Oh good. A smile. That had to count for something, right? Topher was going to go with it counting, he decided, because well, what else could that sort of thing have been? And then he was being invited to share the table so that was pretty great too.
"Not at all." Topher set down his tray and hooked the chair with his leg then perched in it. And now came the part where he tried to figure out what he wanted to say about earlier or if that was a good idea or not. Probably not great right away. No one liked having to do the awful parts of their job in front of other people. HE had never liked that sort of thing when it came to his med school rotations, and even though those were totally different situations...well yeah, better just pretend stuff had been normal back there wasn't it?
"So..." he asked, fiddling with his silverware. "Busy day?"