Penelope laughed, "No, he doesn't. I'm pretty sure you could set the man on fire and he'd complement the charm work." Kingsley had always seemed so... unflappable, to Pen.
"Can't seem to get the message through?" Pen asked, not having been on a date in... well, since school maybe? Work was demanding, she'd always told herself. "And what about other messages? What if the bloke won't... ask you out in the first place?" The question was out of her mouth before she'd thought of it - because surely she didn't have anyone in mind for this and surely if she was thinking about Quigley - which she wasn't - they'd gone out, sort of? They'd hung out at least and he'd asked her to do that - hadn't he?