[Oliver developed punctuality as a necessity learned. Down to the minute, cut the wires, and the power is off for fifteen seconds. He had a pretty good grasp of time, even with his irregular sleep schedule. He was never late for work, although never particularly early either. But that was then, and this was now, and his head was kind of messed up after that woman freaking offed herself in Sonrisa. Maybe this is what they called depression or whatever, because he felt disconnected from the world. If there was gravity, he couldn't tell. His feet and his head felt weird, light. He didn't like it, but he didn't hate it either, and as a whole he felt kind of meh on the night that he set out for the diner where he was supposed to meet Billy the muse. It seemed like a good idea because he wanted something nice to focus on, someone to push that horrible suicide scene from his mind.
Oliver was going to take a few days off from Sonrisa. The thought of going back there just yet made him cringe and feel sick in his stomach and his head. He really didn't want to think about Sonrisa or the dead woman at all, and it seemed like the only thing that he could think about when he was alone at the big house in the woods. A walk would do him good, he thought, as the walk to the diner was nice and long. Summer was beginning to prickle during the day, but the night still had a bite to it. The pants were mustard, and he had on a dark blue sweatshirt from some college. In white letters, the front said TSU, but Oliver had gotten it at a secondhand store, and he didn't know what the T stood for. He just liked the color. It matched his homemade Van Gogh hightops.
Smoking was something that Oliver did mostly when his brother wasn't around, but he hadn't invested in a pack in a while, and he was surprised to discover that it was something he didn't particularly miss. It helped that trying to buy them was difficult to do without a driver's license, of which he had none.
He recognized Billy from across the parking lot, all he really had to do was follow the smoke.]
Hey. [He didn't seem surprised at all that the guy had actually shown up.]