Chapter 14 Just Play Along

• Have you ever felt like the world should just end? Like, this rapture and end times we were being told about at Sunday school should just happen so that you could avoid a potential embarrassment? Or wished that World War 3 should kick off so that you necessarily wouldn't need to live your life as it was before the war? Just so you can avoid embarrassment? Yeah. I felt that way a million times over. I pleaded with the heavens to send fire and brimstone like it did in the days of Lot, or at least to turn us all into salt — Lot's wife became my role model overnight.
• I just didn't know what to say or do. My hands were still around his neck as he kept blinking questionably at me. "Think, think you idiot. How can we escape this situation?" I asked that silly devil inside me, but he was probably also embarrassed that he had to disappear — at least he could disappear. "Oh no, what should I do now?" I shouted at it this time, just to make sure that he wasn't really in my head again, and no reply came — great, no one is ever really around when you need them the most.
• Within a space of ten seconds, my mind had analyzed every probability and certain next of action that I could get myself into, together with the one thousand possible reactions I could get from the stunning secretary for each of the next line of action. It was definitely like running a simultaneous equation with trigonometric functions, and at the same time solving an ordinary differential equation with integral functions before quantifying everything with a six-by-six matrix formula — I never knew such a mathematical problem was solvable, not until that particular moment.