039. THE WORLD MIGHT END AGAIN
"hide my head, i want to drown my sorrow"
-mad world, tears for fears
˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ The next morning, Kat, Steve, and Robin were at work, trying to find movie to play.Kat and Steve were restocking the shelves, and Robin was retelling the story of Vickie laughing at Steve's Muppet joke.
"And then Vickie laughed. And it wasn't, like, a cheap, fake laugh either. It was like...It was a real, genuine laugh," she said, following the two around the aisles.
Steve handed a few VHSes to Kat. "Of course she laughed. It's my Muppet joke. It's hilarious."
Kat nodded in agreement. "I think you might be reading too much into it."
"But she laughed!" Robin repeated, still holding onto her hope. "Everything was just like...perfect!"
"But?" Steve prompted, knowing there was a but coming.
"But I'm having this problem where it's like, I should stop talking. I have said everything I need to say. But then I guess I get nervous, and the words keep spilling out, and it's like my—my brain is moving faster than my mouth, or rather my mouth is moving faster than my brain. It's just like I'm digging this hole for myself, and I want to stop digging, I'm trying to stop digging, but I can't stop digging, and—"
Kat turned around to face Robin. "You're doing it right now, Robin," she said, grabbing her shoulder.
Robin sighed, covering her face with her hands and leaning her back against the wall. "I'm hopeless," she groaned.
As Robin and Steve started talking about combining their personalities, Kat went through the aisles to find a morning movie for the day.
As usual, she gravitated towards the drama movies. Baal, Witness, Suburbia, Terms of Endearment. Kat picked up the Terms of Endearment box, reading the back as she walked over to Robin and Steve. "Hey, what about this one for the morning?" she asked, holding up the box.
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