kissthatgoodbye: (I don't do that anymore)
Alec McDowell ([personal profile] kissthatgoodbye) wrote in [personal profile] contagio 2014-11-11 02:43 am (UTC)

I wasn't paying attention.

[Which is the truth; he didn't need to, he's been loading this type of weapon since the stock of it was almost too big for his hands, but that's the trick. Pick and choose what pieces of a lie, of a truth, to tell so that the words that actually come out are believable.

He turns it over in his hands, frowning at it, careless with where the muzzle is aiming only because he knows for a fact that it's empty. Even the chamber.

He doesn't know what kindergarten teachers do, either, but he can figure it out from the context and her tone.
]

Show me on yours, then.

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