The Lying Liars | Chapter 7 | Ricky and the Lies We Believe About Each Other and Our Future Together.
A borrowed truck. A first date with no destination. Three failed hookup spots, a Walmart parking lot, a boat ramp full of drunken rednecks, an angry father, and one universe that seems absolutely determined not to let two men have sex.
Ricky starts as a late-night attempt to end a dry spell and turns into something much stranger: a story about borrowed confidence, drugs, bad timing, missed chances, and the version of another person we can carry around long after the actual relationship has disappeared.
Years later, Ricky suddenly appears online again. This time there’s a car, there’s gas, there’s money—and finally, there’s nowhere else they need to be.
Except neither of them is quite the person who showed up that first night.
Funny, messy, explicit, and unexpectedly tender, “Ricky” is about the date that never quite happened—and why some almost-relationships stay with us anyway.
0:00 — Ricky, the fancy truck, and a very poorly planned first date
6:00 — Walmart: absolutely not the romantic destination
~12:30 — The boat ramp and three drunken rednecks
20:15 — Third stop: maybe we should just go home
24:20 — Dad calls: bring back the truck
28:30 — One last attempt in the apartment-office parking lot
32:40 — Burns, spilled water, and the universe telling them to stop
35:20 — The kiss that almost happens—and Ricky’s nephew
38:05 — Two weeks becomes two months… then years
41:30 — “Oh, shit. Ricky.”
43:00 — Three years later: the second date
44:05 — “I didn’t bring it.”
45:20 — “You look happier.”
46:14 — End