For Ray

[asher_talos]

[from here]

"Looks like we have to look up the word lucky, too," he said, 'rolling with it', as Ray had asked, because there wasn't much else he could do. If nothing else, at least it was a step up from earlier that afternoon, but that probably wasn't saying all that much

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[speakscanadian]

"Lucky," Ray enunciated, deepening his voice as if he were a commentator as he followed Asher through the crowd. "Adverb. Noun? ...something. Definition: having good luck. Fortunate, successful, prosperous. Example: Ray is going to get lucky tonight." He was joking but that still didn't prevent a little color rising in his cheeks.

[asher_talos]

"Does Ray have selective memory issues along with the tendency to talk about himself in the third person?" Even though February was months ago, it was pretty hard to forget that the last time Ray had nearly gotten lucky, he couldn't go through with it. And there might have been some sappy thing with a ring involved, but that was one of the details Asher preferred his own selective memory issues to go ahead and forget.

[speakscanadian]

Fraser had clearly instilled some long-lasting manners into his friend because Ray found himself holding open the door to the Compound for Asher.

"Ray's lost you," he replied curiously, stepping back to let Asher go first. "Age before beauty."

[asher_talos]

"Stop it," Asher demanded as he headed inside, not making it clear whether having doors held open for him and being called old or Ray insisting to call himself by his first name was what he was taking issue with. If Ray were smart, Asher figured he would just assume it was both and he wouldn't have to worry about either anymore.