"Oh hey, being social," Sparkle mused, looking toward the booth, and then shrugging his shoulders and ambling along behind. "If you need to bail from, like, human interaction," he said along the way, "I can always come up with some kind of shitty teenager excuse. I, like, come with those all built-in, really."

If he was here to play buffer to both sides, at least he was going to do his best to oblige along the way.