"So right," he agreed, lifting his pie to her in a little salute. "Listen, it's been awesome chatting with you, but ... I should probably go use this before I need it even more."

He rolled his eyes, blushing. It was embarrassing, having to back out of a really awesome conversation because your ass hurt, but ... well. He'd embarrassed himself worse, before. Almost worse. He wasn't sure he wanted to try and quantify it on a scale.