"Let's hope I'm not too terrible or the color may stay permanently."
He leaned back as well, propped up on his elbow. "So Charlie is the cute ball of fuzz, and Rufus is a - guy - your boyfriend?" So he was a little disappointed at that revelation, not that he considered one meeting a relationship, but he liked to look at the possibilities of at least a date. He kept that off of his face. "A physicist is a pretty big job. Science and the arts don't often mix that well."