for @malprops.
he’s been waiting for neil to come home. as soon as he sees his car pull up outside, david is out of his house like a shot, slamming the door so hard behind him that other people start twitching their curtains to see what’s going on. obnoxious as ever, he knocks on his neighbour’s car window until he rolls it down.
“jane-marie’s a good, god-fearing girl. she doesn’t need’ta be influenced by the likes of you,” he says. david hopes that neil catches his meaning there, because he doesn’t want to have to say the word for himself.









