[Heather grins like a fiend and pulls one of the blankets over her shoulders as he starts. This is the story that gave her nightmares as a little kid when she snuck a copy of that particular anthology out of the bookshelf in her father's room... and naturally, like most things that scare us as kids, now she looks back on it with fond nostalgia.]
[When he's finished, she turns to the rest of the group with a serious nod.]
That story?
Made me turn down every single neighbor who ever tried to get me to babysit for them when I was in high-school.
[... NOT... THAT THERE HAD BEEN MANY. Mostly folks from the church trying to reach out to those shy quiet people in the Daisy Villa apartment who didn't get out much.]
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[When he's finished, she turns to the rest of the group with a serious nod.]
That story?
Made me turn down every single neighbor who ever tried to get me to babysit for them when I was in high-school.
[... NOT... THAT THERE HAD BEEN MANY. Mostly folks from the church trying to reach out to those shy quiet people in the Daisy Villa apartment who didn't get out much.]