Sublime

Her frown deepens. She looks like an angry cupcake in her pretty pink dress. I can’t take her seriously at all. “Charlie.”

“Of course. My cookies bring all the boys to the yard.”

“If you like, I’ll try to make you presentable before Dr. Gibson sees you. Before you refuse, you should know that your beard is like steel-brush wire, and you smell like an Angora goat—and I know whereof I speak.

gregarious.

Just give one character something they’re hiding and the subtext writes itself.