[He texts her an ok cool and then gets himself together. He's not exactly in the mood for a whole beauty routine here, for once, but he at least doesn't want to be embarrassing out in public, so he hurries through cleaning up and making himself presentable and then heads out. It's not a long trip by the subway, so in the end he only takes about half an hour to show up—looking a little more subdued than usual, but at least not actively upset, at the moment.]
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