"I don't know. Just down the road from the Academy is pretty busy. Nobody'll have time to pay attention to where I'm going then."
They were there.
Everything was suddenly really loud — the sound of Deith's breathing, the car's engine, the ringing in Lei's ears. He had watched too many romance movies, and he knew that this would be the exact scene where the two people would cut the sexual tension and just. Kiss.
This wasn't fiction, though. There was no part of Lei that was courageous or suave or bold, and such a move promised nothing but misery. He opened the car door and stepped out.
"If you get a hankering for meat again, just heat up the chicken I made," he said, chuckling a bit. "See you tomorrow."