Stockholm Syndrome [01] - Stockholm Syndrome - Plot & Excerpts
Lindsay kisses his mum goodnight and goes into the kitchen to make nightcaps with the sound of her footsteps on the stairs thudding gently somewhere above his head. When he carries the glasses back into the living room, he finds Valentine lying on the carpet with his head and the top half of his body under the Christmas tree, nestled in between the brightly-wrapped presents. Lindsay wonders why nobody in his family is normal, and then he realises he's thinking of Valentine as his family now and sits down on the middle sofa cushion, surprised and feeling weird. He drinks his whiskey. He can smell church incense, still clinging to his sleeve like a faint whisper of unwanted rituals. " What are you doing?" "Stargazing." "I'm drinking your drink if you don't come out." "Drink it, I ain't thirsty." He drinks it. The ice cubes clink gently against each other and the bottom of the glass. "Explain stargazing." 186 S T O C K H O L M S Y N D R O M E "It's when you gaze at stars, Lindsay." "I ain't dim." The shoddy impression makes the kid laugh.
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