Audrey| Ok
Audrey| Mountains, because I’d like to go someday
Audrey| What do you even do there?
Audrey| And which would you pick?
Theo| We can talk about that this weekend.
Theo| Chocolate or vanilla?
Audrey| Hey, wait! You didn’t answer!
Audrey| What would you choose?
Theo| Not the point of this game, and the asker doesn’t have to answer.
Theo| Chocolate or vanilla?
Audrey| Both, and stop making up rules
Theo| You can’t pick both, and I’m not making up the rules.
Theo| Chocolate or vanilla?
She wrinkled her nose at the screen. He wasdefinitelymaking up these rules.
Audrey| Chocolate
Theo| Noted.
She only saw Theo at the coffee shop for the rest of the week. Ashe’d promised her on Monday, he kept well away from her both physically and digitally during her study hours while she prepped for her Thursday midterm, aside from checking in during the day and visiting over her breaks at work like he did every day. But he still continued this new game at random moments, and just when she was least expecting it, another of his questions would light up her phone.
Theo| Cake or pie?
Audrey| GOD THEO, YOU’RE MAKING ME CHOOSE?!
Audrey| NO
Theo| Cake or pie?
Audrey|…pie
Audrey| Fuck you.
Theo| Patience, sweetheart. We’re working you up to that.
She gasped and fully inhaled the cheese puff she’d just popped in her mouth.
“Auds? What’s—” Violet was in the kitchen making a snack, and she paled when she turned. “AUDREY!”
Luckily, Audrey managed to cough it up, red-faced and teary-eyed, before Violet actually had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on her. But they—and half of their couch—ended up covered in bright orange cheese powder from the debacle.
Theo, meanwhile, didn’t miss a beat.
Theo| Pumpkin pie or apple?
It took her a few minutes of wheezing to recover long enough to type her answer.
