After it seemed that Alexis was either ignoring his text message or just didn't see it (definitely that, that had to be it, right?), Troy thought he'd try his luck with Astrid, since she was kind of that other girl he maybe kind of dated because they went on that one date that one time:

hey u busy? we should go get pizza :)

He regretted the smiley face on it the instant he sent it. Ugh.