"Can you do me a favor?" I asked after a second of hesitation.
He was suddenly wary. "That depends on what you want." "It's not much," I assured him.
He waited, guarded but curious.
"I just wondered… if you could warn me beforehand the next time you decide to ignore me for my own good. Just so I'm prepared." I looked at the lemonade bottle as I spoke, tracing the circle of the opening with my pinkie finger.
"That sounds fair." He was pressing his lips together to keep from laughing when I looked up.
"Thanks." "Then can I have one answer in return?" he demanded.
"One." "Tell me one theory." Whoops. "Not that one."
"You didn't qualify, you just promised one answer," he reminded me.
"And you've broken promises yourself," I reminded him back.
"Just one theory — I won't laugh."
"Yes, you will." I was positive about that.
He looked down, and then glanced up at me through his long black lashes, his ocher eyes scorching.
"Please?" he breathed, leaning toward me.
I blinked, my mind going blank. Holy crow, how did he do that?
"Er, what?" I asked, dazed.
"Please tell me just one little theory." His eyes still smoldered at me.
"Um, well, bitten by a radioactive spider?" Was he a hypnotist, too? Or was I just a hopeless pushover?
"That's not very creative," he scoffed.
"I'm sorry, that's all I've got," I said, miffed.
"You're not even close," he teased.
"No spiders?" "Nope." "And no radioactivity?"
"None." "Dang," I sighed.
Pinkie 小手指
Hypnotist 催眠師
Pushover 容易征服或控制的人
“你能幫我個忙嗎？”我遲疑了片刻，問道。
他忽然小心起來：“那得看情況，得看你想要什麼。”
“不會太過分的。”我向他保證。
他既警惕又好奇地等待著。
“我只是想知道……下次你為了我好而決定不理會我之前，能不能先給我提個醒。我好有所準備。”我一邊說著，一邊埋頭看著手裡檸檬水瓶子，試驗著要轉多少圈才能用我的小指把瓶蓋打開。
“聽著還算合理。”我抬起頭，發覺他正用力抿緊唇，以免讓自己笑出來。
“非常感謝。”
“那麼，作為回報我要索取一個回答咯？”他要求道。
“就一個。”
“告訴我你的一個理論。”
嗚哇。“換一個。”
“你沒限定我不能問什麼，你剛剛承諾過的，要給我一個回答。”他提醒我。
“同樣，你也違背了你的承諾。”我反將一軍。
“就一個理論——我不會笑的。”
“不，你會的。”我對此相當肯定。
他垂下頭，然後抬起眼，透過他又長又黑的睫毛盯著我。他黑金色的眼睛發出灼熱的光芒。
“好嗎？”他側向我，低語道。（breath，好詞。。。撞牆。。。）
我眨了眨眼，腦子裡一片空白。幹得好，他是怎麼做到的？（holy crow，再次撞牆中。。。）
“呃，什麼？”我暈乎乎地問道。
“告訴我吧，就說一個小小的理論。”他的眼神依然左右著我。（smoldered at me，繼續撞。。。）
“嗯，好吧，被一隻帶放射性的蜘蛛咬了一口？”或許他還是個催眠師？又或者，我剛好是那種可悲的容易被擺佈的傢伙？
“你甚至根本沒沾邊。”他揶揄道。
“不是蜘蛛？”
“不是。”
“跟放射性無關？”
“毫無關係。”
“靠。”我嘆了口氣。
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