"Have I told you how much I love New York?" Scotty asks when he licks some dripping vanilla toffee ice cream from his hand.
"Yes, approximately once ever five minutes since the plane took off from LAX." Kevin answers and tries his lime sherbet.
They stroll through Central Park together, enjoying a short vacation.
"It's not really ice cream weather." Kevin concludes and looks up at the sky. "I'm pretty sure it's gonna rain."
"Or snow!" Scotty exclaims.
"Don't sound so happy about it. I didn't pack a thicker jacket."
"If it gets very cold we have such a good reason to stay at the hotel and just… enjoy ourselves." Scotty says, nudging Kevin in the side. Kevin smiles mischievously and glances up at the sky.
"A little snow hasn't killed anyone, has it?"
Scotty laughs at him and finishes his ice cream, throwing the small paper cup in a nearby litter box. He returns to Kevin's side and shrugs from the cold.
"So what do you wanna do?" He asks Kevin.
"We could go to the Met?" Scotty suggests. Kevin's slight frown says it all, not in the mood for a museum. "Statue of Liberty? Ellis Island? Ground Zero? Rockefeller Center?" Scotty tries, all with little or no excitement from Kevin.
"What do you wanna do?" Scotty asks. "I'm up for just about anything."
"Oh!" Kevin stops walking. "You know what we could do?"
"Yes, I know many things, but you didn't seem to like them." Scotty teases.
"I know just the place to go. It'll be romantic." Kevin smiles widely and grabs a hold of Scotty's hand, as if to lead him.
They stroll through Central Park and down fifth avenue. Scotty points at different places he visited when he briefly lived in New York and tells the story of how he went to the New York Public Library to get a visitor's guide over the city and ended up with a date with the librarian.
Kevin laughs at his anecdotes and tells the very few he has from his New York visits. A couple of times with Hank and a couple to visit Kitty when she lived here.
"There was thing one thing that I and Hank intended to do, every time we were here, but never seemed to find the time. Now I'm glad we didn't."
"What is it?" Scotty asks, trying not to sound as wildly curious as he actually is.
"You'll see."
They pass several expensive shops and restaurants and Scotty stops to check the menu of a few of them, his eyebrows traveling further and further up when he sees the prices.
"The hors d'oeuvre here are actually more expensive then our entrees. And it's not like I work at McDonalds."
Kevin laughs and takes his hand, leading him along the street.
"Why don't you take a break from work? It's nice." Kevin suggests.
"You mean you didn't text message Robert while I was getting my ice cream?" Scotty asks and laughs when Kevin starts to blush.
They see the base of the Empire State Building rise before them and Kevin walks towards the entrance.
Scotty follows Kevin in to the entrance where they get tickets. They take the elevator to the 86th floor and walk out on the observation deck. The place is surprisingly crowded for a cloudy day with the rain hanging in the air.
They manage to reach the front row when a family leaves their spot. Scotty puts his arms around Kevin's waist as they peek through the hazy New York air. The contours of some sky scrapers can be made out but the view isn't much more exciting than that. Most visitors around them makes their viewing very brief, not enjoying the cold and the lack of sight.
Scotty quickly kisses Kevin's neck.
"This is a perfect place." He says. "And I'm also glad you're the first one I get to do this with."
Kevin yanks himself free from the grip, sliding his arm inside Scotty's jacket and around his waist. He kisses Scotty on the mouth and whispers:
"Make that the only one, sweetie."