"JeezKerist -- yo, tall dark and clueless, you gonna stop hogging the Karamel Sutra sometime this century?"
Rory, turned his head to find a gum-popping teenager glaring up at him. After a long moment he realized that his position, leaning against a freezer door in the ice cream section, was keeping the girl from her preferred pint of B&J. Shifting with a muttered apology earned him no more than a practiced eyeroll and a bored drawl of "WhatEVS, dude."
He shoved his cell back into a pocket as he headed for the front of the store, all memory of what he'd gone shopping for driven from his mind by the phone message he'd just heard. I'm sorry, Pippa had said. Call me if you want to. She wasn't getting something as paltry as a phone call. Not for this.
Some less-than-legal maneuvering on the Ninja had him pulling into Pippa's in record time. After taking three steps with each long-legged stride, he used his key to let himself into her apartment, knocking as he did so. "Pippa?" he called, letting her know it was him.
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Date: 2008-10-30 07:37 am (UTC)Rory, turned his head to find a gum-popping teenager glaring up at him. After a long moment he realized that his position, leaning against a freezer door in the ice cream section, was keeping the girl from her preferred pint of B&J. Shifting with a muttered apology earned him no more than a practiced eyeroll and a bored drawl of "WhatEVS, dude."
He shoved his cell back into a pocket as he headed for the front of the store, all memory of what he'd gone shopping for driven from his mind by the phone message he'd just heard. I'm sorry, Pippa had said. Call me if you want to. She wasn't getting something as paltry as a phone call. Not for this.
Some less-than-legal maneuvering on the Ninja had him pulling into Pippa's in record time. After taking three steps with each long-legged stride, he used his key to let himself into her apartment, knocking as he did so. "Pippa?" he called, letting her know it was him.