“Thank
you so much,” Mary said. She’d
already noticed, or at least had heard him and had assumed it was Neil rather than
a home invader. She turned around, “Did you hear… everything?”
“Yeah,” Neil said, “It’s… fine.”
“Fine?” Mary asked, “Are you ok?”
“Why wouldn’t I be?” Neil asked.
“Weren’t you like, into me?” Mary
asked, “Aren’t you, I mean?”
“Maybe, but,” he said, “I can handle
it?”
“Why say it like it’s a question?”
Hana said, “Say it like a statement.”
“Hana could you go to the other
room,” Mary said, turning to face Hana. Hana threw up her hands and walked back
into the living room.
“I gotta pee,” Neil said, “Is it ok
if I go in the woods?”
“Do you want me to leave you alone for
a second?” Mary asked.
“I just gotta pee,” Neil said.
“You just went to the bathroom.”
“I gotta pee again because that is how I get when I’ve been drinking, I have to
pee all the time, and anyway I’m just going to go now and pee outside because I
feel like doing it. Ok?”
Mary wasn’t sure if Neil sounded
irritated or tired. She nodded, “Fine, if that’s where you gotta pee I guess
you gotta pee outside.”
“I’ll come back inside or whatever
when I’m done peeing ok?”
“Pee to your heart’s content,” Mary
said.
Neil stormed out.
Mary felt a little confused. She
stood in the kitchen long enough for her to realize she hadn’t been doing
anything for awhile.
Hana walked back in, “Are you ok?”
“I feel like tonight wasn’t a good
night to tell him…” Mary said, “I feel like I should have waited awhile to make
sure he wasn’t like, emotionally traumatized from getting beaten up. Should I
feel sorry or worried or whatever?”
“That’s up to you,” Hana said, “I
don’t know. But, he’s been gone awhile. Maybe we should check up on him. I
mean, if you don’t think that’s weird, to go outside when he might be peeing.
Maybe he got lost? That isn’t a joke, I mean, because he’s drunk. Maybe he
thought he saw something.”
“He’s headed for the tunnel, isn’t
he?” Mary asked. She walked out, headed through the dining room too quickly for
it to be described in any detail, and out the back door.
Hana followed closely behind, “The what?”
She’d asked that immediately after Mary had said it, but she asked it again now
that they were outside.
“Dani and I found a tunnel,” Mary said, “It
was miles long on the inside, but more miles on the outside.”
“That doesn’t even make… the least,
littlest, at all, not really any, kind of sense, but ok,” Hana said.
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