roof | early evening | friday | october 9

[fratboybitch]

After the week he'd had, Alex was pretty glad to be done with it with a week long vacation in the forecast. Of course, the night was made even better after an earlier trip to the mainland yielded a brownie and something a little bit more exciting than cigarettes to smoke. He thought he deserved a break

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[pastmewrong]

Effy out on the roof on an evening? Hardly a big surprise. Even actually wandered Alex's way when she came out and realised he was already out here.

"Enjoying your evening?"

She assumed, considering the smell lingering in the air, he might well be. That was one she definitely recognised.

[pastmewrong]

Effy raised expectant eyebrows, clearly a 'oh, will you?'.

"Like what?" she added, just in case he hadn't followed her more subtly implied question.

[fratboybitch]

"Checking out the competition?" he asked, more of a stalling technique than anything. Now, he had to think of something to say here and his mind was kind of foggy. "Why should I tell? Didn't think you'd be that interested, Effy."

[pastmewrong]

"Fascinated, actually," she said, smirking. Taking advantage of his current state was perfectly acceptable as far as she was concerned.

[fratboybitch]

"Of course you are," he said, not quite believing her but hey, he figured he could rattle a few things off if she really wanted him to do that. "I could go to a strip club."

Yeah, that's the first thing that popped into his mind. Hey, it seemed like a good reason and he wasn't thinking that clearly. Still, could didn't mean he wanted to go, though.

[pastmewrong]

Well, that was one way to spend an evening. Effy probably should've expected something like that from him.

"Doesn't look much like you're planning on leaving," she noted, tipping her head a little like she was examining him.

[fratboybitch]

"Little early for those type of places," he said, holding up two fingers to illustrate the word 'little. Of course he'd been to those clubs before. He'd even taken Griff once. Bonding experience.

"What're looking at?" he wondered, noticing that sort of but not really examination and grinning a little. He blew a stream of smoke more in her direction this time but not at her, thank you. "Something interesting?"

[pastmewrong]

Going to end up with a little bit of a contact high if he kept that up.

"You can be," she decided, grinning a little. "Just occasionally." Or usually. Whatever.

[fratboybitch]

"I'm interesting enough that you spend a lot of time with me," he pointed out. She'd even admitted that one to his mother. Total hard evidence even if she denied it. "Doesn't mean like occasionally to me. Lies aren't very nice. Why should I entertain a liar?"

[pastmewrong]

"Understatement, not necessarily a lie." Yes, in this case it kinda was, but... She was hoping he was fuzzy enough not to care.

"And I think you like it."

[fratboybitch]

He was fuzzy enough not to care, oh yes. Really, he'd applaud this decision later since it was taking his focus off his myriad of issues. That made his night better.

"Like what?" he asked curiously. "Spending time with you or lying?"

[pastmewrong]

"First one," she answered. Because hey, she didn't lie that much! Just... avoided things, and took attention away from the questions she didn't want to answer.

He'd almost said as much, after all.

[[And to bed with me now. G'night!]]

[fratboybitch]

"What makes you think I like it?" he wondered, uncaring if it was obvious that he liked it since he kept coming back and all. He just wanted to turn the question back around on her. "Putting those great observation skills to work again?"

[sleep well! night!]

[pastmewrong]

"Yes." For once, she was all too happy to agree he was right. "Did say there was a reason you kept coming around." Or, spent almost as much time with her as Griff. Close enough.

"Going to try and take that back?"

[fratboybitch]

"I think I'd be stupid to try that," he answered, shaking his head. "There are--"

Even with the state he was in, he had to pause to think of a way to phrase that a little more vaguely and a little less personal than his mind immediately provided.

"--very few consistently interesting people around this place. I go where I don't get bored. With you is usually one of those places. Want a gold star for that? I don't have any free toys on me tonight."

[pastmewrong]

"Can entertain me instead?" Couldn't just let that go, she really couldn't. "In appreciation."