- I'm pretty much open to anything.
I've dated a couple of bisexual guys.
Never dated a female.
I mean, I grew up Catholic.
- I like men who are taller than me.
I've only dated men, and it is my preference.
But I've been attracted to different types of people.
I don't really prefer to just stick to one thing
with anything in my life.
- Your name is Rochelle,
- and this is your story.
You are 28 years old.
For work, you are a designer.
You grew up in L.A.
And your cultural or ethnic background is mixed.
- My name is Arielle.
- I am 27 years old.
For work, I'm a makeup artist.
And I grew up kind of,
upstate New York.
And I am mixed, I'm black and white.
- Cool.
- Your name is Alicia, and this is your story.
You are 26 years old.
For work, you are a singer.
You grew up in Brooklyn,
and your cultural or ethnic background is Dominican?
- My name is Marisol.
I am 32 years old and thank you.
For work, I'm an executive assistant.
I grew up in Manhattan,
and my ethnic background is,
mixed.
- Cool. - Yeah.
- Where did you get Rochelle?
- It just had this, like, feminine but, like, Rochelle.
- Okay.
You kind of have the bubbly Alicia-type feeling, but
Marisol's pretty.
- Thanks.
- I don't think I've ever had anyone
actually guess my age before.
- Yeah, so 26. Thank you. - Yeah.
Go girl!
- That's wonderful.
Cool, where upstate?
- Orange County, but L.A. sounds cooler.
That's what you said, right? - Yeah
I don't know why I just got an L.A.,
like, West Coast vibe.
- New Rochelle, the West Coast babe, yeah.
- Yeah.
- Where I was raised, it was a small town.
I didn't necessarily feel like I fit in there.
I have been dying my hair since I was 12,
and people would always ask me,
"what does your mother think?"
I'm like, "my mom did it for me."
- So I grew up in the Upper East Side,
which is known for being on shows like Gossip Girl.
But there's sort of two sides to the neighborhood.
I grew up in a one bedroom walkup
with my stepfather, my mother, and my half-sister.
It influenced a lot of who I became
and the directions I took.
Your nickname is Jellybean.
You hate karaoke.
Your family meets your significant other
after four months of dating.
- I don't really have a nickname.
They mostly just call me Arie,
no one's creative enough.
- I saw your hair and I just thought Jellybean.
- I don't hate karaoke, I don't do karaoke,
because I'm not good at it but I would dabble
and, my family usually meets them after two months or so.
But, I haven't met anyone since I moved to the city.
Your nickname would be something like Bubbles or Chipmunk.
I feel like those would be cute for you.
You love karaoke.
I can see.
And, your family meets your significant other after
two or three months of dating.
- My nickname is actually Wabisabi
- That's cute!
- I hate karaoke.
That should go on the record.
I'd say my family meets my significant other,
after about two months of dating. Depends on the person,
family, where I see it going.
- So all of your past relationships met your parents or?
- I consider family like, my cousins,
they still get the same questioning
but they're all fun and chill. - Okay
- It usually ends up just, everyone hanging out together.
- Until I moved here I was still living at home so,
my family met everybody
just 'cause, they were picking me up.
And, of course my mom's gonna run out and be like,
"Well hey there!" - Yeah
- Yeah so, they've met everybody.
We also had a lot of animals. Five dogs, two cats,
we had like 20 finches at one point.
Sometimes I would bring people in
and there was my loud-ass family.
- All the animals going. - And all the animals
jumping on them and, if they were just super overwhelmed
I was like, "oh, this probably won't work out"
- Yeah.
In the past I haven't been in
too many long-term relationships.
If I make a commitment to someone,
I really put a lot of thought into it.
Recognizing that sometimes some things aren't meant
to last for a very long time.
- I wasn't interested really,
in going on dates in high school.
My mother worked in the school
and my father was a bus driver after he retired,
so they were kind of, always around.
It was a little bit awkward.
It's been more interesting for me since I moved to the city.
I've done the mini-golf date, and the bowling alley date.
Just basic stuff that other people, I feel like,
did in high school, and I came to a little bit late
and I wanted to get them out of the way.
So now I can be an adult.
I guess I'll start the sex conversation.
- Go for it.
- You learned about sex from school.
In your family growing up the subject of sex was,
not usually talked about?
And, if the sex is bad you would not say anything.
- I learned about sex from library books.
I grew up Catholic
- Oh, okay. - Yeah,
so we did not learn about that in--
- So you went to the library,
and checked out all the sex books. Okay.
- Yeah, I used to carry them around with me
and I would answer questions for my friends,
who had no idea - nice
- And no one to talk to.
- I wonder what the librarians thought.
- I didn't think about that.
- I used to be a library clerk
and I used to like to figure out people's lives
based on the books that they were always checking out.
- Interesting. I was super awkward looking so.
Probably chuckled a lot.
- Yeah, growing up we did not talk about sex.
And if sex is bad I would say something. Godda fix it!
- It's true.
- You learned about sex from school.
- In your family growing up,
the subject of sex was open.
If sex was bad, you would say something.
I actually learned about sex more from my parents.
As soon as my mum found out we were covering sex ed,
she ran over and was like,
"I didn't talk to you about sex yet."
And sat down and talked to me way too much about sex.
When I was growing up, it was open.
When I told my mum I lost my virginity
she sang "Sunrise Sunset" to me instead of answering me,
from Fiddler on the Roof, she just sat there singing,
for like, way too long. And I had to sit there like,
alright, this is cool and all but like--
And I'd definitely say something.
To the point where I'm a little bit rude.
I've laughed.
I've actually only dated men.
I've never been in a relationship with a woman.
- Yeah.
- It's kinda new. - Okay.
Yeah, I don't consider myself, straight exactly.
'cause, I mean. I think I veered off the path,
way too much, - Yeah
- To say I'm straight.
I'm not even sure how to define my own.
I mean I've had relationships with women
but nothing serious.
- Not like an actual girlfriends thing.
- Yeah yeah. - Okay.
- Completely. - I think the whole labeling
anything like that is weird.
Like, you don't know who you're gonna connect with so.
- Exactly, it's super fluid.
And I don't really like the idea of restricting myself
and saying, "I'm only this"
- Same.
- Yeah.
- Does your family know that you've done stuff with women?
- I think I've told them and if not, they're gonna know.
- I don't really know what my family knows.
The closest thing I ever had was my mom said something
about like, gay or whatever.
And I was like, "Hi, if I want to date a woman,
"I will bring her here,
"and make-out with her in your living room."
And she was like, "What?"
And I'm like, "Just saying."
- Yeah.
When I first saw you,
I thought that I would,
not date you.
- But, I've never been in a relationship with a woman,
and I just thought that it would happen a little more,
- organically.
But, after talking to you I decided that I would date you.
- I win.
When I first saw you,
I said I would date you.
- Awwh
- 'cause same things as you,
but I was like, "She is super cute"
And, after talking to you,
I never wanna see you again.
No, I would date you.
We would definitely have to go on an adventure date.
'cause that's kind of,
- Oh, yeah.
- Like, eats and then adventure,
and get into wacky shenanigans.
- Yes!
- Yeah that's pretty much where I would see that going.
- Okay, cool.
- Now do we skip off the stage holding hands?
We're done!