any time you want

"You know that's one of my favorites?"

"Mine too, you have good taste,"

"Thanks, I mean um, that band isn't really my favorite but,"

"Oh, I meant in general," Obsidian waves the mp3 player hex is looking through.

"Oh, right." The weight of significance slowly sinks in and Lyre doesn't regret giving Obsidian faer mp3 to look through it's just, faer's anxious to know what hex thinks.

"Oh wow you have a lot of Pierce the Veil," Obsidian murmurs,

"I um,"

"No it's neat! They're cool. It's just I notice some duplicates?"

"Oh, that's just me," Lyre tucks a strand of hair behind his ear, "playing covers I mean. I record myself and I haven't sorted all my files yet."

Even though the admission is endearing to Obsidian, they can see this is making him uncomfortable to hex puts the mp3 player back in the cup holder. Cars whoosh by and a car alarm echoes in the distance, the stars try their best to shine through the light pollution, and the moon seems to stay where it is in the sky the whole drive.

"Turn here," Obsidian says

"Right sorry," Lyre makes the turn and Obsidian points out where to stop.

"Thanks again so much for the ride," Obsidian says before getting out. "You were right this was much better than a ride share. I can um, return the favor? When my car is fixed. But your car works..." hex mumbles

"Why don't we drive to the Guitar Center some time? I need some new picks anyways,"

"Yeah okay sounds cool. Goodnight Lyre," Obsidian gathers up hext bag and cell phone and double checks the car for anything, then slams the door closed and walks across the street to hext building. As hex walks up the stairs hex notices Lyre's car is still idling. When Obsidian gets to the door to hext apartment hex waves overly enthusiastically down at the car. The car flashes its parking lights and then makes a U turn and heads down the street.

As Obsidian unlocks the door and enters the silent empty apartment hex thinks, it's a small thing but it's nice that someone waited to make sure Obsidian got home safe before leaving.