He commented on her disposition. She felt the paternalism in his thought and kneed him in the groin. And he hallucinated his own happiness.

I wanted to tell her how I felt but my shyness got the better of me. I got a t-shirt made and wore it to our date. Do you have gum? it said.

He waits for her to get dressed. Her hair. Her make-up. There is no one to impress anymore, he complains. Everything is marketing, she says.

She ran into the tent and woke him and said, I was peeing and saw a badger! and he said, Not now, and he rolled over, and ignored her again.