midnight
`` You want to talk about it ? '' I asked . `` Somewhere else , huh ? I hear they ring in the New Year every night at midnight ; I think that 'd be a little too much for me right now . '' I led him out to my cart and cruised back to the place I shared with Lil , out in Kissimmee . He smoked eight cigarettes on the twenty minute ride , hammering one after another into his mouth , filling my runabout with stinging clouds . I kept glancing at him in the rear-view .