It took Derek a moment to realize why she was crying. Maybe her boyfriend didn't like pink hair and had broken up with her? Maybe she was crying because he'd told her it looked whack? The truth was, Derek had never actually been hurt badly enough for physical pain to make him cry, except maybe when he was a little kid in Jersey. But with the memory of a squid, Derek only thought that she was upset about her appearance. God, he sure was! "Don't worry. We'll find a way to give you a makeover, soon. You'll be totally hot then, and then you won't have to cry anymore, because being really really ridiculously good-looking solves most of life's major problems."
He did a double take. "A bird? Well... one time I did a shot with a flock of canaries for Prada. But it's hard to carry a bird, and I wasn't supposed to touch them because they aren't as clean as airbrushing makes them look."