Fluff Guy: A Short Story

I just want to go back home and watch my shows in the parlor. Guy finally got taken down on T.V after escaping the police. It didn't even look like him on the screen. All of this started when I took too many sleeping pills one night, just a silly mistake. When I couldn’t sleep, I’d look outside and see him walking home with the girl next door. It was only just last night when Guy came home. He was crying and asking these weird questions like, where we had first met, as if it were even important.
The next morning, Guy wakes up and asks me to call in sick for him. He throws up when he starts talking about some lunatic they burned in her house with a bunch of books. I was about to go watch my shows in the parlor again, when Guy’s boss, Captain Beatty, comes in. He goes into detail about all the reasons why books are bad. When I went to fluff Guy’s pillow, I felt a book underneath.
He reached up in the air vent and pulled out over twenty books. I had never been so terrified in my life. I told him we could both get arrested if anyone found these, but he spent the afternoon reading them to me. He comes home, while my friends are over, and pulls out a book. He makes us listen to a poem and makes poor Mrs. Phelps cry. When Guy goes back to work, I’ve decided I’ve had enough and report him to his boss. It gives me just enough time to leave before Guy comes and is forced to burn down our own house. I couldn’t even look him in the eye when I got in the