"I think I'll go for hero of the nurse's station today and get a dozen. Assorted, but at least a few of the peanut butter," he said, smiling a touch as he looked over the selection of cupcakes, but it truly was impossible to make any sort of decision. "They all look so good."
He noticed the way Aubrey brightened when he told him he liked the cookies. And Aiden took another nibble, smiling up at him as he did. He couldn't seem to relax but that was just him in public, a carefully choreographed routine, stepping aside when someone came to close to him, maintaining his bubble. Keeping track of everyone around him. Like a gazelle at a watering hole, ready to leap away at the first sign of a lion.
"These are so dangerous. If you start seeing me in here every day I need you to cut me off, for my own good." He reached out to take his coffee, the first one anyway, sipping at it. "I'm Aiden. I know you know that already but it's manners to say it," he told him with a flash of a smile.