[Ed's vocal cords briefly overtake his brain.] Well...
[It is a ready-made excuse, and plausible as far as he knows for now, but if he just shoots his mouth off without having been around for every single conversation Al might have had about it, the lie's going to be really obvious.
...But nobody's going to care that much about just a couple of teens in all of this crowd.
...But it's never a good idea to underestimate how obnoxious a kid can be. That's something he knows from experience, even if it was mostly from the other side of the fence... which he couldn't see over at the time, and...
He snaps back to the argument at hand with a small strangled noise. Oh, screw this.]
No, he didn't, because he isn't one. It's a hobby, like I said. And I should know.
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[It is a ready-made excuse, and plausible as far as he knows for now, but if he just shoots his mouth off without having been around for every single conversation Al might have had about it, the lie's going to be really obvious.
...But nobody's going to care that much about just a couple of teens in all of this crowd.
...But it's never a good idea to underestimate how obnoxious a kid can be. That's something he knows from experience, even if it was mostly from the other side of the fence... which he couldn't see over at the time, and...
He snaps back to the argument at hand with a small strangled noise. Oh, screw this.]
No, he didn't, because he isn't one. It's a hobby, like I said. And I should know.