AFTER, THEY’RE LAZY and giggly, unwilling to go to sleep and wake up remembering that this was a respite, not a resolution. Eventually Paul makes the mistake of checking the internet from his phone to see if there’s any buzz from the premiere.
There surely is, but stuff about the show the network will track for him. He’s more interested, with his current limited bandwidth and relative happiness, on whether the internet thinks the whole unshaven thing is working for him. He’s pretty sure Alex thinks it’s cute, and he is not remotely above using Alex’s curiosity and love of sensation play to keep him interested while they do the real work.
The internet response is less good than it could be. Not because of the beard, but because Paul has the bad luck to stumble almost immediately on someon
