"I figure points can only be a good thing," Michael quipped back as he poured them both wine from the bottle he'd left breathing. "So when I inevitably mess up or go completely anti-social turtle at some point, you won't just up and chuck me out the door, right? The points will make you stop and think for a second or two?"

HIs expression said he was completely kidding, because he knew Eli would never kick him to the curb like that. Actions like that took a meanness that he didn't believe Eli was capable of.