Cat and Mouse Games

Holtzmann notices that Erin doesn’t curse but then that shouldn’t be a surprise because Holtzmann notices everything Erin does or does not do. She notices the way she always folds her paper bags from the deli neatly into quarters before she puts them into the trash, how she likes to have her marker pens lined up along her desk, perfectly side by side, in colour order. She notices that she never turns the corners down on book pages, never eats near her computer, and never writes in the margins of her notebooks. Not cursing is just another one of her adorable quirks, as far as Holtzmann is concerned.It starts out as a cat and mouse game, and turns into something else.