It had been bad enough when Dave had first started hooking up with Katie, but now that even Marty had a girlfriend in her bestie Erika, Todd was frequently left to himself. While the pairs made-out, it was Todd that was left just standing in the middle, oftentimes just reading his comics. It might not have been so bad, where he not frequently looked at with pity by the public and ruthlessly mocked by his two best friends - and it was worse, because of his solemn vow to save himself for pint-sized eleven year old Hit Girl.
Flipping through the pages of his newest Spider-man issue for the millionth time that week, just laying low as to try to avoid the attention anyone that might see fit to gawk at the one teen not sucking face, Todd didn't immediately see that the barista had sauntered over, her flats masking any sound of her otherwise stealthy approach. It was the same girl that had given him that free coffee the night he first laid eyes on his lady love.
Her name tag said that her name was Irene. "You've been reading that same issue since you got in here. Looking for something the publishers missed?"
Todd shrugged, "Just killing time."
Irene nodded. "I see. So, if you're still waiting for something to do in twenty minutes, do you wanna go get a bite to eat?"
Was this some kind of a joke? Setting his comic down on the tabletop, Todd glanced around at the rest of the store, looking for a hidden camera or some group of people to laugh at him when she pulled some kind of prank, but it was relatively empty, and the only people close enough to hear any impending humiliation were too busy to hear an atom bomb. "Like a date?"
Chuckling, she was right to guess that he wasn't very used to being asked out - somehow, she always did have an eye for those guys. "Yeah. Unless you have someone else waiting for you?"
"No." He almost laughed at himself.
She smiled, "Then after my shift gets done, I'm going to take you out."
What? "...What?"
Waving at him as she walked off to do her job, Irene just grinned, "I'll see you in twenty."
So I'm not the only one that cares about Todd! Yay Guest! And thanks for your review too! You too, Momotte! Always good to know that people are interested!
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