Munching away at his waffle, Diego figured his question was just a softball, that he was just making small talk while they ate and before it was time to drop this pretty girl off to sleep away her bad night.  Indeed, that was how things started to feel from Kat’s nonchalant response to his question, until suddenly she was turning more directly towards him, her dark eyes pinning him against the far side of the car with their intensity.<br/><br/>About to laugh at the idea of her taking a guy like him to some A list gathering, Diego instead hung there in surprised limbo as she launched a pitch at him like this Uber ride had somehow just become a business meeting.  Listening intently to everything she said, Diego watched in amazement as Kat’s plans escalated even as she said them aloud.  First it started as a ‘plus one’ then it was “pretend boyfriend’ and finally to ‘might’ be something more.  Diego of course wondered what that meant, the word ‘escort’ being thrown around in albeit different context wasn’t helping either.<br/><br/>Looking over at her earnest face, not to mention her now more revealed legs, Diego pondered what to say.  Was she joking?  Did he laugh?  Did he….refuse?  She seemed so...serious though.  Was this just one of the mistakes she was saying girls made after a breakup?  Granted, asking a stranger to be your pretend boyfriend seemed a little bit of a stretch.<br/><br/>“Wow….uh….that is a lot to take in.”  He finally said.  The truth was, she had used the magic words of “getting his ratings up”, getting him more customers, and paying him.  Whatever else he was, Diego was broke, and really, how hard could it be to walk around with a hot girl on his arm a few times?  Besides, chances are she’d forget all about this in the morning, and he’d never hear from her again.  “I...am not against the idea, though.  But, you have to understand, I am not an A list guy.  I mean, couldn’t you find someone better suited to fit in?  I don’t even have clothes for that stuff, let alone know how to act.” He replied, thinking more and more of the logistics now.<br/><br/>“And what other things ‘might’ pop up?  I mean, if I am not driving my nights are pretty free, so the beck and call thing wouldn’t be hard.  And what is the going rate for pretend boyfriends these days?” He asked with a teasing grin he couldn’t hide.