"Yeah. See, I never went on vacations as a kid. It wasn't my mom's fault - money was tight, and all that. So staying in a hotel was the closest thing to Disneyland I could get... and a haunted one seemed more exciting than a regular one." He shrugged, fighting the urge to blush. He was well aware of the fact that most normal kids did... well, other things with their time.
Cole doubted that any of those women had ever read Voltaire, and probably never would. "Shirley Jackson? The Haunting of Hill House definitely got to me when I read it... oh, and we read The Lottery in my class. She's brilliant - and at least you'd be honest. I bet half of those women have no idea who Voltaire is or what he wrote about." He returned her grin, some of the awkwardness he'd previously felt disappearing.