and I saw a guy selling these when I was going for my bus. I thought it might cheer you up.”
I saw what he was holding and I laughed, an unexpected burst of feeling, unfamiliar.
He passed me the ribbon, and the balloon soared toward my low ceiling, then bobbed against it as though it was trying to escape.
“What is it supposed to be?” I said. “Is it... is it cheese?”
I had never been given a helium balloon before, and certainly not one this odd-looking.
“It’s SpongeBob, Eleanor,” he said, speaking very slowly and clearly as though I were some sort of idiot.
“SpongeBob SquarePants?” A semi-human bath sponge with protruding front teeth!
On sale as if it were something completely unremarkable!
For my entire life, people have said that I’m strange, but really, when I see things like this, I realize that I’m actually relatively normal.
I made tea for us. Raymond had put his feet up on the coffee table.
I was considering asking him to remove them, but then the thought came to me that he must feel at home in my house,
comfortable enough to relax here and make full use of the furniture. The idea was actually rather pleasing.
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