"Wait, don't leave us!" Dan cried. Amy rolled her eyes.
"That's a really terrible joke, Dan," she said as she finished tying up the bag. "Raking leaves does not give you a reason to make every leaf-related pun you can think of."
"Stop loafing around," Ian snapped. Dan sat up.
"Huh? What does bread have to do with anything?"
"Hey, Sinead, what came first? The chicken or the egg?" Madison asked.
Not bother to look up from the computer shew as hunched over, Sinead replied, "Eggs were laid for years by creatures predating chickens, so they obviously came first."
"I told you," Hamilton said. "She knows everything."
"What was A-Rod's batting average in 2002?"
"... Almost everything."
Jonah, Jonah, Jonah, the crowds chant.
He doesn't care.
It feels terrible – for one dark, empty moment.
And then Casper Wyoming (and not Casper, Wyoming) is someone.
It's like a never-relenting monster, always demanding, demanding, demanding, and she can never fill this voracious appetite, it will never let her be.
"Honestly, boy," she snapped at Dan, "can you go for five minutes without bothering me for yet another piece of junk food?"
"Why do you like the show, anyway?" he asked. "I thought you preferred books." Amy looked away.
"I do. Usually, I hate television, but sometimes there are exceptions in what people like and don't like. You don't always need a reason to like something, Ian, even if it has flaws that you think mean you shouldn't give it any attention. Sometimes, there's something good that you just can't put your finger on."
It was hard to argue with that.
A/N: These is just some random stuff I jotted down for fun, mostly done about a year ago, and I just published it because I'm having difficulty focusing on my homeowrk and I wanted to feel like I was being productive. As I said, it was for fun, not to improve my writing, so it's probably kind of rough. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me or ask in a review.
Also, I know there are a few people waiting for a "Father's Day" update, and I opened up a document to write it. Naturally, out came an Amian drabble, the rough outline and beginning of a new story that's both a multi-chapter and crossover when I've never written either before, and half of a conversation between Jake and Evan that in no way can be used in "Father's Day." But I'm working on it, I promise.
Quote of the Day: "Jonah waved his hands dismissively. 'But today, I'm the good guy. You gotta see that, Amy.'
Dan snorted. 'Because you make gangster pop-up books?'"
'Exactly!'"
- The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan