The morning after the pajama game the group chat had to be temporarily locked.
Miller had posted forty-seven photos of himself in the dinosaur suit from increasingly questionable angles, including one taken in the arena bathroom mirror with the caption “this is my power stance.” Someone had replied with a petition to make the suit the new team mascot. Someone else had replied with a formal request for Damian to release a statement on the skull pajamas. Damian had released a statement. It consisted of a single period. The chat exploded again. He muted it for the third time in twelve hours and tossed his phone onto the passenger seat of his car like it had personally betrayed him.
I know this because he told me when I showed up at his door that evening with a bag of takeout and the kind of
