[ It was stupid, how pleased he felt, from that joke and that simple bump, enough that it made his heart skip a beat. Damn. Damn, damn, damn, he was neck fuckin' deep, wasn't he? ]

You'd learn to love it, I bet. [ He grinned. ] Or, hell, at this rate, maybe I'd learn to hate it. They could be playin' my favourite damn song and I'd probably still want to shove forks in my ears. [ He says that, and yet he ... looks way too happy, at the moment. So sue him. ]