"Hey, no withholding beverages because I asked a reasonable question." Steph waggled her fingers at the soda. "So she wasn't with Vax. So you weren't hitting on Vax's girlfriend. You were just hitting on a beautiful but annoying girl."

The phrase "Vax didn't even know he was with her" struck her as funny and far too understandable. After all, she was only here because he'd decided that he missed her.