Pantheon, who had been attacked out of the blue: "..."
He shot Holly a look. 'Hey, look! Mortimer is sticking up for another girl.'
'Tear him a new one. School him. Make him understand the treacherous game of love.'
'Make him cry, even better.'
But Holly was destined to disappoint him. She was obviously going to side with her man. "She's very pretty."
Pantheon: "..."
'He comes back from the New Year holiday, and the whole world's turned upside down.'
'Mortimer, who'd always kept girls a mile away, was now sticking up for someone other than Holly.'
'And Holly, his actual girlfriend, wasn't even mad.'
For some reason, a scene from a novel popped into his head, and he blurted out, "Don't tell me you two broke up amicably?"
Holly: "..."
Mortimer kicked him, displeased. "We wouldn't break up even if *you* got divorced."
Ahem. This was probably his biggest verbal blunder. Later on, whenever he thought back on it, he'd claim he never said it.
