[Fake Dating meme from @thebigbadspike.]
"I'll buy you coffee if you hold my hand for five minutes."
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“You wha- ?” OK, so, not what she was expecting. Granted she was a bit distracted by the absolute swarm of late-teens filling the place, most of them eyeballing her as either an interloper, a narc or just possibly a cougar on the prowl - but of all the awkward introductory lines that might have come along, this one was a twist.
Bleached hair, leather duster, whiff of cigarettes; something else that set off a tiny alarm bell in the back of her mind, but there was more than enough curiosity to push it aside.
“Why?” Though as she asked she did reach down and take his hand, noticing on the way that it was strangely cool. “Are you scared you're going to lose it or something?”