Drabble #2 - "Middle"
"I'm home." Why, yes you are. No need to announce it, I can hear your footsteps. Light and quick: no one walks like you, Tohma.
I stub out my cigarette.
"You did not answer your cell." What a smile.
"I aim to please." I want to light another but you take it away.
"Your editor nearly got fired for keeping your contract."
"But thanks to you, she didn't, I'm sure." I take out another one. "I still refuse to change a thing. Nothing. Even the mispellings."
"Even the pen name?" You smile as I light it. "Ah, I suppose not."