"Me too," he echoed aloud, staring over the top of his beer to the woman still sitting alone. There was no prolonged sigh that escaped him, but a lingering gaze as he picked the girl apart piece by little piece. Graceful fingers, long legs, an appealing bust to hip ratio. Unlike the game they'd played, unabashedly choosing her life story, this seemed calculated and almost predatory once combined with the intensity his own buzz had settled over him. Loyalty ran like a deep vein in Kamboja and he had given his promise to see someone home, safely, even though Taylor Swift was little better than a stranger. If it wasn't for that, he most certainly would have begun his hunt by now.
Instead, his gaze flickered back and the intensity etched across his features faded with a little laugh.
"Alright, alright," he said, doing his best to approach the unsteady man with a calming voice. Not one to let a beer go to waste, he knocked back the remainder of the amber liquid and fished in his back pocket for an old, beat up leather wallet. A few bills were plucked free before he shoved it back where it belonged, then tucked beneath his empty glass for the tab.
"Can you get down from the stool without faceplanting the floor, Tay-Tay?" Even as he asked, he set his own feet steadily on the floor and rose to his full height, hovering close to Isaiah's barstool with an outstretched hand offered.
Strickenized