fifteen | Your friendly neighborhood paperboy does whatever a paperboy can

[strike_you_out]

[ Mayfield has a new paperboy. One who would much rather beat you to death with your own newspaper than deliver it to you. And above all, he would personally like to bludgeon whomever is in charge of these ridiculous job assignments.]

[Phone | Unfiltered ]

I don't want to be a paperboy.

But if Mayfield wants its newspapers, then Mayfield will get

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[hungry_monster]

[Johan is at his desk. ..who sleeps in a bed anyway? But being stared at is enough to wake someone up. He rubs his forehead and looks over.]

Hello Slugger, is there something I can help you with?

[Nothing really phases him.]

[strike_you_out]

[Slugger is surprised to find you asleep at all, Johan. Until now he couldn't imagine you being one to ever give in to sleep. He grins and takes a newspaper from the bag at his shoulder.]

So this is where you live.

[hungry_monster]

[Even monsters have to sleep Slugger.]

Yes. This is it.

[strike_you_out]

Mayfield chose me to deliver its news...

[He drops the paper onto Johan's desk. It's dirty and a bit charred, but still readable.]

I think it was a mistake.

[hungry_monster]

[An amused smile.]

Yes well my sister would say it was a mistake for them to let me teach children. I suppose the town never takes things like that into consideration when assigning jobs.

[strike_you_out]

Is she a monster, too?

[hungry_monster]

No.

She's my other half.

[strike_you_out]

[But you look whole to him. Oh.]

...She knows what you are?

[hungry_monster]

Better then anyone else.

[strike_you_out]

And she doesn't mind...?

[hungry_monster]

Oh she minds very much.

She was trying to kill me until very recently.

[strike_you_out]

[Slugger has pulled up a chair from somewhere and is now seated, because Johan's stories are the best.]

What made her stop?

[hungry_monster]

We both learned a great deal about our past.

[strike_you_out]

[He'll sit and silently watch Johan either until he continues or until he decides to shoo him away.]

...

[hungry_monster]

[Nope, that's all you're going to get. However he also won't shoo you out. So stalemate.]

[strike_you_out]

[He'd stick around and have a staring match with his favorite teacher but he's got to run (and annoy other members of the household). Slugger is curious to see who shares a house with Johan.]