Despite his growing panic over the realization that he had a goddamn date, reflex alone was enough to make his eyes immediately narrow at Eric's amused tone. His eyebrow twitched in irritation and he scowled at the other boy, somehow unsurprised but still frustrated that the older boy was getting amusement out of his situation, the traitor.

"It's not funny," he insisted flatly. "If it wasn't already obvious, I've never been on a date. Let alone taken a girl to the mall for a movie." His own impulsive stupidity was staggering, and he briefly had to wonder if the girl was some sort of magic trickery of the city to have so easily made him lose his sense when he was talking to her.

Somehow he doubted it. And that was even more shameful.

"I'm an idiot." He spat with a sigh, grabbing at one of the tupperware containers and inspecting the baked good inside. "This place is making me reckless. And now I have to take this girl out and it's going to be a disaster."