[Never. Not even before, when he was between jobs, sleeping until two in the afternoon, dead-eyed and sprawled across the sheets he hadn't washed in over six months. Not when the kitchen sink became fully unusable, not when his head had only two settings--complete disconnection and all-consuming focus--and neither was any good at scraping the encrusted ravioli residue off his dishes.]
[Not before, when he was supposed to be revising Alex's script.]
[Not before, when people asked him why he was majoring in film if he didn't even seem to care about it that much.]
[Not before, when his teacher-mother-father-uncle-grandmother asked him why he wouldn't just pay attention when they're speaking to him.]
[Not after over four years in motels with smoke stains on the ceiling, scraping by on sticks of beef jerky and bitter hotel coffee, not when he was finally face to face with the only person who might actually know what was going on, and the man didn't say a word.]
no subject
[Not before, when he was supposed to be revising Alex's script.]
[Not before, when people asked him why he was majoring in film if he didn't even seem to care about it that much.]
[Not before, when his teacher-mother-father-uncle-grandmother asked him why he wouldn't just pay attention when they're speaking to him.]
[Not after over four years in motels with smoke stains on the ceiling, scraping by on sticks of beef jerky and bitter hotel coffee, not when he was finally face to face with the only person who might actually know what was going on, and the man didn't say a word.]
it hasn't