I really want us to grow old together, you know? Go through all the typical life stuff together, even if that means we can only e-mail each other once a week because you moved to the middle of nowhere in Nebraska with your ten kids, and I'm still California because it's amazing. Just like in that one movie - we'll never lose touch with each other, ever. Is that weird?!No, Feenie said. It's perfectly fucking normal.

Why did she have to spend the rest of her life coming out over and over and over...? And once she did, would people always expect her to talk about it? It would always be a huge deal, she would always be subjected to questions, and she would always have to defend herself. Would it ever stop feeling like A Thing, a barrier, between her and everyone else?

(Sweet God in heaven, have mercy on her soul.)Her Cutie Code TM blasted straight past the Red zone. If it were a pressure gauge, the glass would have cracked right down the middle.He was gorgeous - and that was not a word Alice threw around lightly.

And he stared at her.(Too much cute.)(A veritable cutie-induced overload.)There was a place for cute and every cute in it's place. Whoever be was hadn't just exceeded her scale. He had broken it.Cutie Code: Black - the Next Generation.