[Daniel has a flat of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups under his bed. He's Completely Understands.]
"Uh, Mechanical Engineering." [He scratches the back of his head.] Definitely not the girls, nope. Surprise Mom and Dad. ...When he gets up the nerve to have that conversation.
"Oh hey, cool! A friend of mine had a whole class on fairy tales." Which had been kind of awkward, because 'Oh, by the way, my big sister got kidnapped by the Queen of the Winter fairies once, and one of said-Queen's big bads cornered me in a treehouse and I woke up screaming for months and still have nightmares about it when I'm stressed' was ...another conversation he didn't want to have. "There's some seriously grisly stuff in those!"
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"Uh, Mechanical Engineering." [He scratches the back of his head.] Definitely not the girls, nope. Surprise Mom and Dad. ...When he gets up the nerve to have that conversation.
"Oh hey, cool! A friend of mine had a whole class on fairy tales." Which had been kind of awkward, because 'Oh, by the way, my big sister got kidnapped by the Queen of the Winter fairies once, and one of said-Queen's big bads cornered me in a treehouse and I woke up screaming for months and still have nightmares about it when I'm stressed' was ...another conversation he didn't want to have. "There's some seriously grisly stuff in those!"
Oh. Shit.
"...They're not all REAL are they?"