"It's a good thing you clarified that, because I was definitely thinking strip club." Ian laughed. "Oh, cool! What games do you like? I love Call of Duty.
He took a drink of his shake too.
What kind of stuff did he do back in Chicago? She couldn't know it but that was a bit of a loaded question. /Well, lately I mostly lie in bed all day, depressed over my closeted boyfriend who just married a pregnant hooker that he was forced to fuck at gun point after his father caught us together. That was not the kind of thing you opened with over milkshakes.
But, then it occurred to him that she probably meant what did he do for fun, just like he had asked her. So that's what he answered.
"Between school, ROTC, and my job at the Kash-and-Grab I don't have a lot of time for fun. Mostly I hang out with my family. I have three brothers and two sisters and we're really close, so there's always something going on at home. Sometimes I play video games at Mi.." He'd almost said " at Mickey's house", but he found he couldn't bear to mention his name. He felt like saying it out loud would rip off a half-healed scab and he'd start bleeding again. "At my girlfriend Mandy's house." He said instead. Any mention of the Milkovich House of Horrors was difficult, but Mandy was a lot easier to talk about than Mickey. "Sometimes we just hang out together under the L tracks and get high."