No, no girlfriend at the moment. The last ...thing he'd been involved in had fallen apart with *spectacular* horribleness, and since that night a couple months before he hadn't really been looking. Not that he was good at spotting when a young woman was interested in him anyway unless they were straight-on direct, he knew that about himself, but he also hadn't gone to bars or whatever looking for a hook up or anything of the sort. It'd been kind of nice to just take the time to recover after that mess and not have any extra pressure.
And, well... you didn't combine business with pleasure. He'd learned that lesson well enough even though he hadn't been the one trying to do it, just been around when others had. Never worked out and everything just kind of fell apart horribly. So if Laura needed him to do work, then Laura was a client, and maybe the client gave you a drink while you were working or even cookies or brownies to take home, but not an entire meal, especially not for something as small as replacing a window. That'd only take half an hour at most and he already had all the equipment he needed.
"It's just a simple job, it won't be long. Or hard." The fact that those exact same words could be applied to something else went right over his head, but that was just the truth as well. "Twenty bucks? I've already got everything I need for it if you've still got the window." Of course she still had the window, why wouldn't she still have the window, damnit Barton. But- "Oh." Well, he... hadn't expected that. Obviously. "Uhh, you sure? I haven't really been making myself look smart..."
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Date: 2017-06-12 06:30 am (UTC)And, well... you didn't combine business with pleasure. He'd learned that lesson well enough even though he hadn't been the one trying to do it, just been around when others had. Never worked out and everything just kind of fell apart horribly. So if Laura needed him to do work, then Laura was a client, and maybe the client gave you a drink while you were working or even cookies or brownies to take home, but not an entire meal, especially not for something as small as replacing a window. That'd only take half an hour at most and he already had all the equipment he needed.
"It's just a simple job, it won't be long. Or hard." The fact that those exact same words could be applied to something else went right over his head, but that was just the truth as well. "Twenty bucks? I've already got everything I need for it if you've still got the window." Of course she still had the window, why wouldn't she still have the window, damnit Barton. But- "Oh." Well, he... hadn't expected that. Obviously. "Uhh, you sure? I haven't really been making myself look smart..."