Killing Time in Crystal City
“Jasper asked when he saw my new laptop.
“I wouldn’t call it a present, exactly.”
“No, of course you wouldn’t. A normal person, with sense and gratitude and no persecution complex, however, would call it a present. And a pretty fine one at that. Especially considering you were essentially rewarded for skulking around his house and spying on him in a particularly icky manner.”
We were walking along the abandoned tracks on our way home from school for the last time this year. There was... one day of the term left, but it was a Friday, and thus fell outside of Jasper’s walking schedule. He had by now dimmed some of the shine off my presentation, though not off the computer itself, which gleamed.
“I was not skulking,” I said, slipping the thing back into my backpack. “And any ickiness involved was down to him, not me. I think maybe that’s why he didn’t say a word about it. Not one word.”MoreLess
“I wouldn’t call it a present, exactly.”
“No, of course you wouldn’t. A normal person, with sense and gratitude and no persecution complex, however, would call it a present. And a pretty fine one at that. Especially considering you were essentially rewarded for skulking around his house and spying on him in a particularly icky manner.”
We were walking along the abandoned tracks on our way home from school for the last time this year. There was... one day of the term left, but it was a Friday, and thus fell outside of Jasper’s walking schedule. He had by now dimmed some of the shine off my presentation, though not off the computer itself, which gleamed.
“I was not skulking,” I said, slipping the thing back into my backpack. “And any ickiness involved was down to him, not me. I think maybe that’s why he didn’t say a word about it. Not one word.”MoreLess
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