#xmamber

[text] No, I'll be home for Christmas. I promise, and I'm not avoiding that dinosaur. Really. I just... there's a lot to think about. A lot to do. Tell him he better be home when I get there. 

[text] Oh damn, I'm sorry for that. It's a new phone. 

[text] If you don't get text, let me know and I'll compensate you. ... for these messages too. 

{` quickly, he sets the phone down, a stream of chiding words rushing through his mind as he waits and hopes he hadn't annoyed more people than he knew he already was, given his vague replies to everything}