Penn That left a not so nice lump in my stomach, but I didn't say anything. He waited until we got back on the gravel path before speaking again.
"My name is Harvey." "Oh are you serious?" Harvey tilted his head and studied me, as if I just spoke another language.
"Should I not be?" Yeah, this was going to go nowhere fast, so I gave up on the clever moniker of my new...my new. What was he exactly?
Thinking about all the things that were shoved down my throat as I child, I figured he was here to take me to the other side or something.
"Don't we have a boat to catch?" "Not exactly." As if he had someplace to be, Harvey started up the trail.
"Hey! Where are you going?" "Well,there is paper work to fill out, orientation, and apperance fitting" Harvey started walking backwards.
He was ticking off each thing on his fingers, left rabbit ear twitching. I saw it that time, I even pointed. "Ha! They are real."
"Merely decoration, I can't even hear out of them." "But why?" "Cat ears are very overdone in the business."
I opened my mouth to reply, but was distracted by a jogger coming up the trail towards us. I broke away from Harvey. "Hey! Hey go look..."
"She can't hear you." I ignored him. "in the koi pond! There is a..." "Emily, she can't hear you." This time he used my name.
