Kallian bent forward and put the end of her cigarette into the offered lighter and took a quick drag, igniting the cancer stick and then pulled back, pulling out the butt end of the cigarette from her mouth and exhaled the smoke through her nose. He didn’t believe her? Fine. That was on him. She didn’t have to explain her motives to him, she didn’t owe him anything. She crossed one of her arms across her flat stomach, tucking her hand underneath her armpit and used her opposite arm to nurse her lips with the cigarette when needed. She took a couple of steps forward and sat down on the sidewalk curb, hearing his words from behind her. 

Her eyes widened a bit when he called her out on being a high school kid and mentally thought back to all of her actions in the juice bar; what gave her away? She twisted her torso a bit to look back at him, her face just as smug as ever as she blew a stream of smoke from the corner of her mouth.

“What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this? Boy…you really suck at this, Alphabet.” She jabbed at him casually and flicked the cigarette towards him to let loose the ash growing on the end, letting it hit the ground next to his feet. She pulled herself back up to stand and walked towards him, only stopping when she was a mere six inches away from touching him and tilted her head up to look at his face closely, nearly looking like she was leaning in to kiss him. 

“If you ever want a lesson or two on picking up a girl the [i]right way[/i], let me know.” She gave him a slight wink and inhaled what was left of her cigarette and blew the smoke up into his face with a mischievous smile before taking a few steps back and tossing the butt of the cigarette to the ground in between them.