For a long time, the two of us just stared at one another, neither one of us saying anything. I was sure that he was waiting for me to respond to him, to say something about his comment. But the problem with that was that I had no idea what to say to him. Had he made his comment as a playful way of taunting me, or had he actually meant it?
“Don’t you have somewhere to be?”
Trust me to come up with something else to say, something that was so far off topic that it would hopefully be able to make him forget about the conversation that we had originally been having—but for that to happen, he would have to take the bait, to fall for the un-complex trap that I had just made.
“Not at the moment, no. And besides, the weather is quite nice tonight. It would be a waste not to enjoy
