Zach smiled a little inside at the comment about his teeth and the smell. They still pointed to a little interest in him, just a small one. He felt a small urge for another cigarette as Ernie disappeared, but the...sneeze that was it made him rethink for a few seconds. And that was enough for him to choose not to.
Especially given Ernie had come back for - Hmm, conversation wasn't quite the right word. "You wrote publicly that you missed it," Zach pointed out with a shrug. He didn't need to give a reason to be nice. Even if there were one. Telling it so early hardly helped.
"Currently some music would be nice," Zach was amused to bring things back to the piano. And Ernie did seem to want to. Oh and there was still the questions that related to reading his journal. "And why would I do any less?" his eyes glanced over to actually look at Ernie. Pretty sight.
Zach read most everyone's journal entries, even sometimes the protected ones of his friends. Ernie wasn't an exception.