it's okay <3
Alex wasn't expecting Charles to be standing. Or if he was he didn't expect him to look as together as he did. Nothing personal to Charles but he'd been told what had happened from Hank.
"You're..." He tried not to sound so surprised but he probably failed. Alex didn’t look all that different, he guessed, he'd grown up and got a bit taller and his hair was longer but he didn’t look different. Until you got to the expressions he wore. He looked older that he appeared with those. But he always had in a way. He’d tried to hide it previously with his snarky comments and keeping people at a distance. “Yeah, coffee, tea, whatever. It’s not the time to ask for beer right?” He smirked, feeling a little awkward and trying to make a joke to cover it up, he hated the feeling.
He wasn’t sure if Charles was expecting him to be a kid still, too young to drink. Not that it had ever stopped them before.