He feels slow and stupid, not understanding how Charlie possibly could have tried to get to him if Charlie wasn't in the room at all, if Charlie hadn't witnessed what had happened. True, Charlie had shown up in this room, the eerily silent room with the pool table, but he hadn't been there seconds before. How could he possibly know what had just happened?
"I was scared." The words come out unbidden -- he hadn't even been thinking anything like that a second before, had been too busy puzzling over why Charlie was suddenly here -- but now he's said them, and he stares at Charlie with consternation, wishing he could take them back.
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He feels slow and stupid, not understanding how Charlie possibly could have tried to get to him if Charlie wasn't in the room at all, if Charlie hadn't witnessed what had happened. True, Charlie had shown up in this room, the eerily silent room with the pool table, but he hadn't been there seconds before. How could he possibly know what had just happened?
"I was scared." The words come out unbidden -- he hadn't even been thinking anything like that a second before, had been too busy puzzling over why Charlie was suddenly here -- but now he's said them, and he stares at Charlie with consternation, wishing he could take them back.