Dating was pretty much this whole other creature to April, one which she knew nothing about. But she would attempt to help George out if the other girl felt like she had to dress up for this mysterious date with Luke. Sometimes it still boggled her mind that while the world was falling apart, her brother had gone and found himself someone to care about. Weird things happen at the end of the world. April wondered if she would ever truly understand any of this – Luke having a girlfriend, Rae having a kid. None of this seemed like things that should happen at the end of the world, and yet they were happening.
But options were out there for looting, maybe not malls anymore, but homes worked just as well in finding clothing. So they would find George something and April would do her best to be a supportive friend in all of this, even if she didn’t have anything else in her life that would tell her what would make her a supportive friend in all of this.
“That sounds like Luke,” she replied honestly. “So he probably won’t care.” But April was getting the feeling that this outfit thing wasn’t really about Luke, it was more about George wanting to look nice for Luke. Which April could understand, even if she had never experienced that particular desire to look good for a guy. She sifted through a shelve full of long stale cookies, the bagged kind she had always hated. April hadn’t come with a shopping list of her own, she didn’t entirely know what to get anyone in her life. She probably needed to change that.
Laughing softly, she glanced over at George. “Do you really think Luke needs caffeine?” She wasn’t trying to talk George out of her gift, she was just commenting, mostly. “When he’s keeping me up until three am talking about god knows what, I’m sending him your way, okay?” Now that was the part of Luke having a girlfriend that April liked, when he got to that point of rambling and simply wanting an audience, sometimes she could send him off to disturb someone else’s sleep.
“Nick? She’s the only who helps out everywhere, right?” April asked, still trying to place faces to names. Although she had come across the younger girl a couple of times, mostly because it seemed she was close to Rae in some ways. “Is she a friend of yours?” Because most people only bothered to get gifts for people who were friends or family, right?