[Oh. No, that's a good reply, if the sudden grin's anything to go by.]
It's something I'm passionate about. I would always get so mad at Jojo because he never even tried to learn. But I'd be a good teacher at it, I think, and you wouldn't even have to get up early.
Excellent, as a matter of fact. I'll have you know I consistently get nearly perfect grades in everything. Besides, it can't be much harder than English was.
[fuck english, chimes in the native english speaker.]
[ENGLISH IS GARBAGE, we all holler from the rooftops]
Good. I'll make up some tables for you tomorrow, then — declensions and conjugations. Plus a small vocabulary list of basic action verbs and a few nouns. Everything else you'll learn as you go. You'll memorize on your own time, and when you're with me, we'll speak, so you learn how it feels for real.
[Which is being given appropriately careful thought.]
I think humiliating to functional would be better. He'll let his guard down and think I've become a babbling idiot, and then I'll be able to go straight for the throat.
[. . . And that's probably where he should draw the line in terms of too much information, but he honestly can't because it's fucking hilarious, and it shows. He doesn't laugh, but he's thinking about it.]
Easily done. I'll do some thinking and come up with a list.
. . . What did he use on you? I honestly can't imagine it at all.
It was awful. 'Is there an airport nearby, or is that my heart taking off?' 'Is it hot in here or is it just you?' Worse because I didn't know what he was doing and asked a friend to translate. Which I will regret for the rest of my life because it was the most embarrassing thing I have ever suffered through.
...In fact he's lucky I didn't beat the living hell out of him after that.
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