He’d planned for a night on the town with somebody he’d started to fall for, which wasn’t normal for him at all. The Mesmer didn’t do ‘love’ all that frequently, but he’d certainly thought… He sighed, realizing that he must have been wrong, because if he had been right, he wouldn’t have been standing alone on the side of the road. He was dressed in his best, leather-clad nonetheless. Kicking the edge of the street’s pavement with the toe of his combat boot, he muttered to himself, “Bloody emotions… Knew they ‘ad to be useless…”
The sound of a woman’s voice caught his attention, causing him to turn as her hand brushed over his shoulder. A slight sigh escaped his lips as he replied, “Ello.” He had to think about the question, dark brown eyes flickering through a series of moods before he finally said, “Yes, I’m al’ight… Just a bit lost, I s’ppose.” Shrugging his black-clad shoulders, he told her, “Got left ‘ere after a bit of an argument.”She looked at him for a long moment, then stepped over to open a secretary in the nearest set of bookshelves. Helios squirmed off Vex’s lap to lie beside him, turning his soft belly up and purring. A few clinks, and she held out a tumbler with a couple fingers’ worth of golden liquid in it. “Some people,” she said, holding it out, “are too stupid to know what’s in front of them.”Vex smiled a bit as he watched the cat hop off his lap and settle onto the couch at his side. Reaching out, he ruffled and petted the feline’s belly as he sipped at his coffee. Glancing at the tumbler Summer had held out, he smiled; maybe they would get along better than he’d assumed. Taking it, he breathed in the alcoholic scent and replied, “I s’ppose you’re right.”
“Of course I’m right,” she shot back. “Anybody with eyes could see that was a stupid thing to do to a man like you. Imagine! Dumping someone by pretending to go on a date with them and then leaving them by the side of the road! Sometimes I really wonder what in the actual fuck is wrong with people. What, were you supposed to walk back to your house? I mean, honestly.” She flung her hands up in the air. “You’re lucky I saw you, honestly, I mean this isn’t the worst part of the city,” it better not be, she thought, with me here, “but it’s not the best either. Not a place to be wandering around without a clue.”