“Dissect what?” Oh God. “What are you reading into that? Because the question wasn’t really about commitment and wanting the same thing over and over for the rest of ever, death till you part. It was about tacos. Wasn’t it? Like tacos… soft shell, hard shell, answering questions hell—”

He barked out a laugh. “Yes, it was about tacos.”

“Oh motherfucker. It totally wasn’t about tacos. But even if it was, having tacos forever is fine. There might be all different kinds of tacos, but the bottom line is, a taco is a freaking taco. And I would be committed to tacos because I have no issue with that kind of commitment. I’m a one taco at a time kind of guy. And I certainly don’t go looking at other tacos when I have one, if you know what I mean. And let’s be real, because of the whole asexual thing, it’s usually the taco I’m interested in that goes looking for other tacos.”

He chuckled and gave me a nudge with his shoulder. “Those kinds of tacos are all jerks.”

The bus went around the corner at the intersection and I totally didn’t use that as an excuse to lean in a little. “They are jerks.”

He met my eyes and bit his lip. “So, um… do you have a question for me?”

“I do. And if this one sucks, I’m not to blame. It’s totally Angus’ fault.” I took a breath as the bus pulled in to his stop. “Okay, if you were arrested without any explanation, what would your friends think you’d done?”

He chuckled and looked to the open bus door and the people getting off. “That’s a good question. Um. I’d like to think it was something amazing like breaking into an animal kill shelter and letting all the animals out.” He stood up and I turned my legs to the side so he could get past me. He turned and smiled at me. “But it’d probably be for breaching some cyber security law by releasing all financial sponsorship information of politicians, or maybe just the racist, bigoted politicians. Or maybe I’d transfer a whole lotta money from corrupted corporations’ accounts and drop it into Greenpeace’s account.”

I looked up at him. “So, maybe saving defenceless animals, but more than likely toppling governments, saving the world, that kind of thing.”

He nodded. “Yeah.”

“Good. Because that’s not perfect or anything.”

He grinned and hopped off the bus, and I sat there for the rest of my bus ride smiling like I was already falling in love.

Which was utterly ridiculous.

So ridiculous.

Unreservedly absurd.

Goddammit.

Motherfucker.