<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/Rt2ECxS.gif)</div>NAME: Kevin Finch<br/>DAY: June 15th, 2021, 11:00AM<br/>LOCATION: Department Store<br/>TAGGING: Toshiro. Albion, Nerissa, Lily, Open|Mentioned: Mallory<br/>EXTRA: Between a Fox and a Soft Place<br/>WEARING: Camos - like always . Including knife and pistol<br/><hr/><br/>Well, this was new. Kevin had been used to being largely ignored as an object for romantic interest by the female (or male for that matter) personnel at SOPHE and that suited him well for reasons that he couldn't articulate but everyone else around him (excluding one individual critical to the dynamic) understood painfully well - and made no secret of it. And yet here he was, with Nerissa grasping his hand in her chest asking him the question that everyone joked about but no one ever asked point blank. He was barely able to mutter, "You have my condolences," to Albion as his mind went swimming. What could she possibly thinking? And how could he possibly respond?<br/><br/>His first instinct, of all things, was to look around to Mallory to ask her for advice. But, despite Lily's evil plan, Mallory was nowhere to be found, which left him in a position to offer little more than "Um..." and "Er..." to the conversation, all while sporting an expression shared by about half of the male figurines in the store he and Toshiro had just left. (And sadly, in this case, not the badass half.)<br/><br/>The logical thing to do was to let her down. Easy. But it was really hard to do that with Nerissa looking at you with those puppy-fox eyes all full of hope. It probably would have been easier had he known her motivation, or had either Albion or Lily had thought to mention Nerissa's fairly cold assessment of Kevin's potential as a possible romantic companion (for her), but they both had their own problems and/or agenda, so Kevin was left, again, mostly sputtering as the part of him that wanted to do what was right struggled with baser emotions. "I... um... er... I mean technically, Nerissa... I'm not... but you know... me and Ma-a... What the..."<br/><br/>That of course being the point where Lily jumped in with her first oh-so-helpful PA announcement. "Why you know... she's not... we're not... Are you out of your ever loving mind?"<br/>