Hushed Willows “I Get Around” — The Beach Boys

Gotcha, he replied, just like he’d said to Jawahir. Sorry about that, Finley added for good measure. He was a lot of things, primarily promiscuous, but he also liked to think he was a gentleman. Contrary to popular belief, those things were not mutually exclusive!

His mouth gaped a little when she said her name. M’opossum? he thought incredulously, trying not to laugh. It then occurred to him that she’d simply stammered and he was the idiot.

I dunno, Opossum is a pretty dope name. You could put the Poss in my posse, Finley quipped, aware that he was veering a bit too hard into the cornfields here. Leave the dad jokes to Tegan, jeez.

Anyway, he continued in the next breath, you looked a little lost. Are you…?