"Are you cold, small bean?"

"Small bean?" I asked with a tiny smile, secretly adoring the nickname.

Joel's face was just about visible. The interior lights of the car had faded once I had closed the passenger door and the world outside was bathed in a darkened hue. It was a few minutes past four and the world had yet to allow day to break.

"Yup." Joel yawned and I felt a small twinge of guilt hit me. He had finished two hours ago but he had come back for me so I didn't have to catch a taxi home. "When you were drunk you basically told me that I...