E: "I'm tired of spending my lunch breaks in here."
A: "I know."
E: "It's sunny outside and we're stuck in here working."
A: "I would be in here anyway."
E: "Don't you have anywhere else to go?"
A: "No."
E: "Oh."
A: "..."
E: "You should come to my house."
A: "I should what?"
E: "Come to my house to do this instead of wasting precious minutes of freedom in a musty old building."
A: "I told you, I come here every lunch anyway. It doesn't bother me, and I can always complete the project alone if you want to go. Besides, this isn't a musty old building, it's the living space of billions of different combinations of just twenty-six letters written by hundreds of different people, isn't that amazing?"
E: "..."
A: "Why are you smiling at me like that?"
E: "Like what?"
A: "Like I just said something really funny or interesting."
E: "It's just that that is probably the most you've ever said to me in our two weeks of being friends."
A: "Friends?"
E: "So I guess you're into books, huh?"
A: "Yeah, I am, I read a lot. But, friends?"
E: "What about it?"
A: "We're not friends, are we?"
E: "Don't you want to be my friend?"
A: "I just meant-"
E: "We've spent some of our lunchtimes together doing this thing together, we talk and stuff, I think that counts as us being friends."
A: "We wouldn't be working together if the teacher didn't put us together, you wouldn't have chosen to work with me."
E: "Stop putting yourself down, Aeryn!"
A: "Sorry."
E: "So, my house after school on Friday, friend?"
A: "I...I'll have to ask my dad first."
E: "Sure. I'll see if I can get my mum to make cottage pie, once you've tried her cooking you'll never want to leave."
A: "I don't really like cottage pie."
E: "You've never tried cottage pie like my mum's, you'll love it."
A: "Okay, I'll try it."
E: "..."
A: "You're giving me that look again."
E: "You smiled."
A: "Yeah?"
E: "You looked beautiful."
