"I don't want to wait two weeks to see you."

"Come to Baltimore with me?"

"I... I don't know if I could. I'd have no way to get to you, and I don't have a costume."

"Nobody in Baltimore dresses up."

"There's still the problem of me getting to you. And I wouldn't want to interrupt boy time."

Silence.

You can't invite me to Baltimore and then just not talk about it! That's not something you just do in passing and then change the subject!