didn't speak a word of English." "But that didn't bother Claire." "Sylvio is fine." "And, uh, Sadika?" "Sadika is wonderful!" "She is doing real well in school not seeing anyone though and Dalwah is really concerned about it" "Cause there are hardly any Muslim boys in Wisconsin." "There's Raja." "There is Raja!" "Isn't there?" "Oh, uh, I appreciate your interest in my romantic well being," "But I can assure you the Sadaqatmals would never allow me to court Sadika if I were so enclined, which I am... not." "That's fine Raja." "I was smiling because my mom only gives up when she know has won." "They said yes." "Of who?" "What what what?" "Well, your name naturally came up once the conversation went that way." "And Dalwah said they are all for it if Sadika is." "And is she?" "She can't wait." "Congratulations, son." "And here is where Raja had his first ever panic attack." "s01e18 -= "Raja at Sixteen" =- sub created by: alittlekbit" "Why can't we just drop him off?" "You are my surrogate family and the elder's Sadaqatmals judgement of my suitability will flow from their opinions of you." "Oh, that sucks." "It will be fine." "Although I do believe I'm about to open up a Pandora's box of emotional torture for no good reason." "Welcome to the wonderful world of dating." "Despite the pressure and formality the two teens actually managed to treat the occasion like a regular first date just not the two who were on it." "The setup was definitely unique." "Sadikas family would ask questions to us and Raja would ask questions to them." "My family have been living in Wisconsin for many generations..." "It is interesting we know many people who would not allow their daughters to date like this before they are married." "but Mr. Sadaqatmals and I are much more liberal than our friends." "Oh, you're serious." "At one point Raja and Sadika finally said something to each other excuse me" "Oh I" " I didn't" "Oh i'm s smh" "The whole thing seemed like a disaster but it apparently it wasn't because a few nights later at our house we did the same thing all over again and this time Raja and Sadika got it on." "Good samoosi!" "Oh, thank you!" "Claire and Sylvios relationship was moving even faster" "Du bist heiss!" "when it hit a language barrier" "Du... bist heiss." "Heiss, heiss." "Heiss..." "Hot!" "Me?" "Du!" "Fortunately you don't have to know all that many words to date in highschool." "Now, I know I was the one who wanted Raja and Sadika to get together in the first place but I didn't realize what the repercussions would be." "Hey, hello, Raja!" "I'm talking to you." "Sorry, I was just texting Sadikas mother." "This is weird man." "Justin, the road to Sadikas heart is through her." "Ok, wait, you're not gonna see her or her mother till friday so how about we're going to a movie or something this afternoon?" "This afternoon I am helping her father clean and disinfect a rental property." "" " You can come to that." "" " Uh, no, that's ok, I don't want to horn in on your Lady." "Ja" "Ja, jaa, totally." "What's he saying?" "I have no idea, but he sounds so smart!" "No no no no, it was great fun" "I do enjoyed pouring bleach over the entire bathroom floor." "I am speaking to Sadika's father" "He seems very impressed with me." "But what I may have lost in friendship" "I gained in humiliation." "" " What?" "" " Nothing, just even our celibate Muslim exchange student got a girl friend before Justin." "He hardly has a girl friend if anything he is dating a very old married couple." "Someone is a little jealous" "Gary, you're awful" "As bad as I felt," "I still can't explain what I did next." "You draw so much." "I don't understand why you're not better." "Do you want to go out sometime?" "I knew you were in love with me." "I'm taking a round of antibiotics," "I'll be out in a few days." "We'll go out then." "While I waited for Donna to get out of her medication" "Raja and Sadika had another date which was starting to loose its charme" "and my mother decided to do something about it." "Raja, I know it's our term for your date tonight but who feels like cookin'?" "So I called the Sadaqatmals and we're all gonna meet at the Cheesecake Mill instead." "Do you know where that is?" "Yes, but will we not all drive together?" "No, cause you got a dentist appointment" " just before." "That's right there!" "" " I do?" "Yeah, it's your three months and two weeks checkup" "Hello." "Good evening." "Tolchuck-Sadaqatmal." "Party of 17." "This way." "" " Am I the first?" "" " Second." "Sadika." "is your family not?" "Oh I'm supposed to meet them." "Somehow my mom manged to seperate Sadika from her family but that's why she's the best." "Is the food here good?" "I go to the one where I live." "Meanwhile at the Cheesecake Mill across town:" "Oh good you found it." "Yes, but where is Sadika?" "Bye." "They went to the one in Rhinelander." "So, we are alone?" "For a while." "Sadika I must apologize." "I suspect Mrs Tolchuck has created this accident." "Oh, it's ok." "They 'll be here in half an hour." "Mrs Tolchuck is a crafty woman, she may summon into a tornado." "Shall I perhaps go and wait outside?" "I do not want your mother to see us alone and be offended." "Are you kidding me?" "My mother loves you." "I do have a ways with moms." "Yeah, I've seen." "Here they attribute it to my foreign heritage but even in Pakistan, they considered me as you might say, to be a, uh pussy sucker" "You're funny!" "You seem surprised." "Well, you take all this so seriously" "Islam?" "Life!" "Oh you do too," "I have seen the books you read." "That's because I'm bored because I' can't go out" "You would prefer to live as they do?" "I don't know, I" "You weren't born here," "I feel like I'm two things at once but neither, really." "It's like everything you want is right there and all your friend gets to enjoy everyone of them," "but not you" "You know that feeling, the morning after the last day of Ramadan when you wake up and after a month of daytime fasting you can have anything you want strawberry waffles!" "That first bite... is a pleasure they cannot have," "but we do." "My moms scheme was disrespectful of Raja," "Sadika, the Sadaqatmal family and really the whole Muslim faith." "She also happens to be a conspiracy theorist... but she knows her stuff," "Raja and Sadika finally got do the one thing they never could on any of their other dates:" "relax" "She tells everyone it is called only a five bean soup to ward off the recipe thiefs." "Very sharp." "Is she pretty too?" "Well, here in America, there are different standards, of, no, not by any standards, she is quite hideous actually." "Raja!" "The whole family says so" "" " To her face?" "" " When they can look at it." "You are horrible!" "I am." "I am..." "She all but raised me and I love her dearly." "I hope I get to meet her." "I hope so too." "Oh, there he is." "I think we have our new desktop." "Yes we do. I, ..." "I must ask you to refrain from doing that again unless one day" " we are married." " right." "Nonetheless, thank you." "Hi kids, sorry we're late." "While things were going well for Raja and Sadika" "I, for some reason, continued to persue things with Donna." "What was that?" "My tongue." "I thought..." "I thought ..." "You thought?" "That was your first tongue kiss?" "No, no," "I just thought that you like it." "Not when you barely even put it in." "Well, there is a lot of metal to work around." "I knew what she was doing:" "Make me feel inadequate so I wouldn't judge her, but knowing didn't matter, it still worked on me." "Lend me money for a cold stone." "Like me, Claire was having her own difficulties." "You talk into it and it translates for you." "It really works?" "Claire, did you pass gas?" "Daddy!" "Hast du gefurzt?" "He may not be Mrs Manners, but he knows his audience." "Well, I figured you two talk so much, maybe you would like to hear what you're saying." "It turns out though that some things are better left to the imagination like Rajas aunt Ghazala." "But sometimes I am on the bad team and the other team captures the flag." "This whole time you were talking to me about Halo 2?" "Nein." "Halo 3." "No, Halo 3!" "To be fair though," "Claire wasn't exactly a great conversationalist either." "What is your point? Whatever!" "With the magic gone," "Claire and Sylvio ended their relationship." "The next day Claire drowned her sorrows with one small fork full of cheesecake." "Ok, I',m over him." "Meanwhile I was starting to wonder what was supposed to be so great about having a girl friend? Everything she tells me, I tell myself anyway." "Justin!" "Claire!" "We have to talk!" "Justin," " you're not with your girlfriend?" "" " No, uh, she's seeing one of her shrinks" "Listen, there's something I have to tell you." "Ok." "Claire was at the Cheesecake Mill and she thinks she saw Sadika there holding hands with another guy." "She thinks?" "Ya, well, she's pretty sure." "We do not look all look alike, you know." "Hey, I'm not saying this to hurt you." "" " Really, because it seems to me that you are!" "" " What?" "I think that you are so envious, that you would invent a story just to hurt me!" "Whoa whoa, you've just so left the realm of reality right know that you may be hitting Pluto!" "Pluto is in reality!" "Ok, you know what I meant?" "Justin, I am sorry that your girlfriend is rude and chews with her mouth open, but I am your friend and you should be happy for me!" "Raja, it's not like that at all!" "I believe that it is." "Ok, well talk to Claire, you'll see." "I do not have to, I will talk to Sadika." "This is more of an aside, but here's how not to get a ride when hitchhiking in Medora." "USA!" "USA!" "Raja, we were not expecting you." "I know Mrs Sadaqatmal." "Is Sadika here?" "Raja?" "Were you at the Cheesecake Mill today?" "May I speak with Raja alone?" "Sadika!" "Please mother?" "I will be in the other room." "I am sorry to even ask you this, but Claire thought she saw you there with someone today." "I was there, with Matthew." "Matthew." "He has a name." "Raja, I like you," "I like you very much." "Holding hands with Matthew is a strange way of showing that." "Can't I to get know you and get to know Matthew while I figure these things out?" "" " Sadika." "Don't you wanna meet other girls too?" "So, that you can know that you are making the right decision." "I have already changed so much, the mere fact that I'm getting to know you without being engaged or married," "this is not how it works where I come from and to be frank, I thought, you shared the same values." "I'm sorry, Raja." "I am a Muslim girl, but a western girl too." "Please tell your family knowing them has been my pleasure." "Raja?" "Sadikas father wants to know whether you can help him lay down some insulation in the attic?" "Of course." "I really must learn to say no." "Oh, he's home now, yeah, I gotta go dal." "Bye." "Raja was devastated but one thing about my mom..." "Come here she cleans up her messes." "I am sorry for how I spoke to you about your girl friend" "Oh, she's... she's not my girlfriend anymore, we broke up." "How did she take it?" "Well, uh, I have a fake facebook page now that says we are boyfriends." "Still I was patronizing and pompous and you were right." "Usually I'm the one apologizing to you right now." "I enjoy that more." "I never understood these games, but they are quite useful for blocking out the world." "Plus you can take out all your aggression on whoever" "I'm thinking of Donna." "And I am thinking of Matthew." "Well, if you hold B and tap A you can decapitate him." "Thank you."