“Well. You sure showed him.” She raised her hand and grabbed something imaginary. “Toot, toot.” “What are you doing?” “All aboard for the train of bad decisions.” She tugged what I now realized was a chain again. “Toot, toot.” “It was just this once,” I said, trying really hard to believe it. Maybe if I said it enough, it would be true. “Now I know what it was like, the question was answered, and I’m done. It’s out of my system.

