[u][b]Luke Schwarz--You're Slipping, buddy[/b][/u]

[b]"Yeah."[/b] he replied, increasingly full of an uncomfortable grimace. He felt all kinds of mixed messages here. Was she just annoyedly humoring him? Looking to pass the time too? Putting him on the spot and making it as one-sided a conversation as possible for her own amusement?

Not that it really [i]was[/i] one yet...

No, he couldn't let things drop off like this. As the man who started the conversation, it was his duty to see it through! To stick to his guns! He offered small talk, and if it was on him to pass that time for the two of them alone, so be it! She accepted the invitation, and so help him, he [i]would[/i] deliver!

[b]"Any plans?"[/b] He asked off-handedly, brushing his own lengthening bangs a bit past his normally concealed left eye.