01-03-2015, 09:50 AM
Claire looked over her bowl of noodles. "Umm? Forty-two?"
Her guess was accompanied by a slurp, but it wasn't completely asinine. She was never good at guessing the ages of those older than her. Maybe her ignorance was due to a lack of father-figures growing up. She didn't have so much as a grandpa to watch grow old.
"I'll be 21 soon. Back in the States that means I'd finally be old enough to drink,"
her grin quirked mischief. "So you're about 31? Huh. Wouldn't have guessed."
She kept probing, though. Even if he did seem like the type to be tied down. She had a tendency to be nosy. Call it a sixth sense. "There was someone in your life, though. Someone important."
Her guess was accompanied by a slurp, but it wasn't completely asinine. She was never good at guessing the ages of those older than her. Maybe her ignorance was due to a lack of father-figures growing up. She didn't have so much as a grandpa to watch grow old.
"I'll be 21 soon. Back in the States that means I'd finally be old enough to drink,"
her grin quirked mischief. "So you're about 31? Huh. Wouldn't have guessed."
She kept probing, though. Even if he did seem like the type to be tied down. She had a tendency to be nosy. Call it a sixth sense. "There was someone in your life, though. Someone important."