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<span class="mu-g">"Two years? A girl like you is too good to be stuck working in an awful place like we do."</span>
<span class="mu-b">"Actually more than two, by a little. But that's how I got to be manager!"</span>
Sitting together outside some nifty Korean restaurant and waiting for everyone's food to be ready for takeout, you get to talking with Travis and have a pretty good time of it even. Nervous at first of course but he's friendly and accommodating enough, if a bit forward. When it was a group of people, whether or not they're strangers, you didn't have the drive to be able to engage with them. Far too easy and quickly to get emotionally exhausted by that degree of socializing.
Just one person though, you're better able to ease up and feel comfortable enough to talk freely and enjoy yourself even. And the both of you are able to learn more about each other in some fifteen-odd minutes than you had in the last six months working together. What high schools you each went to, what compelled you both to take the job, some shared disdain for Malton in various ways, and what you both like to do to make up for the shortcomings of your shared small-town-city.
<span class="mu-b">"I don't want to be working at Barstucks forever though, I was thinking of applying to UTM... err... well I did apply, but I'm thinking of going!"</span>
<span class="mu-g">"Oh yeah? Me too, still got awhile to work for it but maybe we'll end up going the same time? Then it won't be just work we have to see each other."</span>
You try not to get too giddy about things, but it's difficult when you're feeling nervous again. Not awkward nervous though like usual, but excited nervous. A strange feeling you're not used to, but fortunately Travis doesn't seem to mind if you slip up here and there like a goof. This is your first time hanging out with a group of people anyway, so you're bound to stumble here and there but your new friend makes you not mind it that much.
Yeah, this is better your speed, and more your enjoyment than trying to stay afloat among a group of near-strangers. You wouldn't mind spending the rest of the night like this with him, but even if you return you already feel you'll manage better amongst the group after this little triumph.
>This is nice, yeah. You're happy to keep things friendly, and fine to enjoy the rest of the night with everyone.
>Maybe take the food back to everyone, but after eating you wouldn't mind more of this. Maybe go for a walk with Travis around Westside.
>Keep things casual, but professional. This was all just an exercise to better handle yourself around people, and get to be more comfortable with your co-workers for the sake of the job.
>Ehehehe... he complimented your dress, and he said you're too good for the job! Maybe you could reciprocate a little with the flirtyness?
>Psst... hey, you want to see something cool Travis? Check these badass superpowers out! Yeah, that'll impress him!
>A ruinous write-in?
