He knew that this time would one day come. He'd been looking forward to it and dreading it all his life. Some nights, he'd lie awake at night wondering when it would happen, wondering what it would be like. He even worried sometimes if his thinking about it would make it take longer to come, like Christmas, or that thinking about it drew him away from other things he could be doing. He worried that his obsession was destroying his life, even when he felt he was doing pretty well. All these hopes, fears, and worries vanished life snow in a furnace when the time finally came. It was finally going to happen.