“I didn’t do it this time, either,” he said into her hair.
He recognized the laughter as the kind of inane response to stress that made people laugh at funerals. Nothing was funny, but everything was funny. Daniel had gone into fits of hysterics a few times over the years: in the Dean’s office, in the middle of a job interview, while he took his SATs. Once, he tried to settle himself down with an inner mantra of, ‘drunk drivers, dead kittens, naked grandmother,’ but he screwed up and thought, ‘dead drivers, naked kittens, drunk grandmother,’ which made it worse.
If he caught Holly's scent on a guy on the street and found a wallet, Daniel promised himself that he would rip open his throat.
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on 2013-10-19 10:24 pm (UTC)He recognized the laughter as the kind of inane response to stress that made people laugh at funerals. Nothing was funny, but everything was funny. Daniel had gone into fits of hysterics a few times over the years: in the Dean’s office, in the middle of a job interview, while he took his SATs. Once, he tried to settle himself down with an inner mantra of, ‘drunk drivers, dead kittens, naked grandmother,’ but he screwed up and thought, ‘dead drivers, naked kittens, drunk grandmother,’ which made it worse.
If he caught Holly's scent on a guy on the street and found a wallet, Daniel promised himself that he would rip open his throat.