With the holidays here, life was more boring than relaxing. It was too hot to go sell fried chicken wraps, and besides, he couldn't summon them whenever he wanted.
Cultivation, meanwhile, was a gradual process. You couldn't get fat in one bite, and he couldn't spend all his time training.
Just as Feeney was wondering whether to attend a party thrown by some of his female classmates, his good friend Billy unexpectedly invited him to the Stark Expo Opening Ceremony.
During summer break, Billy had somehow managed to land an internship at Stark Industries. Maybe they'd hired him because they needed a lot of extra hands to put on the Expo.
"How about it? These are tickets to the Stark Expo Opening Ceremony. Pretty generous of me, huh? Most people couldn't get their hands on them."
Billy spoke over the phone with an ostentatiously noble, show-off tone, as if he'd done something truly remarkable.
"It's so hot. I don't want to go."
Feeney replied lazily. Given his relationship with Pepper, he could easily have gotten himself invited as a guest, if he didn't mind the risk of being exposed.
Besides, Feeney didn't believe for a second that Billy had suddenly decided to be so generous and give him these "rare" tickets.
"Come on, man, do me a favor!"
Sure enough, the moment Feeney refused, Billy immediately begged and came clean. "I actually invited two beautiful girls too, but I have some work to finish during the press conference. Could you keep an eye on them for me?"
"I'll come find you as soon as I'm done."
Then Billy added a rather wary warning. "Let's get this straight: you have to leave me at least one of them. Otherwise, we're not friends anymore!"
"Pfft!"
Feeney spat at the phone. He didn't