Okay, that meant he could be here for awhile then. He'd already started to accept that, but further confirmation helped cement it in his brain.
He approved of what came next, approved of it greatly. "I'm starving and I was going to go grocery shopping for dad until I remembered how I only have ten bucks and a Metrocard in my pocket." That was going to have to be remedied. He was sure there was some place around here that would hire a fifteen year old to do something. The comic shop at home had been willing, though that was a non issue now.
"Luckily the subway here's run on the honor system." Which was something that, as a New Yorker, was ridiculously hard for him to fathom. "So I just didn't pay. Anywhere where we can get a burger that's not McDonalds or Burger King. You'd probably know better than I do."