“ i did get spiderwebs in my hair . ”
MORE RANDOM BUZZFEED UNSOLVED STARTERS.(always accepting)
Ford had been insistent that an abandoned house on the far end of town was haunted, and Adam had been insistent on quite the opposite. Naturally, the only fair thing was to go in and poke around themselves to prove it one way or another, but, after a few hours of prowling around and finding only a colony of bats and having some near misses with some rotten floorboards-- Adam still couldn’t quite believe he hadn’t fallen through entirely-- they had decided to leave.
“I told ya it wasn’t haunted, Ford.” He breaks the silence, lighthearted and gentle. “When are you gonna learn to listen ‘a me once in a while? Sorry you didn’t get t’see your ghost, though. But hey, maybe we’ll run into Bigfoot on the way home, right? Sometimes he comes over this way.” While other people would say that as a mean joke to rub it in, Adam actually means it, and his eyes are warm with sincerity. He’s been wanting to introduce Ford to Bigfoot, and yes, he does realize how crazy that sounds, but, he thinks they’d get along.
“Ya sure did, didn’tcha?” Adam says, not being able to resist the smile that comes to his face when he sees exactly how ridiculous the poor scientist looks with the cobwebs strewn all around his curls. “That’s whatcha get for draggin’ us in there,” he teases good-naturedly, “surprised I don’t have a bat in my backpack or a mouse in my shoe or somethin’, huh. C’mere and let’s see about gettin’ you cleaned up.” He stops, turning to face Stanford directly, and waits for the other to step forward so that he can comb out the offending material.
