Chapter 6Sitting across from Micah in the brightly lit restaurant disabused Elliot of the notion that this could in any way, shape, or form be a date. Even if they’d shared the takoyaki and gyoza, laughing over the piping-hot insides and the dancing fish flakes. Elliot was here to keep Micah company after the man had probably worked a long day in retail and then run a class. Hell, Elliot himself was enjoying having someone to talk to after what was feeling like too much time alone in his apartment. If Micah spent as much time at work as he seemed to—too much time, in Elliot’s opinion, but who was he to judge—Micah probably mostly associated with his coworkers, and while that was fine and good, it wasn’t the same as hanging out with someone new.
New and shiny, but not enticing. Elliot had
