Catch implies Kira hasn't already reeled in the line, isn't looking for the best way to toss him back into the water. "She's twelve, Ty. We would not be having a great time, ignoring the minibar and making sure we got her home by nine."

It would be a different kind of good time, likely as not. The mixed bag that came with any of them, and Kira burns away the reminder that his sister has much of his own experience on the horizon with the rest of his vodka.

Exhaling loudly, he scrapes the taste on his teeth. "I wanted--"

To go to prom? To pretend? To not ruin the conversation of that exact moment, with rejection? "I wanted an excuse for the blazer."