“So, who’s the guy?”
“Girl, Mikey. Girl.”
“The broad, then.”
“She’s only eight. Jeez!”
“Well, I can’t see. Someone’s bright, pulsing keister’s in front of me! Ya mind turnin’ it down a bit, Eve?”
“Right, right. Just give me a billion more years.”
*Sigh*
“She wants a pony. That’s it. Just a pony, is all.”
“Ha! Ha! Well, go on, Mrs. I’m-so-much-older than you.”
“Funny.”
“That’s what you get, ya know.”
“What?”
“Ya don’t know? You really don’t know what I’m talkin’ about?”
“Well, Mikey; you gonna sit there, smug as eternity -or, ya gonna tell me?”
“It was cuz of that night, Eve.”
“Jeez, Mikey, which night? It’s not like we’ve had a few million up here.”
“That one a few thousand back. When you tried that helium. You don’t remember? You don’t remember -what happened?”
…..
“See? This is why I didn’t wanna tell ya. Now, you’re blushin’. Just like that night.”
“I didn’t blush, Mikey.”
“Yeah, well, that’s what happened and then you-”
“Mikey!”
“Right, right. Somethin’ happened that we’re not sayin’ and I’m sayin’ that’s why we’re hearing a wish.”
“You think, ’cause part of me lit up that she wants a pony?”
“Yeah. And, I think we’re going to hear more about it before tonight’s done. Your little light show took awhile to get to them.”
“Gee, thanks, Mikey.”
“Hey, you asked. I didn’t ask. I’m just floatin’, here. If you don’t wanna hear some hundred wishes a night, just wait till you run out of fuel in a few thousand more.”
“Wait, why?”
“Oh, nothin’ really. I just heard from Tony who said Buster told Suzie-”
“The point, Mikey?”
“Something about falling, that’s all.”
“Falling.”
“Yeah, and then whoever’s watching down there thinks it’s like that time we was talking about when they saw light all sudden-like, and then we’ll hear all this noise again.”
“Mikey?”
“Yeah?”
“You know that means you’ll be front and center, right?”
…..
“What’s the matter, Mikey? You don’t look so hot anymore.”
“I think I just dropped a level.”
“C’mon, Mikey. Like you said, who wouldn’t want to hear wishes all night, huh?”
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