@Journaguns He points toward her. “And before you say it— yes, I do actually eat real food.”
“But two chocolate milkshakes? That sounds pretty perfect to me.”
@Journaguns “Nah, hey— I’m okay,” he says. “Seriously.”
He leans back in the booth.
“I’ve just been trying to keep in shape lately, y’know? Stay sharp. Alert.” A laugh slips out after that. “Scoops Ahoy kinda destroyed my eating habits for a while.”
@HolySmokeFck “You get to decide this time. Where we go, what we do, when we leave—it’s your call tonight, man.”
He shrugs lightly.
“So c’mon, Hargrove. Use all that power wisely.”
@HolySmokeFck “Jesus Christ, Hargrove,” he mutters. “You really just say whatever pops into your head, huh?”
But there’s no real bite to it—if anything, he looks amused.
“Honestly, we don’t need some huge plan.”
A grin pulls at his mouth.
@UpsideDownHero@BaseballChamp__ “Yeah, I don’t have other plans,” he said. “That actually sounds kinda good.”
He glanced over, even more sincere now.
“I want to come, actually. I’ve been around crowds that don’t care what’s happening on stage. It’d be nice to be somewhere people are there for it.”
@HolySmokeFck “You know what? Screw sitting around trying to decode Munson’s brain.”
A grin tugs at his mouth.
“Let’s go do something. Get out of our heads for a bit. We can drive around, or— I don’t know—anything that doesn’t involve thinking about mysterious lighter symbolism.”
@HolySmokeFck “I mean—yeah. That’s not me trying to be deep or anything. It’s just… Eddie’s weirdly good at spotting people who don’t really fit anywhere else. And so am I, apparently.”
A small pause, then Steve tilts his head slightly.
@ATormentedCheer “And somehow,” he added, glancing around the busy fair, “I ended up here at this carnival. Which feels like something I’d do, honestly.”
His eyes flicked back to her, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
“Didn’t expect to run into you, though.”
@ATormentedCheer “Uh… yeah. I’m not working today,” he said, leaning against the game stand. “Got the day off, didn’t really feel like sitting around doing nothing, so I just… drove.”