"Its not my fault you didn't notice Ol," Penny grumbled as she sank back into the cushions "You were out the evening and then sort of bypassed the figure on the couch."
Draining the last of the beer, she toyed with the bottle by rubbing it between her hands.
"Its pretty simple really. We wanted to hug, found an orange crate and got drunk."
And that simple sentence managed to simplify an entire evening into three single statements. Really, it was quite an impressive feat. Though she was a bit disappointed that Meghan had seen through her 'friend' ruse so quickly. Was she just one of those people who couldn't lie?
"We're just conducting a pleasant scientific experiment." It wasn't as though they were dating - she hadn't asked him (had she?) and he hadn't accepted. All that it was a mutually beneficial agreement to see where the kissing went and if it was as fantastically pleasant as it had been when they'd both been drunk and discussing spam.
Though, she mused thoughtfully, she really hoped that he wasn't conducting 'experiments' with anyone else.