Charlie hurried downstairs. It had been a while since she last treated herself to ice cream, but that wasn’t her sole motivation. She wanted to spend some time with Andy. Some casual, totally relaxed, totally weirdness-free time. She had decided that she could stand being in a platonic relationship if that was how it had to happen, but Charlie was trying not to think of anything more than ice cream.
Her face lit up when she spotted Andy in the foyer. It was almost a reflex nowadays. Whenever she saw or heard from him, even when it was just text on a computer screen, she found herself smiling a little bit. Charlie tried to downplay it a bit for the sake of not freaking Andy out.