[Spike is quiet a moment, and then huffs a chuckle through his nostrils. He shifts to get more comfortable, and then—]
Straight from the oven. I get that.
Y'know, since we're sharing tragic backstories— I didn't have a family either. I was dropped, straight from the oven, mind you, right outside of a night club.
[Normally he'd punctuate that with what kind of person leaves a baby at a nightclub, but that isn't the point right now.]
I grew up only really getting close to a few people, and... I... blew my chances with the last people I could call family.
But if I came out of that knowing anything, it's that people don't really tend to waste their time spending it with people they don't like very much.
Seems to me like anyone can pour alcohol— I'm sorry, juice— for themselves... If they keep coming back to you specifically, they're probably pretty fond of the bartender, if you ask me.
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Straight from the oven. I get that.
Y'know, since we're sharing tragic backstories— I didn't have a family either. I was dropped, straight from the oven, mind you, right outside of a night club.
[Normally he'd punctuate that with what kind of person leaves a baby at a nightclub, but that isn't the point right now.]
I grew up only really getting close to a few people, and... I... blew my chances with the last people I could call family.
But if I came out of that knowing anything, it's that people don't really tend to waste their time spending it with people they don't like very much.
Seems to me like anyone can pour alcohol— I'm sorry, juice— for themselves... If they keep coming back to you specifically, they're probably pretty fond of the bartender, if you ask me.