You and Joel knew each other well enough to have a friendly conversation but that was about it. He was closed off about his past and you desperately wanted to know more and you though getting him drunk was the best way to do that.

But you didn’t know how to subtly ask him to get a drink with you.

One day you were looking around for the bar for Maria when you spotted him, sipping a glass of whiskey by himself at the bar with a sullen look on his tired face.

“Fancy seein’ you here…”