This isn't how it was supposed to go. Absolutely no part of this is how it was supposed to go.
"She's..." Tim got around it, somehow. Evading the question doesn't count as a lie, it seems like, and Jay stutters as he tries to put together a sentence that will work. "She's...a guy I knew's girlfriend's...roommate."
He shoots Tim a glare. "And I 'think you know' because--" Dammit. "--I don't think you'd put that much effort into hiding it if..." He can't say what happened on the tape, not in front of Georgia. "...if the easy answer was all that happened."
But that's not enough, and more comes spilling out unbidden. He shouldn't have started the sentence the way he did.
"And if you don't know, that means the answer's not in Wonderland, and I don't want to..." He can't get out of this one. "I don't want to die again not knowing."
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"She's..." Tim got around it, somehow. Evading the question doesn't count as a lie, it seems like, and Jay stutters as he tries to put together a sentence that will work. "She's...a guy I knew's girlfriend's...roommate."
He shoots Tim a glare. "And I 'think you know' because--" Dammit. "--I don't think you'd put that much effort into hiding it if..." He can't say what happened on the tape, not in front of Georgia. "...if the easy answer was all that happened."
But that's not enough, and more comes spilling out unbidden. He shouldn't have started the sentence the way he did.
"And if you don't know, that means the answer's not in Wonderland, and I don't want to..." He can't get out of this one. "I don't want to die again not knowing."