The rest of the evening passed quicker than Rick thought it would. They ended up on Marty’s couch, finishing off the bottle of wine as they talked, getting to know each other better. To Rick’s surprise, not everything Marty was interested in could be found between the pages of a comic book or in that silly Pokémon game of his. In fact, the later it got, the more Rick discovered he and Marty had more in common than he would’ve originally thought.
And it wasn’t just a love of Robert Downey, Jr., either.
Both had gone to the same college, which made Rick swell with pride when he found out. Marty wasn’t in his graduating class, but Rick still felt happy to have the connection, even if they’d never run into each other on campus. They grew up on the same comic books, the same TV shows, the sam
