“Just remembered this inside joke.”
Drake tilts his head with a smirk.
“Inside joke, huh?” he asks.
“You gonna let me in?”
I can hear the sweat sliding down Celie’s neck.
I rush to type:inside jokes for exes who might still love you but think you’re insane and you’re high right now—pls help,
but even Google taps out.
“Hoodrat,” I whisper, "an inside joke meansyou twoare the only ones inside it.”
She whimpers, pitiful.
I scramble, “If you don’t have one, make it up.
“Say something dumb.
“Say it with your whole chest.”
She clears her throat.
“Um…
“What did the fish say when it swam into a wall?”
Drake waits for the punchline,
then says, “I don’t know, Celie.”
A heavy, world-ending pause.
Then—
“Dam.”
She says it straight-faced.
Fully committed.
Then silence.
The kind that eats sound.
Even Two-winged Tony seems disappointed.
Drake sighs loud.
“I think we should call it a night.”
Her voice crashes through the earpiece,
shaking with panic.
“I’m sorry, Drake. I’m mad high, tired, and...
