 Wowza!
He took longer than was necessary to retrieve the packaging and by the time he returned to the table, Katherine was talking again. What remained on the ingredients, he collected by either sending back flying their respective shelves or discarding them. Levi reached for his glasses, pushed them up with his index finger, and paused. His version of stalling, no doubt.
Words were struggle.
"Twenty sounds good."
Verbose.
The sigh was barely kept in. "Don't be, you haven't done anything wrong." Hardly her fault that for all his preaching of honesty a drop of hers had left him--unbalanced. It was disturbing. "I'd like to be friends. You are smart and you know what you want." He paused, again. "And you make me laugh. Friendship sounds like a plan to me."
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