Probably pretty soon, yeah. [ the nap, or at least vegetating in front of her computer, is looking more and more appealing. penny stops fully to turn, backpack slung over one shoulder, math workbook in one arm. she doesn’t make any effort to get out of the way of the throng of students making their way out of the building. having everyone around her, passing her without slowing down, it’s as close to the foot traffic in new york as she’ll get.

she raises her eyebrows when he start. talking, right, they’ve been doing that, same as always. ] Real? I mean, school is pretty - oh. [ little bit of a delayed reaction there. ]

Do you still want to - because I do. I mean, only if you do! But you were still hurt and all, and I didn’t want to push you, especially because I was the one that wanted to wait in the first place, so it’d just be like, super hypocritical if I changed my mind on that. And then you didn’t say anything, so I didn’t say anything, and I figured - well, uh, I dunno what I figured, really.

[ she tends to get rambly when she’s got a lot on her mind. and also when there’s nothing on it. ]