After their ride, they cleaned up and headed out for dinner. Mark drove them to a town up the road so they could eat steak at the local restaurant. It was the only place in the vicinity that they could go to for this. They did the best they could to ignore the fact that he was leaving. Mark finished his plate as usual and Nicole boxed up what she had left. “You ready?” she asked him.
“Yeah, I’m ready when you are.”
She sat on the seat next to him on the way back. “It’s gonna be weird with you not here,” she said.
“I know. I’m kinda getting used to this,” he replied.
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah, I think I’ll keep you around for a while,” he said with a grin.
“If I choose to stay around,” she joked back.
When they got back to his place, he scrambled, making sure he didn’t need to do anything bef
