Dinner with the family is a thing in this household. Hal can freely avoid his parents at other meals, and invariably does, but his presence at dinner is required. So dressing up and going downstairs in the evenings is an unremarkable event.
Usually, though, he's back in less than an hour. Today it's more like three. And while he's been known to head straight for his room after dinner and not come out for a while, today he doesn't even make it that far. He comes into the little front room and shuts the hall door behind him and then can't manage the minimal coordination necessary to detour around the couch that is in his way. Instead he collapses across it, sobbing into his hands and bleeding through the back of his shirt.
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Dinner with the family is a thing in this household. Hal can freely avoid his parents at other meals, and invariably does, but his presence at dinner is required. So dressing up and going downstairs in the evenings is an unremarkable event.
Usually, though, he's back in less than an hour. Today it's more like three. And while he's been known to head straight for his room after dinner and not come out for a while, today he doesn't even make it that far. He comes into the little front room and shuts the hall door behind him and then can't manage the minimal coordination necessary to detour around the couch that is in his way. Instead he collapses across it, sobbing into his hands and bleeding through the back of his shirt.