C21 One Thing to Degrade Another

The wind blew the smoke to her side, she coughed, and he went out again.

The two of them sat in silence. She drank slowly, but he was faster.

"Are you tired from work?" she asked casually.

"Not bad."

"You fought with your girlfriend?"

"Look at me, does it look like I have a girlfriend? If there had been, it wouldn't have — "He glanced at her, but did not continue