Lucas wasn't aware at first of anybody else in the room, thanks to how much he'd been focusing. It wasn't until he'd finished and had gone to retrieve his beer bottle from where he'd left it atop the small bar off to the side that he noticed Maria.
"Crap, hi," he managed, nearly dropping the bottle. "Sorry, I didn't realize anybody else was in here."
And that was a slightly awkward feeling, not because he wanted to be alone but because he wasn't used to being that generally oblivious anymore. Dealing with the alien invasion had kind of forced him to start facing things differently, to a degree.