A flicker of concern passes over Mark's face when Eduardo kind of chokes, before somehow, a part of him (that isn't entirely conscious right now, let's be honest) realizes that it's nothing life-threatening, and is probably more meant to smooth over an awkward situation than anything else. Eduardo does that. Smoothing over things. It's kind of a bad habit, Mark thinks, even if he certainly would rather not be at the end of things like having Eduardo chuck his laptop down on a table until the thing breaks. The problem with smoothing things over on a regular basis is that people get used to it, and they come to expect that sort of behavior from you, and that's probably how Eduardo ends up with crazy girlfriends like Christy who are only made more crazy when they start realizing that Eduardo, he treats everyone nicely, and a silk scarf doesn't necessarily say 'love' so much as it says 'I knew you'd flip out if I didn't bring you something back, so just in case, here, I thought of you.'
This isn't the time to be remarking on that, though, because on the off-chance that Eduardo is doing that same thing with Mark right now, just humoring him, Mark is willing to turn a blind eye and accept it and whatever form of pity might come with it, before eventually moving on. He's drunk. Inebriated. He's aware enough to know that.
Let that be his excuse.
"I think it's more likely that you read the book than me. You're more of a literature guy. I mean, not terribly much of a literature guy, otherwise it definitely wouldn't make sense that you're in econ, but you're enough of a literature guy that you could pass for a literature guy if you wanted, like you would have fit in at the museum or something, and for me they'd know that it was probably class or someone like you who dragged me along," Mark points out, his hands practically twitching with the lack of anything to play with. This is usually where he might start chewing on a straw. A Twizzler. Heck, if there were disposable napkins, he might tear a strip off and start biting down on that. There's none of that there, though, which pulls Mark's face into a relatively dissatisfied expression, just for a second, before he comes to again. Ah, right. Question. There's a question on the table.
He looks around, as though he has any right to be picky about where the two of them eat when Eduardo's made it sound like this is the only decent restaurant to be found in the area, before he nods, having made that executive decision.
"Burgers. Let's get burgers. I haven't had a decent burger in a while. It's been sushi and salads lately. Lots of avocado."
no subject
This isn't the time to be remarking on that, though, because on the off-chance that Eduardo is doing that same thing with Mark right now, just humoring him, Mark is willing to turn a blind eye and accept it and whatever form of pity might come with it, before eventually moving on. He's drunk. Inebriated. He's aware enough to know that.
Let that be his excuse.
"I think it's more likely that you read the book than me. You're more of a literature guy. I mean, not terribly much of a literature guy, otherwise it definitely wouldn't make sense that you're in econ, but you're enough of a literature guy that you could pass for a literature guy if you wanted, like you would have fit in at the museum or something, and for me they'd know that it was probably class or someone like you who dragged me along," Mark points out, his hands practically twitching with the lack of anything to play with. This is usually where he might start chewing on a straw. A Twizzler. Heck, if there were disposable napkins, he might tear a strip off and start biting down on that. There's none of that there, though, which pulls Mark's face into a relatively dissatisfied expression, just for a second, before he comes to again. Ah, right. Question. There's a question on the table.
He looks around, as though he has any right to be picky about where the two of them eat when Eduardo's made it sound like this is the only decent restaurant to be found in the area, before he nods, having made that executive decision.
"Burgers. Let's get burgers. I haven't had a decent burger in a while. It's been sushi and salads lately. Lots of avocado."