Birthday drabbles part 7: *EDITED* PART 1
“Wait-” Noel lifted his hands like he was trying to halt traffic. “Wait. I’ve just thought of something rather important. When we’re over there, how do we climb back out? We’re on an incline which means the wall will be higher on the other side.”
Ceithin frowned in slight confusion. “I would have thought that was obvious.” He stated, wondering if Noel really didn’t know.
His tone only served to annoy Noel who had believed that he had raised a valid point. “Enlighten me, then.” He said rather defensively.
“We climb up the tree of course, and then jump down.”
Noel took a quick look around and saw nothing that at first glance appeared to be fit enough for their purpose. “What fucking tree?”
Ceithin pointed to some branches which hung over the wall from the inside of the zoo. “The tree right there.”
Noel stood back from the wall to get a better vantage point for what Ceithin was pointing at. When he spotted it he gave Ceithin a look like the man had gone mad. “That one? Are you bloody serious? It looks like it can barely support a sparrow let alone two grown up men.”
Ceithin gave Noel a wry smile at having his plan doubted. “Who told you that you were grown up?”
“Ha, ha. You’re only countering my argument with humour because you know I’m right.”
Eager to press on, Ceithin tried to dismiss the comment. Whether it was nerves at doing something illegal or the influence of the alcohol he wasn’t sure, either way, he wanted to begin as soon as possible. “It’ll be fine.” He tried to say it dismissively, hoping that Noel would be convinced by his apparent confidence.
He wasn’t. “No it won’t.”
Unable to find another solution he put it on Noel. “So what do you suggest?”
He hadn’t expected that. Ceithin had taken the lead for the entire operation so far (choosing their mode of transport -walking- and choosing their entry point too). It took a moment for Noel to say anything as he hesitated, looking for an answer himself. “Well, I suppose…” He looked at the wall again, gaining no additional knowledge from there, he then tried to spot anything in the vicinity which may have been useful: like a ladder or a key to the zoo gate. When neither of those objects turned up, and having nothing else to offer, he looked back at Ceithin and visibly slumped as he spoke. “We use the tree.” He said dejectedly, having no other alternative than to go with the original, yet horribly flawed, plan.
It only served to heighten Ceithin’s unease since he had secretly hoped Noel would come up with something more plausible. All it told him was that two men were about to do something incredibly stupid and neither of them had their best thinking caps on. If things continued as they were now, they were bound to end up landing into some kind of hot water. Nevertheless, they were there and it was a challenge. “Hurry,” He said, getting himself into position again so Noel could boost him up. “Let’s do this before we’re caught.”
For a third time that evening, Noel begrudgingly stooped to cradle Ceithin’s muddy foot.
This time, Ceithin didn’t even have a chance to lift his leg.
“Hold on.”
“Now what?”
Noel seemed unfazed by Ceithin’s unusual, albeit understandable, snappy outburst. “I need to piss.”
Ceithin couldn’t quite believe what was being said. “Right now?” He asked a little louder than he had intended to.
Noel did not take well to being treated like a child. “Yes ‘right now’, I wouldn’t have fucking told you if I didn’t need to piss now.”
Ceithin was at a loss to understand, believing that the situation bordered on being ridiculous. “Can’t you hold it? You’re not a bloody two year old.”
Noel was already unzipping. “I’ve been holding it since we left the Apple Tap.”
“And it only occurs to you to piss now?!”
Noel decided that with Ceithin’s rare and almost unflappable temper beginning to flare, it was important to re-evaluate the whole issue. “Look,” He said as he angled himself against the wall and leaned his left hand on it for balance. “Wouldn’t you rather I do this before we climb over the massive fucking wall and steal a fucking penguin, or afterwards?”
“Why don’t you speak louder? I don’t think they heard you on the other side of the city.”
Noel scoffed. “You think you’re so fucking witty when you’re drunk. But you’re fucking not.”
Having no other recourse than to accept the current state of affairs, Ceithin gave in. “Just hurry the fuck up.”
“Don’t rush me. You know it doesn’t flow if you rush me.”
“Whatever.”
Noel made a noise like he was trying to push something. He stopped when nothing seemed to pour out and turned to scowl at Ceithin. “Don’t watch.”
“I’m not.” Ceithin was given a look like he was an idiot - the fact that he was facing Noel while he was talking meant that he contradicted his own statement. “I wasn’t.” He corrected.
“Well turn the fuck around. I don’t want you to see my penis, you might get penis envy.”
Ceithin obliged, flipping him off with his two fingers as he did and mumbling about why he did not covet his friend’s knob.
It took Noel a few seconds, but when he was finally able to let loose it sounded like a tap had been opened full throttle and lasted for an unusually long time, even for a drunken guy’s standards. Ceithin had to admit to himself that he was almost…impressed.
Only when he heard Noel finish, shake and then zip did he turn around. “We’re doing this over there.” Ceithin pointed to a spot a good few feet away from Noel’s steaming puddle.
“You’re just full of great ideas this evening, aren’t you?” Noel moved and stooped again. “Come on then.”
Three minutes later and they had made no progress.
“Lift damn you!”
“Fuck off! I’ve had enough to knock a lesser man unconscious, and you weigh as much as a fucking baby elephant.”
Ceithin stopped trying to grab the top of the wall to look down at a struggling Noel. “You’re the one who won’t let me stand on your shoulders.”
“You’re not ruining it any more than you already have. This is Abercrombie and Fitch and it cost me a ridiculous amount of dosh.”
“Well it just goes to show that money doesn’t buy looks, now shut up and push.” Ceithin turned and lifted his arms, trying to reach for the top of the wall and just grazing it. “I just need a grip on the ledge.” He was starting to get frustrated and it was showing in his voice. “This isn’t working, we just haven’t planned properly for this; maybe we really should pack it in for tonight and come back tomorrow.”
Noel readjusted himself slightly, widening his stance, a new spirit of determination filling him at the thought that leaving would mean they’d failed at the first hurdle. “Turn back around and hold on.” With an over exaggerated puff, he managed to stand, lifting Ceithin high enough for him to grab on to the wall and climb on top.
At first it was a bit of a struggle, but once Ceithin managed to swing his leg over the foot-wide the wall, sitting up and balancing was easy.
Both men took a few moments to recollect their breaths. When Noel eventually looked up at Ceithin, it was to find him looking like he was actually straddling the zoo itself, one leg in, one leg out and wearing a massive smile of achievement of his face. Noel almost didn’t want to burst his bubble. “How am I supposed to get up there?”
Instead of deflating, Ceithin couldn’t help letting out a chuckle. “I don’t know, free running?”
Instead of laughing with him, Noel looked impressed. “We could try that.” He said as his mind tried to calculate how he could do it. It was simple physics really -from playing rugby he knew he could jump quite high as long as he had a decent run-up, and with Ceithin’s strength, it wouldn’t be too much of a problem to climb the rest of the way. Provided he did it quick enough, of course.
Before Ceithin could tell him that it was a really, really stupid idea, he had stepped away and looked like he was readying himself for a sprint.
“This is going to end in a trip to the A and E, I can tell.” Ceithin commented quietly, but doing so loud enough to ensure that Noel heard it as well.
It did nothing to dissuade him from his plan. “Just be ready to catch my hands and pull me up. Three, two, one!” With those sparse instructions Noel began charging towards the wall at full speed.
Ceithin noticed that his footsteps were heavy and clumsy as he ran, debating if Noel was actually going to manage the jump at all or if he was going to end up knocking himself unconscious. It seemed that Noel had the exact same fear since he jumped a little too soon, with his foot landing flat against the wall and not nearly as high as he had intended. It had the effect of actually bouncing him away instead of projecting him upwards so that he couldn’t even get his second foot into position. He reached out as he began to fall, his back parallel to the ground and on instinct Ceithin grabbed him -but Noel’s downward force was too strong and Ceithin didn’t have a secure enough position to hold on without falling off of the wall himself, so he did the only thing any reasonable person would do in his situation.
He let go.
It wasn’t a long drop by any means, three, possibly four feet at the most with the ground being soft, wet mud and grass. Noel had certainly taken much harder falls, from higher heights, onto tougher grounds and had gotten up without any incident in the past.
“Sorry, mate.” Ceithin said, a small amused smile playing on his lips.
“You dropped me.” Noel was wearing a shocked expression from his position on the floor. “You fucking dropped me.”
At first Ceithin thought it was all very funny but to his surprise, Noel’s look of disbelief seemed to be serious. He frowned. “I had to.” He said in defence of his actions.
“No you fucking didn’t.” Noel was starting to sound hostile.
“I would have fallen otherwise,” He tried to explain, not really understanding how this was suddenly such a big deal, after all, Noel had practically done the same to him three times earlier that evening, “And I’m higher up than you are.”
Noel sat up and rubbed the muck from the back of his jeans, giving up when it just made his hands muddy. He looked at Ceithin, deliberately using the impact of his eyes to stare hard at him. “So?”
Ceithin tried to dismiss the whole thing as nonsense. “What do you mean ‘so’? I was supposed to fall? That’s just stupid.” Even with his flippant attitude, he was still somewhat unsettled, Noel knew very well about the effect he had on people when he stared at them in the way he was. They’d even given it a name, well, Jared had: quoting Toy Story he’d called them Noel’s ‘angry eyes’, and more often than not they worked. “Stop looking at me like that.”
To his relief Noel did stop, shaking his head with disappointment instead. “Where’s your sense of loyalty?” He asked. “Where’s the strengthening of friendship through common suffering?”
If Ceithin were in range of Noel’s arm he would have made it a dead one, settling instead for another roll of his eyes. “Dropping you when I knew you wouldn’t be hurt does not mean I’m not a good friend. It just means I’m sensible. Now let’s try this again.” He said, hoping to move on.
“No.”
“What?”
Noel stood back and crossed his arms. “No. The trust is gone. That’s it.”
Ceithin did his best not to sigh. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have let you fall.”
“Not good enough.”
“Are you being serious?”
Instead of answering Noel simply walked towards Ceithin’s leg.
And pulled.
Only after Ceithin landed on the ground -flapping his arms like a chicken for balance on his trip down- and then looked up with as much shock and utter confoundedness as Noel had when he had fallen did he explain. “Now we’re even.”
Ceithin gave him a dead leg since he was now in range and called him several colourful names. “We’re doing this again.” He stated as he tried to wipe the dirt and grass from the back of his head. “And this time I’m standing on your shoulders.”
After another completely failed attempt, and then a third where Noel managed to face plant himself in mud, they somehow both managed to make it to the top of the wall, panting heavily but also extremely pleased with themselves that they had actually succeeded.
“Right, phase one over. Where are these penguins?”
Ceithin squinted as he tried to see through the darkness. “If I remember correctly they should be… no, hold on, I think… I’m not sure but-”
“Hurry the fuck up, sitting on this wall is not comfortable.” As usual, Noel’s level of patience was about equal to or actually less than a vampire-obsessed teen girl waiting for the new Twilight to come out.
“Hold on, I’m trying to remember. Last time I came to this zoo I was ten.”
Not being used to having to wait for anything that he wanted Noel pulled out his phone and started tapping on it. A few seconds later he shoved it triumphantly into Ceithin’s face, the brightness of the phone blinding Ceithin for a few seconds after he had tried so hard to adjust to the darkness within the zoo.
“Here’s a map.” Noel stated, halting any kind of protest his penguin-stealing partner was going to utter.
Ceithin took it and pulled it away so his eyes could actually focus on the screen image. After a few moments of memorising it and getting his bearings he handed it back. “Good shout, mate.” He said, which was as close as Noel got to a ‘thank you’. “Let’s go.” Ceithin jumped down, landing with about as much poise and stealth as a drunken ninja trained by donkeys. Noel soon joined him, creating more noise than should have been possible in such a situation.
Out of fear of getting caught, they stayed where they were for a few minutes under the semi-cover of a few bushes, plants and the young sapling which Ceithin had planned to use as their escape route. Looking at it properly since they didn’t have much else to do while they were being cautious and unmoving, Noel concluded that that plan had truly been bullshit and did his best in hoping that Ceithin came up with an alternative before the time came for their departure. They stood plastered against the wall, listening and waiting intently for any signs of security, but none seemed to come.
“I don’t think anyone’s heard us.” Noel whispered eventually, daring to walk a few paces in the dark to check if he could see anything further up. “I don’t think anyone’s even here.”
As if in response, a low and threatening growling sound came from further in.
“The animals definitely are.” Ceithin muttered before joining Noel and deciding to venture out slowly.
“They’re in cages. Stop being such a pussy.” Noel let out a small laugh. “I wonder if there’s a joke in there somewhere. Because, you know, I called you a pussy because a big cat growled…” He tried to think of a decent one, giving up after a few seconds since, during this escapade, his creative side had taken a backseat in favour of his drunken criminal one. “Never mind.”
Part 2 is HERE
Ceithin frowned in slight confusion. “I would have thought that was obvious.” He stated, wondering if Noel really didn’t know.
His tone only served to annoy Noel who had believed that he had raised a valid point. “Enlighten me, then.” He said rather defensively.
“We climb up the tree of course, and then jump down.”
Noel took a quick look around and saw nothing that at first glance appeared to be fit enough for their purpose. “What fucking tree?”
Ceithin pointed to some branches which hung over the wall from the inside of the zoo. “The tree right there.”
Noel stood back from the wall to get a better vantage point for what Ceithin was pointing at. When he spotted it he gave Ceithin a look like the man had gone mad. “That one? Are you bloody serious? It looks like it can barely support a sparrow let alone two grown up men.”
Ceithin gave Noel a wry smile at having his plan doubted. “Who told you that you were grown up?”
“Ha, ha. You’re only countering my argument with humour because you know I’m right.”
Eager to press on, Ceithin tried to dismiss the comment. Whether it was nerves at doing something illegal or the influence of the alcohol he wasn’t sure, either way, he wanted to begin as soon as possible. “It’ll be fine.” He tried to say it dismissively, hoping that Noel would be convinced by his apparent confidence.
He wasn’t. “No it won’t.”
Unable to find another solution he put it on Noel. “So what do you suggest?”
He hadn’t expected that. Ceithin had taken the lead for the entire operation so far (choosing their mode of transport -walking- and choosing their entry point too). It took a moment for Noel to say anything as he hesitated, looking for an answer himself. “Well, I suppose…” He looked at the wall again, gaining no additional knowledge from there, he then tried to spot anything in the vicinity which may have been useful: like a ladder or a key to the zoo gate. When neither of those objects turned up, and having nothing else to offer, he looked back at Ceithin and visibly slumped as he spoke. “We use the tree.” He said dejectedly, having no other alternative than to go with the original, yet horribly flawed, plan.
It only served to heighten Ceithin’s unease since he had secretly hoped Noel would come up with something more plausible. All it told him was that two men were about to do something incredibly stupid and neither of them had their best thinking caps on. If things continued as they were now, they were bound to end up landing into some kind of hot water. Nevertheless, they were there and it was a challenge. “Hurry,” He said, getting himself into position again so Noel could boost him up. “Let’s do this before we’re caught.”
For a third time that evening, Noel begrudgingly stooped to cradle Ceithin’s muddy foot.
This time, Ceithin didn’t even have a chance to lift his leg.
“Hold on.”
“Now what?”
Noel seemed unfazed by Ceithin’s unusual, albeit understandable, snappy outburst. “I need to piss.”
Ceithin couldn’t quite believe what was being said. “Right now?” He asked a little louder than he had intended to.
Noel did not take well to being treated like a child. “Yes ‘right now’, I wouldn’t have fucking told you if I didn’t need to piss now.”
Ceithin was at a loss to understand, believing that the situation bordered on being ridiculous. “Can’t you hold it? You’re not a bloody two year old.”
Noel was already unzipping. “I’ve been holding it since we left the Apple Tap.”
“And it only occurs to you to piss now?!”
Noel decided that with Ceithin’s rare and almost unflappable temper beginning to flare, it was important to re-evaluate the whole issue. “Look,” He said as he angled himself against the wall and leaned his left hand on it for balance. “Wouldn’t you rather I do this before we climb over the massive fucking wall and steal a fucking penguin, or afterwards?”
“Why don’t you speak louder? I don’t think they heard you on the other side of the city.”
Noel scoffed. “You think you’re so fucking witty when you’re drunk. But you’re fucking not.”
Having no other recourse than to accept the current state of affairs, Ceithin gave in. “Just hurry the fuck up.”
“Don’t rush me. You know it doesn’t flow if you rush me.”
“Whatever.”
Noel made a noise like he was trying to push something. He stopped when nothing seemed to pour out and turned to scowl at Ceithin. “Don’t watch.”
“I’m not.” Ceithin was given a look like he was an idiot - the fact that he was facing Noel while he was talking meant that he contradicted his own statement. “I wasn’t.” He corrected.
“Well turn the fuck around. I don’t want you to see my penis, you might get penis envy.”
Ceithin obliged, flipping him off with his two fingers as he did and mumbling about why he did not covet his friend’s knob.
It took Noel a few seconds, but when he was finally able to let loose it sounded like a tap had been opened full throttle and lasted for an unusually long time, even for a drunken guy’s standards. Ceithin had to admit to himself that he was almost…impressed.
Only when he heard Noel finish, shake and then zip did he turn around. “We’re doing this over there.” Ceithin pointed to a spot a good few feet away from Noel’s steaming puddle.
“You’re just full of great ideas this evening, aren’t you?” Noel moved and stooped again. “Come on then.”
Three minutes later and they had made no progress.
“Lift damn you!”
“Fuck off! I’ve had enough to knock a lesser man unconscious, and you weigh as much as a fucking baby elephant.”
Ceithin stopped trying to grab the top of the wall to look down at a struggling Noel. “You’re the one who won’t let me stand on your shoulders.”
“You’re not ruining it any more than you already have. This is Abercrombie and Fitch and it cost me a ridiculous amount of dosh.”
“Well it just goes to show that money doesn’t buy looks, now shut up and push.” Ceithin turned and lifted his arms, trying to reach for the top of the wall and just grazing it. “I just need a grip on the ledge.” He was starting to get frustrated and it was showing in his voice. “This isn’t working, we just haven’t planned properly for this; maybe we really should pack it in for tonight and come back tomorrow.”
Noel readjusted himself slightly, widening his stance, a new spirit of determination filling him at the thought that leaving would mean they’d failed at the first hurdle. “Turn back around and hold on.” With an over exaggerated puff, he managed to stand, lifting Ceithin high enough for him to grab on to the wall and climb on top.
At first it was a bit of a struggle, but once Ceithin managed to swing his leg over the foot-wide the wall, sitting up and balancing was easy.
Both men took a few moments to recollect their breaths. When Noel eventually looked up at Ceithin, it was to find him looking like he was actually straddling the zoo itself, one leg in, one leg out and wearing a massive smile of achievement of his face. Noel almost didn’t want to burst his bubble. “How am I supposed to get up there?”
Instead of deflating, Ceithin couldn’t help letting out a chuckle. “I don’t know, free running?”
Instead of laughing with him, Noel looked impressed. “We could try that.” He said as his mind tried to calculate how he could do it. It was simple physics really -from playing rugby he knew he could jump quite high as long as he had a decent run-up, and with Ceithin’s strength, it wouldn’t be too much of a problem to climb the rest of the way. Provided he did it quick enough, of course.
Before Ceithin could tell him that it was a really, really stupid idea, he had stepped away and looked like he was readying himself for a sprint.
“This is going to end in a trip to the A and E, I can tell.” Ceithin commented quietly, but doing so loud enough to ensure that Noel heard it as well.
It did nothing to dissuade him from his plan. “Just be ready to catch my hands and pull me up. Three, two, one!” With those sparse instructions Noel began charging towards the wall at full speed.
Ceithin noticed that his footsteps were heavy and clumsy as he ran, debating if Noel was actually going to manage the jump at all or if he was going to end up knocking himself unconscious. It seemed that Noel had the exact same fear since he jumped a little too soon, with his foot landing flat against the wall and not nearly as high as he had intended. It had the effect of actually bouncing him away instead of projecting him upwards so that he couldn’t even get his second foot into position. He reached out as he began to fall, his back parallel to the ground and on instinct Ceithin grabbed him -but Noel’s downward force was too strong and Ceithin didn’t have a secure enough position to hold on without falling off of the wall himself, so he did the only thing any reasonable person would do in his situation.
He let go.
It wasn’t a long drop by any means, three, possibly four feet at the most with the ground being soft, wet mud and grass. Noel had certainly taken much harder falls, from higher heights, onto tougher grounds and had gotten up without any incident in the past.
“Sorry, mate.” Ceithin said, a small amused smile playing on his lips.
“You dropped me.” Noel was wearing a shocked expression from his position on the floor. “You fucking dropped me.”
At first Ceithin thought it was all very funny but to his surprise, Noel’s look of disbelief seemed to be serious. He frowned. “I had to.” He said in defence of his actions.
“No you fucking didn’t.” Noel was starting to sound hostile.
“I would have fallen otherwise,” He tried to explain, not really understanding how this was suddenly such a big deal, after all, Noel had practically done the same to him three times earlier that evening, “And I’m higher up than you are.”
Noel sat up and rubbed the muck from the back of his jeans, giving up when it just made his hands muddy. He looked at Ceithin, deliberately using the impact of his eyes to stare hard at him. “So?”
Ceithin tried to dismiss the whole thing as nonsense. “What do you mean ‘so’? I was supposed to fall? That’s just stupid.” Even with his flippant attitude, he was still somewhat unsettled, Noel knew very well about the effect he had on people when he stared at them in the way he was. They’d even given it a name, well, Jared had: quoting Toy Story he’d called them Noel’s ‘angry eyes’, and more often than not they worked. “Stop looking at me like that.”
To his relief Noel did stop, shaking his head with disappointment instead. “Where’s your sense of loyalty?” He asked. “Where’s the strengthening of friendship through common suffering?”
If Ceithin were in range of Noel’s arm he would have made it a dead one, settling instead for another roll of his eyes. “Dropping you when I knew you wouldn’t be hurt does not mean I’m not a good friend. It just means I’m sensible. Now let’s try this again.” He said, hoping to move on.
“No.”
“What?”
Noel stood back and crossed his arms. “No. The trust is gone. That’s it.”
Ceithin did his best not to sigh. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have let you fall.”
“Not good enough.”
“Are you being serious?”
Instead of answering Noel simply walked towards Ceithin’s leg.
And pulled.
Only after Ceithin landed on the ground -flapping his arms like a chicken for balance on his trip down- and then looked up with as much shock and utter confoundedness as Noel had when he had fallen did he explain. “Now we’re even.”
Ceithin gave him a dead leg since he was now in range and called him several colourful names. “We’re doing this again.” He stated as he tried to wipe the dirt and grass from the back of his head. “And this time I’m standing on your shoulders.”
After another completely failed attempt, and then a third where Noel managed to face plant himself in mud, they somehow both managed to make it to the top of the wall, panting heavily but also extremely pleased with themselves that they had actually succeeded.
“Right, phase one over. Where are these penguins?”
Ceithin squinted as he tried to see through the darkness. “If I remember correctly they should be… no, hold on, I think… I’m not sure but-”
“Hurry the fuck up, sitting on this wall is not comfortable.” As usual, Noel’s level of patience was about equal to or actually less than a vampire-obsessed teen girl waiting for the new Twilight to come out.
“Hold on, I’m trying to remember. Last time I came to this zoo I was ten.”
Not being used to having to wait for anything that he wanted Noel pulled out his phone and started tapping on it. A few seconds later he shoved it triumphantly into Ceithin’s face, the brightness of the phone blinding Ceithin for a few seconds after he had tried so hard to adjust to the darkness within the zoo.
“Here’s a map.” Noel stated, halting any kind of protest his penguin-stealing partner was going to utter.
Ceithin took it and pulled it away so his eyes could actually focus on the screen image. After a few moments of memorising it and getting his bearings he handed it back. “Good shout, mate.” He said, which was as close as Noel got to a ‘thank you’. “Let’s go.” Ceithin jumped down, landing with about as much poise and stealth as a drunken ninja trained by donkeys. Noel soon joined him, creating more noise than should have been possible in such a situation.
Out of fear of getting caught, they stayed where they were for a few minutes under the semi-cover of a few bushes, plants and the young sapling which Ceithin had planned to use as their escape route. Looking at it properly since they didn’t have much else to do while they were being cautious and unmoving, Noel concluded that that plan had truly been bullshit and did his best in hoping that Ceithin came up with an alternative before the time came for their departure. They stood plastered against the wall, listening and waiting intently for any signs of security, but none seemed to come.
“I don’t think anyone’s heard us.” Noel whispered eventually, daring to walk a few paces in the dark to check if he could see anything further up. “I don’t think anyone’s even here.”
As if in response, a low and threatening growling sound came from further in.
“The animals definitely are.” Ceithin muttered before joining Noel and deciding to venture out slowly.
“They’re in cages. Stop being such a pussy.” Noel let out a small laugh. “I wonder if there’s a joke in there somewhere. Because, you know, I called you a pussy because a big cat growled…” He tried to think of a decent one, giving up after a few seconds since, during this escapade, his creative side had taken a backseat in favour of his drunken criminal one. “Never mind.”
Part 2 is HERE