When Chris pulls up to Larissa’s apartment, she and Nancy see that he has a giant penis drawn on his face with a permanent marker. He reveals that he has just come from a children’s vaccine clinic where there was a face painter, and he let a scheming little girl paint his face with what he thought was temporary face paint. Though Larissa laughs at him, Chris still gives her a drink that he brought her and offers to get her luggage.

After seeing the jewelry box that he suggested Mike get for Larissa in her room, Chris thinks about how he hasn’t seen Mike much lately because he’s been working. He hasn’t filled his prescription at Chris’s pharmacy, but Mike claimed that he couldn’t get a doctor’s appointment to get one for a few weeks.

Chris tells Larissa about all the problems he has at work. Mike calls while Chris is getting gas. Chris advises Mike to clear all the nuts out of the cabin, and Chris notices that he’s been drinking. Larissa helps Chris get the marker off his face and gives him a rare copy of a book they both love since she knew Chris wouldn’t let her pay for gas. When they arrive at the cabin, they both see that Mike is acting a little aggressively. When Chris goes into the pantry, he sees that Mike hasn’t cleaned out any of the nuts in the cabin.

Larissa thinks about how she has never seen Mike drunk before and how he’s a little loud and annoying. Larissa puts on her bathing suit but thinks about how she’d feel self-conscious in front of Chris with just a bikini on. She runs into Chris as he’s taking out the trash and offers to take it out for him. The bag opens and spills out when she goes to pick up something, and she sees that the only thing in the trash is products with nuts.

Larissa hangs out with Jesse’s girlfriend, Becca, and Xavier’s wife, Samantha, at the lake outside of the cabin. Larissa convinces the other women to float out further since Mike is doing cannonballs, and Larissa wonders how much he’s had to drink. She sees Chris also looking annoyed with Mike and thinks about how he went through the pantry to throw out the nuts for her. Larissa thinks about how she’ll be driving home with Mike but would prefer to be going with Chris.

When Larissa gets home from the cabin, she sees that Phil is in the apartment and assumes that he’s been there the whole time. The apartment smells like beer and cigarette smoke, and Larissa confronts Nancy about the suitcases she sees in her room. Larissa puts her foot down since she pays half the rent. When Nancy points out that she could get a place of her own, Larissa recounts the numerous financial issues preventing her from doing that.

Nancy suggests that Larissa stay with Mike for the weekend, and Larissa admits that spending so much time with him was overstimulating. She notices that she liked the parts of the weekend that she spent with Chris, not Mike, and feels bad about the thought. She thinks about what it would be like to ask Chris to stay in his guest room but ultimately decides to go to Mike’s.

Chris wakes up from a nightmare, but not the recurring one he usually has of his mother on her deathbed. In the nightmare, Larissa eats nuts, neither of them has an EpiPen on them, and Chris feels as helpless as he did with his mother.

Over the weekend at the cabin, Chris realized how much thinking about Larissa has consumed his life, even though it’s not his job to worry about her so much.

Mike takes Larissa to his cousin’s luau-themed engagement party, where Larissa can’t eat anything because of nut contamination. Mike doesn’t eat either, and he tells Larissa about how he’s reading the book that she and Chris love.

Mike is training for a triathlon, so he hasn’t been drinking, and Larissa has been staying with him because Phil has moved into the apartment. Larissa talks with Becca but feels like she can’t open up to her like she does to Chris. When Larissa mentions doing a quick gig on the way back from the party, Mike suggests that she just move in with him so that he can pay all her bills. Larissa wants to make her own money, unlike her mother, so that she doesn’t have to rely on anyone.

Chris finally arrives at the party and sees that both he and Larissa have bought Hawaiian shirts printed with Woofarine’s face on them. Larissa and Chris talk about the food spread, and Chris asks her if she ever thought about catering.

Larissa is disappointed when she sees that Mike has gotten a drink, though he promises it’s his last one since he’s driving. Larissa wants to do karaoke with Mike, but he insists that Chris do it instead. All the songs they have to pick from are love songs, but Chris can’t explain to Larissa why they can’t do one of those. When they’re singing, Chris sees that Mike is at the bar getting another drink.

Larissa is annoyed that Mike has had three drinks when he had already promised to drive, so she hangs out with Chris. Larissa wonders why Chris didn’t bring a date to the party but feels weird after thinking about him like that.

Chris goes to find some food that’s safe for Larissa to eat from the chef, as Mike is still at the bar. He’s mad that Mike didn’t think to tell the host about Larissa’s allergy or get them something to eat beforehand.

When Larissa can’t see him, Jesse finds Chris to tell him that Mike is disastrously drunk and that they need to take him home now. Jesse agrees to take Mike home if Chris can take Larissa, and Chris feels angry at Mike for potentially putting Larissa in danger.

Chris tells Larissa, who has the keys to Mike’s car, but when she volunteers to go with him, Chris insists that she doesn’t. As Chris drives her home, they listen to each other’s music in peace, and Chris wonders if this would have happened if he had driven her home the night of the concert. He stops to let Larissa do a quick gig, and once that’s done, he insists on helping her do more to make some extra money for herself.

Chris and Larissa drive around doing work and talk about how they both have problems with their jobs. Larissa mentions how Mike’s mother, Donna, who is also Larissa’s employer, has been cold to her since they started dating.

The night of the concert comes up in conversation, and Larissa mentions that she’s surprised he didn’t try to flirt with her, but Chris mentions that he did try to and wanted to drive her home. Chris tries to shut down the conversation. Larissa eventually changes the subject, but she continues to think about how Chris was interested in her the night they met. She remembers that she thought Chris would want someone better than her and thought Mike would suit her better. She also thought that Mike’s exuberant personality eclipsed Chris entirely.

Chris tells Larissa that his mother’s alcohol addiction led to her death, something he has never told any of his friends, including Mike. Chris feels ashamed to not have noticed her addiction, wishing he could have told her about it, but Larissa tells him that most people with addictions don’t change when another person asks them—they have to get better for themselves. Larissa assures him that his mother’s death wasn’t his fault, and she realizes how much this affects him, noticing how they’re becoming more than just casual friends.

They sit in a parking lot discussing this, and Larissa wants to hug him but doesn’t know if they’re close enough to do that yet. Suddenly, Larissa sees something moving in the fence and thinks an animal is stuck.

Larissa gets out of the car to help a baby deer that’s stuck in a fence, not remembering Chris’s fear of deer. As they’re trying to get the fawn out of the fence, they see the deer’s mother, who Chris thinks is angry. Larissa sees that Chris is genuinely terrified and tells him to wait in the car, but he refuses to leave her.

They get the baby deer out of the fence, but as they head to the car, the deer begins to charge at them. Chris gets in front of Larissa and creates a diversion so that she can get in the car, and they drive away laughing. They go to a diner afterward, where Larissa brings up Mike. Chris feels bad because he’s starting to realize that he has feelings for Larissa.

When Larissa gets home, she tells her mother about what Chris told her about the night of the concert. Nancy asks her if she could go back in time, knowing what she knows, if she would have chosen Mike or Chris. When Larissa doesn’t immediately say Mike, Nancy can tell that Larissa is hesitant about her boyfriend, though both know that Chris won’t go near her, given her relationship with his best friend.

The next morning, Chris comes to drop off some pastry-making supplies for Larissa, keeping in mind what they had talked about when they saw the catering the previous night. Chris thinks about all the other things he wants to do for Larissa but knows that he can’t. He thinks about the night of the concert and knows that Larissa would have chosen him if he had been nicer that night. Larissa thanks Chris and asks what his mother’s name was since she forgot to last night.

Chris goes over to Mike’s house, but Mike doesn’t answer the door when he knocks. Mike is asleep, hungover, at 11 o’clock and asks Chris to text Larissa not to come over. Chris lectures Mike about how Larissa is only still with him because she didn’t see how drunk he got last night and assures Mike that he knows her because they actually talk and he doesn’t hide the truth as Mike does. Chris thinks about how Mike is wasting his shot with Larissa, which makes him feel worse because he thinks only one of them can have a chance with her. Chris knows that Mike is making an effort, but only when he isn’t drinking. Mike tells Chris that he could see himself marrying Larissa, and Chris pictures how painful it would be to be the best man at that wedding.