Sparkle actually hesitated on that one, giving Alec a kind of weird sideways look while he contemplated just how badly he wanted this date to work out.

His honest answer would totally make this weird. So, at least this time around, he was going to go reaching for the less honest one.

"I totally ate a bug when I was like five," he offered. "Little beetle in the garden at the park. Just to know what it was like."

He'd never done any such thing.

"It crunched."

But it was way less awkward than what he could have answered with. He'd keep it.