"It's like in the great stories... The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why."
aldiara on May 15th, 2011 07:27 pm (UTC) Innovation
"You want to do what?"
Mike stares at Stella like she's the total twit he thinks she is.
"Flaming torches. In my program. It'll be fantastic! At the circus, we…"
No one should ever start a sentence with those words. Mike waves her away. "Whatever, fine. I don't give a shit."
Two hours and fourteen pairs of torches later, though, his hangover is forgotten. The ice rink has become a half-melted mess covered in soggy torches and scorch marks. Stella looks like a bedraggled, drowned, burned, mortified, bruised rat, and Mike has everything on video.
spaghettitoes on May 15th, 2011 07:52 pm (UTC) Re: Innovation
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh I love it! I love that Stella didn't think it through, that she couldn't even get close to making it work and Mike, for taping each and every minute of it. And the image at the end - GOLD!