I mean it’s like trying to decide between James Dean and Elvis. Seriously, who could make that choice?

My age makes him nervous and shamey, cause his eyes keep heading southwards and then back up, guilty. I can tell I can make his eyes swirl and that’s just about all I want to do.

Well, I’m sorry. Again. For like the millionth time. If there’s anything I can do... I’d offer to pay for your dry cleaning, but you’re wearing a T-shirt, and that’s just, like weird – I mean, who dry-cleans their T-shirts?

We tried to be all of the things... we are not.

I mean, if there was any justice in the world you wouldn’t even have to go to school during your period.

Okay, listen, I don’t know what dumb lines you are used to giving girls so they fall all over you but I just want you to know that I wasn’t born yesterday so I am gonna go now and leave you to whatever dumb idiot girl is gonna buy that line.

To be honest, she may be kind of scared of the register. Or maybe she can’t add. She is a Christian. I don’t think they believe in math.

There’s no marker on the entrance to this entire complex, or on many of the buildings, but if there was I would call this one “Super Secret Spy Swimming Complex”, or SSSSC, for short.

You could waste your whole life worrying, you know that?

I cared what everybody thought more than what I thought. Or more than my heart thought. And that makes me an idiot.