Gray couldn’t help but chuckle at her question, he knew it was coming and it was only a matter of time before he had to spill the beans for what he was doing for the last seven years. Despite the cosmetic appearance of the car, it made a beautiful clean sound of a car when he started up the engine. Appearances were never something Gray thought too hard about. He never dressed like a rich kid, he never walked around with flashy expensive items and he never went out of his way to get pretty items or girls. However, he had his standards.


“Well,” He began as he put the car into reverse and pulled out of the parking lot. “After high school graduation, my parents tried to convince me to go to Yale. You know, following in my father’s footsteps and blah blah blah. But the admissions welcome letter came to much faster than dad’s special school, so I packed up my things and moved into the dorms at Harvard. That didn’t last for very long, I ended up on the Alpha frat house. It was insane but fun at the same time. I didn’t die but I did wake up in some weird places. But that’s stories for another time. Anyway picked my major and my minor and got to work.” He turned the corner and started towards their favorite pizza place.

“I kept myself in line… most of the time.” A chuckle left him as he checked his mirrors, “Around my last year of college mom tried to push me into a marriage with his strange woman who is the daughter of one of dad’s partner companies. She was… odd to say the least and it was always awkward to be out with her. Anyway, I graduated college last year with a Doctorate in Software Engineering and a Masters in Psychology. I’ve been working on a new program to help hospitals share collected data and link hospitals from all over the world; however it’s turned out to be more complicated than I expected. The language barrier, the sentence structure and making it un-hackable are the top three things that are difficult right now.” 

Pulling into the parking lot of their pizza place he parked the car and turned it off. “So you’re story next?” He asked playfully as he climbed out of the car and shut the door. He hurried around to her side and pulled open her door.