Monday, February 8, 2010

C8: Courtliness or Pizza Brings Back Memories

From B8:

"Hey, Mike."

"Two pies and breadsticks. Your lady friend coming over again tonight?" Mike winked - he was fatherly, with a mustache that obscured his upper lip. Somehow, Danny was still using "the girlfriend" to explain his orders away.

"You bet."

The "girlfriend" had started as a tiny lie between Danny and Roddy, when they first dispensed with the courtliness of downtown restaurants and museum dates and gave in to their first pajamas-and-take out night home.

When Danny had balked at Roddy's assumption that they'd share a pie, he'd joked that he'd promised some pizza to one of his housemates and her girlfriend. Quickly enough, they'd started calling the second pizza the "girlfriend" pie.

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