There was silence after Rick said that. And that was enough to get him all flustered and stammer a lot more than usual. "I-I… didn't mean it l-like that… I meant…"
"Empty flattery then?" Yvette spoke up all of a sudden, interrupting him in the middle.
"NO! It wasn't… empty flattery…!" In response, Rick almost shouted out loud, quite unexpectedly. But in the end, his voice once again fell to quite a notch. "S-sorry."
"For?"
"For blabbing nonsense." Rick got unusually calm while responding to that. "I must be proving the universal fact of middle schoolers being immature kids."
"You are a kid though," Yvette leaned back in her chair, her phone holding up to her ears instead of the speakerphone mode it was on this whole time. "So, it's expected to have some not mature act from you. Rather, you sound like your age now for a change, instead of that overly moody vibe you had this morning."
