Alex had always been weak to manipulative people, but fortunately he had not met a many who would do such things to him yet.

Laughing nervously, Alex said, "Ah, y-yeah, I w-was just th-thinkin' 'bout goin' t-ta the obs d-deck an' sitting or s-something. I g-guess I'm lucky, h-havn't met a-any n-nasty ch-characters y-yet."