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[hero_farmboy]

Clark doesn't help all that much with the food. Cutting bread doesn't really count and frankly, Anna not only seems to have things under control, she likes it that way, so he figures staying out of her hair is the best option

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[downsidedarling]

Anna slept on the floor, more or less because she felt like it. Now she's engaged in perusal of the music collection this place has to offer. It doesn't take very long; she pretty much sees the Pink Floyd and makes a beeline.

With a happy sigh, she reclines on the couch while a set of truly decadent speakers informs her that some guy is welcoming his son to the machine.

[hero_farmboy]

It's late morning by the time Clark arrives, pulling the door open and not quite wincing as he steps inside, greeted by a wave of very loud music.

"Making yourself at home?"

[downsidedarling]

She turns down the music politely.

"Yeah, who'd've thought your buddy was into Floyd?" Anna grins. "So how're you?"

[hero_farmboy]

"Oliver's full of surprises."

Then he shrugs. "I'm all right. Didn't get a whole lot of sleep, though. I hope your night was better."

[downsidedarling]

"Fantastic," she quotes. "Sorry to hear you didn't sleep well."

(She's not going to mention her opinion on how he could've managed to sleep better. It's not her place to say.)

[hero_farmboy]

"Oh, I slept fine when I actually got the opportunity," he explains, just sort of hovering in the entrance way, hands in his pockets. "Chloe just kept me up 'til all hours."

[downsidedarling]

"Ah. You can come in, you know. I won't bite. Or do you have some kind of moral objection to classic rock?"

[hero_farmboy]

That gets a small, brief flash of a smile and he takes a few steps further in.

"It's not my style, but it's not bad."

[downsidedarling]

"So I believe we were on the subject of happiness," she says cheerfully. "Specifically, yours, and what I'm going to have to do to get you some. Yeah?"

[hero_farmboy]

He raises an eyebrow.

"Guess we're going to be jumping right in, then. I'm glad I stopped for that espresso."

[downsidedarling]

"Well, no point in wasting time. C'mon. Sit. Talk. Have ice cream - if you like ice cream."

[hero_farmboy]

"I do, but I'm good. Really." Clark does sit, though. On the far edge of the couch.

[downsidedarling]

Anna retreats from her couch-hogging sprawl, sitting more or less neatly in the middle of the couch, and turns off the music with a handy remote control.

"So," she says, softly. "Where d'you want to start?"

[hero_farmboy]

He sits back a little and shakes his head.

"I have no idea."

[downsidedarling]

"Well, the beginning's generally a good place, if you can figure out where that is."

[hero_farmboy]

"The beginning of what, exactly?" Clark hasn't quite figured out what topic they're starting on.