Re: 7:25 p.m., by the bar - aurora / daniel
Chris was in the middle of a large sip, halfway turned to take in Daniel in all his glory when Aurora's words hit him and he choked. He fought through some wheezing, pulling himself together enough to spit out a few words.
"Sloppy seconds?" Hitting his chest with a fist, he glanced between Aurora and Daniel, confusion plain on his face. The momentary excitement of his date's arrival flew, dispelled. Suddenly thoughts and memories started to click in his mind, like dominoes falling into place. "Oh, you're that Aurora," as though there was more than one in the building. The short, cursory explanation Daniel had given about his previous relationship was something Chris had filed into the back of his mind and mostly forgotten, until at least this moment.
"Well, I guess he gets more brownie points than you for showing up? From what I've heard?" His loose tongue was doing no one any favors in this current discussion, and he glanced at Daniel after speaking, his eyes quickly trailing down from the man's well-groomed face to the way his shirt fitted over his chest. He did not look displeased by what he saw.