Things We Are Not; "He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer"

Got a perfect score on the midterm I finally got back from ENG 210, am doing splendidly in Creative Writing, and probably ought to start a research paper tonight, as it's due Thursday. Ten pages, double-spaced with footnotes. I have less interest in doing this paper than I have ever had in any paper in my life. I actively resent this paper not only because I have to do it, but also because it's so ambiguous. He gave us nothing to work with or build off of. I hate you, DeBlasi. You kill Japanese history.

Drabble drabble drabble. This is the last of the ones I have currently written, though. ^_^ I'm about a third through something about Devin, not that anybody knows what I'm talking about, but hey. If I write enough drabbles, you will!

Original
Title: Things We Are Not
Author: kay_willow
Rating: PG
Notes: Response to the "Deja Vu" challenge on beginnings -- challenge #8, "He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer." Written in about 50 minutes after many distractions, 471 words by my count. Marilyn and Vadim, slight warning for prose-ness and more tension in these 471 words than Marilyn will possess in the next two years combined.

( He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer... )