A laugh tore out of his throat at Zoe's reply and his arms came up quickly to wrap around her as he swung her around. "Ah, Zoe, I knew you'd be happy to see me." Now he wondered how long it'd be before he got slapped on the arm… Would it be before or after the information that he'd transferred? That the question that would be hard to answer. Not that it really mattered because neither of them could stay mad at one another for any length of time…
"Well I was going to tell someone on the phone, but they went and quit replying," he stated, giving her a mock reproachful look as he sat her back on her feet. "This is just a tiny part of my good news."
He did wonder how long he could drag out the good news/bad news stuff… He'd really like to drag out the bad news because it put him in a foul mood… Maybe he could just keep her distracted with the good news and he could tell her the bad news on a day where he was already in a more negative mood… He was good at dancing around subjects, but Zoe was also really good at picking up when he was doing that. He'd have to try though.
"I'm going to be in town for a while!" He'd have fun trying to get her to guess just how long he'd actually be around because she'd tried to get him to come out here with her in the beginning and he'd chosen not to. She'd also tried to get him to transfer just about every year and he refused.