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Really, really, bad song choice, Gina.
However, now that she’d started, she couldn’t make herself stop. Probably because when she stopped, she kept hearing the damn song anyway. The words were set to the tune of “Darling Clementine” and that was a rhythm that just wouldn’t go away.
“So he took them and he built him,
From the pieces he did find.
And with lightning he animated
The scary monster Frankenstein.”
Bizarrely, lightning blazed in the distance, thunder rumbling in from the east.
Once the flash of silver cleared, a ray of gold appeared against the sky, bobbing closer and closer, as if the biggest firefly in the world flitted near.
“Scared the townsfolk, scared the po-lice,
Scared the kids, did Frankenstein,”
she sang softly, gaze on that flickering light that spread and spread like the sun across a field at dawn.
“Till with torches they did chase him,
To the castle by the Rhine.”
“Did someone ask for a torch?” Teo’s head appeared haloed in the golden glow of the tent light in his hand.
She was so glad to see both him and the lamp, she laughed. Why did he have to be who he was? Why did she? Whenever they forgot themselves, they almost had fun. She had so little fun in her life; she cherished it. Even if it was with Dr. Moldy.
Who wasn’t very moldy at all.
“Aren’t you going to finish?” he asked.
“You weren’t supposed to hear that.”
“Gina,” he said. “Everyone within thirty miles heard that.”
She winced. “Oops.”
“You have a nice voice. I, on the other hand—” He straightened and began to sing the chorus at the top of his lungs.
“Oh, my monster, oh, my monster,
Oh, my monster, Frankenstein.
You were built to last forever,
Dreadful sca-a-a-a-a-ry-y-y-y-y…”
He drew out the last word, voice warbling—that just had to be on purpose; could he really be that awful?—then moving on to the big finish with:
“Fran-ken-stein!”
“Wow,” she said when the off-key echo had faded. “That was truly…” She shook her head. “Horrendous.”
Teo bowed. “Now you know why I dig in the dirt.” He set the lantern at the edge of the hole. “I’m gonna tie this…” He held up the rope. “Around the tree.”
Gina nodded, but he was already gone. She was getting a crick in her neck from staring up, so she lowered her head and rubbed at the ache.
