[The joke earns a grumpy snort, but at least it's an emotional response. If he sleeps now he'll sleep all day, but that's alright. He'll be up by the time the boys get home and he'll get to eat dinner and then go hide and drink like always.

It wasn't that bad, after all. Still, that short exchange of words with Kariya is going to stick in him like a thorn -- quite possibly the rest of his life.]