She didn't need an explanation to get what he meant, that's exactly what she expected him to do, drink himself into a near unconscious state, with some luck he would stop before going too far, and try to ignore the holiday.
And she had no doubt everyone around him would put up with it, poor little rich boy, no family to spend Christmas with, but she knew it was bullshit.
With a deep breath, she got up and looked at him, "I get that Christmas is probably hard on you, Oliver, I'm sure you have spent plenty of them getting drunk and pitying yourself because you were alone, but this? This is just plain stupid, you have people who care about you, who want you around, but you're too busy with your own self-pity to see that. You rather ignore the fact that you can have a nice Christmas for a change than accept the fact that things don't have to be the way you've made them in the past few years."
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Date: 2009-12-23 02:57 am (UTC)And she had no doubt everyone around him would put up with it, poor little rich boy, no family to spend Christmas with, but she knew it was bullshit.
With a deep breath, she got up and looked at him, "I get that Christmas is probably hard on you, Oliver, I'm sure you have spent plenty of them getting drunk and pitying yourself because you were alone, but this? This is just plain stupid, you have people who care about you, who want you around, but you're too busy with your own self-pity to see that. You rather ignore the fact that you can have a nice Christmas for a change than accept the fact that things don't have to be the way you've made them in the past few years."